News Release re: Alan McMIllan selection as president of the National Safety Council

March 21, 2001

Alan C. McMillan Named President and Chief Executive Officerof the National Safety Council

Itasca, Ill. - Veteran safety and health professional Alan C. McMillan has been named president and chief executive officer of the National Safety Council (NSC). McMillan, currently the council*s executive vice president, succeeds Gerard F. Scannell, the NSC*s president for the past six years. *I could not be more delighted, either personally or professionally, with the selection of Alan McMillan,* said Patrick R. Tyson, chairman of the NSC*s Board of Directors. *Alan is the right person at the right time to lead the National Safety Council into the 21st Century.* McMillan was selected by the Board of Director*s leadership to head the NSC after a nationwide search that began last fall. He has more than 30 years of government and private sector safety, health and environmental experience, including service with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Mine Safety and Health Administration. He has directed the day-to-day operations of the NSC since February 1995. *For the last six years, Alan has played a central role in making the National Safety Council a stronger, more focused, more efficient, and more effective (more)

Alan C. McMillan Named President -2 organization,* said Scannell, who was named president emeritus of the council and will continue to work with the NSC in a fund-raising role. *My association with Alan over the years has been a wonderful experience for me, and I take great personal satisfaction in the board leadership*s decision to name him president. The Council could not ask for a more able or dedicated leader.* The NSC is the nation*s leading advocate of safety and health in the workplace, on the highways, and in homes and communities. Founded in 1913 and chartered by Congress in 1953, the council is a nonprofit, non-governmental public service organization that works to protect lives and promote health with a wide variety of innovative educational and training programs and other services. *I am honored to be asked to continue the work of the National Safety Council,* McMillan said. *I fully intend to build on the progress and success the council has achieved under Jerry Scannell*s visionary leadership. *The council is charged with the important work of reducing the unacceptable numbers of preventable deaths and injuries in every walk of life,* McMillan added, *and our outstanding professional staff, our national network of local chapters, and our thousands of volunteers are ready, willing, and able to meet this challenge.* In his role as executive vice president, McMillan worked side-by-side with Scannell to streamline the council*s governance structure and to forge stronger ties with the business and professional communities. He directed the NSC*s current efforts to create a more unified national network of local chapters, in order to provide improved safety and health services and information at the community level. McMillan was (more)

Alan C. McMillan Named President-3 also instrumental in focusing the council*s - and the nation*s - attention on the major causes of preventable deaths and injuries, an effort which resulted in the publication last April of the council*s Safety Agenda for the Nation. In announcing McMillan*s appointment, Tyson also expressed the board*s appreciation for Scannell*s stewardship of the council since 1995. *Jerry Scannell has set an agenda that will guide the NSC*s efforts for years to come,* Tyson said. *America in the 21st Century will be a much safer and healthier nation thanks to his leadership. It is especially gratifying for me to note that Jerry, as president emeritus, has agreed to continue playing a key role by helping raise funds to support the council*s life-saving work.* McMillan began his safety and health career in 1970. He served as Chicago regional administrator of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from 1981 to 1983, and was administrator of OSHA*s Atlanta region from 1983 to 1986. During that time he live in Conyers. His son Alan McMillan, Jr still lives in Conyers with his family. In 1987, McMillan was named acting director of the U.S. Labor Department*s Mine Safety and Health Administration. Later that year he became deputy assistant secretary of labor for employment standards, a post he held until 1989. From 1989 to 1992, McMillan was deputy assistant secretary for occupational safety and health, where he worked with Scannell, then the director of OSHA, to develop and implement occupational safety and health standards, assist workplaces through voluntary compliance programs, and direct OSHA*s nationwide enforcement (more)

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responsibilities. He received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Executive Service in 1990. In October 1992, McMillan joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where he led the organization*s safety and health activities. He later assumed the position of deputy director of the laboratory*s environmental, safety, health and quality programs. When Scannell was named president of the National Safety Council in 1995, McMillan joined him as the Council*s executive vice president. McMillan received his B.S. degree from the University of Florida in 1966 and his M.A. degree from the University of West Georgia in 1980. He also completed a senior executive fellowship at Harvard University in 1980. McMillan and his wife, Gloria, live in Palatine, Ill. # # #