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Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone has stayed safe during this crazy time we are in. As of now the plan for 2021, we are planning on continuing to do our meetings virtually. If things change and start to open up, we will reevaluate going back to in-person meetings.
We sent out a survey in December and resent it in January. This survey is to help us decide what topics that the chapter would like to pursue this year for our virtual meetings and what kind of speakers everyone would like to see. Please take a few minutes to fill out the 4 questions. We are working on a few things that will be great for the chapter, so please stay tuned. Feel free to reach out to me anytime.
Jennifer Miles
President, Greater Tidewater Chapter
American Society of Safety Professionals
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September 2020 WISE Member of the Month: Stephanie Neary
Stephanie was awarded the September 2020 WISE MotM award for her accomplishments within, and how she has influenced health and safety throughout, her workplace: “one of the most rugged environments: heavy manufacturing and shipbuilding.”
Stephanie was the lead health and safety analyst for new aircraft carrier construction for over five years. She was also part of a cross-functional team who developed and formalized training for critical job operations that are only performed once every six years. In this time Stephanie worked tirelessly to build relationships with all employee levels from mechanics to directors and superintendents to accomplish their goals and keep their employees safe.
Hired with no manufacturing or health and safety experience, Stephanie has learnt on the job, completed her studies in the classroom (Master’s degree in OHS), and was part of the team that was honored with a President’s Model of Excellence award for their extraordinary contributions to the company’s mission to build good ships for the US Navy. Stephanie is now one of the senior health and safety analysts in her department.
Rising Stars of Safety Award-2020: Kyle Martin
Age: 34
Safety/Risk Manager Cox Communications Chesapeake, VA
“Kyle worked with Safety-Reports.com to build a standardized observation checklist and built training curriculum to roll out the program. Due to his rapport and support he gained from our largest operating function in the region, field operations, he was able to roll out the observation process for all leaders. They bought in and leaders showed ownership by mandating, from the VP level down, they would conduct monthly observations. The first year of the observations went well and six different projects, due to the observations, ranging from standardization of foreign voltage detectors to purchasing hands-free devices for all our techs, emerged.”
Candidate for 2021 ASSP National Society Election: Senior Vice President: Jim Thornton
Good luck Jim!
Let us also welcome our newest members and transfers!
New Members
- Charles Engle
- Jessica Pharo
Transfers
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Seeking Volunteers
Interested in joining the Greater Tidewater Chapter ASSP leadership team? GTC is looking for volunteers and has a variety of ways one can aid our local chapter. Contact Jennifer Miles jennifer@salessolutionsinc.net for more information.
Mentors Needed
Interested in mentoring other safety professionals new to the industry? Contact Jimmy O'Rourke jorourke@mzb-usa.com for more information.
ODU Student Scholarship Fund
In order to support our local students in the safety and health field, our chapter is bringing back the ODU Student Scholarship Fund. You will see options under each meeting and on our website where you can donate. Let's help support our next generation of safety and health leaders.
Toys for Tots Update
We are pleased to announce that our chapter donated $320 dollars to the local Toys for Tots organization for our Nov-Dec holiday campaign. Along with the chapter's match of $250 dollars, a total of $570 dollars was donated. Thanks to each of you for making this possible!
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February Virtual Monthly Meeting
ETS…Will it Become Permanent and Real Life Experience Working With the ETS
Thursday, February 18 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Speaker: Courtney M. Malveaux| Jackson Lewis P.C, Attorney at Law
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At this time, ASSP Region VI is planning to hold the PDC, Professional Development Conference, Wednesday, August 25- Friday, August 27, 2021 in Myrtle Beach, SC. It is yet to be determined if the conference will be in person, virtual only, or a hybrid of both.
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We are always looking to network and find out if there are job openings. The jobs must be in an Environment, Health and Safety function. For example: Fleet Safety Manager, Director of Environmental, Health and Safety, Risk Manager, etc. We will post the jobs to our website at tidewater.assp.org
If you have a job you’d like posted for additional visibility by our members, please email our communications chair, Kristina Knapik, aroasnight@gmail.com.
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