June 2015 Newsletter

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It’s hard to believe that we are at our final meeting of the year for NJ AIHA until next September.

We had a great April NJAIHA meeting. First, it was a pleasure to have 12 NJ AIHA Past– Presidents attend including ones going as far back as Ed Zehler (1977-78). For speakers we had our own past-president Craig Doolittle of TRC speaking on confined spaces and Ben Sallemi, Ph.D., GZA GeoEnvironmental, discussing risk assessment to asbestos exposure following 9/11. Both of these talks were very educational and inspired some great questions and dialogue with our attendees. We also had some great hands-on demonstrations from Frank Conidi of Honeywell (Miller Fall Protection) and Bob Frey/Rocco DelPriore of Stauffer Safety on some very interesting and new confined space safety products for our group (related photos: pages 10-11).

We are also pleased to present 6 NJ AIHA scholarships to Joe Zientek, Katherine Fay, Michael Blahut, Olusola Adedoyin, Ruchi Panocholy and Megan Rockefellow (2 time NJ winner). We will plan to have all on hand at our June meeting to receive their awards.

And finally two major changes are occurring for me this June. First on a personal level , it is my last week of employment at EMSL Analytical where I have spent 16 enjoyable years in the lab management and IH lab field and I do depart there with a heavy heart as EMSL brought me into NJ AIHA and into so many new areas I am part of now. I will be moving on to take a CIH position at DuPont (now I will have worked at firms in PA, NJ, and DE) based in the Newark, DE area. And finally it will be my last month as your NJ AIHA president. I cannot say strongly enough what an honor and pleasure it was to serve as your President for the past year and to work with such a fine organization and officer’s board.

Looking forward to another great year in 2015-2016 with NJ AIHA and seeing many of you at our end of year meeting at Basking Ridge on June 11th .

Sincerely,
Stephen Siegel, CIH MBA
President NJ AIHA