North American Occupational Safety and Health week takes place May 4-10, 2008.

Safety Is Good Business
During NAOSH Week and throughout the year ASSE, CSSE, OSHA and its partners will illustrate 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. 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.

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.

Preventing injuries and illnesses increases productivity, morale and ultimately, profits. The following provides best practices and information on how a business can develop and implement effective workplace safety and health programs and some tangible results:

See Large and Small Employer Results When They Focus on "Prevention is the Cure" (ppt)
Australians Find Stock Price Success Linked to Safety and Health - The West Australian
Press Release: American Society of Safety Engineers' President Comments on 2006 Fatal Workplace Injury Statistics Released Today - August 9, 2007
There Really Are No Accidents - Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
ASSE Business of Safety Committee
Current NAOSH News
ASSE Announces NAOSH Week/OSHP Day 2008 Activities for May 4-10, 2008 (doc)
ASSE's Kids' "Safety-on-the-Job" Poster Contest Wins National Recognition
American Society of Safety Engineers Kicks Off 6th Annual Youth Job Safety Poster Contest
What is an Occupational Safety and Health Professional?
The Scope of an Occupational Safety and Health Professional (doc)
About North American Occupational Safety & Health Week
The goal of the annual North American Occupational Safety & Health (NAOSH) Week is to focus the attention of employers, employees, the general public and all partners in occupational safety, health and the environment on the importance of preventing injury and illness in the workplace.

We are striving to:
Increase understanding of the benefits of investment in occupational health and safety.
Raise awareness of the role and contribution of safety, health and environmental professionals.
Help reduce workplace injuries and illness by encouraging
new health, safety and environmental activities and
interest in NAOSH Week.