President Linda M. Tapp, CSP, ALCM, CPTD, has served on the Board of Directors since 2020. She stepped into her current volunteer leadership position on July 1, 2025, serving a one-year term. She also is chair of the ASSP Foundation – the Society’s charitable arm – in her dual leadership role.
Tapp is president of SafetyFUNdamentals, an occupational safety training and consulting firm. She has more than 30 years of experience in environmental health and safety.
Tapp is only the 10th woman to lead ASSP in its 114-year history, but she is the fifth woman to be president in the past seven years. Her time on the Board of Directors began with a three-year term as vice president of finance.
Tapp was ASSP’s Safety Professional of the Year in 2007 and earned the Charles V. Culbertson Outstanding Volunteer Service Award in 2010. She served two terms as chair of the ASSP Foundation and received the Board of Certified Safety Professionals’ (BCSP) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.
Tapp has authored several books, including “Make Your Safety Training Stick: Improve Retention and Get Better Results” that ASSP published in 2022. She has contributed to the “Safety Professionals Handbook” and the Society’s “Consultants Business Development Guide.” Tapp is the editor of “The Wiley Guide to Strategies, Ideas and Applications for Implementing a Total Worker Health® Program” published in 2024. She frequently presents at conferences across the country.
An ASSP member since 1989, Tapp has served on the Council for Professional Development, the Technical Publications Committee and in leadership positions at the chapter and practice specialty levels. She also served as public director for the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics and as BCSP treasurer.
Tapp earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Drexel University and a master’s degree in environmental health from Temple University. She resides in Madison, NJ.