Rob L. McLeod was elected to serve as chairman of the Fire Department Safety Officers Association during the organization’s annual business meeting.

McLeod is the emergency preparedness chief for the city of Chandler, Ariz. He served as the city’s health-and-safety chief from 1996 until he was appointed to his current position in January 2009. He has been a member of the FDSOA since 1997.

McLeod has two goals for FDOSA. “One is to help our organization to stay on the cutting edge of training and firefighter safety and also recognizing the financial responsibility we have for our members in these hard times,” he said. “It becomes the great challenge of doing more with less.”

At the same meeting, Michael Petroff, retired battalion chief from St. Louis County, Mo., was elected vice chairman and Robert J. McGill, Aerojet, was named corporate director