Safety of Buildings & Occupants
For 115 years, ASSE International has been bringing the industry together to improve the performance and reliability of products and professionals. By working together, we protect the health and safety of the public. ASSE’s...
ASSE Series 5000 Revision
Backflow prevention is the backbone of what ASSE International does. Therefore, we include some backflow articles or columns in each edition of Working Pressure magazine. Once each year we dedicate the entire magazine to...
ASSE and the Fire Protection Industry
This issue of Working Pressure magazine is focused on fire protection. ASSE International is getting more involved with the fire protection industry through the professional qualifications standards we develop and the personnel certification programs...
Changes to Infection Control Standards
It seems like only yesterday that ASSE International was announcing the completion of the revision to the ASSE/IAPMO/ANSI Series 12000, Professional Qualification Standard for Infection Control Risk Assessment for All Building Systems. ASSE 12000-2018...
ASSE Series 5000 Revision
Each year I look forward to the annual backflow issue of Working Pressure magazine. Backflow prevention is what ASSE is best known for and it is what we do best. Whether it is ANSI-accredited...
Training, Legionella
Our world has changed so much in the last few months. It feels more like a decade than a matter of four months. Fortunately, ASSE has been able to adapt to our new circumstances...
Maintaining Health & Safety of the Public
This issue of Working Pressure magazine focuses on inspection and maintenance. Over the years, ASSE International has developed quite a few standards and certifications for professionals who do different types of inspections – you...
Legislation, Regulation
These days, ASSE International has many different certifications. There are five different certifications related to cross-connection control alone. Sometimes certifications are voluntary – people obtain the certification to improve their knowledge or skill level,...
ASSE Is Backflow Prevention
ASSE has a long history of writing performance standards for backflow prevention products and granting listings to manufacturers with backflow prevention products approved as meeting these standards. Similarly, ASSE developed ASSE Series 5000, Cross-Connection...
Legionella: Complex and Difficult
In 1979, ASSE New York Chapter member Richard H. Toder, FASSE, wrote a report for the ASSE Legionnaires’ Disease Task Group explaining ASSE’s involvement with Legionnaires’ disease. Earlier that year, there was a Legionnaires’...