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INDUSTRY UPDATE
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ADVISORY BOARD
Leo J. DeBobes, MA (OH&S), CSP, CHCM, CPEA, CSC, EMT
Stony Brook University Medical Center Stony Brook, NY
Scott Lawson
The Scott Lawson Companies Concord, N.H.
Angelo Pinheiro, CSP, CRSP, CPEA
Senior HES Professional Marathon Oil Company Houston, Texas
Linda J. Sherrard, MS, CSP
Safety Consultant, NCDPS Raleigh, N.C.
William H. Weems, DrPH, CIH
Director, Environmental & Industrial Programs University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Henry Wright, MBA, CFPS, CECD
Senior Vice President & Senior Director — Risk Solutions McGriff Insurance Services, Inc.
Charlotte, N.C.
EMERITUS
Barry R. Weissman, MBA
Green Valley, Ariz.
On the Move
The National Association of EMS Phy- sicians® (NAEMSP®) added several new members to its Board of Directors early this year. David K. Tan, M.D., EMT-T, FAAEM, FAEMS, is the new president of the association. He is an associate profes- sor of emergency medicine and chief of the EMS Section at Washington Univer- sity School of Medicine in St. Louis. Tan is also the medical team manager for the St. Louis Metro Urban Search and Rescue Taskforce, the medical director for the St. Charles County Police Department, the medical director of AMR/Abbott EMS, and medical director of the Clayton Fire De- partment. Other incoming board members are President-Elect Mike Levy, M.D., FA- CEP, FACP, FAEMS, Anchorage Fire De- partment (Anchorage, Alaska); Treasurer Jose G. Cabanas, M.D., MPH, FAEMS, Wake County EMS System (Raleigh, N.C.); Physician Member-at-Large John M. Gal- lagher, M.D., FACEP, FAEMS, Wichita/ Sedgwick County EMS System (Wichita, Kansas); Physician Member-at-Large Stacy Weisberg, M.D., MPH, FAEMS, UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester, Mass.); Physician Member-at-Large Sabina Braithwaite, M.D., FAEMS, Washington University EMS (St. Louis, Mo.); Program Committee Chair Toni Gross, M.D., MPH, Phoenix Children’s Hospital (Phoenix, Ariz.); and Standards and Clinical Practice Committee Chair Ryan Jacobsen, M.D., FAEMS, Johnson County EMS, (Olathe, Kansas). . . . Sparks, Nev.-
based Haws® recently an-
nounced two new hires.
Brett Engelland has
joined the company as
director of National Ac-
counts, North America.
He has 16 years of expe-
rience in the wholesale
plumbing industry, most
recently with Spectrum
Brands Hardware and
Home Improvement Di-
vision, where he was the
national builder sales
manager. In his new role
at Haws, Engelland is re-
sponsible for developing
and executing strategies to maintain and strategically grow Haws’ hydration and emergency response products with key
channel partners in the United States and Canada. Nicole Denison joined as market- ing manager, bringing more than 12 years of marketing and project management experience with local firms in the Reno area. In addition, Haws
has promoted Samantha
Hoch to vertical market
specialist, East. Hoch
has been with Haws
since 2012 in various
roles within the market-
ing department. Effec-
tive in January 2019, she
joined the Haws Outside Sales Team work- ing more directly with sales representative groups on the East Coast.
Business Moves
■ Protective Industrial Products, Inc. (www.pipglobal.com, Latham, N.Y.), a sup- plier of hand protection and general safety products, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire West Chester Protective Gear (Cincinnati, Ohio), a leading PPE supplier. PIP is a portfolio company of Audax Pri- vate Equity. West Chester offers industrial hand protection products along with a pro- tective apparel line that includes high-visi- bility clothing, disposable clothing, aprons and sleeves, rainwear, and welding apparel.
“We are elated by this partnership,” said Joe Milot, president and CEO of PIP. “West Chester has always been a highly respected competitor, and over the years their execu- tive and sales teams have built an excellent business model that complements ours at PIP beautifully. Customers depend on West Chester as a trusted partner to deliver the right products at the right value with guar- anteed on-time delivery. West Chester Pro- tective Gear is passionately committed to serving its customers and has been success- ful building long-term relationships based on service, quality, innovation, and value.” He said West Chester’s state-of-the-art facil- ity in Cincinnati will remain an operational hub of the organization.
Tim Fogarty, CEO of West Chester Holdings Inc., agreed, saying, “Our prod- uct category strengths complement each other extremely well, as does our customer base and our respective corporate cultures. Our management team is excited to join with PIP and carry forward the customer- focused culture we have created and [is] evident in both organizations.”
■ Motion Industries, Inc., a distributor of MRO replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Com- pany, announced in February that it has entered into a definitive agreement to ac- quire Axis New England and Axis New York, an automation and robotics company that is based in Danvers, Mass. Execution of the transaction was scheduled to occur on March 1, 2019. “Motion Industries is a great cultural fit for us,” said Todd Clark, presi- dent of Axis. “We are pleased to join the Motion team and excited about the growth opportunities this will afford the company and our employees. Our customers and suppliers can expect the same partnership, support, and service as we continue our fo- cus on delivering high-value solutions.”
Randy Breaux, Motion’s president, said Axis will operate as part of Motion’s Auto- mation Solutions Group.
■ Labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips recently launched a new workplace safety and health consulting company named Fisher Phillips Safety Solutions LLC (https://www.fpsafetysolutions.com/). It will help clients develop and implement state- of-the-art safety risk management systems with the goal of achieving ISO 45001 certi- fication. Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., who served
SAMANTHA HOCH
BRETT ENGELLAND
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