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Call for Speakers – 2027 Chesapeake AIHA/ASSP/JHU Educational Seminar
October 5, 2026

Executive Committee Update: July–September 2026
September 28, 2026

Book Club Launching in September at the  ASSP Chesapeake Chapter
August 19, 2026

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June 12, 2025

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April 11, 2025

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October 16, 2024

Chapter President’s Message

As fall settles in across Maryland and we head toward the holiday season, I want to take a moment to thank each of you for being part of the ASSP Chesapeake Chapter.

With nearly 350 safety professionals in our chapter, we have an incredible depth of knowledge, experience, and perspective right here in our local community. But being a member of ASSP is about more than the resources that come with membership. Some of the greatest value comes from the connections we make with one another.

That is why this year we are creating more ways to connect, learn, and simply enjoy spending time with other safety professionals.

One of those opportunities is our Heart of the Matter holiday event at Kelsey’s Irish Pub on Friday, December 11th in Ellicott City where we hope you’ll join us for a relaxed luncheon of conversation, networking, and holiday cheer.

We also recently launched our new Chesapeake Chapter Book Club, providing another way to exchange ideas, challenge our thinking, and learn from one another beyond traditional meetings.

And there is more to come.

Whether you are new to the profession, a seasoned safety leader, a student, or somewhere in between, there is a place for you in the Chesapeake Chapter. Come to an event. Join a conversation. Meet someone new. Share what you know. Ask a question. Get involved.

My challenge to each of our members this fall is simple: don’t just belong to the Chesapeake
Chapter. Be part of it.

I hope to see you at an upcoming event.

Matthew P. Koss, MEng, CSP, ARM
President
ASSP Chesapeake Chapter

Welcome

Welcome and thank you for taking the time to join us at ASSP Chesapeake Chapter. There are many great reasons to join our chapter such as sharing of technical knowledge, professional development opportunities and networking. These interactions help to provide guidance, techniques and solutions to help OSH professionals prevent injuries, improve work environments and educate management. Another advantage is the free subscription to the professional journal Professional Safety, which offers in depth articles on best practices, leadership, standards, policy and regulation. Membership also helps you tap into a powerful audience with ASSP Media Solutions and other means to develop professionally. Our chapter is 392 members strong and still growing!

The ASSP organization itself is the oldest and largest professional safety organization. With more than 37, 000 members worldwide, it is a global association of occupational safety, health and environmental professionals that advances the interests of its members and the profession.

Please feel free to contact us at membership@chesapeake.assp.org if you have any questions. Thanks again for taking the time to join us and we hope to see you again!

ASSP Chesapeake Chapter Celebrates our 63rd Anniversary

In the late 1950’s, a small group of Safety Professionals, originally, members of the Safety Engineering Club of Baltimore petitioned to bring their group into the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE). The group had been rejected by ASSE many times prior because they “could not qualify as a chapter because of the small percentage of qualified people shown on the roster”. After more than two years, The American Society of Safety Engineers granted our (Chesapeake) charter effective April 9, 1963. Since that date “we have conducted ourselves as the Chesapeake Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers”.

On May 14, 1963, the Chapter held its charter acceptance meeting at the Sparrows Point Country Club. Below are some of the attendees:

  • Mr. Hudson Quarles – President, Baltimore Safety Council
  • Mr. L.D. Zweier – Management ’s Representative, Bethlehem Steel Corporation
  • Mr. Paul Lucanski – ASSE Chesapeake’s 1st Treasurer
  • Mr. Henry Lamb – Eastern Regional Vice President, ASSE
  • Mr. Kenneth Robinson – ASSE Chesapeake’s 1st Vice President
  • Mr. Al Blackman – Managing Director, ASSE
  • Mr. Leonard Wozny – ASSE Chesapeake’s 1st President
  • Mr. Arthur Christian – Treasurer, ASSE
  • Mr. Joseph Shofstal – ASSE Chesapeake’s 1st Secretary
  • Mr. James Van Namee – Vice President, Eastern Central Region, ASSE
  • Mr. Wilbur Agee – ASSE Chesapeake Chapter’s 1st Chaplain

It’s fitting in the country’s 250th birthday to reflect on the closing comments of some of the original membership.

“As of this writing, February of 1976, in the year of our country’s two-hundredth birthday, we are alive and healthy. We are in the hands of well qualified leadership, both in the Chapter and at Society level. We are growing. We need to grow to keep up wi