On behalf of the ASSP Western PA Executive Committee, Congratulations! to the students listed below for being selected and awarded a 2024 ASSP WPA Chapter Scholarship:

Chloe Croft (IUP)
Ashley Collura (SRU)
Casandra Schroeck (IUP)
Emily Szczesny (SRU)
Brooke Endress (IUP)

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.

On April 2, ASSP sent out an email with the link to vote for the Chapter Executive Committee.

As a member of the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of ASSP, you are encouraged to vote for your elected leadership. Voting will be open April 2 – 15, 2024.

Please take a minute to exercise your right to vote by filling out the ballot using the link in the email. The link is individual and can only be used once by to vote.

Wednesday April 10, 2024
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Pittsburgh International Airport

You are invited to participate in the PIT Airport’s Large-Scale Exercise on April 10, 2024.  You are invited to attend and participate in the upcoming drill. You are needed to volunteer to serve as a victim in a simulated aircraft incident. Please feel free to pass this invitation on to others who may be interested. 

The invitation lists a simple online registration form. A link to the registration form is:  

PIT 2024 Full-Scale Emergency Exercise (office.com) 

You are asked to pre-register so that they can send out surveys and other communications related to this drill exercise. This will also help them get the right amount of food for afterward! There will be a check-in station for everyone at our Snow Removal Equipment Building.

 The organizers need as many volunteers as possible to serve as passengers on the simulated aircraft incident. They are only accepting individuals age 18+ for these roles. The flyers below contain the links to the registration form, and a map with directions on where to report, for the convenience of all.

More information at these two links:

General Invite Information

Triennial Drill Flyer

The official slate of candidates for the Executive Committee for the 2022-2024 Chapter year is listed below:

President: Chris Sarracino, CSP (uncontested)

Vice President: Alec Kinslow, CSP (uncontested)

Treasurer: Robert “Mac” McAninch MS, CSP (uncontested)

Secretary (contested):

– Leif Lindgren

– Trudy Hayes, SMS

Advisory Group Members (contested):

– Daniel Wible, MS, CSP

– Fran Sehn, CSP, ARM

– Jocelyn Milby MS, CSP

– Josh Muth

– Trudy Hayes, SMS

All candidates listed above are members in good standing of ASSP and ASSP Western PA. The Chapter Election will be open from April 01, 2024, through April 15, 2024.

The electronic ballot will be emailed from ASSP (not the Chapter) notifying each Chapter member of the election.

Thank you! to the 2024-2026 Nominations & Elections Committee: Melissa Heike, Chair.

The February Technical meeting was conducted February 14, 2024, at the SRU Strain Safety Building. The topic was Industrial Ventilation Workshop presented by Sergio A. Caporali Fihlo, PhD, CSP, CIH. The workshop covered the fundamental concepts in industrial ventilation systems, ventilation hoods, and troubleshooting local exhaust ventilation system problems. The workshop included a scaled industrial ventilation system set-up in the Strain Safety Building safety lab and the use of various instruments by the attendees.

There were 6 ASSP WPA Professional Members, many SRU Student Section members, as well as about 40 AIHA members and members from their student section.

Thank you to Barry Momyer and AM Health & Safety for coordinating the event with Rona Smeak of SRU.