Professional bodies in risk engineering and safety management
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A number of professional bodies related to the health and safety profession may be of interest to you as a future professional practitioner in risk engineering and safety management. These associations generally represent members at a national level. They may organize events where you can meet potential colleagues and employers. Some of them publish documents or newsletters that could be of interest to you.

• The The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) in the UK is a chartered body for health and safety professionals.

• The Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK represents professional engineers. Some of their activities concern safety and ethics in engineering.

• The American Society of Safety Professionals is a professional organization for safety engineers in the USA. They run a job board, organize seminars and participate in standards development.

• The Associazione Italiana professionale Ambiente e Sicurezza (AIAS) in Italy is professional association of practitioners in safety, health and the environment.

• The Netherlands Association for Safety Studies (NVVK) is a professional organization for safety experts with activities in work, external, consumer, patient and transport safety.

• The Australian Risk Engineering Society collects and disseminates information on risk engineering, organizes technical meetings and conferences.

• The Society of Reliability Engineers is an American professional society for reliability engineers. It co-organizes the annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS).

• The International System Safety Society is a non-profit organization which publishes resources on system safety, publishes the Journal of System Safety and organizes an annual conference.

• The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society represents specialists in organizational and human factors of safety, who provide useful input to risk engineering.

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