Presentation Topic

AIHA National Update

Presentation Brief Description

AIHA’s CEO will provide an overview of the association’s new strategic plan (2025-27), priorities for the coming year, and highlight various programs of interest to the industrial hygiene professional. The talk will also touch upon resources available to BC-Yukon Local Section and the public.

Biography

Larry Sloan has served as CEO of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) since October 2016.  Prior to this, he served as CEO for seven years at SOCMA, a trade association representing the interests of the US specialty chemical industry.  Larry started his non-profit career at the Adhesive and Sealant Council, a trade association representing adhesive and sealant manufacturers, and was promoted to his first CEO role there in January 2005. He led this group for five years.

For more than 20 years Larry has been an active member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).  In 2006, he earned his Certified Association Executive (CAE) credential, and in 2021 he was appointed a Fellow (FASAE).  He currently serves as a mentor under their Young Professionals program.

He regularly presents at non-profit community events hosted by CESSE (Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives), ASAE, and others.  He currently serves as a member of the CESSE Board of Directors.  In 2024 he was appointed a member of the National Commission on Climate and Workforce Health, led by the Health Action Alliance.

Prior volunteer leadership roles include serving on the ASAE Research Committee (elected chair in 2020); as a board member (chair in 2012) of the National Association of Manufacturers Council of Manufacturing Associations; and as a board member of the Chemical Educational Foundation.

Larry is active in the community and serves as a volunteer at Food & Friends (provides nutritionally tailored meals to seriously ill neighbors in need) and has served as an assistant ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher for Northern VA's English Empowerment Center.