AALNA’s Advisory Council
The mission of the advisory council is to help guide AALNA Board of Directors on new trends, technology, educational needs in Assisted Living and other issues in the Assisted Living industry that we should be working on for our membership. The advisory council will attend Advisory Council calls quarterly.
Stan Szpytek
Fire and Life Safety, Assisted Living Incident Command
firemashal10@aol.com
Stan Szpytek is the president of Fire and Life Safety, Inc. (FLS) and a consultant working with AALNA for over a decade. FLS is a consulting firm that provides fire, life safety and emergency preparedness consultative services to occupancies of all types with special focus on assisted living communities. Stan is a former deputy fire chief and fire marshal with a Chicago-area fire department having served the community for 26 years and honorably retired in 2003. He is also the Life Safety / Disaster Planning Consultant for the Arizona Health Care Association, Utah Health Care Association / Utah Center for Assisted Living, California Association of Health Facilities (CAHF) and works with several other assisted living / healthcare associations and senior living providers around the country.
Steve Wilder, BA, CHSP, STS
Senior Consultant and CEO
swilder@swa4safety.com
Steve Wilder has spent over 40 years in healthcare safety, security, and risk management. He has provided consultation services, security and vulnerability assessments, mock OSHA audits and safety training to hundreds of clients, including hospitals and senior care. Steve spent 15 years as a hospital risk manager and five years as a senior care corporate risk manager before starting his private consulting practice in 2001. Steve is one of very few professional safety and security consultants in the nation specializing in senior care.
Steve and his partner, Chris Sorensen, are co-authors of The Essentials of Aggression Management in Healthcare: From Talkdown to Takedown. Steve earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Governor’s State University in University Park, Illinois. He is a board Certified Healthcare Safety Professional and holds certifications in C-FATS and HSEEP with the United States Department of Homeland Security. In 2019, Steve was the recipient of the Illinois Security Professionals Association Emergency Preparedness Leadership award for his leadership activities at a senior care community after two residents of that facility were gunned down in their room.
