On July 20, 2023, Ms. Allyson Clark presented on “Heat Illness” at the monthly ASSP Long Beach Education and Networking Session. The session was offered in-person and virtually and was very well attended. Members will receive CEUs for this and every session offered during the 23-24 term (July 1 – June 30). The session will be posted on the ASSP Long Beach web site.

Thank you to Ms. Clark for an excellent presentation, and thanks also to our partners at CSUDH for the tremendous support!

For so many of us, 1991 doesn’t sound like that long ago, but in reality, that was 32 years ago! 1991 is remembered for many reasons, not the least of which was sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the war in Iraq. Closer to home, 1991 also saw the formation of the Long Beach Chapter of the ASSP (then still known as the ASSE).

Current members Tom Butler and Marianne Thomas remember the formation of our chapter very well. As they recall, the only local chapter at that time was the Los Angeles Chapter. Members met monthly at the TAIX restaurant on Sunset Blvd. at 6:00 p.m. As Tom recalls, traffic generally became so bad that reaching those monthly meetings on time became more difficult. Marianne, who at the time was serving as the Senior Safety Engineer for McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach, approached her fellow safety professionals about starting a Long Beach chapter. With the support of McDonnell Douglas, the Los Angeles Chapter, and ASSE, Marianne, Tom, and several others began the process of establishing a charter for the Long Beach Chapter.

As we start the new term (July 1 – June 30), I am extremely excited about our aggressive agenda for the coming year(s). Let’s face it – Covid was a gamechanger when it came to ASSP activities. Seemingly overnight, our chapter, like all others, stopped in-person meetings and activities, thereby severely hampering one of the main reasons most of us belong to ASSP – networking and interaction. Covid is, thankfully, history, and it is well past time to bring our once vibrant chapter back to where it can and should be!