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The article reports on the expanding commitment of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) to grow the society in the context of a global profession. It relates that ASSE members have pursued many possibilities in fiscal year 2008, achieved many of their goals, and they are individually and collectively learned and progressed. The ASSE's ability to help members succeed is reflecting in their growth trend in fiscal year 2008, during which membership increased 2.8% to reach 32, 211 members. Moreover, it cites the effort of the ASSE members to advance its practitioners through technical excellence, social responsibility and safety, health and environmental excellence on their workplaces and communities.

The article discusses the vision and mission of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) in the U.S. Since it cannot achieve its goal without the cooperation of the members, ASSE increases its membership by 3% yearly and continually develops its nondues initiatives through conferences, symposia, webinars, books, standards, journal advertising and training. The author stresses that the organization's finances and spending should be balanced by income so that revenue ratio will continue to be an important aspect of the group's operation. The dues paid by members are used in an efficient matter wherein it helps ASSE in promoting the profession in a significant and accurate way and helps the organization in promoting better career and professional opportunities among members.

The author reflects on the views from the senior executives in understanding the business enterprises. The author said that executives wanted to provide metrics that can project benefits and savings from Safety, Health and Environmental (SH&E) management systems. Moreover, he admits that the activity demonstrate the key role of members in helping the success of the business enterprises.

The author discusses the vision and mission of the American Society of Safety Engineers as presented during the annual Professional Development Conference and Exposition in Orlando, Florida. He states that the conference was attended by nearly 35 countries to take hold of the opportunities to share their experiences including the exchanging of views and sharpens their safety, health and evironmental and business skills. He adds that the society focuses on the members and its customers including those individuals who make business decisions. He also presented the book entitled "Execution" by Larry Bossidy which talks about customers who have fixed demand for products.