DES PLAINES, IL - In a unique approach, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) will be host to a two-day 'Proactive Safety Management' symposium this November 12-13 in Miami, FL, where attendees select from intensive interactive workshops based on the topics that best fit their skill-building needs on how to integrate safety into the business of their organization.

Attendees will learn how to use safety management processes and tools for implementation in their workplace as well as hear from leading authorities in the area of safety and business. Keynoting the education event will be Chairman and CEO of Mzinga Barry Libert.  Mzinga is a top provider of social software solutions and services for marketing, customer support and learning. Through a combination of enterprise-class technology, strategy and online moderation services, Mzinga social solutions help businesses work to increase revenue and lower costs by addressing brand visibility, workplace satisfaction, and customer loyalty. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Mzinga services more than one billion monthly page requests from 40 million unique visitors in 160 countries worldwide.

Libert will also lead a workshop examining practical aspects and applications for the use of social networking in safety management and how to evaluate an organization's social readiness through examples from company success stories.  This workshop aims to help attendees learn how to use social technology to connect with co-workers; reinvent one's safety effort; and, utilize steps for getting started.

Leading authority on safety management and past ASSE President Samuel J. Gualardo, MA, CSP, president of National Safety Consultants, Inc., of Salix, PA, will address the attendees and discuss how to overcome organization barriers to attain safety and health performance excellence.

"We all spend most of our time focusing on typical workplace hazards and reducing losses," Gualardo said. "We must think about the numerous tangible and intangible organizational barriers that can also have a significant impact on safety and health performance. These can be managed so that we can overcome these challenges to attaining safety and health performance excellence."