Pam Walaski, CSP, FASSP, is senior program director with Specialty Technical Consultants Inc., and an adjunct faculty member for both the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Safety Sciences Department and Central Washington University Safety and Health Management Program. She was a director-at-large on ASSP’s Board of Directors from 2018-21 before moving into her current role on July 1, 2022. She will be president-elect in 2023-24 and president in 2024-25.
An ASSP member since 2003, Walaski has nearly 30 years of occupational safety and health experience. Her Society honors include the Charles V. Culbertson Outstanding Volunteer Service Award, Region VIII Safety Professional of the Year, Council on Practices and Standards Safety Professional of the Year, and article of the year awards from Professional Safety in 2011, 2017 and 2021. She resides in Templeton, PA, just outside of Pittsburgh.
Walaski is the author of “Risk and Crisis Communications: Methods and Messages” published in 2011. She was an editor of the “Consultants Business Development Guide” that ASSP published in 2015 and a section coordinator for the second and third editions of “The Safety Professionals Handbook.”
Walaski has been a presenter at ASSP’s annual professional development conference every year since 2005. She previously served on ASSP’s Finance Committee and the Council on Professional Affairs in addition to being the administrator of the Consultants Practice Specialty and president of the Western Pennsylvania Chapter.