ASSP Northeastern Illinois Chapter Scholarship winner was Margret Thomas. This award recognizes and supports NIU students pursuing careers in safety, health, and environmental fields who demonstrate academic achievement, professional involvement, and leadership potential.

Our May meeting speaker, Amy Timmerman with Rockford Systems, presenting on ANSI Z10 Standard to our chapter members. Amy is a part of the committee and gave us insight on the standard and what changes will be made to the new standard.

Our April meeting speakers, NIU students presented their posters boards to our chapter. These students presented on various safety topics they learned in class and created poster boards of their findings.

James Hardie Peru Plant hosted the NIU Student Group. The team couldn’t stop raving about how great this group was. The team was extremely engaged throughout the 4-hour visit and asked some great questions. We are so fortunate to know that the future the safety profession is in good hands. I want to thank Kamran, Jailene and Dr. Hogan for helping to facilitate this event!