Registration is open for the IUP Safety Sciences and Environmental Engineering Career Fair, which is to be held on Thursday, September 25, 2025.  The details of this 3-day event are included in the Recruiter Invitation.  There will be an informal Meet and Greet event on Wednesday, September 24^th from 5:30-7:00 pm at the KCAC to meet the students in a relaxed environment.  Hors d’oeuvres will be provided.  The Career Fair sit-down lunch is at 11:00 am on Thursday, September 25th, with the fair to follow from 12:00 pm-2:30 pm, both in the KCAC.  If you want to stay on to interview students, a space can be reserved for Thursday afternoon (3-6 pm) and all-day Friday (8 am – 3 pm).

More information is available on these two documents:

Recruiter Invitation

FAQ

We hope you can join us.  The link to more information and to register is:  http://www.alumni.iup.edu/sseecareer

The May Technical Meeting was conducted virtually on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 12:00pm. The speaker was Mr. Aaron Gelb, Co-Managing Partner of Conn Maciel Carey. The topic of the presentation was “Charting a Course for Safety and Compliance: Navigating a Sea of Changes at OSHA During a Second Trump Administration” reviewing various topics related to OSHA enforcement, rulemaking, and other developments from 2024, and preview the issues employers should monitor and prepare for in 2025 then beyond with the Trump/Vance Administration.

There was a total of 20 people in attendance though 44 registered.

Thank you, Aaron Gelb for providing timely information and insight!

The 12^th Annual ASSP WPA Professional Development Conference (PDC) was conducted on March 27, 2025, at The Loft Conference Center in Southpointe, Canonsburg PA from 8:00am to 4:45 pm.

The PDC featured the Opening Keynote of Jason Kunz CIH, CSP speaking on “The Future of Safety: FIVE Trends Shaping the Future of the Profession” and the lunchtime Speaker was Steve Scott speaking on “What is Human and Organizational Performance (HOP)?”. Thank you to Komatsu for being the exclusive Diamond Sponsor and the sponsor of the Keynote speakers. The Student Sections from IUP, SRU, and Thiel College providing the speakers for the closing session of the day. A new feature at this PDC was an auction of gifts generously donated by the vendors. The winners of the gifts had to be present to win.

Attendees had a choice of 8 sessions in 2 timeslots throughout the day. The event had a total attendance of 197 people, of which there were 144 Professionals and 53 Students. The event offered 0.7 CEUs for those that participated in the entire event.

Thank you! to our generous Sponsors: Komatsu, Range Resources, AM Health and Safety, ClickSafety, RJR Safety Inc, 2Six Advisors, Alpha Safety USA, and Snyder Brothers Inc. The PDC had 9 Vendors exhibiting during the event – AM Health and Safety, ClickSafety, RJR Safety Inc., Compliance Management International (CMI), Honeywell Portable Gas Detection, NovaCare Rehabilitation, Onsite Innovations, Square One Medical, Voxel, and West Virginia University. OSHA had an information table.

Thank you! to the 2025 PDC Planning Committee Members – Wayne Vanderhoof, Chris Sarracino, Kelley Edmier, Cody Bergad, Tracey Cekada, Daniel Finn, Carl Heinlein, Jillian Tilko, Majed Zreiqat, Melissa Heike, Cindy Medford, Hope Dropp, Sophia Naugle, John Aliveto, Dan Wible, Rick Bartlebaugh, Joe Losko, and students Elia McKnight (SRU), Hannah Wilson (SRU), Austin Little (IUP), Micah Nygren (IUP, and Meghan Roach (IUP).

The April Technical Meeting was conducted on Friday, April 04, 2025. It was hosted by the SRU Student Section at the Weisenfluh Dining Hall on the SRU campus as a lunchtime in-person meeting. The speaker was Mr. Bob Wengryn of Honeywell Safety Products speaking on “The Importance of Proper Fitting of PPE” which focused on the fitting of personal fall protection equipment for both male and female workers highlighting the differences in the equipment as well as explaining the need and steps to properly fit the harness to the wearer.

There was a total of 35 people in attendance of which there were 9 professionals and 26 students. The Professionals included members from the Western PA Chapter as well as the Northwest PA Chapter. The students were from SRU and one from IUP.

Thank you to Cindy Medford and the SRU Student Section for hosting the meeting!

Congratulations! from the ASSP Western PA Executive Committee to the students listed below for being selected and awarded a 2025 ASSP WPA Chapter Scholarship:

Emmalee Henthorn – Slippery Rock University
Justin Doty – Slippery Rock University
John Miskinis – Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Amy Simcik – Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Victoria Mackalica – Slippery Rock University

The Chapter is proud of each of our awardees and is pleased to assist each of them in their educational efforts at our Student Chapter schools. The Chapter awarded a total of $6,000.00 for scholarships which is about 10% of the annual budget.