2. Council on Practices & Standards Leadership Conference 2006 Jim Smith, CSP Vice President

3. Presentation Objective Explain the Council’s Roles and Responsibilities Discuss the Council’s Structure Discuss How the Council’s bring value to the membership Bridge the Gap – Councils, Regions, Chapter, Members

4. CoPs Responsibilities ASSE Strategic Plan – Goal 5: “Gather, encourage and participate in development of the body of knowledge to the profession” Primarily responsible for development, maintenance and delivery of the society’s technical knowledge and expertise

5. Council’s Focus Bring Value to the Membership (Products and Services) Network our technical expertise (industry specific) by creating a knowledge exchange platform which can be easily accessible by the members Harness the technical knowledge for the benefit of the Society (Profession & Membership) “Key benefit to belonging to a Practice Specialty is access to the information/networking to assist you in performing your job!”

6. COPS Membership 13,000+ Individual Members 20,400 Total Memberships

7. COPS Organization Practice Specialties - Branches Standards Development Committee Working Committees Common Interest Groups Staff

8. Practice Specialties Academics Construction Consultants Engineering Environmental Healthcare Industrial Hygiene International Management Mining Public Sector Risk Management Insurance Transportation

9. CoPS Branches Existing: Hospitality Fire Protection Manufacturing Oil and Gas Education and Training

10. Working Committees Business of Safety Committee Body of Knowledge Committee

11. Common Interest Groups Safety Professionals and the Latino Workforce Woman in Safety Engineering

12. The Standards Development Committee ASSE participates in the development and maintenance of standards in three ways: by serving as the secretariat for nine standards committees with almost eighty projects. by serving on 40 other safety standards committees as an ASSE representative by submitting comments to other standards committees/organizations which affect our profession

13. CoPS Value to Society Public Relations Support - Articles, News Releases Government Affairs Support - Regulatory and Legislative Comments Professional Development Support - PDC Sessions & Symposia Speakers Technical Publications

14. CoPS Value to Members Newsletters/Articles – Professional Safety – Practice Specialties – Best of Best Articles Technical Audio Conference Calls Web Site – Key Interviews – Hot Topic – Technical Articles – Links Technical White Papers - Workplace Violence - Body of Knowledge

15. CoPS Value to Members Editor Books – Construction Safety – Safety Management Technical Speakers (Speaker’s Bureau) Technical Q&A Bulletins List Server Research Journal of Safety Research Research Articles – Value of Safety

16. Infrastructure of Practice Specialty PRACTICE SPECIALTY Administration Products/& Services Newsletters PDC Speakers Web Site Council Committees

17. CoPS “Bridging the Gap ” Practice Specialty members provide technical knowledge and skills to Region ROCs /PDCs. Assistant Region Vice Presidents for Practice Specialties (ARVP) act as liaisons facilitating interactions between respective chapters/sections and the Practice Specialties, Branches, Common Interest Groups and the Standards Development Committee CoPS Chapter Chairs are appointed by each chapter as a chapter resource, keeping the chapter up to date on technical issues, standards development, practice specialty knowledge and CoPS news.

18. For More Info… CoPS Website Practice Specialty Websites Online Community Bulletin Boards

19. Staff Contacts: Rennie Heath 847-768-3436 rheath@asse.org Tim Fisher 847-768-3411 tfisher@asse.org

20. Questions We want to put our Technical Knowledge and Expertise to work for you !!!!!! Please don’t hesitate to contact us if we can be of Assistance !!!!