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Welcome!

Welcome to the New Mexico Chapter website. New Mexico is a land of diverse geography; deserts, forests, ancient volcanoes, and deep caverns.

New Mexico is also a land of diverse businesses and organizations that provide employment to the state's residents. Oil and gas, ranching, farming, microchip manufacturing, education, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, NASA, construction, a wide variety of retail, and thousands of small businesses employ the approximately 1.8 million residents of the state.

The safety profession is growing and offers many opportunities in the Land of Enchantment.

February 2010 Joint Meeting with NMSHMM

Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 11:30am-1:00pm - Furr's Fresh Buffet

The Argonne National Laboratory Building 310 D&D Rad Characterization Project, November-December 2009
Presentation by David Paoletta, CSP - New Mexico Chapter President & TetraTech Consultant

Topics covered:

• Challenges of designing and implementing a Safety Program for a short-term construction/radiological project on a DOE site:
• Compliance with DOE site requirements (Contract Specific Safety Plan and Job Safety Analysis (JSA) development)
• Employee qualifications and on-site Training Requirements (including documentation)
• Interaction with Site Safety, Health Physics and IH Representatives (i.e. field conflict resolution and stress management)
• How to herd Cats safely!
• Curve-balls and trap-doors, adapting safely to the unplannable!
• Oversight and surveillance in the field.

The talk will include a PowerPoint Presentation with lots of pictures from the field.

Location:

Furr's Fresh Buffet
2004 Wyoming Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87112

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Meal cost is about $8.00. First time attendees get a free lunch on ASSE. Any members bringing a non-member guest who registers for an ASSE membership, will also get a free lunch.

Next Pecos Valley Section Meeting

Monday, February 9, 2010 - 11:30am - La Posta Restaurant

New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
Presentation by Danny Armijo

Don’t forget that this months meeting will be held at the La Posta Restaurant at 2103 N. Main, Roswell. The meeting begins at 12:00 noon but everyone usually starts gathering at 11:30 to order lunch.

Location:

La Posta Restaurant
2103 N. Main St
Roswell, NM 88201

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We are still trying to increase our membership so feel free to bring a guest. Hope to see you there!

Next Zia Section Meeting

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - Time TBA - The Game Sports Bar & Grill

Topic & Guest Speaker To Be Announced

Location:

The Game Sports Bar & Grill
2605 S. Espina Sreet
Las Cruces, NM 88001

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Next Los Alamos Section Meeting

Information coming soon!

H1N1 Resources

• Preparing for the Flu: A Communication Toolkit for Businesses and Employers

• Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for an Influenza Pandemic

• 2009/2010 NMDOH Interim Guidelines for Infection Control and Personal Protective Equipment (pdf)

Meet the 2008-2009 New Mexico Chapter Safety Professional of the Year Award Recipient!

Congratulations to Manuel (Manny) Campos Jr. as the New Mexico ASSE Chapter Safety Professional of the Year for 2008-2009.

Manny (right) accepts the 2008-2009 New Mexico Chapter Safety Professional of the Year Award from Chapter President Mike Kemp.

Our SPY was instrumental in setting up the Zia Section in Las Cruces and organizing their first PDC, September 30-October 2 with a golf tournament on September 29.

Manny is currently with the City of Las Cruces as a Safety Officer. His major job duties include leading the city's efforts for creating and nurturing a safety culture by managing their endeavors for VPP recognition, and directly mentoring assigned departments (currently police, utilities, legal and public works).

The best part of his job is seeing the results of his work when employees seek more knowledge, but also knowing that any particular day that he helps someone do their job and offer guidance, safety may have been the reason for them going home to their families.

Manny has over 20 years experience in private and public positions from construction to NM OSHA. He has 10 years as an ASSE member.

He got into safety by accident. After an auto accident, he dropped out of college and was applying the technical study from college while working QC/safety for a construction contractor at White Sands (3.5 years). The rest is history.

Manny’s hobbies include motorcycles, family, safety as a whole, and ASSE. He is active in his church and also enjoys speaking to kids of all ages, whether it is for career day or other kinds of mentoring.

He is the past treasurer of the Paso Del Norte Chapter and is currently chair of the Zia Section.

Manny is married (15 years in July) with 3 children (22, 13 and 9 years of age) and he is the proud granddad of a 20 month old granddaughter.

CEUs/ABIH Points Awarded for New Mexico Chapter PDC Attendees

Attendees of the New Mexico Chapter PDC "Enhancing SHE Leadership in a Challenging Economy" on May 4-5, 2009 will receive 0.6 CEU/1.0 CM point for attending day 1 and 0.7 CEU/1.0 CM point for day 2 of the event.

• CEU Approval Letters from ASSE & ABIH (pdf)

Past Meeting Presentations

"Partnering to Save Lives in Residential Construction" Presentation by Timothy F. Little, Ph.D., CSP from the Region II ROC Meeting.