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Thank you for taking time out of your day to visit the website for the Chesapeake Chapter of the American Society of Safety Professionals.  This month, all chapter members will receive an email regarding the upcoming chapter elections.  Elected officers include; President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Director.  Each position requires the officer to volunteer between 2 and 10 hours per month, and all elected officers serve one-year terms.  In addition, the elected President appoints a chair for the following committees: Chapter Professional Development Conference, Programs, Membership, Nominations and Elections, Awards and Scholarships, Communications, Government Affairs, Professional Organizations, and WISE (Women in Safety Excellence).  The appointed committee chairs then add volunteers to their respective committees.

Now is the time to step up, get involved, and truly embrace the many benefits that the American Society of Safety Professionals has to offer!  The Chesapeake Chapter is one of the most active chapters in the nation, with monthly chapter ‘hybrid’ lunch and learns, and multiple social events that take place during the day and in the evenings.  In addition, the chapter partners with the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s Chesapeake and Potomac Locals for one of the most highly attended professional development conferences in the region.   If you are interested in running for any of the elected positions, volunteering to serve as a committee chair, or assist by becoming a member of any of our committees, please reach out to me directly.

Regardless of the commitment that you are able to make, your assistance is needed and appreciated.   Thank you for taking the time to visit the website for the Chesapeake Chapter of the American Society of Safety Professionals.  I hope to hear from you soon.

James Woodward Sr.
ASSP Chesapeake Chapter
President

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 1^st Treasurer
• Mr. Henry Lamb – Eastern Regional Vice President, ASSE
• Mr. Kenneth Robinson – ASSE Chesapeake’s 1^st Vice President
• Mr. Al Blackman – Managing Director, ASSE
• Mr. Leonard Wozny – ASSE Chesapeake’s 1^st President
• Mr. Arthur Christian – Treasurer, ASSE
• Mr. Joseph Shofstal – ASSE Chesapeake’s 1^st Secretary
• Mr. James Van Namee – Vice President, Eastern Central Region, ASSE
• Mr. Wilbur Agee – ASSE Chesapeake Chapter’s 1^st Chaplain

It’s fitting in the country’s 250^th 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