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December Newsletter
  • President's Message
  • SF-Chapter WISE Message
  • Membership Update
  • Upcoming Events
  • Chapter SPY Nomination
  • PDC Registration
  • Fall 2019 Scholarship Winner
  • Career Opportunities
PRESIDENT'S LETTER
Dear SF Chapter ASSP Members,
 
Seasons Greetings to you all!
 
December has been a busy month for us all both personally and professionally. Our chapter was able to kick off the month with a Joint Holiday Meetup with the Greater San Jose Chapter at Pacific Catch in San Mateo. You can find photos from the event on our twitter page. Thank you to those that braved the weather to make it. We were happy to see some new faces! The Construction Section also had their holiday event last week where they awarded a $500 student scholarship to Matt Chasm enrolled in the OSH program at Las Positas College. The SF Chapter also awarded a $500 student scholarship to Venus Maria Cruz. You can find out more about Venus and Matt below and on our website. Congrats to them both! 
 
We have nominations open for the 2020 San Francisco Chapter SPY award. I encourage all of you to nominate colleagues and others in your professional network for this prestigious award. The winner will be announced at the 2020 Bay Area Safety Symposium on March 4, 2020. Find out how you can nominate somebody below.
 
We have a busy New Year coming up filled with new events. We have four events available to members in January. These events include our monthly chapter technical meeting, a joint meeting with NSMS, a WISE Technical Meeting and Grapevine Section Meeting. Please note that the Grapevine Section now meets every other odd-numbered month on the 3rd Thursday.
 
If you haven't already done so, please join the "ASSP San Francisco Chapter" group on linkedin and add me as a friend to find out about the latest chapter news or to provide me with feedback on how I can bring better value to your ASSP membership. I would love to hear from each and every one of you.
 
Happy Holidays to you all, and thank you again for your continued investment and engagement with ASSP. I hope your holidays will be filled with joy and laughter throughout the New Year. 
 
Sincerely,
 
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Amanda Shin
President, San Francisco Chapter
American Society of Safety Professionals
 
 
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SF-CHAPTER WISE MESSAGE

Hello All,

We are excited to present our first panel discussion for ASSP-SF-WISE Community event at Five Prime Therapeutics, located within The Cove of South San Francisco on January 23, 2020 from 12:00-1:30PM.

Our generous sponsors, The Gift Mint LLC, will be providing coffee, snacks, notebooks and pens to our registrants for this intimate event. Additionally, the first 25 lucky attendees will recieve a bonus present. This event is at no cost to you and something you will not want to miss.

Please drop by to network and learn with your fellow ASSP and EH&S colleagues. We will have three industry experts advise our community on how to naigate your career to finding you niche, passion and success! Additionally, we look forward to having you learn more about WISE and make the connections you have always wanted to make!

Looking forward to seeing you there! And remember, men are always welcome. They are known as our "WISE guys"!

See you soon!

Tamara Vartanian
ASSP SF WISE Chair

MEMBERSHIP UPDATE
We have been growing in membership! As of December 1st we have 606 members! Thank you all!
 
Please welcome our new members below and long-term members. As a new member you can attend your first SF Chapter event for free! Please contact Tami Galt, our VP of Membership, at membership@sanfrancisco.assp.org for more details. 
 
Welcome New Members!
Abraham Avedikian
Chris Ryen
Edgar Lopez
Jeffrey Roso
Kaila Defries
Mehmaz Rafati
Michael Bullis
Jonah Cameron
Rolf Raak
 
30 Years:
Alan Williams
 
20 Years:
David Friedlander
Halina Christie
Michael Strange
Paul Gantt
Peter Michel
 
15 Years:
Roy Samuelsz
 
10 Years:
Thomas Davies
 
5 Years:
Supinda Wadsantad
UPCOMING EVENTS  - SAVE THESE DATES!
January Technical Meeting
High Voltage Electrical Safety
Speaker: Lori Elder
January 8, 2020; 11:30am-1:30pm
Trans Bay Cable, Pittsburgh CA
Registration Coming Soon
 
Joint meeting with NSMS
Cal/OSHA Update: What to Watch for in 2020
Speakers: Fred Walter, Lisa Prince, Lisa Baiocchi & Len Welsh
January 10, 2020; 11:15am-2:00pm
Scott's Seafood, Oakland
Cost: $95
RSVP: email tiffany@alarsonsafety.com 
 
SF-Chapter WISE Technical Meeting
"Navigating Your Career to Finding Your Niche, Passion & Success"
Panelists: Kate Smiley Crawford, Christine Foster, & Kim Racine
January 23, 2020; 12:00pm-1:30pm
Cost: FREE
February Technical Tour @ Tesla
February 12, 2020
Tesla, Fremont CA
more info to come
 
Bay Area Safety Symposium 
March 4, 2020 from 8:00AM-5:00PM
San Ramon Marriott
 
Happy Hour @ Buffalo Wild Wings
March 4, 2020 from 5:30PM-7:00PM
Cost: FREE
Buffalo Wild Wings, San Ramon
 
April Technical Meeting 
April 8, 2020 from 11:30AM-1:30PM
more info to come
 
SF-Chapter WISE 2nd Technical Meeting
April 9, 2020
more info to come
 
May Awards & Recognition Meeting
March 13, 2020 from 5:30PM-8:00PM
Trader Vics, Emeryville CA
more info to come
 
June Tour @ Cal Academy of Sciences
June 8, 2020 from 2:00PM-5:00PM
Cal Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
 
SF-Chapter WISE Networking Event
June 11, 2020
more info to come
 
BAY AREA SAFETY SYMPOSIUM 

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Registration for the 2020 Bay Area Safety Symposium is open now. We are expecting over 450 attendees and exhibitors at the event. 
 
To register go to: http://www.safetybayarea.com/
 
SF Chapter SPY Nominations

Submit Your Nomination for the SF Chapter
2020 Safety Professional of the Year (SPY)
Deadline: January 31st

Purpose & Eligibility

The ASSP Chapter SPY award is an honor acknowledging the dedication and outstanding contributions of a member to a specific Chapter. To be eligible nominees must:

  1. Be a Professional Member or Member in good standing of their Chapter and the Society.
  2. Not have received this award within the past five (5) years.
  3. Be engaged in full-time employment in the profession of protecting people, property and the environment.

2020 Nomination Process

Please download and complete the San Francisco Chapter 2020 Chapter SPY Nominations Form and then, email it to Mary Jo Press at mpress@tesla.com no later than January 31, 2020.

Winners will be announced at the 2020 Bay Area Safety Symposium  at San Ramon Marriot, March 4th. We are expecting over 450 attendees this year.

This is a great way to recognize your colleagues and other professionals in our field for the outstanding work that they've done. Nominate now!

See our winner's from last year!

 

Fall 2019 Chapter Scholarship Winner
Twice a year (Fall & Spring), the SF Chapter and Construction Section award $500 scholarship's to students in the Occupational Health & Safety AS program at Las Positas College in Livermore. I'm pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2019 student scholarship are Venus Maria Cruz and Matt Chasm. Congrats to you both!
 
 
Venus immigrated to the United States from a developing country and knows firsthand what it is like to work in an environment where the job is more important than the worker. She recalls learning Universal precautions at the University, but knew that safety was not a priority in the laboratory workplace. She remembers that workers in her country typically accept the risk associated with hazards and hope the employer will compensate for medical bills if an accident occurs. Workers were rarely offered benefits including education and safety training. Few workers would report incidents due to the fear of being fired. As she completes her second class in the OSH degree program at Las Positas College, Venus recognizes the risks employers need to manage for their workers and the rights afforded to workers in the United States that exist without the fear of retaliation.

Venus is a full-time student and mother and sincerely appreciates the assistance of the ASSP scholarship. She plans to complete her Associates degree in 2020 and subsequently contribute to the safety community in a laboratory environment. Her goal is to help workers safety go home to their families as healthy as when they arrived at the workplace.

Matt Chasm is the Fall 2019 recipient of the Construction Section’s $500 scholarship at Las Positas College. Matt is pictured at left receiving the scholarship check from Steve McConnell, Las Positas College Adjunct Faculty and Chapter Student Affairs Chair.

Matt has completed the OSH and RADs classes required as part of the Associates of Arts degree program at Las Positas. He plans to complete his degree in the Fall 2020 semester and transfer to CSU, Sacramento to complete a Health Sciences degree with an emphasis in Occupational Safety. Matt previously worked as an equipment operator and foreman for Specialty Crushing, a concrete and asphalt recycling company. He joined Argent Materials as a Safety and Compliance officer in 2017. Matt’s professional goals include becoming a Certified Safety Professional and a Qualified Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan Practitioner. In the meantime, he strives to improve safe performance at Argent Materials.

 
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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, Health and Safety Specialist etc.

We will post the jobs to our website. This is done currently at no charge, but the chapter is always accepting donations to help establish our scholarship fund. Your contribution is appreciated.

Please email the job information to the Communication/Website Coordinator, Kathleen Roberts, at updates@sanfrancisco.assp.org .

Visit the ASSP San Francisco Chapter Jobs Website Page

 
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