"The Future of the Safety Profession:

 How to Stay Employed and Career Alternatives"

There is no greater honor and no greater responsibility than to be elected by the members of this great Chapter to be your President. I am humbled by the entrusted privilege and I am fired up with enthusiasm for holding this high office.

I come on the heels of great Presidents who have diligently served before me. I thank our immediate past-President, Bob D’Amato, CSP, for his outstanding service this past year. Our Chapter is financially sound thanks to Bob, in particular, with regard to his devotion and time to marketing and administrating several well-attended Chapter seminars the past two years.

You and I as members of this Chapter are indeed very fortunate to be surrounded, administered, and inspired by our Executive Board comprised of LA ASSE members from all areas of the safety profession. Some of our Executive Board members are veterans of this honored profession and have served in this post, while others are the new rising stars and the future Presidents of the LA Chapter. Each Board member is making great sacrifices in time and energy devoted to ensuring that this Chapter grows and reflects the creative energies of the great Los Angeles community. I thank each and every member of the Executive Board for the support they collectively and individually demonstrate to serve all the LA Chapter members and for their support and guidance they constantly show to me.

As President I hope that the LA Chapter becomes Region One "Chapter of the Year." This lofty goal challenges me to be a top-performing leader and to serve the Chapter in many new and creative ways. Regardless of that goal, however, my service as your President is foremost and utmost directed to you, the ASSE member and to those people whom our Chapter touches.

In specific ways our Chapter meetings this year are being directed to present you with very relevant and timely issues—the issues you face nearly every day in this profession and on the job. Your LA ASSE Chapter is planning to present topics and speakers on subjects such as the future of the safety profession, workers’ compensation, technology, and the challenge of being "more productive" and of "greater value" to our employers. We will have topics on compliance issues and hold two seminars that not only serve our members, but that will serve and assist the small business owner who may otherwise have no other local resource as to what to do with "safety." Our reach to the small business owner will engage the marketing arm of several Chambers of Commerce within the boundaries of our Chapter. In this regard, LA ASSE will be the "outreach" to the unreached small business owner with regard to workplace safety. Usually ignored by insurance carriers because of premium thresholds and by authorities until there’s a serious injury or loss, our Chapter’s efforts will be to present information and programs designed to increase safety awareness, injury prevention, and awareness of ASSE to the local small business community. The possibilities for our Chapter’s reach within the Los Angeles are very wide in scope and very much within our reach as members of this Society.

We can and will do several great things this year. You are invited to be a part of the excitement and challenge this year at your ASSE Los Angeles Chapter. Safety is not just a career; it’s a passion! Come to our meetings and "catch" the energy of the dynamic, energetic Los Angeles Chapter.

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