Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Safety Sciences and Environmental Engineering Department has been awarded a $950,000 US Department of Labor OSHA Susan Harwood Training Grant to provide free safety training to small businesses in Pennsylvania.
https://www.iup.edu/safetysciences/news/2026/01/us-dol-osha-susan-harwood-training-grant-awarded-to-iup-safety-sciences-and-environmental-engineering.html

The February Technical Meeting was conducted at IUP in Johnson Hall 2nd Floor Auditorium on Tuesday, February 03, 2026 with a lunch meeting. The speaker was Mr. Cole Campbell CSP, Regional Manager, Compliance Management International (CMI). The topic of the presentation was ” Leadership & Safety Culture”.

There was a total of about 84 people that registered with about 12 Professionals and 72 students in attendance with most of the students from the IUP Student Section although there was a group from the SRU Student Section. It looked like most everyone that registered attended the meeting!

Thank you, Cole Campbell, for providing timely information and insight!

Thank you Dr. Majed Zreiqat and the officers of the IUP Student Section for organizing the meeting!

The Chapter is accepting nominations for Chapter Officers and members of the Executive Committee!

The election of Chapter Officers will be in April of 2026 for the 2026-2028 Chapter years which begins July 1, 2026. All Chapter Officer positions will be for 2-year terms.

If you are interested in nominating yourself or someone else for an office, submit your name or their name and the position of interest to the Nominations and Elections Committee, see email address below.

All Officer and Advisory Board Member positions are open. The Officer positions are:

President

Vice President

Treasurer

Secretary

Advisory Board Members (multiple)

The description of duties for each position is in the By-laws on the ASSP WPA website under About, Chapter Documents, find “Chapter Bylaws” at this link: https://westernpa.assp.org/files/.

If you are interested in nominating yourself or someone else for an office, submit your name or their name and the position of interest to Melissa Heike, Chair of Nominations and Elections Committee, at melissa @rjrsafety.com. The deadline for nominating yourself or someone else is February 15, 2026.

Thank you to the Nominations & Elections Committee!

The 16th Annual Safety and Health Conference was successfully conducted on Thursday, October 30, 2025, at the RLA Learning and Conference Center in Cranberry Township, PA. There were about 125 people attending including professionals, students from SRU and Thiel College Student Sections, speakers and exhibitors.

Thank you to Bill Bernhart, Christy Kirsch, and their team for planning and executing another successful MASHA Conference.

We are looking forward to 2026!