For the textile services industry to be able to measure the progress it’s making in improving workplace safety, the industry first must benchmark its safety record. This involves determining what its safety record was a few years ago as well as where its stands today.  Understanding this fact, a major objective of the association’s Safety Initiative—SafeTRSA—is to establish a method for accurately and completely collecting the industry’s occupational injury and illness data on an annual basis.  
 
In October, TRSA’s Safety Committee and UTSA’s Health and Safety Committee joined forces in developing the industry’s 2008 Safety Survey ...