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Inclusion is not just a trending topic. It is a basic need for each worker within your organization. Gain insight, explore ideas and take away tips that will help you become an inclusive safety leader who leverages worker needs for organizational value.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Kahlilah Guyah - EHS Compliance Services / CEO & Principal
Gain insight into COVID-19 best practices based on the concepts of the Swiss cheese model. Review how one oil and gas company put these concepts into practice to ensure business continuity and implement an organizational resilience approach.
Business & Leadership Skills, Total Worker Health
Intermediate
Marzouq Al Otaibi - Kuwait Oil Company / Team Leader HSE Exploration and Drilling
Ashok Garlapati - Kuwait Oil Company / HSE Consultant
Many OSH decisions are based on qualitative information. Build your knowledge of risk assessment methods that can improve the reliability and validity of your organization's qualitative data. Review real-world examples and case studies to understand how to effectively apply best practices.
Risk Assessment & Management
Advanced
Daniel Snyder - Safety Mentor, LLC / Founder and CEO
As the world becomes more connected and data-driven, your company can harness valuable information that will benefit your workers and drive business results. Developments like wearable safety technology, machine learning, artificial intelligence and cloud computing are helping business leaders gain insight into workplace risks, keep workers safe and mitigate hazards before incidents and claims occur.
Risk Assessment & Management, Safety Management Systems
Intermediate
Tom West - MakuSafe / Vice President
As OSH practitioners, we often rely on personal resilience as the go-to solution for workplaces stress. Is this like teaching the canary in the coal mine to hold its breath in poor environmental conditions? Explore why personal resilience is not — and should not be — the only answer to workplace stress.
Total Worker Health
Advanced
Martin Franchi - Navigation Consulting & Training / Co-Founding Partner
Shelly Meadows - Navigation Consulting & Training / Co-Founding Partner
Review myths about artificial intelligence and safety in manufacturing settings, and take away new ideas for debunking those myths as you seek new safety solutions.
Business & Leadership Skills
Beginner
Nilay Parikh - Be Global Safety / CEO
Have your organization's higher number of auto crashes affected which insurance carriers want to quote your auto liability renewal? Take away practical guidance you can apply to improve your organization's driver and fleet safety practices to mitigate liability.
Business & Leadership Skills, Risk Assessment & Management
Intermediate
Nancy J Bendickson - Aon / Managing Consultant
Our conscious minds process about 120 bits per second. This can lead to errors in a complex environment. Fortunately, if we consider the proper neurology, the vast subconscious parallel processing throughout our brains can shape safe behaviors .
Business & Leadership Skills, Total Worker Health
Intermediate
Timothy D Ludwig - Appalachian State University / Professor
Building a truly safe operation literally means incorporating safety into each process. Build your understanding of what happens during the life cycle of an Amazon package and how those practices protect our employees while ensuring we serve our customers.
Business & Leadership Skills, Safety Management Systems
Intermediate
Marla Corson - Amazon / Director of Workplace Health and Safety for North American Customer Fulfillment (NACF)
Is the total recordable incident rate (TRIR) metric statistically valid? An investigation into 3.2 trillion hours of worker data found no discernible association between TRIR and fatalities. The analysis also indicated that the occurrence of recordable injuries is almost entirely random. What does that mean to measuring safety performance?
Business & Leadership Skills, Safety Management Systems
Intermediate
Siddharth Bhandari - University of Colorado Boulder / Research Faculty and Associate Director of Research at Construction Safety Research Alliance
Learn how Consumers Energy implemented grassroots safety leadership across more than 100 employee-led teams addressing safety culture. During its decade-long, multi-site journey, the organization reduced injuries by 90% and was recognized in 2016 as the safest major utility in the country.
Business & Leadership Skills, Safety Management Systems
Intermediate
Douglas J Hill - Consumers Energy / Safety Culture Team / Energy Operations Safety
Steven I. Simon - Culture Change Consultants / President
James T Wade - Consumers Energy / Corporate Safety Director
Discuss the steps your organization needs to take to assess and manage unique remote worker exposures and review the impact of NIOSH's Total Worker Health® initiative. Explore the latest insights on ergonomic solutions, examine how to help workers balance the work-life scale and build your knowledge of effective ways to use technology to enhance remote working capabilities.
Business & Leadership Skills, Safety Management Systems
Executive
Justin Francini - CNA Insurance / Risk Control Consulting Director
Develop new understanding of changes to the 2021 ANSI/ASSP Z117 consensus standard on confined spaces and compare key recommended practices with OSHA's 1910.146 and 1926.1201-1213 regulations.
Risk Assessment & Management
Intermediate
Terry L Ketchum - Covestro LLC / Manager, Health, Environment & Safety
Terry Krug - Exceptional Occupational Safety and Health Advisors / President and Senior Scientist
Tools like Microsoft Excel can help OSH professionals analyze safety data. Take away practical guidance, tips and tricks for using formulas, pivot tables and interactive charts.
Business & Leadership Skills, Safety Management Systems
Beginner
Alyssa Weber - MilliporeSigma / Head of EHS, Danvers Mobius
This session will explain how three soft skills can help safety professionals win the hearts and minds of workers and dramatically boost compliance rates as a result. Attendees will learn how to harness the power of consistency, master the art of storytelling, and learn to demonstrate more empathy.
Business & Leadership Skills
Beginner
Tim Page-Bottorff - SafeStart(R) / Senior Safety Consultant
As an OSH professional, it's important to remember that comprehension is key! To create a safe workplace, you must communicate safety rules, requirements and expectations so that workers understand what you are telling them. Learn how you can adapt your communication style to account for factors such as employee experience, language, education, tech savvy and attention span.
Business & Leadership Skills
Beginner
Lindsay K. Bell - Solvay, USA / Regional Health and Safety Manager
Your workers won't speak up about safety issues if they feel sidelined;even more so if they've been historically silenced. Developing and applying cultural intelligence is key to making diversity and safety work. Discover effective ways to increase safety and engagement and take away practical guidance you can apply immediately.
Business & Leadership Skills
Executive
Amy Narishkin - Empowering Partners, LLC / Chief Executive Officer
Learn how to build alignment across your organization with a common goal: reduce musculoskeletal injuries with leading-edge strategies. Help your organization screen applicant Fitness for Duty at the Pre-Offer stage, and build alliances with healthcare providers to Triage and Treat minor injuries under OSHA First Aid.
Total Worker Health
Intermediate
Dona Leonard - Colorado In Motion
Gregory B. Cairns - Cairns and Associates, PC / Owner
Mike McNeil - Innovise Business Consultants / Director of Risk Control
Review key elements of ISO 45001 and interact with panelists who will share fresh insights, lessons learned, tips and organizational outcomes related to implementing the global occupational health and safety management system standard.
Safety Management Systems
Intermediate
Ken Clayman - Booz Allen Hamilton / Senior Lead Technical Specialist
Tom Gallegos - Lockheed Martin / International EHS Lead
Kathy A Seabrook - Global Capitals Coalition: Valuing OHS in Human Capital Project Group / Co-Chair
Victor Toy - U.S. TAG to ANSI for ISO TC-283 / Chairman
Pam Walaski - Specialty Technical Consultants, Inc. / Senior Program Director
Have you ever had a great idea fail miserably? This presentation discusses resistance to change and how to set yourself up for success. There are tools you can use to prepare your fellow employees for change and create lasting success. Get to yes.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Mary Sullivan - Penhall Company / Safety Manager
Explore key components of a proposed approach that aims to replace many of today's flawed safety performance indicators.
Business & Leadership Skills
Executive
Michael Tooma - Clyde & Co / Partner
Employers have struggled to address injuries associated with an aging workforce and training a younger workforce in non-traditional methods to be effective. Employers that understand the skills and limitations of employees of all ages and build programs around their positive safety traits can significantly reduce their injury exposure.
Business & Leadership Skills, Safety Management Systems
Beginner
Brendan Moriarty - Chubb Insurance / Vice President
Because climate change impacts are fundamentally a safety issue, safety professionals are uniquely qualified to become the champions of climate change mitigation within their organizations. This presentation intends to provide attendees with knowledge and tools to influence and guide their organizations on a path to net-zero emissions.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Charmaine Mullins-Jaime - Indiana State University / Assistant Professor
ANSI/ASSP Z590.3 was initially introduced in 2011 and reaffirmed in 2016. Develop new understanding of key changes incorporated into the latest version, ANSI/ASSP Z590.3-2021.
Risk Assessment & Management
Intermediate
Ken J Daigle - ERM / Partner, Safety Services
Bruce K Lyon - Brown & Brown, Inc. / Vice President
Georgi Popov - University of Central Missouri / Chair, Safety Sciences
Do you have all the tools you need to manage OSH activities at your site during normal and abnormal times? Review the different requirements for essential employees and those able to work from home during the pandemic, and take away fresh ideas on ways to help all employees return to work safely.
Business & Leadership Skills, Risk Assessment & Management, Total Worker Health
Intermediate
Patricia A Reed - Honeywell / Senior HSE Engineer
James Rowlett - Accenture / Consulting Manager
As the workforce becomes more diverse, your organization needs to move beyond a one-size-fits-most mindset about personal protective equipment (PPE). Learn steps your team can take to identify your organization's unique needs, find appropriate protective equipment, and verify it is effective and appreciated.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Joe C Korpi - Renewable Energy Group / Manager, Safety & Health
Learn how the best practices defined in ANSI/ASSP A10.34, Protection of the Public on or Adjacent to Construction Sites, can help your organization create a hazard control plan to prevent disruptions to the public during construction.
Business & Leadership Skills, Risk Assessment & Management
Intermediate
Shelly Pizzi - Black & Veatch / Manager of Industrial Hygiene
Water. Rest. Shade. These three basic components can prevent heat illnesses, yet work-related heat injuries continue to occur. Learn about the latest advancements in professional hydration strategies.
Risk Assessment & Management, Total Worker Health
Intermediate
Shawn Stasko - Sword Performance / Chief Scientific Officer
Understanding how systems impact behavior minimizes blame and encourages working cooperatively with frontline workers to develop sustainable improvement. Yet, the myth persists that behavioral approaches focus on blaming workers. Review information that dispels that myth, examine four common organizational systems that have unintended effects and learn behavioral strategies for redesigning those systems.
Safety Management Systems, Total Worker Health
Intermediate
Judy L Agnew - Aubrey Daniels International / Senior Vice President
David Uhl - Aubrey Daniels International / Senior Vice President
Becoming a safety-centric organization requires buy-in from leadership and engagement from every employee. Learn how Amazon is leveraging its ability to innovate to create robust leadership and engagement programs that any company can scale and apply at their organization.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Heather Macdougall - Amazon / Vice President, Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety
Jasmine Omar - Amazon / Director, Global Workplace Health and Safety Systems
OSH professionals and their organizations need to take steps to recognize and eliminate driving hazards that affect their workers and the public. Gain a new perspective about the tragic consequences of distracted driving.
Business & Leadership Skills
Advanced
Thomas R Goeltz - Brown & Brown / Vice President, Risk Management Services
Review key steps you can take to develop and implement a stop work authority program. Build a better understanding that program success depends on a corporate culture that promotes unobstructed two-way communication, embraces feedback and constructive criticism, and addresses potential pitfalls in its real-life implementation.
Business & Leadership Skills
Executive
Riad Efendi - TechnipFMC / Corporate/Global HSE Manager
Story science is rich and deep in how stories help us bond, relate, contextualize, make sense of our world, help us survive and much more. Through interactive discussion, learn about the science and powers of stories and how the can affect our many risk perceptions and cognitive biases.
Business & Leadership Skills, Risk Assessment & Management
Advanced
Jonathan Klane - BioRAFT / Director of Risk Management + Safety Education
Diversity, equity and inclusion are vital in every organization because they help bring out the best of innovative solutions to OSH challenges. Hear from representatives of professional safety organizations and L'Oréal, as well as ASSP President-Elect Christine Sullivan, as they discuss OSH issues and initiatives focused on women and the inclusion of all workers.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Funmi Adegbola - Society of Women in Safety Health and Environment-Africa (SOWSHE-A) / Founder
Louise Hosking - OneWISH / Chief Executive
Kathy A Seabrook - Global Capitals Coalition: Valuing OHS in Human Capital Project Group / Co-Chair
Malcolm Staves - L'Oreal / Global Vice President Health & Safety
Christine Sullivan - Sompo International Global Risk Solutions / SVP Risk Control Director/ASSP President Elect
Elements of gamification, applied to Total Worker Health® initiatives, can increase attention, retention and implementation to help make these initiatives more effective in improving workers' overall safety and health.
Total Worker Health
Beginner
Linda Tapp - SafetyFUNdamentals / President
Ever been made aware of an incident where your first thought was "what were they thinking?" Get a more complete understanding of why people do what they do. Discover the four "brain modes" that influence behaviour, what can be done about each and how leaders can help.
Business & Leadership Skills
Advanced
Cristian Sylvestre - HabitSafe / Founder and Managing Director
Our expert panel discusses a holistic approach your organization can take to align equity, inclusion and individual engagement in order to achieve safety and profitability. Gain insight on how to use a diagnostic methodology to evaluate each area in your organization, and take away practical guidance on a reframing process to build individual engagement.
Business & Leadership Skills
Advanced
Frank L Douglas - Safe Haven Dialogues LLC / CEO
Susan Freeman - Conscious Inclusion Company, LLC / CEO
Levern Mcelveen - Levern McElveen 7 Associates LLC / CEO
Take an in-depth look at proposed changes to ANSI/ASSP Z359.2, Minimum Requirements for a Comprehensive Managed Fall Protection Program and get practical guidance you can use to update your organization's program. This consensus standard is often referred to as the "employers'" standard and the new draft is written with employers in mind.
Fall Protection
Intermediate
Kevin B Denis - WernerCo / Technical Services Representative
Learn from case studies from the presenters' experiences with real workplace incidents. Their behind the scenes insight demonstrates that progressive continuous improvement can lead to effective safety management systems that comply with ISO 45001.
Safety Management Systems
Advanced
Fiona E Greaves - Steele Safety Ltd / Director
Benjamin D Keen - Steele Safety Ltd / Director
Procuring supplies can be challenging during normal times, but when supply chains are disrupted it can be overwhelming. Learn about proactive measures your company can take to maintain stability in your supply chain and understand training needs as alternative products are introduced.
Risk Assessment & Management
Intermediate
Laurel Harris - Chubb / Risk Specialist
Karine Narr - Chubb / Risk Specialist
The New York-New Jersey Education and Research Center has developed interdisciplinary and experiential training programs that bring students to workplaces, allowing them to see people performing work and better understand how work impacts their health. Gain insight into how interdisciplinary programs bridge OSH disciplines and discuss the value of experiential learning in better preparing students for their professional practice.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Mitchel A Rosen - Rutgers School of Public Health / Associate Professor
As the world becomes more connected and data-driven, your company can harness valuable information that will benefit your workers and drive business results. Developments like wearable safety technology, machine learning, artificial intelligence and cloud
Business & Leadership Skills
Beginner
Jason Lucas - Safety Justice League / Partner
Slip, trip and falls on the same level are a leading cause of work-related injuries. Practical application of the guidance and solutions found in ANSI/ASSP A1264.1 and A1264.2 can help you identify and eliminate various slip and fall risks.
Fall Protection, Risk Assessment & Management
Intermediate
Nathan Berry - Arthur J. Gallagher / Senior Risk Control Consultant
James D Smith - Arthur J Gallagher / Regional Manager
Human performance and reliability analysis are a necessary component of risk assessment. As an OSH professional, you can incorporate these concepts and techniques into your existing risk management system. Learn how to do so by discussing an sample risk assessment with and without consideration of human performance.
Risk Assessment & Management
Intermediate
Ken J Daigle - ERM / Partner, Safety Services
The workplace evolution from safety to tellness takes Total Worker Health® to new heights. It combines safety (physical hazard prevention) with wellness (physiological hazard prevention) to achieve holistic risk reduction.
Total Worker Health
Intermediate
Anthony Harris - WorkCare, Inc. / Chief Innovation Officer
Gain expert guidance from global safety and health leaders as they share their experiences, challenges and strategies for influencing corporate leaders. Learn about emerging issues of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and human capital, and discuss a new tool you can use to assess your company's impacts and dependencies so you can measure the true value of people and OSH.
Business & Leadership Skills
Executive
Paul Hendry - Jacobs / Global Vice President, HSE
Kathy A Seabrook - Global Capitals Coalition: Valuing OHS in Human Capital Project Group / Co-Chair
Malcolm Staves - L'Oreal / Global Vice President Health & Safety
During the COVID-19 pandemic, and likely going forward, many companies switched to virtual office work, while many other companies limited access to their manufacturing facilities. Discuss best practices for conducting virtual assessments.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Timothy A Pottorff - QP3 ErgoSystems LLC / Principal
Risk management help you achieve your OSH goals. Following an overview of a structured risk management approach, discuss how to apply a risk management framework to OSH management systems, and consider how risk and safety management can align to improve risk outcomes.
Risk Assessment & Management
Intermediate
Carrie Frandsen - University of California, Office of the President / Systemwide Enterprise Risk Management Director
Enhance your presentation skills by using the latest tools within PowerPoint. Learn tips and tricks that will help your presentations be more engaging so you can overcome the perception of "death by PowerPoint!"
Risk Assessment & Management
Advanced
Skipper Kendrick - Kendrick Global Enterprises, LLC / President
Why do organizations adopt ISO 45001 and seek certification? This presentation discusses the current state of ISO 45001 implementation, the results of a membership survey designed to explore motivations for adoption of this management system, and implications for the future.
Safety Management Systems
Intermediate
Matthew E Law - Grainger, Inc. / Manager, Customer Safety Strategy
Travis Kruse - W.W. Grainger, Inc. / Senior Director, Safety Strategy
Training Spanish-speaking workers involves much more than just translation. The Spanish-speaking workforce is diverse and has different needs and expectations. Gain new insight on common challenges encountered when providing safety training to Spanish-speaking workers and take away guidance on practical solutions that will improve your efforts.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Todd Alvarez - White Construction Company / Regional Safety Manager
Todd Smith - BCS Concrete / VP of Safety
Our expert pane of safety professionals turned lawyers will discuss recent developments in the ever-changing landscape of legalized marijuana. Topics will include developments in state and federal law; strategies for minimizing legal risks associated with determining impairment; workplace accommodations; discrimination; drug testing policies; defining "safety sensitive" positions and other key issues.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Todd B Logsdon - Fisher Phillips / Partner - Attorney
Barry S Spurlock - Eastern Kentucky University / Associate Professor / Attorney
Kristin White - Fisher & Phillips / Attorney - Partner
Begin or refine your co-training collaboration skills! It's great if you have good instructional chemistry with your co-trainer, but that alone won't ensure a successful learning experience. Effective co-trainers use research-based methods that make their planning and delivery impactful.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Regina McMichael - The Learning Factory / President
Alex Reed - Safety Mentor, LLC / Chief Learning Officer
Gain insight from two OSHA field cases that focus on hidden electrical hazards in wind turbine repowering activities and fire hazards associated with controlled burn operations to improve the habitat of an endangered species on a federal facility. Review the inspection process and findings, resulting citations and employer abatement efforts. Take away a new understanding of OSHA and other resources available to help your organization prevent these hazards and protect workers.
Risk Assessment & Management, Safety Management Systems
Intermediate
Kim Morton - OSHA / Area Director
Hector Tabares - U.S. DOL - OSHA / Compliance Safety and Health Officer
Discuss the ANSI/ASSP Z16 standard, its current framework and scope, and how to use it as a cutting-edge tool to develop your organization's approach to measuring and improving OSH performance so you can demonstrate how OSH generates organizational value.
Business & Leadership Skills, Safety Management Systems
Intermediate
Alexandra Carli - Carli Consulting,LLC / President
Paul A Esposito - Star Consultants / President
Determining key work hazards and employee risks is a problem-solving process that involves personal observation, inquiry and research. Explore a strategic approach that you can use to determine whether you are addressing a symptom or the actual root cause of any safety challenge.
Business & Leadership Skills
Intermediate
Vanessa Galvan - Zenith Insurance Company / Corporate Safety and Health Manager
OSH professionals must have an evidence-based understanding of the dynamics that lead to effective teams. Review various research studies and discuss how the findings that psychologically safe environments are a critical enabler of team effectiveness.
Business & Leadership Skills, Safety Management Systems, Total Worker Health
Executive
Suri Surinder - CTR Factor, Inc. / Chief Executive Officer
Every year, falls are among the most cited causes of fatalities at work. To help mitigate this risk, your organization can develop, implement and maintain a thorough fall protection program. Review what's involved in implementing a thorough program that employees will follow.
Fall Protection
Intermediate
Marjory E Anderson - Architect of the Capitol / Safety Engineer
Human factors are the most challenging obstacle to maintaining your safety management systems. Build your underetanding of two learning loops that can produce outcome reliability and take away guidance that will help you be better prepared for the new ISO 45003 global standard. You will also develop a better understanding of internal factors that affect decision-making.
Safety Management Systems
Intermediate
Tim Page-Bottorff - SafeStart(R) / Senior Safety Consultant
As understanding of the future of work grows, so must your understanding of the EHS and well-being challenges and hazards these changes will introduce. Build your ability to communicate and address them three areas of focus in NIOSH's Future of Work initiative.
Total Worker Health
Beginner
Blake McGowan - VelocityEHS / Senior Global Enterprise Account Executive, Director of Ergonomics Research