- North American Occupational Safety and Health Week
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North American Occupational Safety and Health Week, or 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. The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) joined with the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE) in 2002 to raise the public's awareness in North America during NAOSH Week. This is 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. 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).
During NAOSH Week, ASSE and CSSE members, OSHA and NAOSH partners develop and implement activities throughout North America and worldwide (in countries such as Colombia, Ecuador and Kuwait) to promote NAOSH Week. ASSE members have held fleet safety classes, ergonomic awareness events, distributed catastrophe preparedness information, distributed free teen worker safety and preventing roadway crash brochures, provided teen worker safety programs, held city worker safety fairs, held symposiums, assisted charities, held personal protective equipment (PPE) fashion shows, donated PPE and much more.
Each year the United States Congress passes a resolution supporting North American Occupational Safety and Health Week 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.
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