March 9, 2020
"Making Safety Culture Personal,” the recent CSHEMA Safety Culture Symposium held at the University of Texas–Dallas’ Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center, drew 72 attendees and six corporate exhibitors to the February 27–28 event.
May 22, 2020
CSHEMA is pleased to announce the newly elected members of the CSHEMA Board of Trustees.
- Vice President: Jonathan Klane, University of Caifornia–Davis
- Treasurer: John DeLaHunt, University of Texas–San Antonio
- At-Large Members : Kimi Brown, University of Pennsylvania; Markus Schaufele, Northwestern University

CSHEMA/CSA Past President Conversations with Ryan Lisk
Interviews featuring discussions with Past Presidents/Chairs of the Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA), formerly the Campus Safety Association (CSA). Each of these Past Presidents has a notable personality and unique perspective during his/her time on the Board of Trustees that ultimately culminated in serving as President.
Learn more about how they initially got involved with our Association, challenges, successes, overall reflections, conference memories, the evolution of our Association, and wishes for the future of CSHEMA on these never-before seen full-length interviews!
Ryan Lisk interviews Amy Orders who served as CSHEMA and President and Professional Development Committee Chair. She describes the evolution of the CSHEMA Conferences from being hosted on campuses with stays in dorms and session delivery in classrooms to the recent model of being hosted in a resort.

Mission
The mission of CSHEMA is to support and to educate campus-based EHS professionals to empower and to improve the EHS profession in campus environments.
Vision
CSHEMA will continue to be the pre-eminent leadership organization representing the EHS profession in campus environments.
Core Values
- Uphold the honor, integrity, and dignity of the profession
- Promote inclusion and diversity in the profession
- Strong member services through ongoing needs assessment for campus-based EHS professionals
- Advocacy on behalf of the profession as the voice of campus-based EHS
- Commitment to practical and applicable solutions for the campus-based EHS professional
- Commitment to continuous improvement
- Commitment to education
Core Competencies for the Profession
CSHEMA has identified these knowledge, skills, and abilities for environmental, health, and safety professionals. Regardless of job responsibilities or position level, these competencies permeate all work in the profession, though prioritization may differ. "Core competency" refers to a set of composite skills, knowledge, and behaviors that provides the basis and forms the foundation for successful professional practice in environmental, health, and safety work.
CSHEMA’s core competencies were inspired by NIH, the Nielson Group, the National Postdoctoral Association, the Risk and Insurance Management Society, Strandberg Consulting, and other publicly available resources.
Download the Core Competencies
The Value of Environmental Health and Safety at Colleges and Universities
In 2019 the CSHEMA Advocacy Council was asked to develop key messages for university leaders—including research, business, and facilities leadership—to help them understand the value and role of environmental health and safety (EHS) at their institutions. These messages explain why support for, and partnerships with, EHS facilitate their goals and the institution’s greater mission.
The messages can also be used at higher education association meetings to tell EHS’ story and promote a better understanding of EHS. Associations we might bring this to are NACUBO, APLU, AAU, etc. This same material could be used to create smaller packages of information that could help CSHEMA members advocate for their own program to college and university leadership.
College and universities operate more efficiently and effectively when EHS has sufficient resources, when it is included in EHS-related decision making, and when our expertise and capabilities are recognized and respected.
Download the complete document "The Value of EHS at Colleges and Universities"
Subject Matter Expertise
The ability to demonstrate a broad base of established and evolving knowledge within their discipline and detailed knowledge of their area(s) of expertise, including but not limited to:
- Biosafety
- Building Design
- Business Continuity
- Construction Safety
- Emergency Management
- Environmental
- Ergonomics
- Facilities
- Fire Safety
- Hazardous Waste
- Industrial Hygiene
- Laboratory Safety
- Nanotechnology
- Occupational Safety
- Occupational Health
- Performing Arts Safety
- Radiation Safety
- Risk Management
- Sustainability
- General Safety
- Hazardous Materials
Additionally, CSHEMA’s communities of practice form and dissolve as the discipline specific areas evolve. A current list of CSHEMA's communities can be found online.
Problem Solving
Ability to obtain information and identify key issues and implications to make informed and objective decisions.
Leading Others
Ability to organize and motivate people to get things accomplished in a way that everyone feels a sense of order and direction.
- Ability to develop a personal leadership style
- Ability to convey a sense of personal self-confidence
- Ability to learn from prior experiences as well as the experiences of others
- Ability to utilize self-reflection methods toward personal growth
- Ability to develop a personal set of ethics, morals, and values
Performance Management
Ability to proactively investigate new perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors and takes steps to evaluate and improve performance.
Conflict Resolution
Ability to listen and to manage conflicts and achieve compromise while meeting meaningful goals and respecting other parties’ perspectives.
Systems Thinking
Ability to employ a sense of vision to create new innovative concepts, products, and solutions.
Partnerships/Collaboration
Ability to work with and help others to accomplish objectives; identify areas of person expertise and seeks out opportunities to lend expertise to working groups to maximize outcomes.
Technology Adaptation/Adoption
Ability to seek out ways to employ technology to optimize organizational and individual performance; demonstrate proficiency in using tools and application packages; employ technology to assist in work activities.
Public Speaking and Training
Ability to deliver clear, effective communication and takes responsibility for understanding others.
Continual Learning and Development
Ability to seek feedback from others and use other sources of information to identify appropriate areas for learning.
Message Delivery
Ability to use writing skills and editorial judgement to develop messages for various audiences; and deliver them by evaluating the most appropriate channel for the needs of the target audience.
Conveying Role Value
Ability to draw upon a variety of capacities to instill in an employee a sense of value for the task at hand.
Decision Making
Ability to recognize and analyze problems and make choices under uncertain conditions; show good judgement.
Strategic Planning
Ability to employ a sense of vision to create new innovative concepts and solutions.
Risk Management and Mitigation
Ability to plan and implement measures that will avoid, overcome, or compensate for elements of risk.
Compliance
Ability to evaluate compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, industrial codes, control systems, and social responsibilities.
Critical Incident Analysis
Ability to evaluate an incident investigation system; analyze root causes of an incident.
Sustainability Literacy
Ability to understand how environmental, economic, and social sustainability impacts the organization and in turn, how the organization impacts sustainability.

The CSHEMA Central Office handles day-to-day operations including but limited to; Customer Service, Data Management, Corporate Partnerships, Meeting and Conference Planning and Logistics, Volunteer Advertising and Publications.

Kerry O'Brien
Account Executive
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Account specialist
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Elizabeth Kutz
Controller
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Adam Saari
Content & Marketing Director
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Roy Smith
Vice President of IT
Sri Obeysekara
Web Developer

Board of Trustees
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Jim Crandall
President
Director, Environmental Health and Safety, Penn State University
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Mary Lindstrom
Vice President
Chemical Hygiene Program Manager, Harvard University
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Nancy Eaker
Secretary
Manager, Environmental Health & Safety, Texas A&M University
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Jesse Decker
Treasurer
Employee & Facility Safety Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Ryan Lisk
Immediate Past
President
Director of Biological and Chemical Safety, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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Angie Dartt
At-Large Member
Director of the Office of Chemical Safety, Washington Univeristy at St. Louis
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Scott Bourdon
At-Large Member
Senior Manager, Risk and EH&S, California State University Office of the Chancellor
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Darius Griffin
At-Large Member
Environmental Health and Safety Academic Program Advisory Committee Chair, North Carolina A&T State University
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Miriam Sharp
At-Large Member
Assistant Director of Academic and Laboratory Safety, University of Maryland
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James Fleetwood
At-Large Member
Director of Safety, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCOE) – University of FloridaDirector of Safety, University of Florida
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Esequiel "Zeke" Barrera
At-Large Member
Research Safety Director, Office for the Vice President of Research, The University of Georgia
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Per section VI of the bylaws, the Meeting Minutes are available upon request: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Past Presidents/Chairs
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1953–54: George Harper1, Donald Dickason2
1954–55: Wayne Hughes2
1955–57: T.E. (Ted) Haley3
1957–58: Clay DeMent
1958–59: Arthur Brandstatter
1959–60: John Morris
1960–61: Mark Dondero
1961–62: Charles Easley
1962–63: Gus Scheffler
1963–64: Glenn Shupe
1964–65: Monty Coulson
1965–66: Norman Steere
1966–67: William Joy
1967–68: John Fresina
1968–69: Al Orsborne
1969–70: Dugald Finyan
1970–71: Marvin Wells
1971–72: Earl Rupp
1972–73: Ray Ketchmark
1973–74: Eric Spencer
1974–75: William Watson
1975–76: Oliver Halderson
1976–77: Raymond Hall
1977–78: William Steinmetz
1978–79: Frederic Thomas
1979–80: James Knocke
1980–81: Phillip Koehler
1981–82: Mary Mellein
1982–83: Raymond Stephens
1983–85: H.O. (Buzz) Triebold
1985–86: Del Weed
1986–87: Mike Ceser
1987–89: Azmi Imad
1989–90: Emery Sobottka
1990–91: Byron Tepper
1991–92: Richard Meibos
1992–93: Warren Safter
1993–94: Donald Robinson
1994–95: Harry Stiteler4
1995–96: James Beckett5
1996–97: Ron Angus
1997–98: Marty McDougall6
1998–99: Jimmy Matthews
1999–00: Roger Pugh
2000–01: Ray Richards
2001–02: Marty Shaub
2002–03: Andy Garcia-Rivera
2003–04: Sue Magor
2004–05: Matt Finucane
2005–06: Jim Robinson
2006–07: Robin Elliott7
2007–08: Cheri Hildreth
2008–09: Madelyn Miller
2009–10: Herb Wagner
2010–11: Maureen Kotlas
2011–12: Bruce Backus
2012–13: Courtney Kerr
2013–14: Patty Olinger
2014–15: Bill VanSchalkwyk
2015–16: Amy Orders
2016–17: Mary Crabtree
2017–18: Pat Wolf
2018–19: Tom Briggs
2019–20: Jerilyn Roberts
2020-21: John Fellers
2021-22: Meagan Fitzpatrick
2022-23: Beth Welmaker
2023-24: Ryan LiskHistorical Reference
- Responsible for organizing meeting; organization was not in existence
- Presided over business meeting
- Campus Safety Association organized and first president chosen
- Name changed to Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association
- Ratification of National Safety Council division status; name changed to Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Division
- Changed operating procedures; CSHEMA president was renamed chair to follow NSC procedures
- CSHEMA becomes independent organization
- Committee Chairs
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- Advocacy Committee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Harvard University (Chair); This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Texas State University San Marcos; Peter Jayasekara, City University of New York; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Princeton University
- Awards Committee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Chair), University of Central Florida;This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Co-chair), Florida International University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Co-chair) Nova Southeastern University
- Conference Planning: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Virginia Commonwealth University (Chair); This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Southern Methodist University(Conference Education Subcommittee Chair)
- Membership Committee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Kansas State University (Chair); This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Florida
- Nominations Committee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Texas Southwestern Medicine (Chair), Beth Welmaker, Nova Southeastern University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Princeton University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Yale University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Ursinus College
- Professional Development Committee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Georgia Tech
- Scholarship Committee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Oklahoma State University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
- Task Force Leaders
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- CSAP/Complete Safety Programs Task Force: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- CSHEMA Fellows Task Force:, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Texas San Antonio
- Special Representation Liaisons
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- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Georgia
- Chemical Insights: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of North Carolina Charlotte,
- Center for Campus Fire Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Texas A&M University
- Pistoia Alliance/CAS: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of California-Los Angeles
- American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Harvard University
- International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Florida
- Safety Training Consortium (STC): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
- Student Shop Managers Consortium (SSMC): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Penn State University
- American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS):This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Washington
- Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals (AHMP): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Washington University in St. Louis
- University Risk Management and /Insurance Association (URMIA): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Symposia (Chair recruited by MEE)
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- Fall 2021 - Virtual - Scott Bourdon
- Spring 2021 - Orlando - Brian Butkus
- Fall 2022 - Princeton University - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Spring 2023 - University of California Santa Barbara - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Spring 2024 - University of Wisconsin-Madison - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Spring 2025 - University of Texas San Antonio - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Community of Practice Leaders
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- Animal Research: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Arizona State University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Wisconsin Madison
- Biosafety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Texas A&M University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Wisconsin
- Embedded Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Texas Tech University
- Emergency Management: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., UNC Charlotte; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Princeton University
- Environmental/Sustainability: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Maryland;
- Facilities Management: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Virginia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Clemson University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Dartmouth College
- Field Research Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of California–Berkeley; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Cornell University
- Fine & Performing Arts: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Virginia Commonwealth University
- Fire & Life Safety:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Arizona; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Virginia Commonwealth University
- Industrial Hygiene: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Memphis; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Minnesota
- International Campuses: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Calgary
- Lab Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Oklahoma State University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Georgia Institute of Technology
- Marketing/Communications & Education: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Auburn University
- Radiation and Laser Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Portland State University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Safety Culture: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Florida ; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Tennessee - Knoxville
- Small Schools: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of New England; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Santa Fe College; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Moravian University
- Technology: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Yale University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Delaware