Greetings AIHA UT Local Section,
We would like to invite you to our final social gathering for 2025 to reflect on and celebrate another amazing year. We will be announcing the new local leadership for our section and awarding the student scholarship recipients, all while enjoying a lunch buffet.
- Where: OSHA Technical Center (8660 S Sandy Pkwy, Sandy, UT 84070)
- When: Friday December 19th, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Who: All paid and retiree members, student members, and 2026 prospective members.
- Lunch buffet will be provided!
- Bring non-perishable food items (to be donated to the Utah Food Bank) to enter the annual raffle. If your company is able to contribute gift cards or swag, please let us know! aiha.utah.ls@gmail.com
- Food Bank requests: All-natural ingredients, No high-fructose corn syrup, Low sugar, Low sodium
- Peanut Butter
- Mac & Cheese
- Canned Meats (tuna, chicken or beef)
- Chili
- SpaghettiOs/Ravioli
- Canned Fruits
- Other Boxed Meals
Call for Nominations:
We have the following positions open for nominations for 2026:
· President Elect
· Director-at-Large
For self-nominations, please fill out our 2026 Membership Form or reach out to us at aiha.utah.ls@gmail.com. To nominate someone else, please email aiha.utah.ls@gmail.com or contact one of the current officers directly. Nominations close on December 5th.
There are other opportunities to volunteer for committees, so please consider putting yourself forward and helping our local section provide pertinent and fun professional opportunities.
Message from Tara Koch, the outgoing past president:
“An integral part of what we do in the AIHA UT Local Section involves volunteer services to pre-professionals and our existing membership. There are many opportunities for us all to get involved in these efforts. Networking activities are just one way to provide our students and early-career health and safety professionals with opportunities to meet mid-career and senior professionals to facilitate information exchange and mentoring.
Having helped to pioneer and drive this effort over the past several years, our networking socials (which typically involve meeting at a restaurant or pub, making introductions and discussing areas of passion or uncertainty in our profession), have been extremely meaningful to the membership and personally rewarding. I too have benefited greatly from these events, both as a student and as a professional. I continue to reflect on many invaluable connections and conversations that have helped me grow in my own career.
I would encourage you to look at all our volunteer opportunities to find an area that speaks the loudest to you, where you can make a difference. These opportunities lie in member groupings (broadly referred to as Volunteer Committees) and may take the form of technical or administrative committees and other project or work teams. AIHA-UT is committed to supporting such events and opportunities where we can volunteer our time, expand our capabilities and provide purposeful experiences for our friends and colleagues.”
