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APRIL NEWSLETTER (pdf)

April Technical Meeting (doc)

ASSE Golf Outing Entry 2013 (pdf)

2012-2013 - ASSE Technical Meeting Planner (xls)

If you don't have Excel see the Meetings and Events page

Tenth Annual Safety Training Day

June 13, 2013 7:45 AM - 3:45 PM

Location: Waukesha County Technical College
Richard T. Anderson Education Center
800 Main Street, Pewaukee, Wisconsin

Event	Time
Registration	7:45 - 8:15 am
Opening Remarks	8:15 - 9:00 am
Morning Sessions	9:10 - 11:00 am
Break/Vendor Time	11:00 - 11:30 am
Noon Session	11:30 - 12:20 pm
Lunch	12:20 1:00 pm
Afternoon Sessions	1:00 - 2:50 pm
Closing Comments	3:00 - 3:45 pm

For more information about the Safety Training Day - Safety Day 2013 (pdf)

ASSE/OSHA Safety Day

Safety Day $20.00 USD OSHA 10 Hour $35.00 USD 1st Aid & CPR $35.00 USD

 

Summer Social Event
Lakeshore Chinooks Baseball – July 12, 2013 at 7:05 PM

ASSE Wisconsin Chapter Summer Social Event (doc)

Come join the ASSE Wisconsin Chapter celebrate the start of summer with the Lakeshore Chinooks vs. Madison Mallards on Friday July 12, 2013 at 7 P.M at Kapco Park at Concordia University.  The ASSE Wisconsin Chapter will pay for the tickets for the member and one guest and UWW student chapter members in the Usinger’s Uecker Club or Leinenkugel's Fan Dock.   This includes a ticket to the game and all you can eat Usinger’s Products and other ballpark items until the end of the 6th inning and two drink vouchers per person.  Additional tickets may be purchased for $30.00 each.  Parking is free.  Please contact:

Bruce Morton
bmorton@securityins.net  or 414-588-7941 – email preferred

Registration for this event will end on 6/28/13 so plan accordingly and we hope to see you at the game.

Welcome to Kapco Park!

Concordia University/Kapco Park: 12800 N Lake Shore Dr, Mequon
Please remember: Use Highland Road to cross over 1-43. Turn north onto N Lakeshore Drive. Turn east into Concordia University.
For General Parking: Use Lots J, K & I

 

 

 

Women in Safety Engineering (WISE)

An ASSE Common Interest Group
www.asse.org/wise

WISE invites YOU to stop by our lounge to relax, recharge and connect with other members during…

Safety 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada
ASSE Professional Development Conference

The lounge will be open from 7:30am-5pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in room N230 of the Convention Center.

Advisory board members will be in the lounge to share information and answer questions regarding WISE and our programs, and we will have some light refreshments.

Bring a friend, and come on by!
www.safety2013.org

 

Lynn M. Tess

We are sad to inform our members that Lynn M. Tess died on Monday, March 25, 2013 at the age of 54. Lynn was a long time and active member of the Wisconsin Chapter of ASSE. Lynn served on the Board of the Wisconsin Chapter from 1998 - 2003 and was Chapter President in 2002-2003. Lynn also served on a number of committee's over the years. Lynn will be missed by our chapter.

Visitation will be held Friday, Mar. 29 at 10 AM at the funeral home, followed by funeral services at 12 PM. Private interment Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

For further obituary updates - http://foresthomefunerals.com/obituaries/lynn-m-tess/

 

NAOSH 2013

 

ASSE WI Chapter welcomes all new and current members to our fall programming.

Annually, our chapter presents 2 one-half day seminars as a means of updating members' safety skills. Each seminar lasts 5 hours and provides the participant with 0.5 CEU.

Please see the FLYER for registration information on our October 11, 2012 seminar.

Deadline for early registration for members at the reduced rate of $60 is Monday Oct. 8, 2012.

Any questions, please email or phone me at 262-781-4496.

We thank you for your support.

Russ Fote, seminar coordinator

 

 

President's Corner August 2012

Hello Wisconsin Chapter ASSE Members,

June 18, 2012 - ASSE Board and Planning Meeting, Hawks View Golf Club, Lake Geneva, WI

This year's planning meeting discussed numerous items in the 2 hour time slot allotted. The planning meeting covered the Board's normal business items such as Secretary's and Treasure's reports, Officers and Committee reports, planned chapter meetings and programs, to name a few.

The new business items focused on setting the technical meeting sessions for the 2012-13 year. Several key topics for the upcoming year include:

• Safety on the Great Lakes
• OSHA Compliance & Update - Fall & Spring Sessions - Alverno College
• Construction Safety - Epic site, Verona, WI
• WC issues and perspectives - DWD's ALJ - Joint meeting with the Waukesha Safety Council
• Fall Protection - Construction - Joint meeting with the UW-Whitewater Student Section
• LOTO Programs - tour of Grede Machining, Menomonee Falls plant
• HazCom and GHS - OSHA updates and perspective

2012-13 ASSE President Bruce Morton Chairs the annual planning meeting, while Secretary Jared Owen takes meeting notes. Jared will serve as the 2012-13 Vice President

The ASSE Board engaged in discussions at our 2012-13 annual planning meeting.

June 18, 2012 - 16th Annual ASSE Golf Outing and Awards Recognition Dinner, Hawks View Golf Club, Lake Geneva, WI

This year, over 70 members and guests took part in the 16th Annual ASSE Golf Outing held at Hawks View golf course, Lake Geneva, WI on June 18th. The weather was hot and windy making for challenging conditions and play on the course.

Hawks View Golf Club, Lake Geneva, WI.	Diversified Insurance's Nicole Tubeszewski and Dan Gahlman check in golfers for the annual ASSE golf outing
ASSE's Tina Minter and the Chubb Insurance group on the tee box.	ASSE emeritus member Tom Abts shows how to strategically place a drive down the middle of the fairway. Tom and wife Sally were visiting from Florida.
Hole Sponsor, John Groves of Groves WorkReady prepares to launch his drive on his sponsored hole.	ASSE member Becky Severson aims for the pin on the picturesque 92W - 152M yard par 3 elevated tee third hole.
The picturesque par 5, Hole #14 water fall hazard. No ball hawking please!	A pair of sand hill cranes observe the action on hole #2.
Past President Rick Barton adds up the team score card	The Chubb Insurance group enjoys dinner after golf.
Security Insurance's Tony Prospero, CSP Coordinator, (left) and United Heartland's Jim Jones, Past President, (right) rehash the day's round - Birdie time!	View of the Clubhouse!

The 2012 golf outing winning team(s) and event winners for prizes included:

• 1st - 63 - Crawford, Stephens, Donaldson, Boulware
• 2nd - 65 - Geiger, Arteaga, Hoffmann, Serocki
• 3rd - 65 - O'Connor, O'Connor, Radlof, Mitchell
• 4th - 66 - Prospero, Jones, Ostrenga, Brennan
• 5th - 66- Barton, Masias, Wisneski, vanMaastricht
• "Trooper's Award"- Minter, Murphy, Narr, Cusick

• #3 Green Sticker, optional betting hole - Larry O'Connor & David Crawford $32 each
• #7 Closest to Pin from off the green - Renee Gilbertson
• #9 Closest in 3 shots - Ken van Maastricht
• #10 Longest Drive, Men - Ryan OGrizovich
• #10 Longest Drive, Women - Tina Minter
• #13 Longest Putt - Chuck Decker
• Shake-of-the-Day winners - Barton Team and O'Connor Team

The ASSE golf outing couldn't be a success without the fantastic help of Julie O'Connor, Avanti Safety, along with her husband Larry O'Connor. Julie's passion for golf along with her hard work in setting up this fine event makes it look so easy although we know it is not.

ASSE member and golf outing organizer Julie O'Connor and her husband, Larry. Excellent job as usual Julie and Larry.

Julie O'Connor MC's the golf outing raffle and awards presentations.

Additional thanks go out to all the sponsors and others who made for a great event, these include:

• Hole Sponsors - AON Risk Services, Avanti Safety Consulting, LLC, MEDIVAN, Inc., Platt Safety Services, CAN, Groves Work Ready, Joy Global, Wisconsin No Slip Floors, and Rockwell Automation
• Registration & Course Assistance: Nicole Tubeszewski and Dan Gahlman - Diversified Insurance
• Gift Donation - Rogan Shoes, Crawford Evaluation

2011-12 SE Wisc Chapter President Ross Lukowski welcomes the attendees to the annual planning meeting and golf outing awards dinner. Thanks for a great year Ross and the 2011-12 Executive Board.

Attendees check out the golf outing raffle and awards prior to dinner.

ASSE members and golf outing participants discuss the events of the day and enjoy a buffet dinner and refreshments at the spacious Hawks View club house.

ASSE emeritus members (left to right) Clair and Bob Schoof; Joy and Russ Fote; Sally and Tom Abts; and Kathy and Ken Kempe enjoy the dinner and share stories from past ASSE outings and events. Bob Schoof has been part of our local SE Wisconsin ASSE Chapter 60 years, since 1951, serving as the 1963-64 Chapter President while working for Allis-Chalmers.

Finally, the Awards and Recognition Dinner provided a great opportunity to honor current and emeritus members for the great work they have done to further the safety profession in SE Wisconsin. Many of our talented members have been with the Chapter for 40 plus years and through their dedication we have been able to sustain a chapter that is second to none, thanks for all you do.

The Hawks View hole #3 course "Ranger" says "see you all next year..."

2012-13 ASSE Wisconsin Chapter $1,000 Scholarship Award Winner

UW-Whitewater Safety Studies Senior Craig Everson (right,) Delafield, WI receives a $1,000 scholarship check for the upcoming 2012-13 school year from Chapter President Ross Lukowski at this year's golf outing and awards dinner, held at the Hawks View Golf Club, Lake Geneva , WI.

Craig is entering his senior year in Safety Studies at UW-Whitewater and currently serves as the UWW's Student Safety Organization's 2012-2013 Student Chapter President. He looks to graduate in the spring of 2013, following his internship.

Craig is a volunteer firefighter/EMT in his community, the Town of Delafield, and a member of Delafield Legion post 196. Craig went in to Environmental Safety and Health after 15 years of working in the Emergency Room as a nurse. He is passionate about the safety field and strives to now eliminate those ER visits for the people he works with.

Craig and the UW-Whitewater Student Safety Organization (SSO) can be reached through their web at - blogs.uww.edu/assesso and eversonca13@uww.edu.

The Wisconsin ASSE Chapter sponsors a $1,000 scholarship for students enrolled in a qualified 4 year University level Safety Studies curriculum. To be eligible, students need to submit their scholarship application to our Student Chapter Coordinator, Peter Marks, no later than April 1, 2013.

Peters contact information is:

Peter Mark, Safety Manager
Grede Holdings LLC
PMark@grede.com
414-256-9355

Peter can be contacted for the ASSE scholarship application form and instructions on its submission.

Next year's golf outing will again be held at Hawk's view Golf Club on June 17th, 2013.
Great sponsorship opportunities are available.

Thanks to all for another great golf outing!

Bruce Morton, CHST
2012-13 ASSE SE Wisconsin Chapter President
Security Insurance Services, Inc.
(262) 796-8808

 

Professional Development

If you are interested in professional development training aids contact the Professional Development Chairman Tony Prospero at: tprosper@securityins.net

 

Board Members

If you have every considered leading the ASSE Wisconsin Chapter to new heights, this is your opportunity.  The Board is looking for members to actively participate in this process for the 2012-2013 year.  If interested you can contact Ross Lukowski at rlukowski@wi.rr.com or any current Board member

At the January Board meeting it was discussed that some members are having trouble accessing our website.  If this the case for you, try entering the site name without the “WWW.”

 

ASSE Wisconsin Chapter Technical Meeting September 13, 2012

“Safety on the Great Lakes”

Meeting Details: Captain Matthew Sibley from the US Coast Guard will be discussing ship inspections and rescues.  For over two centuries the U.S. Coast Guard has safeguarded our Nation’s maritime interests in the heartland, in the ports, at sea, and around the globe. We protect the maritime economy and the environment, we defend our maritime borders, and we save those in peril. This history has forged our character and purpose as America’s Maritime Guardian — Always Ready for all hazards and all threats.  Today’s U.S. Coast Guard, with nearly 42,000 men and women on active duty, is a unique force that carries out an array of civil and military responsibilities touching almost every facet of the U.S. maritime environment.

This is a free meeting for current Wisconsin Chapter ASSE members (including student members); $20 for non-ASSE members.  If you would like to attend, please RSVP to:

Bruce Morton, bmorton@securityins.net     (email preferred)
or, 414-588-7941 

The RSVP deadline is noon Friday, 9/7/12 

Check In:     11:30 AM until 12:00 noon
Lunch:          Box Lunch 12:00 noon until approximately 12:30 PM
Presentation: 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM           

Meeting Location:
2420 S. Lincoln Memorial Dr.
Milwaukee, WI
414-747-7182
                                               

• Box Lunch from Jimmy John’s will be provided.  If you have a special request please put that in the email.

 

 

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