Cory Stengel is the first recipient of the Broken Top Peak Leadership Award. The award is given to a deserving leader that has been supportive of the safety profession and/or of the Broken Top Chapter. The award may be given to a chapter member or a non-member working or living in Central Oregon.
Cory has been actively involved in the safety and health profession in Central Oregon for nearly 30 years. He works for Oregon OSHA as a Senior Industrial Hygiene Consultant. Cory has contributed to the profession in several different ways including serving as a Volunteer Firefighter for over 25 years and sitting on an Oregon OSHA fire service advisory committee. He supports safety through involvement in the Deschutes County Farm Bureau, where he volunteered as the committee chair for the Oregon Farm Bureau Health and Safety Committee. Additionally, he played an integral role in the foundation of the Central Oregon Safety and Health Association and its two conferences it hosts yearly.
He continues to sit on the COSHA board and in doing so played a key role in creating a partnership between COSHA and the Broken Top Chapter that will support our involvement in these conferences going forward. As the Board Chair Cory approached the Broken Top executive committee about forming an official partnership to combine efforts to serve the broader safety community throughout Central Oregon. He also supported financial seed money for the Broken Top when it was first formed as a section to help ensure that the ASSP effort was successful. The section utilized that money to help form a foundation for the current chapter.
Nominator Kevin Kilroy stated, “When I first read the description of Broken Top Chapter’s Peak Leadership Award, Cory Stengel was the first name that came to mind. If you know Cory, you know his natural bent toward community and public service and his longstanding leadership for safety and health issues in Central Oregon. Even while assembling a nomination for him, I was impressed all over again for the many ways he has served us, our community, and the emerging Broken Top Chapter.”