The official slate of candidates for the Executive Committee for the 2026-2028 Chapter year is listed below:

President: Alec Kinslow, CSP (uncontested)

Vice President: (contested)
– Jeremy Dixon
– Trudy Hayes, SMS

Treasurer: NO CANDIDATES

Secretary (contested): Jocelyn Milby MS, CSP (uncontested)

Advisory Group Members (contested):

– Josh Muth
– Daniel Wible
– Leif Lindgren
– David Johnson
– Angelo Miklos
– Jared Meyer
– Fran Sehn
– Cody Bergad

All candidates listed above are members in good standing of ASSP and ASSP Western PA. The Chapter Election will be open from April 09, 2026, through April 24, 2026.

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

Thank you! to the 2026-2028 Nominations & Elections Committee: Melissa Heike, Chair, and John Alivetto.

The second February Technical Meeting was conducted at SRU at the Strain Safety Building Tuesday, February 24, 2026, with a lunch meeting. The speakers were Ryan Yanosh and Anthony Mastrorocco, both from Kiewit Construction.

The topic of the presentation was “Successful Planning and Execution of Work at Heights Operations”.

There was about 68 people at the meeting with about 8 Professionals and 60 students in attendance.

Thank you, Ryan Yanosh and Anthony Mastrorocco for providing a good plan working at heights!

Thank you, Dr. Cindy Medford, Leif Lindgren, and the officers of the SRU Student Section for organizing the meeting!

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!