2008 Election Results

Donald S. Jones Sr., P.E., CSP, Chair of Nominations & Elections Committee, announces the results of the 2008 Society election. Leslie M. Batterson, CSP, CPEA Tellers’ Committee Chair reported that the results were verified by the committee on April 9, 2008, at Society Headquarters. A total of 5,934 members voted which represented 18.8% of the ballots distributed.

Current President-Elect Warren K. Brown, CSP, ARM, CSHM will succeed to the office of President. Current Senior Vice President C. Christopher Patton, CSP will succeed to the office of President-Elect. The new Society officers whose terms begin on July 1, 2008 are as follows:

Senior Vice President


Darryl C. Hill, CSP

Darryl C. Hill, CSP, is safety & health officer for ABB North America, Auburn Hills, MI. His responsibilities include safety and occupational health management for multi-plant, service, and project locations in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. He also is on the ABB Group taskforce providing safety & health strategy for over 150,000 employees and contractors. He holds a B.S. in Occupational Safety and a M.S. in Hazardous Waste Management from Iowa State University and Wayne State University, respectively. Hill is an adjunct instructor and Ph.D. candidate at Oakland University, majoring in Educational Leadership.

Vice President - Finance


James D. Smith, M.S., CSP

James D. Smith, CSP, is Managing Director, Southeast Region Risk Control Services for Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services, Boca Raton, Florida. Prior to joining Arthur J. Gallagher, he was Safety, Environmental and Claims (Liability) Manager for 18 years with a major public sector organization. He currently serves on ASSE Board of Directors, as Vice President-Council of Practices/Standards overseeing 13 Practice Specialties, 5 Branches, the Standards Development Committee, Business of Safety Committee, and Common Interest Groups. As previous Vice President-Council of Professional Affairs he oversaw the Governmental Affairs, Educational Standards, Professional Recognition Committees, and intersociety relations.

Vice President - Council on Practices and Standards


George W. Pearson, CSP, ARM

George Pearson is the Corporate Health and Safety Manager for SunCom Wireless, a regional wireless telecommunications carrier operating in five Southeastern States and Puerto Rico. He is their lead safety professional in the organization. George is a professional member of the ASSE and has been a member for 34 years.

Regional Vice President - Region II


James G. Gallup, P.E., CSP

James G. Gallup, P.E., CSP is a senior fire protection engineer for Rolf Jensen & Associates in Phoenix, AZ. His job responsibilities include fire protection code consulting, fire protection system design, teaching, and litigation support. He has 33 years in the fire protection field with 8 of those years also providing occupational safety and loss control services.

Gallup holds a BS degree in Fire Protection and Safety Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (1974). He received the degree in 1974. He is a registered engineer in AZ, CA, IL, and WA states. He has served on several committees for the NFPA.

Area Director - Region II, Area A
Harold L. Gribow, M.S., CSP, ARM

Gribow began his safety career in 1975 while working for a construction company specializing in residential insulation. During that time, he realized that further advancement in the safety profession could be enhanced with a safety degree and entered graduate school at Northern Illinois University in 1977. He attained his master’s degree in Industrial Technology with an emphasis in Industrial Safety in 1979.

Following graduation, he relocated to Phoenix Arizona, and became employed with the Arizona State Compensation Fund (now SCF Arizona) in June of 1980. He worked for this company for 26 ¾ years, rising through the ranks to the Loss Control Manager position.

Regional Vice President - Region IV


Michael Belcher, CSP

Michael Belcher, CSP, is Director of Safety for DS Waters, the U.S. leader in home and office water, and is responsible for leading safety and health efforts that impact over 5,000 employees. Belcher devotes the majority of his time working to align safety processes with desired business outcomes.

He has 18 years of experience as a safety professional and has successfully worked with various employers to improve operational performance to prevent injuries, illnesses, fire, and vehicle accidents. He also worked for Cingular Wireless and Coca-Cola Enterprises as the Senior Corporate Safety Manager and Safety & Environmental Manager. He holds a B.S. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida.

Area Director - Region IV, Mississippi/Alabama Area
Steve Willis, CSP

Steve Willis, CSP, is the compliance services coordinator for Alabama Power Company, Birmingham, AL. He is responsible for providing assistance to the compliance specialists within the company in the areas of safety and health compliance and compliance training. He is also a resource to the corporate safety and health staff on the interpretation of OSHA, NFPA and ANSI standards. Collateral duties include administration of the safety and health website, OSHA recordkeeping and safety recognition. He has 36 years experience in the safety and health field. His career began with Liberty Mutual Insurance in 1971 as a loss prevention representative and includes service with three insurance brokers as a loss control engineer. In 1983, he joined Alabama Power Company as a fire protection specialist. In 1985 he transferred to the company’s safety and health department as a safety engineer and assumed his current position in 2002. He is a 1971 Industrial Engineering graduate of Auburn University.

Area Director - Region IV, North Florida/Georgia Area
Pamela Perrich, CIH

Pamela B. Perrich, CIH, is the Industrial Hygiene Program Manager for the Naval Hospital in Pensacola, FL. She oversees the Navy’s industrial hygiene program for the southeast, which provides comprehensive consultative services to all of the Navy and Marine Corps activities in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Northwest Florida. She has more than 23 years of experience in industrial hygiene and occupational health. She holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of West Florida in Pensacola.

Regional Vice President - Region VI


James H. Morris, III

James H. Morris, III has served as the Assistant Director, Environmental and Energy Management, Virginia Beach City Public Schools for the last seven years. Prior to that, he was the Industrial Hygienist for the City of Virginia Beach. He has been in Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health for 17 years.

Morris’s background includes a BS (Biology) from the College of William and Mary and an MS (Community Health) from Old Dominion University (ODU). Morris also taught undergraduate and graduate level classes in Occupational Health at ODU as an Adjunct Professor.


Regional Vice President - Region VIII


Robert E. McClay, CSP

Bob McClay is a private consultant providing a range of safety services to government, business and industry. His holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, an MBA, and has completed graduate coursework in Industrial Hygiene and in Ergonomics.

Bob has been a Safety Professional for 35 years, having worked as a Navy Systems Safety Engineer, a faculty member in academic Safety Sciences at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and at East Carolina University. At IUP Bob helped to develop undergraduate and graduate programs that were the first ASSE accredited programs in the nation.

Area Director - Region VIII, Empire State Area
Arthur J. Dube, OHST

Arthur J. Dube, OHST, is a native of Clifton, New Jersey, received a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology.

An ASSE member since 2002, he has held various offices in the Niagara Frontier Chapter since 2003. Through out his years as a chapter officer he has organized several local professional development conferences in conjunction with the Western NY Safety Conference and is currently Program Committee Chairman while being the Past President this year. During his time as chapter president (‘06-’07), the chapter received the bright star award. He also received the Niagara Frontier chapter Safety Professional of the Year award in 2005.

Area Director - Region VIII, New England Area
Thomas J. Nolan, III, P.E., CSP

Thomas J. Nolan III, P.E., CSP is principal of Safety Assurance Management (SAM), Winchester, NH. He directs all business activities; creates, develops and conducts training for clients needing safety programs, inspections/audits, and/or training. He helps clients minimize safety and health risks by eliminating/reducing hazards, preventing/reducing frequency of hazard exposure and/or reducing effects of exposure to hazards presented by business operations.

Nolan has 27 years in safety. Before SAM, he worked 6 years as ‘Manager of Safety Assurance and Security’ for Cabot LNG/Distrigas of Massachusetts. The previous 17 years, he worked for GTE Sylvania, finishing his career as corporate ‘Manager of Employee Safety and Industrial Hygiene’. Nolan holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont and an M.B.A. from Boston College, Newton, MA.