AFSEC hosts the American Society of Safety Engineers

Representatives of the American Society of Safety Engineers visited the Air Force Safety Center, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., on Sept 7, 2016, to discuss current and future ways to collaborate on national consensus standards that affect the Air Force, as well training and development of safety professionals. Pictured from left are: Bill Parsons, chief of Air Force occupational safety; Tim Fisher, ASSE director of standards and technical services; Chief Master Sgt. Joshua Franklin, Air Force safety career field manager; Mike Ballard, deputy chief of Air Force occupational safety; and Tom Kerschner, ASSE account executive.

American Society of Safety Engineers visit crash lab

Representatives of the American Society of Safety Engineers visited the Air Force Safety Center, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., on Sept 7, 2016, to discuss current and future ways to collaborate on national consensus standards that affect the Air Force, and training and development of safety professionals. Chris Herrmann, aviation safety instructor, center, leads Tom Kerschner, ASSE account executive, left, and Tim Fisher, ASSE director of standards and technical services, right, on a tour of the Air Force Safety Center’s Crash Lab.

AFSEC hosts the American Society of Safety Engineers

Published Sept. 13, 2016
Air Force Safety Center

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. -- The Occupational Safety Division of the Air Force Safety Center hosted representatives of the American Society of Safety Engineers on Sept. 7, 2016, to discuss ways to continue building on the relationship through collaboration and development of safety professionals.

Tim Fisher, ASSE director of standards and technical services, and Tom Kerschner, ASSE account executive, met with senior leaders of Air Force aviation and occupational safety, as well as training and force development to examine how ASSE and the Air Force Safety Center can collaborate on publication of technical materials, align Air Force speakers at national professional conferences, and to review professional development.

“By partnering with ASSE on the formation of national consensus standards that affect the Air Force and connecting Air Force safety professionals with opportunities to speak at national professional conferences, the Air Force continues to lead in safe and agile operations on a global scale and in developing safety professionals to support the mission from Beale to Bagram and Cannon to Kandahar,” said Chief Master Sgt. Joshua Franklin, Air Force safety career field manager.

ASSE is the professional organization for safety professionals worldwide with more than 36,000 members. The recent visit to the Air Force Safety Center represents the unique connection that the service has with the profession, Franklin said.