The American Society of Safety Engineers – Middle East Chapter (ASSE-MEC) is organizing its 9th Professional Development Conference & Exhibition to be held in the Kingdom of Bahrain on February 20 through 24, 2010. The theme of this event is “Global Look into Safety, Health, and Environment (SH&E)” and the conference will cover related SH&E topics including:

• SH&E Management
• Inherently Safer and Life Cycle Approach
• Human Factors
• Behavioral Safety
• Contractor SH&E
• Transportation Safety
• Incident Investigation
• Waste Management
• Emission/Pollution Control
• Emergency Response Planning
• Fire Protection
• Occupational Health
• SH&E Risk Assessment
• In-Plant Building Locations (Siting)
• SH&E Performance Measurements and Audits
• Quality of SH&E
• Mechanical Integrity Management
• Pipelines Safety and Risk Assessment
• Security Risk Assessment and Management
• Managing and Integrating Security with SH&E
• SH&E Training Schemes and Education
• Tools and Techniques for SH&E Professionals

Authors wishing to present a paper at the conference are encouraged to submit their abstract(s) to the ASSE-MEC 9th PDC&E Program Chairman, Mr. Robert L. Smith, via e-mail to program.asse.mec@gmail.com. The abstract should not be longer than 300 words summarizing the paper and presentation, highlighting its importance to the conference and to which category of topics the paper is proposed. For more information, please visit the ASSE-MEC website at http://www.asse-mec.org/