The Safety Standard of Excellence program, developed by the American Staffing Association and National Safety Council, promotes the safety and health of temporary employees placed on assignment with host employers. The SSE program also supports compliance with federal and state occupational safety and health requirements pertaining to the employers’ shared responsibility for temporary worker safety. Further, the program defines and measures firms against staffing industry safety best practices.

This program is completely voluntary and entails a rigorous assessment of corporate office policies and procedures, as well as validation across a sample of our branch offices. We earned the SSE mark because our firm demonstrated to an independent third party that we’re successfully following our industry’s safety best practices.

We care about the safety of temporary workers placed with our clients. Protecting temporary workers is our priority and the right thing to do. We consider ourselves partners with you—the client—to ensure our workers’ safety while on the job at your location. When temporary workers remain safe, you reduce injuries and illnesses that generally must be reported to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration on your OSHA 300 log, and we reduce the expense of workers’ compensation. We both save time, effort, and cost when there are no safety incidents involving temporary workers. It’s this partnership mindset that has workplaces. They must determine what conditions exist at client work sites and what hazards may be encountered, and engage with you as the host employer to protect the temporary worker. In addition, the staffing company has the duty to inquire and verify that the client has fulfilled its responsibilities for a safe workplace.

Clients that supervise temporary workers must provide a site-specific safety orientation—including how to report and obtain treatment for injuries, emergency procedures, work rules, and hazard communication programs. Such clients must also provide on-the-job training specific to the hazards of the assigned work, required personal protective equipment (PPE) and instruction on how to use it, and operational instructions for any machinery and tools or equipment the worker might be using. Clients must ensure that temporary workers receive the same exact training their internal employees do.

Clients that exercise day-to-day supervision must also record a temporary worker’s injury on their