ASSP president will help dedicate Triangle Fire Memorial
ASSP President Jim Thornton will join Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and other dignitaries in honoring those workers on Oct. 11 when a memorial is dedicated at the original building in Manhattan.
- ASSP President Jim Thornton will join Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and other dignitaries in honoring those workers on Oct. 11 when a memorial is dedicated at the original building in Manhattan.
- The Triangle fire revealed great negligence in worker safety when the tragedy occurred on March 25, 1911.
- A few months later came the creation of the United Association of Casualty Inspectors, now known as ASSP, the world’s oldest professional safety organization.
- It takes all of us working together to make sure that tragedies like the Triangle fire never happen again.”