Pam Walaski, CSP, FASSP has been a dedicated occupational safety and health professional for more than 25 years. She is currently a Senior Program Director with Specialty Technical Consultants, Inc. and holds the Certified Safety Professional Designation. She currently serves as ASSP's Senior Vice President and was awarded the Honor of Fellow in 2022. Pam received her bachelor's in Environmental Protection Science from Point Park University in 2005. Pam is a regular contributor to ASSP's Professional Safety and won 1st Place in the 2020 Professional Paper Awards for her article  "The Role of Leading and Lagging Indicators in OSH Performance Management". She is the Coordinator for Occupational Safety & Health Management Systems Section for the 3rd edition of The Safety Professionals Handbook published in 2023. Her own book "Risk and Crisis Communications; Methods and Messages" was published by John Wiley & Sons in September 2011, and she was also an editor on the Consultants Business Development Guide, published by ASSP in April 2015. Pam is a Professional Member of ASSP and has a national reputation as a seminar leader, and conference/webinar presenter. Pam represents her employer on the ANSI/ASSP Z16 Committee and has been delivering presentations on this standard and its implementation since it was first published in April of 2022. She also represents her employer on Technical Committee 283/Occupational Health and Safety Management.