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2008 Safety, Health, and Environmental Conference Savannah Marriott Riverfront Hotel October 7 - 9, 2008 Savannah, Georgia
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Sessions,
Speakers and Summaries
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
To be presented on October 6
National Safety Council Six
Hour Defensive Driving Course
Pat Adams, NSC
You will learn to recognize the need for and
benefits of defensive driving, and that defensive driving involves
both legal and personal responsibility. You will be able to identify
risky driving attitudes and behaviors, determine if a collision was
preventable, as well as become familiar with the DDC Collision
Prevention Formula.
After completing the course, you will receive a National Safety
Council DDC Certificate of Completion which, depending on your
state, may make you eligible for point reduction or ticket
dismissal. Insurance companies in 34 states offer a reduction on
insurance premiums to DDC graduates. Check with your own insurance
carrier for details. National Safety Council
Dynamics of Fleet Safety – Train the Trainer
Ed Leibfarth, NSC
Dynamics of Fleet Safety is offered by NSC
Chapters as a Train-the-Trainer Course. Whether you’re a new fleet
safety manager or a seasoned veteran, this course gives you the
confidence and competence to face the ever-changing challenges of
running an efficient fleet safety operation and help you develop a
successful career in the process.
The Dynamics of Fleet Safety program is designed
for safety supervisors and managers of all type of fleets -- trucks,
buses and motor coaches, cars, vans, motorcycles, fork lifts -- from
a wide range of industries. Created by fleet safety managers, for
fleet safety managers, this 4-hour introductory program utilizes a
case study methodology combined with program resources to accurately
diagnose real life fleet scenarios and demonstrates best practices
in motor vehicle safety, collision prevention and asset use. OSHA 10-Hour Workshop in
General Industry
Phillip Moncrief, OSHA –
Facilitator
Multiple Speakers
This course is designed to provide you with an
overview of fundamental OSHA standards and assist you with enhancing
your compliance efforts. Upon completion of the OSHA General
Industry 10-hour course, you will gain working knowledge of the
fundamental OSHA standards for general industry and OSHA policies
and procedures. A card will be presented at the completion of all 10
hours recognizing the attendee’s attendance. OSHA 10-Hour Workshop in
Construction
Jonathan Worrell, OSHA
– Facilitator
Multiple Speakers
Facilitators identify safety and health principles
that help you meet OSHA requirements. Special emphasis is placed on
areas in construction that most commonly result in worker injury or
property damage. You are also briefed on basic instructional
approaches, improving compliance communication, and training at the
work site. Upon completion of the OSHA Construction 10-hour course,
you'll be able to identify OSHA regulatory requirements for
construction sites and work knowledgeably within OSHA's construction
standards. A card will be presented at the completion of all 10
hours recognizing the attendee’s attendance.
Industrial Hygiene Sampling
Strategy and Calibration of Monitoring Equipment
Art Tippit, CIH
Services, Inc. - Facilitator
Multiple Speakers
Attendees will learn
various sampling strategies with emphasis on how to determine who to
monitor and how many samples to collect.
After sampling strategy discussion, attendees will receive
hands-on experience calibrating personal sampling pumps, noise
dosimeters and common direct reading instruments such as
explosimeters and photoionization detectors.
Upon request, attendees can receive training videos used in
the classroom. Attendees will receive individual assistance during
hands-on calibration from the speakers which include CIHs and
equipment manufacturers/suppliers.
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
To be presented on October 9, 10, 11
Langlois, Weigand & Associates, Inc.
is a safety consulting firm specializing in training classes for
Certification in Safety and Health. Courses include Associate Safety
Professional (ASP), Certified Safety Professional (CSP),
Occupational Health and Safety Technologist (OHST), and Construction
Health and Safety Technologist (CHST). The courses last almost three
days. For registration
information for these two specific workshops, contact Jeannine at
404-679-0687
ASP Study and Exam Prep
Workshop
Langlois, Weigand &
Associates CSP Study and Exam Prep
Workshop
Langlois, Weigand &
Associates Post-Conference workshops
will begin at 2:00pm on October 9th and will be held at
the
Hampton
Inn & Suites Historic District
located on
Additional fees apply to most Pre and Post conference workshops.
Please refer to the appropriate section of the “Registration” pages
for specific details and payment options. Additional CEU’s may be
available.
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS
Sessions are listed in alphabetical order by speaker’s
last name
This listing does not
include individual sessions of the OSHA 10 hour series Case Studies in Case
Management
Holly Andersen, GENEX
Services To build off our 2007 presentation, Case
Management: Soup to Nuts, and in response to attendee feedback,
this presentation will provide actual case studies to demonstrate
how case management is used; when it works/when it does not; red
flags and knowing when to refer to case management, and what to
expect from case management.
The presentation will include time for attendees to present
current situations to the group for discussion and ideas.
Safety Meets Six Sigma
Lyneisa Atchley and
Jeff Zalonis, Gill Industries Inc Learn to combine Six Sigma with Risk Management
and Safety Processes to your management systems for more effective,
measurable and controlled improvements in workers compensation costs
and decreased number of injuries.
This session will teach Managers and Safety Professionals to
apply Six Sigma techniques and processes to their safety program for
effective and measurable improvements in workers compensation costs
and reduction in injuries.
The speakers will guide attendees through the DMAIC process:
Define
the Opportunities for Improvement
Measure
the Financial Impact for the Organization
Analyze
the Opportunities for Improvement
Improve
on Findings
Established Controls
The Top Ten Concerns for the
Person Wearing the Safety Hat
Wayne Binkins, Cleveland
Group
In today's business environment, many find
themselves with the Safety hat popped on their head with no training
or notice. This session
will provide an overview of the top ten practical steps/resources
that someone should embrace to ensure safety and health compliance
at their company. Working Safely in Confined
Spaces
Ray Bishop,
Attendees will be provided with the basic
requirements for compliance with the OSHA Confined Space Standard,
the essential components of the Standard and factors that may cause
fatal failures in such a program. Reducing Waste Up to 50%
Paula Bray,
The attendee will learn the importance of and how
to create an effective waste reduction program by getting buy in,
establishing a baseline, managing the program and documenting
successes.
Recent
Strategies and Considerations for Handling Workers' Compensation
Cases with Undocumented Workers
Todd A. Brooks and
Richard A. Watts, Swift Currie McGhee & Heirs LLP An overview of the legal issues related to
workers’ compensation cases involving undocumented workers and
strategies for handling these difficult claims.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations / Georgia Traffic Law Update
Capt. Bruce Bugg,
What has changed? What is new? This session will
discuss new laws and/or regulations which have come into play. There
will be a question and answer time to discuss your current
situations.
Silica Control Program for
Construction Safety Managers
Lisa Capicik, Brasfield and Gorrie, LLC and Hilarie Schubert Warren,
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Collaboration between the Health and Safety OSHA Consultation
Program at Georgia Tech, and the General Contracting firm of
Brasfield and Gorrie, LLC, led to the development of a simple
planning matrix for the management of common construction-site
activities with potential for overexposure to respirable silica
dust. The objective of
this project was to create a tool to help construction safety
managers anticipate the exposure risk for certain tasks and the
actions needed to appropriately protect laborers performing these
tasks. The final matrix
product can be used as both a training tool and as a way to help
construction managers develop a Standard Operating Procedure for
controlling common silica exposures. GA's Workers' Compensation in
the 21st Century: An Overview of the Legal
Requirements of the Act
Luanne Clarke and Rob
Ryan - Moore, Clarke, DuVall & Rodgers PC This session will include both an overview of the
key current requirements of the Workers’ Compensation Act, as well
as a discussion of best practices designed to ensure an early return
to work and containment of costs.
An Overview of Occupational
Injury and Illness Statistics in GA and in the
Jeff The OSHA Act of 1970 created a branch of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics focused exclusively on Injuries,
Illnesses, and Fatalities in the Labor Market.
This presentation will begin with an overview of how the data
is collected, what statistics are available, and how to access the
information. After this
introduction, we will focus on Injury, Illness, and Fatality
Incidence Rates and Counts in We will focus on Industries, Occupations, Sources
of Injuries, Nature of Injuries, Event, Body Part, Demographics,
etc. We will answer
specific questions, pass out publications, and take data requests.
If you have ever wondered how your company’s
incidence rate compares to your competitors’, this is the
presentation for you. Hearing Conservation Program
and New F-Mire Validation
Scott Corrao, Aearo
Technologies The presentation will concentrate on hearing
conservation issues and includes:
How the ear works, Effects of Noise, Annual Noise Testing,
Purpose and types of hearing protectors, and fit and care of
protectors. It also
details the new process of Personal Attenuation Ratings (PAR) in
comparison to Noise Reduction Ratings (NRR).
All You Wanted to Know About
Workers' Compensation…and Then Some!
Elizabeth DeVaughn Costner, Law Office of
Elizabeth DeVaughn Costner
Richard Scott Thompson, Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP
Mark Goodman, Swift
Currie McGhee & Hiers LLP
This is a fast paced audience interactive session
concerning the nuts and bolts of workers compensation, from the
mundane to the unusual.
Job Hazard Analysis-The Heart
of the Safety Program
Nathan Crutchfield,
Crutchfield Consulting LLC The Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) is one of the most
powerful tools in the Safety Professional’s toolkit.
It is also the most ignored and abused.
The JHA provides the framework to meet ANSI Z10 requirements
for OHS to be incorporated into each appropriate job description.
This session will provide a map to follow in developing the
JHA, show how to begin and complete a JHA by combining risk and
hazard concepts. We will
discuss methods to improve the quality and successful implementation
of a JHA project. . Best Practices for Medical
and Case Management of Back Injuries
Dr. Stephen Dawkins,
Caduceus Occupational Medicine Back injuries continue to be the most common
workplace injury. Many
times, these cases become resource consumptive and frustrating.
Issues, such as:
changing diagnosis, lack of medical progress, malingering, when to
refer to other medical specialists, which medical specialist to
refer to, what medical tests to order, when to order each medical
test, choosing the right treatment,
telephonic case management, field case assignment and when to
settle are among the topics to be discussed. Hey! Who Stole My Safety
Training Budget?
Greg Dobson, Patterson
Pump Company
Safety training doesn’t have to be boring. In
fact, making safety training interesting improves its effectiveness
and accomplishes what you should be striving for in the first place.
All it takes is a little imagination and utilizing available
resources. If all you are doing is complying with OSHA standards …
you’re not doing enough. Training has to be effective and provide
your employees with information which will protect them from
workplace hazards and sometimes, even from themselves. When Domestic Violence Comes
to Work
Stacey Pastel Dougan, Esq., Powell Goldstein, LLP This session will discuss the prevalence and impact of domestic
violence in and on the workplace.
Specifically, we will address what employers need to know in
order to appropriately respond to domestic violence and its effects
in the workplace, ranging from the legal landscape governing their
conduct, to addressing management and security issues. Are You Prepared to Ride the
Waves? A Guide to Pandemic Influenza Workplace Continuity Planning
Michelle Dunham &
Hilarie Schubert Warren, GA Tech Research Institute Familiarize yourself with the strategies and
resources available for preparing your workplace and workforce for a
pandemic influenza crisis.
Learn how to evaluate the business and regulatory
implications this future public health crisis will have on your
workplace environment, and how to take steps
now to mitigate the impact on your workers and business continuity
plan. Attendees will be
briefed on the following topics:
· Exposure Reduction and General Infection Control Practices
Ergonomic Incident
Investigation Questions
Shannon England, the
ERGO Company
Do you want to challenge some of your ergonomic
claims? Is the physician
the first to identify your ergonomic issues? When analyzing any
ergonomic incident, the primary question to be asked is “Was there
an ergonomic exposure?”
Learn critical pathway questions to focus your ergonomic program
efforts and Job Hazard Assessment (JHA) to analyze job tasks/steps
for ergonomic exposures related to a particular injury/illness
model. Specific injuries
require specific actions to cause anatomical changes.
Ergonomic exposures are either reported as gradual or sudden
events and result from two types of activity: usual (lift, carry,
push, pull) or unusual physical job demands (yank, tug, kick,
throw). This program is
designed to give you the initial steps to develop key ergonomic
program components to capture and analyze ergonomic cause data. Thinking Globally for
Effective Hazard Communication
Barb Epstien, Epstien
Environmental Resources LLC Year after year, the Hazard Communication (HazCom)
Standard continues to be among the top 10 OSHA violations cited, in
spite of the overall increase in the availability of chemical
information in workplaces. It is helpful, therefore, to take another
good look at the basic elements of this regulation (e.g., labeling,
material safety data sheets [MSDS], and training) and their
importance as building blocks for ensuring workplace protection.
This session will also compare the HazCom Standard with the United
Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling
of Chemicals (GHS), to explore the global implications of and
benefits associated with effective hazard communication. These range
from improving the quality and consistency of chemical hazard
information to facilitating international trade in chemicals.
The Voluntary Protection
Programs (VPP): A Partnership for Success
Kerry Fischman, Georgia-Pacific,
LLC
This session will provide
an in‑depth review of VPP and will also provide valuable insight
into the many benefits of joining the program.
Building World Class Safety
Capability in Manufacturing
Scott Gaddis, Kimberly
Clark Corporation
Improving occupational safety represents a
significant management and leadership challenge. This session will
focus on building world-class safety capability in a lean
manufacturing process and addresses growing and adapting toward a
safety culture in a manner that serves the needs of a high
reliability organization.
Dwayne Garriss, Office of
the
This presentation will cover the development and
highlight the requirements of
Georgia’s New Rules and Regulations for Loss Prevention Due
to Combustible Dust Explosions and Fire which were went into effect
March 7, 2008, through the emergency rule making process and provide
explanation as to how it has developed into today’s regulation for
the protection of life and property. Improving Belt Conveyor
Safety with Better Procedures and Training
Larry Goldbeck, Martin
Engineering Belt conveyors handle large volumes of material
very efficiently. However, they also contribute to an extremely high
number of accidents and fatalities. This paper will examine the
history of belt conveyor accidents, ways to prevent these accidents,
and in addition to lock out, tag out and try out methods, block out
procedures to prevent stored energy from injuring employees even
though the conveyor has been properly locked out. Each attendee will
receive a complimentary copy of Foundations book on belt conveyors. All You Wanted to Know About
Workers' Compensation…and Then Some!
Mark Goodman, Swift
Currie McGhee & Hiers LLP
Richard Scott Thompson,
Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP
Elizabeth DeVaughn
Costner, Law Office of Elizabeth DeVaughn Costner This is a fast paced audience interactive session
concerning the nuts and bolts of workers compensation, from the
mundane to the unusual. MSHA 101
Carla Gunnin, Constangy,
Brooks and Smith LLC
This course will provide attendees with
information about the Mine Safety and Health Act, how the Act is
enforced and with emphasis on key differences between OSHA and MSHA.
Treating Your Own Back
Injuries
Peter Guske, The Back
Saver System
This is the only presentation which actually
demonstrates to attendees how they themselves can put their own
back, "back in", after they have "put their back out".
Peter Guske PT, in the myth-shattering and highly
non-traditional manner that has become his trademark, continues to
impress results-oriented safety personnel as well as
success-oriented company managers all over the country with these
unique, engaging and highly successful techniques. In what is
considered a record for the industry, his company out of Orlando, in
just the last 4 years has instructed over 14,000 employees
nationwide with the only techniques which will actually demonstrate
to you how you can put your own back, "back in".
Hazard Recognition – How to
Teach Defensive Driving
Charlie Halfen,
CNH Safety, LLC This session will discuss the education and
on-road training required to reduce auto crashes. Emphasis will be
placed on hazard recognition, the key to defensive driving. Health and Safety Youth
Outreach and the Promotion of OSHA-Related Training for Metro
Jenny Houlroyd and
Michelle Dunham, Georgia Tech Research Institute
OSHA has identified young workers as a vulnerable
population at increased risk of workplace injury and illness. Presenter will provide information on youth
outreach activities and training provided to
“Hold My Matches and
Watch This”
Shane Jenkins, Emergency Response Services, Inc. During this presentation you will be introduced to several important
concepts relating to the chemistry of fire and fire safety. You will
witness the dynamic properties and tendencies of flammable and
combustible liquids such as: flash point, boiling point, vapor
density, specific gravity and much more.
The Greening of Business:
Coca-Cola's Approach to Sustainability
Bruce Karas, Coca-Cola In today’s environment, businesses are looking
closer than ever at their overall environmental footprint in the
communities in which we operate.
The Coca-Cola Company has built our Sustainability program
around our impact in the marketplace, in the communities in which we
operate, in our work place and in the environment.
We have defined specific areas of concentration including
water stewardship, sustainable packaging, energy efficiency, work
place safety and implementation of management systems that are
critical to our type of business.
This presentation will review the mechanics of our
sustainability programs, successful practices, and future
development areas. In
addition, this presentation will detail our partnership effort
through the EPA performance track program, The attendees will gain the following information
from this session:
·
The technical challenges associated with improving water
stewardship, sustainable packaging and reducing the carbon footprint
for a beverage manufacturing operation.
·
The importance of determining your specific company sustainability
agenda based on the nature of your resource use, the links to local
communities and ensuring value is place on a safe workplace.
·
The value of
the EPA Performance track partnership and its alignment with typical
company environmental initiatives
Soapbox Safety
Patrick Karol, Aramark
Corporation Speaker will present a practical safety management
system designed to establish a safety culture, geared to companies
in the initial stages of developing a safety culture or looking to
turn a culture around.
Speaker will relate to audience with personal experiences and
stories to teach a lesson on developing a practical safety
management system. The
title Soapbox Safety is an
expression coined by the speaker to define the safety culture of a
company he worked with as a front line supervisor and later safety
manager. The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly of Workers' Compensation
Dr. Ish Khan, Choice
Care Occupational Medicine & Orthopedics Various issues facing HR and Safety in managing
work injuries will be discussed.
This includes: advantages of Occupational Medicine clinics,
pitfalls in developing panels, choosing the right clinic and Medical
Doctor, separating out what is and is not work related, cost
control, Med X back program and some unique injuries.
Holding Supervisors
Accountable for Injury Prevention
Todd Lawson, Zenith
Insurance Company
This presentation will teach
methods of making your Supervisor a better safety leader among the
employees that report to them. The session will help get your
Supervisors "Sold" on worker safety by outlining typical functions
of a safety orientated Supervisor and discuss ways to hold them
accountable. The
presentation is designed to speak directly to Supervisors, Safety
Professionals and Here is the agenda for the program:
·
Why the Supervisor
·
Supervisors roles and leadership
·
Common Quotations from Supervisors
·
Supervisor responsibilities – assist with hiring, orientations,
training, conducting meetings, hazard identification, behavioral
issues
·
Supervisor Accountability
·
Rewards for a safe department
·
Being the safety leader in your department Environmentally Beneficial
Cost Reduction
Mike Morgan, Delta Air
Lines The presentation will discuss various ways to
reduce business costs that also result in environmental benefits.
It will discuss innovative practices as well as important
partnerships, both internally and externally.
Items to be covered include recycling, wastewater reuse,
buying practices, etc. A Workshop in Quantifying
Repetitive Motion Disorders
Paul Myers and John
Trotter, An active demonstration of how to accurately
quantify the risk of developing work related repetitive motion
disorders. Welding and Hexavalent
Chromium-What You Don't Know Could Surprise You
Matthew Parker, ATC
Associates
This presentation will
cover the lessons learned from the first year of the Hexavalent
Chromium Standard (29 CFR 1910.1026).
Exercises That Test Your
Vulnerabilities
Greg Pattison, GP
Systems Come learn about the Homeland Security
Presidential Directive that requires you to conduct announced and
unannounced exercises on a quarterly basis.
They must be NIMS compliant, involve multi-jurisdictional
groups and should tax dollars be secured must be Homeland Security
Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) compliant. These emergencies may include any disaster, as
defined by Homeland Security, which threatens the operation of your
facility or organization. Come and learn terminology, processes and
procedures that could save lives and money during a disaster.
The Milliken Story: What is the
Future in Protecting Associates, Employees and Workers? Safety
Operational Excellence
Wayne Punch, Milliken &
Company
World-class companies continue to upgrade, modify, change or revise
their processes continuously.
They also continue to benchmark and network best practices in
other world-class companies.
That’s because your dependence on antiquated safety
procedures is no guarantee that you are protecting your associates
properly now or will be able to do so in the future.
In fact, future safety will require a process approach versus
a program mentality.
Programs have an end, whereas processes do not.
This process overview will include the Milliken Safety
Process system, model engagement assessing the organization in order
to change the organizational culture to associate, employee, worker
safety ownership.
Phillip
Crosby, author of Let’s Talk
Quality, states that “Safety and quality have the same basic
structure of laying out a system and managing it such as to make
things happen properly.”
All agree that safety and quality go hand-in-hand.
Jerry Scannell, former chief executive of the nation’s
largest governmental and non-governmental safety organizations:
OSHA and the National Safety Council, says that “corporations
must make safety a value that withstands the test of time.”
Who is your Safety Leader?
Danny Raines, Raines
Utility Safety Solutions LLC Employee responsibility and accountability to
following and enforcing safety rules Hazardous Energy Control
Methodology for Production Operators – Case Study
Ted Rogers, Coca-Cola Injury trends among production machine operators
were contributing to overall frequency and severity trends among 20
manufacturing facilities.
A solution defined and executed by a network of Health,
Safety & Environmental Professionals will be reviewed detailing
success factors as well as obstacles encountered. The ART of Injury Reduction
James Roughton,
eMeetingplace.com
What is acceptable Risk to you?
The answer: Everyone has their own level of acceptable risk.
Everyone perceives risk differently.
What is risky to someone may not be risky to others.
Sometimes we forget we, as humans, take unnecessary risk
which becomes natural.
Why? It’s because we have never been hurt.
There are many factors that influence our decision
to take risk. By
understanding these factors, our risk tolerance, and
personal/organizational factors, we can help to prevent injuries.
This presentation will provide a risk analysis
method that can be used to help communicate risky behavior to
employees by helping highlight the amount of risk that is
acceptable. In addition,
it will highlight risk as it is related to conditions and individual
behaviors.
Rob Ryan and Luanne
Clarke - Moore, Clarke, DuVall & Rodgers PC This session will include both an overview of the
key current requirements of the Workers’ Compensation Act, as well
as a discussion of best practices designed to ensure an early return
to work and containment of costs. Overview of New Lockout/Tag Out Compliance Directive for General
Industry
Paul Schlumper, Georgia
Tech Research Institute Directive CPL 02-00-147, which became effective on
February 11, 2008, establishes OSHA’s enforcement policy for its
standards addressing the control of hazardous energy.
This directive instructs OSHA enforcement personnel on both
the agency’s interpretations of those standards, and on the
procedures for enforcing them. This
presentation will provide an overview of the highlights of this OSHA
Directive in order to better understand compliance requirements with
the energy control standard (1910.147) and other standards
addressing the control of hazardous energy Driving Effective Ergonomic
Improvements through Kaizen Events
Jeff Smagacz, Risk Management
Group
While many methods are used to implement the
concepts of Lean Manufacturing, one of the most popular is the
Kaizen event. Kaizen
events are focused, continuous improvement workshops using hourly
employees and technical staff to drive to drive real-time, low cost
improvements. Kaizen events provide a tremendous opportunity for
improving ergonomics in the workplace. Educating workshop
participants in ergonomics methods can result in a tremendous
reduction of motion waste and ergonomic risk factors. Case studies
have demonstrated that production efficiency can be increased by 25%
to 60% and ergonomic risk can be reduced significantly without large
capital expenditures. A financial payback of three to six months is
often achieved to deliver immediate business value. In this
presentation, you will learn how to set-up, manage and execute an
effective Ergonomics Kaizen Event as well as understand the five key
items that make or break the success of the event.
Transformational Leadership,
Safety Climate and Improved Safety and Health Outcomes
Todd Smith, The importance of transformational leadership has
been touted in the business and organizational literature as
transformational leadership affects employee attitudes, work-related
outcomes, trust in management, organizational commitment, work
performance and satisfaction with leadership.
More importantly for the safety and health professional,
transformational leadership provides an opportunity to enhance
safety climate and occupational safety.
This presentation will present an overview of
transformational leadership, its relationship with safety climate,
and how occupational safety outcomes are impacted.
This presentation is of practical importance for the safety
and health professional, providing information that can be utilized
and incorporated into their organization’s efforts to manage
workplace safety and health.
Stress and Its Impact
Dr. Harold Stewart,
Future Industrial Technologies Stress Management Class Learn 4 methods to reduce
stress if you have a need to train employees and Stress is an
interesting topic with a major need to address I can help you. How many of you have a lot of Stress in your life?
How many of you have stress and can manage it?
In my one-hour class we will address methods that work and
help in reducing the Stress that is holding you back from having the
best life you deserve!
Have an open mind and give my methods a real chance.
Building an Effective Safety
Organization to Deliver Safety Excellence.
Jon Swierenga, LaFarge
Aggregates and Concrete
Lafarge has an ambition to be World Class in
Safety. That’s
admirable, but what are they doing to make that ambition a reality?
Jon will discuss a dynamic safety transformation
that is occurring at Lafarge, a $20 billion, world wide behemoth
building materials company.
Lafarge engaged Dupont to conduct assessments which revealed
good practices, but also major safety challenges in the company.
Jon will discuss industry risks, culture, engagement, the
building of a safety organization and safety roadmap, and talk about
the exciting results that have been achieved.
All You Wanted to Know About
Workers' Compensation…and Then Some!
Richard Scott Thompson, Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP
Mark Goodman, Swift
Currie McGhee & Hiers LLP
Elizabeth DeVaughn
Costner, Law Office of Elizabeth DeVaughn Costner This is a fast paced audience interactive session
concerning the nuts and bolts of workers compensation, from the
mundane to the unusual.
Electronic Discovery in
the Workplace: An overview of the legal requirements and
responsibilities of employers when on notice of the possibility of
work related litigation
Cynthia Tolbert, Moore, Clarke DuVall & Rodgers, P.C. This session will include an overview of the requirements of the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding electronic discovery,
including the preservation and production of electronic information
in the work place.
Related issues will also be reviewed, including privacy rights
regarding e-mail in the workplace and the identification of key
witnesses for preservation purposes.
A Workshop in Quantifying
Repetitive Motion Disorders
John Trotter and Paul
Myers, An active demonstration of how to accurately
quantify the risk of developing work related repetitive motion
disorders.
Silica Control Program for
Construction Safety Managers
Hilarie Schubert Warren, Georgia Tech Research Institute and Lisa
Capicik, Brasfield and Gorrie, LLC
Collaboration between the Health and Safety OSHA Consultation
Program at Georgia Tech, and the General Contracting firm of
Brasfield and Gorrie, LLC, led to the development of a simple
planning matrix for the management of common construction-site
activities with potential for overexposure to respirable silica
dust. The objective of
this project was to create a tool to help construction safety
managers anticipate the exposure risk for certain tasks and the
actions needed to appropriately protect laborers performing these
tasks. The final matrix
product can be used as both a training tool and as a way to help
construction managers develop a Standard Operating Procedure for
controlling common silica exposures.
Are You Prepared to Ride the
Waves? A Guide to Pandemic Influenza Workplace Continuity Planning
Hilarie Schubert Warren
and Michelle Dunham, GA Tech Research Institute Familiarize yourself with the strategies and
resources available for preparing your workplace and workforce for a
pandemic influenza crisis.
Learn how to evaluate the business and regulatory
implications this future public health crisis will have on your
workplace environment, and how to take steps
now to mitigate the impact on your workers and business continuity
plan. Attendees will be
briefed on the following topics:
· Exposure Reduction and General Infection Control Practices
Recent Strategies and
Considerations for Handling Workers' Compensation Cases with
Undocumented Workers
Richard A. Watts and
Todd A. Brooks, Swift Currie McGhee & Heirs LLP An overview of the legal issues related to
workers’ compensation cases involving undocumented workers and
strategies for handling these difficult claims.
Patrick M. Webster,
Bureau Veritas North
Tuesday, October
7, 3:00pm This presentation will include an initial overview of Industrial
Hygiene best practices including anticipation and recognition of
airborne hazards, hazard evaluation, exposure monitoring, and data
analysis. Specific
airborne contaminants will be discussed at length, along with
today’s typical work environments where they may be encountered.
The source of such airborne contaminants, along with
corrective actions to minimize worker exposure will also be
included. Common work
environments to be discussed will include industrial, general
construction, warehouse and office settings.
Lean Manufacturing v.
Ergonomics: It Does Not Have to Be a Fight
Keith White, Lennox
International Inc.
Lean manufacturing is a critical strategy in
today’s global economy.
While the focus is on maximizing manufacturing gains of productivity
and quality, this focus is often shortsighted when other necessary
elements of the lean manufacturing approach are minimized or
neglected. This
minimization may negatively impact the process being “improved” and
the organization’s bottom line.
Research from the aviation industry, automotive
industry and through hands-on experience, reveals ergonomics is
routinely minimized in the continuous improvement process.
This is very disturbing as one of the “7 Wastes that Lean
seeks to Eliminate” is motion.
That is, there is a stated effort to reduce wasted motion for
actions like picking parts, stacking parts and walking.
Among many benefits, ergonomics also seeks to eliminate
wasted motion.
Ergonomics can be simply integrated into any
continuous improvement activity.
The ergonomic data box is highlighted as the key placeholder
of ergonomic information for the value stream map used in most lean
manufacturing change events.
This presentation provides methodology of how to develop your
own ergonomic data box that compliments your ergonomic assessment
process. Actual examples
demonstrate that this integration is simple and when accomplished
true productivity and quality gains can be made while reducing
injury risk factors.
Hazardous Material
Transportation (49 CFR) Update
Jack
A review of regulatory changes made to the 49 CFR
in the last year and an open question and answer session about the
regulation. Attendees
will gain a better understanding of the rules governing the
transportation of hazardous materials. Promoting Off-the-Job Safety:
It makes $ense!
Bob Wilson, National
Safety Council Off-the-job safety is the extension of a company’s
on-the-job safety culture.
Workers are 11 times more likely to be killed off-the-job
than at work. Workers
are 2.5 times more likely to be injured off-the-job than at work.
Risk factors for off-the-job include motor vehicle,
poisoning, falls, choking, drowning, fires, burns and more.
Off-the-job injuries and fatalities are a huge cost to
society and your employer. Safety Meets Six Sigma
Jeff Zalonis and
Lyneisa Atchley, Gill Industries Inc Learn to combine Six Sigma with Risk Management
and Safety Processes to your management systems for more effective,
measurable and controlled improvements in workers compensation costs
and decreased number of injuries.
This session will teach Managers and Safety Professionals to
apply Six Sigma techniques and processes to their safety program for
effective and measurable improvements in workers compensation costs
and reduction in injuries.
The speakers will guide attendees through the DMAIC process:
Define
the Opportunities for Improvement
Measure
the Financial Impact for the Organization
Analyze
the Opportunities for Improvement
Improve
on Findings
Established Controls
Disclaimer: This
slate of speakers and sessions is accurate as of August 18, 2008.
It is subject to change without notice but will be updated as
future information is provided.
If a speaker has to withdraw, we will make every effort
to replace the session with another of a similar topic
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