Page | 1 Spring 2016 Newsletter President Rebecca Shultz Apex Environmental Management 511 Palmetto Drive Simpsonville, SC 27681 [email protected]Vice President Mandy Stone Biogen 900 Davis Drive, Suite B Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 [email protected]Past President Kevin Cosgrove Schaeffler Group USA Inc. Environmental, Health, & Safety 308 Springhill Farm Road Fort Mill, SC 29715 [email protected]Secretary Keri Davidson The Boeing Company 5400 International Blvd. MC 7830-NE34 North Charleston, SC 29418 [email protected]Treasurer Gary Eargle Naval Health Clinic Charleston Goose Creek, SC 29445 [email protected]North Carolina Director Monica McCaskill Environmental Profiles, Inc. 1908 Eastwood Road, Suite 230 Wilmington, NC 28403 [email protected]South Carolina Director Dave Comen Artisan EHS, LLC 104 Knoxwood Court Anderson, SC 29621 [email protected]Dear Section Members, As Snowmageddon 2016 rolls through the Carolinas, I am reminded that safety is not just something that we practice as a day job, but is something we practice constantly in our everyday lives. We assess the risk of driving when it is snowing (well, in the Carolinas it is usually more like sleeting or freezing rain). If we lose power in the storm, we make choices about how to safely keep our families warm. When we take our children sledding, we assess how many layers of clothing to put on them to keep them from getting frostbite. We make decisions every day about our own safety, the safety of our families, and the safety of our colleagues. Whether you are facing Snowmageddon or assessing a new industrial hazard that you may not have come across before, the common thread is preparation and understanding the potential risk with the information that you have available. I always look forward to our conferences as an opportunity to learn something new – regardless of whether or not it is something that I come across on a regular basis – to add to that arsenal of information you hold that can be pulled upon should the need arise. It is a time that I walk away with a sense of renewal and passion for what we do that can sometimes get lost in stress of the day-to-day jobs we all perform. This spring, the Carolinas AIHA board is excited to bring everyone back to the Raleigh area. We will be having the conference at a venue that we haven’t visited in quite some time, the Embassy Suites in Cary. I am very excited about the lineup of presentations that we have and hope that we have included something that will interest everyone. Our PDC speaker, Steve Jahn, has recently been involved with the editing of the 4 th edition of AIHA’s A Strategy for Assessing and Managing Occupational Exposures and will be providing a full-day course looking at professional judgment and exposure assessment. Our conference presentations promise to be interesting with a look at EHS in private industry as well as academia, some technical presentations including a roundtable with some of our NC DOL/OSH colleagues, and even some discussion around legal advice for safety professionals. Whatever your interests, I hope that you will join us the first week in March for some interesting presentations, discussion, and to catch up with your fellow health and safety colleagues from the Carolinas. President’s Message
