ASSP Hands Out Inaugural PtD Award

Following time as a senior safety engineer at Tesla solar panel manufacturing plant in Buffalo, New York, Keith W. Pillich joined Amherst’s Vlado Engineering as an environmental health and safety (EHS) specialist and manager. Over the course of nearly 6 years in this position, Keith W. Pillich has managed a variety of EHS processes around the world. Keith Walter Pillich has also established himself as a member of professional organizations such as the American Society of Safety Professionals.

The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) recently collaborated with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Safety Council (NSC) to create the Prevention through Design (PtD) Award. The award, which can be distributed to individuals, businesses, and other groups, is used to recognize significant contributions to safety knowledge, with a focus on unique, innovative methods of designing-out hazards and preventing illness or injury.

The inaugural PtD Award was given to Fred A. Manuele, an experienced occupational safety and health professional who has made countless contributions to the field of design safety. Manuele has been so influential, in fact, that ASSP gathered a number of his professional papers and published the collection as a book titled Fred Manuele on Safety Management: A Collection from Professional Safety. He has authored a number of his own textbooks, all of which feature sections on the importance of designing-out hazards and the most effective methods of doing so.