IE’s Joel Haight Receives ASSE 2016-17 President’s Award for Contributions to Safety Engineering
PITTSBURGH, PA (June 6, 2017) … Thomas Cecich, the president of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), named the University of Pittsburgh’s Joel Haight one of five recipients of the 2016-2017 President’s Award. The annual award recognizes occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals for their “exceptional service and dedication to workplace safety and the OSH profession.”
Dr. Haight, associate professor of industrial engineering at Pitt, received the President’s Award for his leadership and commitment to advancing OSH research. As the chair of the research committee for the ASSE Foundation, Dr. Haight developed a research program to help safety professionals stay current with new ideas and emerging technologies. The Foundation recently awarded its first grant totaling $300,000 for a three-year study to a group of researchers at the University of Buffalo.
Dr. Haight also received the 2016 ASSE Safety Professional of the Year award for the Engineering Practice Specialty. In addition to his faculty position, he is the director of the safety engineering program at Pitt.
About Dr. Haight
Joel M. Haight joined the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh in 2013. In the previous 33 years he served four years as Chief of the Human Factors Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at their Pittsburgh Office of Mine Safety and Health Research, where he managed a research branch of 35-40 researchers in the areas of ergonomics, cognitive engineering, human behavior, and training. Dr. Haight also served for nearly 10 years, as an Associate Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Haight worked as a manager and engineer for the Chevron Corporation for 18 years prior to joining the faculty at Penn State. His research interests include health and safety management systems intervention effectiveness measurement and optimization and human performance measurement in automated control system design.
He is the editor in chief and contributing author of Handbook of Loss Prevention Engineering published by J.W. Wiley and Sons in 2013 and the Safety Professionals Handbook published by the American Society of Safety Engineers in 2012. In addition, he has published nearly 60 refereed journal articles and conference proceedings.
Dr. Haight is an active member of ASSE, HFES, IISE, and AIHA. He serves as the chair of the research committee for the American Society of Safety Engineers foundation and Board of Trustees member. He is a licensed professional engineer in Pennsylvania and Alabama and certified by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals and the American Board of Industrial Hygienists.
About ASSE
Founded in 1911, the American Society of Safety Engineers is the world’s oldest professional safety society. ASSE promotes the expertise, leadership, and commitment of its members, while providing them with professional development, advocacy, and standards development. The organization also sets the occupational safety, health, and environmental community’s standards for excellence and ethics.
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