Friday, September 16, 2011

ASSE President Terrie Norris Takes on International Role


ASSE President Terrie S. Norris, CSP, ARM, became a vice-chair of the International Section of the International Social Security Association’s Prevention Culture Section during the 19th World Congress on Safety and Health at Work conference in Istanbul, Turkey. The new section will promote the underlying ideas of the 2008 Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work, which promotes the fact that improving safety and health at work has a positive effect on working conditions, productivity and economic and social development. 
Its signees agreed to work to place occupational safety and health high on national agendas. “As a representative of the oldest safety society in the world and our 34,000 members located worldwide, I am very proud to accept this invitation,” Norris said. Read more...