eNewsLetter

2008-2009

 

 

 

 


 

 

ASSE/SEMA Newsletter

 

American Society Safety Engineering (ASSE), Professional Organization, Student Chapter

Safety, Environmental Management Association (SEMA), Student Organization

 

 

 

Events:                                                                                                                 Contents:                          page                                                                                                           

 

                                                                                                                                Research Project                   1 

Finals Week Spring 2008

May 5th through May 9th

Monday – Friday                                                                                                  ASSE/SEMA Website            2

 

 

                                                                                                                                Environmental News            2-3

Spring 2008 – Tahlequah Campus                                               

Commencement Ceremony held at

Gable Field (NSU football stadium) on                                                           New ASSE/SEMA Officers     3

Saturday May 10, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. for the

College of Business and Technology

and College of Liberal Arts (including                                                            U.S. Dept. of Labor                 4

General Studies), 

 

                                                                                                                                The End of the Road             4-5

                                                                                                                                (Graduating Members)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank You!!!

 

Research Project

 

It was tough, stressful, and time consuming, but we did it!  I want to thank everyone who took part in getting our research project done before the deadline.  We could not have done it with out your help.  Once again, Thank You All!

 

Sincerely,

 

Sylvia Wilson

ASSE/SEMA

Public Relations

 

 

 

ASSE/SEMA Website Updated

 

Although, the new officers do not take office until the next semester, Chris Stevens the new Vice President has already stepped up to the plate.  With little to no experience, he has taught himself how to update the ASSE/SEMA website.   Chris is showing what true leadership is all about and is the right choice for the job.  Although, he has a few things left to do on the web site you can get there by:  1) Go to NSU website home page scroll down to the bottom and find map site and click on it, 2) then find American Society of Safety Engineering and click on it.  The next time you see Chris let him know what a good job he has done.  Thank You Chris for your dedication and hard work to ASSE/SEMA!!!!!

 

 

Environmental News

EPA Seeks Public Comment on Possible Drinking Water Contaminants

Release date: 02/20/2008

Contact Information: Dave Ryan, (202) 564-4355 / ryan.dave@epa.gov


(Washington, D.C. - Feb. 20, 2008) EPA is asking for public comment on a list of 104 possible drinking water contaminants that may need to be regulated in the future to ensure the continued protection of drinking water. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA includes on the draft Contaminant Candidate List (CCL) currently unregulated contaminants that are known or anticipated to occur in public water systems and which may require regulation. This draft CCL, which is the third such listing, lists 93 chemical contaminants or groups and 11 microbes, and describes the process and basis for selecting these contaminants.

"EPA is casting a broader scientific net for potential regulation of chemicals and microbes in drinking water," said Assistant Administrator for Water Benjamin H. Grumbles. "EPA's proposed list of priority contaminants will advance sound science and public health by targeting research on certain chemicals and microbes and informing regulators on how best to reduce risk."

The CCL process was established by the 1996 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act as a mechanism to determine if new regulations are needed to protect drinking water. Under this process EPA conducts extensive research into the occurrence and health effects of the listed contaminants before issuing new regulations or standards. In developing the draft CCL 3, the agency implemented a new approach for selecting contaminants which builds upon evaluations used for previous lists and is based on substantial expert input early in the process and recommendations from a larger number of different groups including stakeholders, the National Research Council and the National Drinking Water Advisory Council.

The draft list includes chemicals used in commerce, pesticides, biological toxins, disinfection byproducts, and waterborne pathogens. The agency evaluated approximately 7,500 chemicals and microbes and selected 104 candidates for the final draft list based on their potential to pose health risks through drinking water exposure. The comment period is open for 90 days beginning the day of publication in the Federal Register.


Information on the CCL 3: epa.gov/safewater/ccl/ccl3.html

 

 

NEW ASSE/SEMA Officers

Fall of 2008

 

Congratulations to all the new ASSE/SEMA officers.  They will be taking over as soon as this semester ends.

 

PRESIDENT                                     Terry Horton

 

 

VICE PRESIDENT                           Chris Stevens

 

 

SECRETARY                                    Jordon Cosner

 

 

TREASURER                                    Paula Wiswell

 

 

PUBLIC RELATIONS                      Chad Hawkins

 

 

SENATE REPERSENTATIVE         Andy Cain

 

 

FACULTY SPONSORS                    Mrs. Katy Ellis

 

Dr. Michael Turner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Department of Labor

OSHA

 

Safety and Health Topics – Combustible Dust

 

 

Any combustible material (and some materials normally considered noncombustible) can burn rapidly when in a finely divided form. If such a dust is suspended in air in the right concentration, it can become explosive. The force from such an explosion can cause employee deaths, injuries, and destruction of entire buildings. Such incidents have killed scores of employees and injured hundreds over the past few decades.

Materials that may form combustible dust include metals (such as aluminum and magnesium), wood, coal, plastics, biosolids, sugar, paper, soap, dried blood, and certain textiles. In many accidents, employers and employees were unaware that a hazard even existed.

A combustible dust explosion hazard may exist in a variety of industries, including: food (e.g., candy, sugar, spice, starch, flour, feed), grain, tobacco, plastics, wood, paper, pulp, rubber, furniture, textiles, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, dyes, coal, metals (e.g., aluminum, chromium, iron, magnesium, and zinc), and fossil fuel power generation.

Go to OHSA’s website for more information. 


 

 

www.osha.gov                                                                    Updated                     3/18/2008             

 

 

 

 

 

 

The End of the Road                 

                                                                                                                               

 

It is that time of year that some of us will be leaving this path onto a new path.  As for me, I have one more semester to go.  I am grateful to have been an officer of ASSE/SEMA.  It was a wonderful learning experience for me.  It showed me my strengths and weaknesses.  I will be forever grateful.

 

Now is the time for us to Congratulate the Members who are Graduating and Wish Them Well.  On Saturday May 10th the Spring 2008 Commencement Ceremony will be held at the Doc Wadley Stadium at Gable Field.  (The times in the event columns are not the entire ceremonies that will be held for that day, it’s only for our graduates.  You can log on to NSU website to find out more about the events of the day).  Seven of our members will be among the New NSU Graduates.  I hope each of you keep in mind, the only limits we have, are the ones we place on ourselves. 

 

Please help me in CONGRATULATING each of our Graduating Members!!

 

 

 

 

Jeremy Downing                            Jacob Griffin                        John Hancock

 

Kendall Kimber                               Tyler Perry                           Jeremiah Rice

 

Sherrill Sweet

 

       

                       

                                         

 

                                                                                                                                            

 

As you journey through life,

choose your destinations well but do not hurry there

You will arrive soon enough.

Wander the back roads and forgotten paths,

keeping your destination in your heart,

like a fixed point of a compass.

Seek out new voices, strange sights,

and ideas foreign to your own.

Such things are riches for the soul.

And if, upon arrival, you find that your destination

is not exactly as you dreamed, 

do not be disappointed.

Think of all you would have missed but for the journey there,

and know that the true worth of your travels lies

not in the journey’s end,

but in who you come to be along the way.

 

 

          ~  Unknown ~

 

                                                                                                                  

    Many Blessings

 

and

 

CONGRATULATIONS!