CONSULTANTS ROUNDTABLE
CONSULTANT ROUNDTABLE
Recapping 2022 and Looking Ahead to 2023 GAWDA’s consultants discuss what GAWDA members can expect in 2023. BY TOM BADSTUBNER, MARILYN DEMPSEY, MIKE DODD, RICK SCHWEITZER, AND STEVE GUGLIELMO
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he GAWDA Consultant Program is a GAWDA member benefit that is included as part of your member dues to the association. It is consistently rated as one of the most valuable member benefits that GAWDA provides. Between the four of them, GAWDA’s consultants bring more than 100 years of industry-specific experience to the association. With this being the first issue of 2023, we look back on lessons learned from last year and what we expect to see from a regulatory standpoint for the industry in 2023. GAWDA’s Consultants discussed the bevy of new legislation 12 • First Quarter 2023
and proposed legislation and how it will impact members this year, as well as preview their Professional Compliance Seminar that will take place in March of this year. Thank you to Tom Badstubner, GAWDA’s FDA and Medical Gases Consultant, Marilyn Dempsey, DHS, EPA and OSHA Consultant, Mike Dodd, DOT Consultant, and Rick Schweitzer, Government Affairs and Human Resources Consultant, for lending their time and expertise to discuss these important topics. The following is a lightly edited transcript of that conversation.
WELDING & GASES TODAY: I wanted to start off the article by discussing the seminar that took place in October at Weldcoa. Tell me about that experience and how excited you are to do it again at Chart in March. TOM BADSTUBNER: Yes, March 21-23, 2023, we will be at Chart in Theodore, AL. We had 53 total attendees at the Fall 2022 Professional Compliance Seminar at Weldcoa. One-third of the attendees were in-person, and the rest were virtual attendees. We really liked this format of in-person plus virtual.
