WEC Annual Membership Meeting
When: Tuesday, December 10, 2019
12pm - 3pm (registration at 11:45am)

Location: NJEA Headquarters
180 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08608
See below for parking information

Keynote Speaker: Rick Engler
U.S. Chemical Safety Board Member 

Join us for a discussion with Rick on recommendations, reports and updates issued by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board including on the recent explosion at the Philadelphia Area Refinery.

Speaker Bio
Rick Engler was nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board in January of 2014 and confirmed by the Senate in December 2014. Before his appointment, Rick spent more than four decades helping to prevent chemical hazards. Much of his work has focused on ensuring that workers and the public have a “right to know” about the potential chemical dangers they may be exposed to on the job and in the community and that government agencies operate transparently. 

He has advocated for successful landmark state and national public policies that promote hazard communication, workforce development, chemical incident prevention, inherently safer processes, and whistleblower protection.  Among these policies are the New Jersey Worker and Community Right to Know and Toxic Catastrophe laws and the national 1990 Clean Air Act amendments that enable both management and worker representatives to fully participate during Environmental Protection Agency and Chemical Safety Board investigations of facilities that use highly hazardous chemicals.

Rick was founder and Director of WEC from 1986-2015.

This event is FREE and open to WEC members and non-members.

Pre-registration is required.  For more information, contact Debra Coyle McFadden, Executive Director, WEC at (609) 882-6100 ext. 308 or email: dcoyle @ njwec.org [no spaces].

Parking: Street parking and paid lots are located near by.