The Future of Environmental Health and Safety will have a personal and perhaps profound impact on everyone visiting this virtual town hall meeting. What are your thoughts, opinions, and ideas for ensuring a prosperous and influential future for the EHS profession, and for your own career? Our cadre of bloggers will air their views, and what’s a community meeting if the community doesn’t respond? So join the conversation. To jump straight to the blogs, click here.

Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson has been editor of Industrial Safety & Hygiene News since 1980.

Gary Rosenblum

Gary Rosenblum is the risk manager for the City of Palm Desert in Southern California, where he has directed risk management, insurance, and employee safety programs since joining the city in 2001. He is also the city's emergency manager, providing preparation, planning and management of disaster and terrorism response. Gary spent more than 17 years in the corporate environment, health and safety division of ARCO (now part of British Petroleum) in Los Angeles. He performed enterprise safety and health management, directed OSHA regulatory affairs, industrial hygiene, compliance auditing, product stewardship, OSHA recordkeeping and toxicology research. Gary worked closely with top Federal OSHA management during the planning, proposal and implementation of the major OSHA regulations of the 1980s and ‘90s. Gary has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of New York at Albany, and a Master’s degree in Toxicology from the University of Arizona. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) and Associate in Risk Management (ARM). Gary is a past president of the Inland Empire Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) Chapter and is currently on the Government Affairs Committee of the national RIMS organization.

Aaron Chen

Aaron Chen, MPH, CIH is the Senior Industrial Hygiene Consultant for the DuPont Facilities Services and Real Estate businesses of the Delaware Valley sites. Prior to working for FSRE he worked as the Global Product Stewardship Leader/Sr. IH for the DuPont Clean and Disinfect businesses for six years, and prior to that was the senior IH at DuPont Jackson Labs. He is a certified industrial hygienist with a masters degree in public health from Tulane University. Aaron presently is a member of AIHA, ASSE , The Health Physics Society and a diplomate of ABIH. He currently serves on the AIHA Practice Standards and Guidelines and Stewardship and Sustainability Technical Committees. He is a member of the Joint Industrial Hygiene Ethics Education Committee. He has written articles on industrial hygiene ethics and product stewardship in industrial hygiene and safety monthly magazines. Aaron has been jointly teaching a one day PDC at the AIHCE in 2007, 2008 and 2009 on Product Stewardship. He has been working for DuPont for nearly 22 years. He can be reached at 302-695-4332 or aaron.chen-1@usa.dupont.com. His LinkedIn prohttp://www.ishn.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/cycling

Chris Laszcz-Davis

Chris Laszcz-Davis, MS,CIH, REA, is principal of The Environmental Quality Organization, LLC, Lafayette, Calif. Chris has more than 30 years of executive management, professional, technical, operational and consulting experience in environmental affairs, occupational health and safety, operational integrity, risk management, product stewardship and corporate acquisitions/divestitures in both industry and government. A former corporate vice-president, environmental affairs, health, safety & operational integrity for Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, Chris helped lead company initiatives to reshape its EHS culture. Chris is a National American Industrial Hygiene Association Fellow, recipient of AIHA’s Kusnetz Award, and past president of the American Academy of Industrial Hygiene.

Dan Markiewicz

Dan Markiewicz is an independent environmental health and safety consultant. He can be reached at (419) 356-3768 or by email at dan.markiewicz@gmail.com.

Scott Geller

E. Scott Geller, Ph.D., is Alumni Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, and Senior Partner, Safety Performance Solutions. SPS helps companies worldwide apply human dynamics to industrial safety and beyond. Coastal Training Technologies Corporation has published Dr. Geller’s books on People-Based Safety, including his latest: The Courage Factor, coauthored by Bob Veazie. You can contact Dr. Geller at esgeller@vt.edu.

Barry Weissman

Barry R. Weissman, REM, CSP, CHMM, CHS-V, CIPS is president of Weissman Consultants. Barry is a Registered Environmental Manager, a Certified Safety Professional and a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager. He is certified in Homeland Security at Advanced Level 5 and is a Certified Infrastructure Preparedness Specialist. Barry is a frequent contributor to various safety magazines and on-line. He is a speaker at various national safety, hazardous materials and homeland security conferences. In addition, he is the moderator of RegulatoryPost, a Yahoo! Group providing regulatory updates, safety tips and links to training materials. You can subscribe to RegulatoryPost by sending a blank email to: RegulatoryPost-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. When not reviewing the latest Federal Register notice, he is working in the garden growing Hostas or speaking to gardening groups. Barry can be reached at regulatorymavin@yahoo.com.

James E. Leemann, Ph.D.

Jim is the president of The Leemann Group LLC, a systems thinking consultancy offering systemic approaches to dissolving safety, health and environmental messes. In addition, Jim conducts competency research for clients to discover the behavioral competencies that distinguish superior performance among employees. Jim is also a clinical assistant professor teaching occupational safety and health management at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine’s Center for Applied Environmental Public Health. Jim has more than 35 years of experience in corporate and business-line management of safety, health, environment and crisis management positions with Fortune 50 firms such as the DuPont Company and Conoco Inc. (now ConocoPhillips). Jim lives in Scottsdale, AZ and can be reached at jim@leemanngroup.com or 480-513-0298

Rick Pollack

Rick Pollock is the president of CLMI Safety Training, Minneapolis, MN. He is an experienced safety professional specializing in adult education and performance technology. Rick is a CSP and is degreed in safety management from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, where he received the Distinguished Alumni Award. His work experience includes senior safety management positions in several industries, including steel fabrication, consumer goods, oil refining, and biomedical implantable products. Mr. Pollock has been active in the ASSE for more than 35 years. He served recently as the Society VP for Professional Development, and is the current Chair of the ASSE 100th Anniversary Planning Task Force.