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NAOSH Week 2010 May 2-8, 2010

NAOSH Week 2010 May 2-8, 2010. Occupational Safety and Health Professional Day, May 5. What is NAOSH Week?. NAOSH Week occurs every year during the first full week of May and is intended to raise awareness about occupational safety, health and the environment.

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NAOSH Week 2010 May 2-8, 2010

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  1. NAOSH Week 2010May 2-8, 2010 Occupational Safety and Health Professional Day, May 5

  2. What is NAOSH Week? • NAOSH Weekoccurs every year during the first full week of May and is intended to raise awareness about occupational safety, health and the environment. • The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) joined with the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE) in 2002 to raise the public's awareness of occupational safety, health and the environment in North America during NAOSH Week. • This is just one tool the almost 100-year-old ASSE and its 32,000 occupational safety, health and environmental professional members use throughout the year to promote occupational safety aimed at preventing injuries and illnesses.

  3. Several organizations representing thousands of businesses have partnered with ASSE and CSSE to support NAOSH Week, including U.S. federal agencies such as the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to reach millions of people around the globe on the importance of being safe at work. • During NAOSH Week, ASSE and CSSE members, OSHA and NAOSH partners develop and implement activities throughout North America to promote NAOSH Week. • In past years, NAOSH themes have included: mining safety; transportation safety, as transportation accidents are the number one cause of on-the-job deaths; youth workplace safety; and more.

  4. Also in the past few years the United States Congress has passed a resolution supporting NAOSH Week, Occupational Safety and Health Professional Day, ASSE and occupational safety, health and environmental practitioners who work to prevent accidents, injuries and occupational diseases, create safer work and leisure environments and develop safer products. They are committed to protecting people, property and the environment globally and work to make sure that the millions of people who go to work each day return home safely.

  5. 8th Annual Kids’ Poster Contest • ASSE Kids’ “Safety-on-the-Job” Poster Contest is accepting entries from September 18, 2009 until February 14, 2010.

  6. Highlights from NAOSH 2009

  7. Highlights continued…

  8. Safety is Good Business • During NAOSH Week 2009 and throughout the year ASSE, CSSE, OSHA and its partners illustrated how safety is good business. • Safety and health not only add value to a business, but to the workplace, employees, the community and to everyone's quality of life, ensuring that workers return to their families at the end of the day.

  9. For instance: • Effective management and implementation of workplace safety and health programs add significant value to individuals and companies by reducing the extent, severity and consequences of work-related injury and illness. • Workplaces that establish safety and health management systems reduce their injury and illness costs by 20 to 40 percent.

  10. Businesses spend $171 billion a year on costs associated with occupational injuries and illness, expenditures that come straight out of company profits and can comprise as much as 5 percent of a company's total costs. • Preventing injuries and illnesses decreases workers compensation and retraining costs, absenteeism and faulty product.

  11. Preventing injuries and illnesses increases productivity, morale and ultimately, profits. Most importantly, workplace safety and health management systems save lives.

  12. Some photos from NAOSH ’09 Events Yum…cake At the Department of Labor Building in DC Kids participating in NAOSH Week activities NAOSH 2009 Cake, made by Charm City Cakes , courtesy of ASSE’s Region III NAOSH 2009 Attendees, Poster Contest Winners and Families at the US Capitol We look forward to many great events during NAOSH Week 2010!

  13. NAOSH 2010: What to expect • NAOSH kick-off events will take place in Washington, D.C. on Monday, May 3, 2009 • We are expecting poster entries for the “Safety-on-the-Job” Poster Contest in from all over the US and abroad. • The theme is “Mission NAOSH 2010: Working Safe” – as we work together with our members and partners to get the word out about occupational safety and health, so that family members who work arrive home safe at the end of the day

  14. Throughout NAOSH Week, thousands of ASSE members, their families, businesses, government organizations reach out to people worldwide on the importance of job safety and provide information on workplace safety risks and solutions. ASSE provides tools for anyone to use from the ASSE NAOSH web page at www.asse.org/naosh10to support these efforts such as

  15. Overview of NAOSH Week • Activities • NAOSH Poster Contest (8th annual ASSE kids’ “Safety-on-the-Job” poster contest) • Brochures • Draft Proclamations/letters • Statistics • Chapter Contact Information • NAOSH Champion Award Winners/Entry Form

  16. Help us celebrate NAOSH Week this May 2-8, 2010! Remember, A Safe Workplace is Our Mission.

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