The Chapter NEEDS new Officers and members of the Executive Committee!

The election of Chapter Officers will be in March of 2024 for the 2024-2026 Chapter years which begins July 1, 2024. 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 02, 2024.

Thank you to the Nominations & Elections Committee!

The December Holiday Lunch and Networking event was held on Friday December 15, 2023, at Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh hosted by the Chapter Executive Committee. We had a buffet lunch, an ASSP Update by Pam Walaski,  ASSP President-Elect and fellow Chapter Member, and time to talk with fellow Professionals and students. There was also a drawing for many door prizes provided by many of the Professionals and their employers.

We had a total of 51 people in attendance. We were happy to have the Safety Committee of the Constructors Association of Western PA (CAWP) join us for the event.

Thank you to those who participated and for to those that provided door prizes for our drawing!

Congratulations to Brandon Hody MS, CSP, CHSP for being published in the December 2023 issue of the ASSP’s Professional Safety. He co-authored the peer-reviewed article titled “Are My Workers Competent in EHS? Competency-Based Training to Improve Learning”.

Link to the article in PSJ

Congratulations to Jan K. Wachter, Sc.D., M.B.A., CSP, CIH, and Bryan Seal for being published in the September 2023 issue of the ASSP’s Professional Safety. They co-authored the peer-reviewed article titled “Control Equipment Characteristics Affecting Worker Protection Decision-Making”. Link to the article in PSJ

Congratulations to the Western PA Chapter of ASSP for a great chapter year!
The Western Pennsylvania Chapter has achieved Platinum level recognition for the 2022-2023 year. This recognition is based on the information the chapter submitted for the Chapter year July 01, 2022, through June 30, 2023. 

The Chapter Executive Committee plans the Chapter’s annual activities, tracks performance throughout the year, and shares the successes and challenges with ASSP as the Chapter provides opportunities for ASSP members to become better safety professionals.

The Western PA chapter continued to provide an outstanding value and benefited our chapter members and the safety profession as a whole. Our chapter’s achievement at this level of success is impressive and greatly appreciated by ASSP by the recognition at the Platinum Level. 

ASSP’s chapter recognition program has four award levels based on points for activities weighted toward the activities that best support your chapter’s ability to meet chapter charter requirements as they serve members. The four levels are listed below starting with the highest-level award:

• Platinum
• Gold
• Silver
• Bronze

Congratulations to the Western PA Chapter of ASSP for a great chapter year!