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.

The IUP Student Section of ASSP is pleased to announce the recipients for the 2024-2025 Academic Scholarships.

Eric Gaston-$1,000
Meghan Roach-$500
Maycie Lorelli-$325

IUP ASSP Research Scholarship Recipient
Michelle Cooke-$500

The IUP Student Section thanks everyone who applied and please be on the lookout for next year’s scholarship application in 2025-2026.

The February Technical Meeting was a tour conducted on Monday, February 03, 2025, as a tour of the Komatsu – Global Distribution Center in Charleroi, PA followed by a dinner and networking. The tour was hosted by David Johnson, Director EHS – Soft Rock at Komatsu. There were 10 participants including 4 students from SRU and 2 students from IUP.

Thank you to David Johnson for hosting the tour and meeting!

The Western PA Chapter of ASSP offers a scholarship program for students who have shown a career interest in a safety or safety-related degree program. The application period is January 01 – March 01 each year with selection no later than April 01.

More information, the selection criteria, and applications are here.

The January 2025 Technical Tour was conducted on Thursday, January 09, 2025, at the project area at PGH International Airport Terminal Modernization Program (TMP) project. The tour was hosted by Jason Timmerman CSP, VP of Environmental and Workplace Safety at Allegheny County Airport Authority and the onsite project Safety Professionals.

We started the day with lunch and networking at the Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh International Airport. We then got on a bus and went to the Safety Training Facility onsite for a safety briefing and a project overview. We then boarded the bus to be taken to the TMP site. The group was led by Jeff Martinelli, Communications & Community Outreach for ACAA, as the tour guide, through and around the jobsite explaining the project in its current phase, various safety issues, and how they are addressed explaining the expectations placed on the many contractors and subcontractors to provide a safe jobsite that exceeds just regulatory requirements. The total tour event lasted about two hours.

There was a total of 26 participants which included 24 Professionals and 2 students from SRU.

THANK YOU! To Jason Timmerman, Jeff Martinelli, and the onsite project Safety Professionals for hosting this tour and providing an enjoyable opportunity to learn specifically about the PGH International Airport Terminal Modernization Program (TMP) project.