Member Spotlight

Each month, we shine a light on a member that is truly living the mission of ASSP. These members are taking giant strides in workplace safety in their organization.

September 2023

Darin Dungee, Safety Manager and Explosives Safety Officer

Years as an ASSP member: 21
Years in the safety industry: 39

Key responsibilities of your job

Occupational Safety and Health Program Management, Ammunition & Explosives Safety, and Recreation and Off-Duty Safety. Prepares and conducts occupational safety and health compliance inspections and accident investigations of Navy Special Warfare Commands to ensure compliance with applicable laws,regulations and to determine overall program effectiveness. Operational Risk Management – Program Manager, reviews risk assessments submitted by command personnel for accuracy and risk mitigation. Conducts annual High Risk Training Safety Assessments of High-Risk Training Courses, including Emergency Action Plans evaluations. High Risk Events such as but not limited to: Visit, Boarding, Search & Seizure (VBSS), Military Free Fall (MFF), Basic Ground Skills, Weapons Training, Close Quarters Combat (CQC), Breaching and Demolition Operations, Water & Land Live Fire Ranges and Special Warfare Combatant Crafts (Combatant Craft Heavy/Medium/Assault, RIB).

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August 2023

Susan Funk, HSE Specialist Northeast Region, Air Liquide

Years as an ASSP member: 2
Years in the safety industry: 8 (military to safety)

Key responsibilities of your job

CULTURE SHAPING! Incident investigation, directive delivery, site visit/audit.

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July 2023

Alexandria (Ali) LePock, Senior Sustainability, Safety, Health & Environmental (SSHE) Specialist, Bayer CropScience

Years as an ASSP member: 9
Years in the safety industry: 14

Key responsibilities of your job

I lead and design strategies to optimize high impact safety and health system processes and enterprise level implementation of those processes for our sites across North America. These include life safety programs, EPA’s Worker Protection Standard for pesticide use and disposal, lone worker and more. I champion an agile approach to improve operational efficiency while enabling risk management.

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June 2023

Cheryl Riordan, Senior Safety and Health Manager, USA Environmental, Inc.

Years as an ASSP member: 30 years
Years in the safety industry: 42 years

Key responsibilities of your job

Managing the Safety and Health Program for a company that cleans up unexploded ordnance sites throughout the world. Developing Accident Prevention Plans/Site Specific Safety and Health Plans, Activity Hazard Analyses, performing Safety and Health Program Audits, coordinating with Site Safety personnel and Site Managers frequently, managing the Safety Management System that I developed, coordinating, and sometimes performing accident investigations, Radiation Safety Officer for the company, and anything
else that comes up.

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May 2023

Meghan McCall, EHS Coordinator, Sumitomo Drive Technologies

Years as an ASSP member: Coming up on 1!!
Years in the safety industry: 1

Key responsibilities of your job

Ensuring our employees are properly trained, conducting PPE and safety audits. Helping with rewriting of our JHAs and current SSPs and SOPs, meeting DEQ standards for emissions and most importantly sending our employees home the way they came to work.

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