ASSP Remembers Factory Fire That Spurred Workplace Safety
March 22, 2019
March 22, 2019
PARK RIDGE, Illinois, March 22 -- The American Society of Safety Professionals (formerly the American Society of Safety Engineers) issued the following news release:
It was 108 years ago this Monday when occupational safety and health became front-page news because of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. A few months later came the creation of today's oldest professional safety society - the United Association of Casualty Inspectors now known as the American . . .
It was 108 years ago this Monday when occupational safety and health became front-page news because of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. A few months later came the creation of today's oldest professional safety society - the United Association of Casualty Inspectors now known as the American . . .