Earlier this year, as part of ongoing efforts to raise
safety and health standards worldwide, ASSE and the Center for Safety and Health Sustainability
(cofounded by ASSE) became organizational stakeholders of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
As GRI develops its new G4
reporting guidelines, ASSE and the Center have offered GRI recommendations to extend the scope
of current OSH metrics and to
standardize terminology to allow comparison of performance across
organizations.
However, based on public input to date, OSH has not been
identified as a priority for G4. In an effort to change that, ASSE President
Terrie Norris, CSP, ARM, is urging members to complete GRI’s G4
public comment period survey by Nov. 24, 2011. In her
letter to members, Norris writes, “Given the estimated 337 million
workplace accidents globally each year and 6,300 people killed each day at
work, the importance of OSH within the sustainability agenda has never been
greater–nor your support needed more. ASSE believes that a sustainable
workforce and workplace should be considered important topics when benchmarking
organizational performance.”