President's Message

On Recent Changes and Looking to the Future

Abstract

A lot has been going on since our last Journal of System Safety. We had our International System Safety Conference in Boston with the constraints of the government sequestration affecting our profitability. The conference is a very important source of income for this Society — it amounts to at least half of our income in a normal year. While our conference offered excellent professional development and networking opportunities, 2013’s conference operated at a financial loss. We have been responding to this loss by addressing the areas of the budget that we have control over.