Practice Specialty Elections

ASSP practice specialty communities provide members an accessible, virtual network of peers focused on developing and sharing technical and professional content and applying it to solve common safety challenges to become better safety professionals.

Open Positions - 2021 Society Election

Practice Specialty Assistant Administrator

Engineering Practice Specialty (two-year term July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2023)
Environmental Practice Specialty (Immediate Opening two-year term July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022)
Fire Protection Practice Specialty (Immediate Opening two-year term July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022)
Healthcare Practice Specialty Assistant Administrator (immediate opening to 6/30/2022 then to Administrator 7/1/22)
Manufacturing Practice Specialty (two-year term July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2023)
Risk Management Practice Specialty (two-year term July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2023)
Utilities Practice Specialty (two-year term July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2023)

Terms

Our practice specialty Administrator and Assistant Administrator serve a two-year term. These volunteer leaders then automatically succeed to the office of administrator for a two-year term.

Requirements

To serve in this role, you must:

Be a member of ASSP (not including Emeritus and Student)
Be a member of the respective practice specialty

Nominations Process

Please submit the following materials

Practice specialty nomination form
Brief biography (limited to 250 words)
Platform statement addressing your vision for the position and the respective practice specialty (limited to 300 words)
Completed conflict of interest statement
Photo [hi-resolution, small (2 x 3, 300 dpi) or low-resolution, large (8 x 10, 72 dpi]; JPG preferred

All practice specialty elections must be contested (two candidates). ASSP’s Nominations and Elections Committee will keep nominations open past the deadline if we have not received a sufficient number of qualified submissions for an open position.