TUESDAY 8:30-10:00am
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WORKSHOPS
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General Track
Room: Sen
Kevin Cobb,
Safe Start
Addison, TX
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Quit Feeding the Monsters: New Techniques to Create a Positive Safety Culture
Can you identify the monsters that are terrorizing your organization? What beasts are holding
back not only your safety, but production and quality performance as well? Surprisingly for most,
the Monsters are quite common and really simple once you understand them. What is troubling is
the fact that all of us unknowingly keep the Monsters well fed and alive. In this thought provoking
session, we will identify four simple Monsters that are terrorizing your safety performance on and
off the job. We’ll also look at some efficient technology you can deploy as you develop your
team of Monster slayers. Policies, procedures, and engineering controls are all essential elements
of a solid safety management system, but we will never achieve world class safety performance
until we stop feeding those monsters.
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VPP Track
Room: Ono
Gary HIgbee, CSP,
Safe Start
Belleville, ONT
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World Class Safety On and Off the Job
Moving world class safety performance to off the job safety requires more than really good
traditional safety management practices. This is because nobody takes safety home with them.
So, if you can’t rely on traditional safety approaches to improve off the job safety, what can you
do? Come to this session to find out what many companies are doing to dramatically improve off
the job safety, and how this will not only keep employees safe at work and at home, but will also
extend to keeping family and loved ones safe at home and on the road.
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VPP/OSHA -Track
Room: Cay
Region 2 Board Of Directors
Region 2 Chapter VPPPA
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the VPP
So, you are interested in becoming a VPP Workplace. Do you have questions about the benefits
of VPP, the requirements of VPP, the application and on site evaluation process, and the
re-evaluation requirements? Are you aware of the benefits of membership in the Participants
Association, and how the Association can help you achieve VPP status? This session is an
opportunity to have your questions answered by experienced employees from VPP Star Worksites,
Special Government Employees, and OSHA officials.
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Construction Track
Room: Tus
Steven Dewey,
All Lifts, Inc
Albany, NY
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Chain Falls
Did you know that the manufacturers of manual chain falls require the inspection of the brake?
After performing the inspection, the manufacturer requires a load test of the hoist. Do your
overhead crane operators perform an inspection at the beginning of their shift? This workshop will
be an introduction to overhead crane components and the requirements for daily and annual
inspections. It will include information for not only overhead cranes, but the manual hoists and
lever pullers used in the construction industry.
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Hourly Track
Room: Cypress C
Dale Lesinski
Dival Safety
Buffalo, Ny
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Employee Safety Behavior, I'm Only Human
This session addresses the upstream struggle that safety professionals face trying to get employees
to adopt a safe behavior. We address human behavior and attempt to work with employees in
avoiding accidents by doing what comes naturally to them. This session will give you a fresh
approach and a fresh message to deliver to your employees.
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General Track
Room: Mohawk
John Debringer, John Debringer
Presentations
Galt ,GA
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Safety The Team Approach
In our culture, it’s uncomfortable to correct or criticize someone else’s behavior, which gets in
the way of employees helping each other. John’s fun and magical methods will help your
employees approach people in a positive way and deliver effective observations. Imagine the
result to your incident rate when all your employees serve as effective safety coaches for each
other.
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Health Track
Room: Birch
Bobby Green, CSP
Business Health Resources LLC
Greenwood Lake, NY
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The Hidden Causes of Strains and Sprains
As proven leaders in safety and health, you have made significant progress reducing injuries in
the workplace. However, for many, strain and sprain injuries remain a challenge. Reducing these
injuries requires an understanding of the relationship between body mechanics and cumulative
trauma. In the first portion of this session, we will discuss the role body mechanics plays in the
development of cumulative trauma and subsequently strain and sprain injuries. Next, we explore
how and why employees choose to use their bodies to perform their job tasks.
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10:00 AM-10:30AM
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REFRESHMENT BREAK-ONEIDA ROOM
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10:30am-12:00pm
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WORKSHOPS
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General Track
Room: Sen
David Batrony
Evans Roofing Company
Elmira, NY
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Job Hazard Analysis
This presentation addresses the job hazard analysis process, by discussing a roofing task at hand
and then describing any hazard that may be present or could be present while performing that
task. OSHA has been promoting this concept for some time as part of their education to
contractors. There are many ways to accomplish this process, which can include forms and
meetings. Once the JHA process is discussed, the presentation will walk the audience through a
roof project where as a group we will pick out specific hazards. We will then discuss the hazards
and fill out the appropriate forms and the abatement to be used to correct/eliminate the hazards
keeping the workers safe.
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VPP Excellence Track
Room: Ono
Judy Trent
DiVal Safety
Buffalo NY
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Our Safety Meeting Stinks
Is that what your employees are thinking? Delivering interesting and entertaining safety meetings
throughout the year can be very difficult. In many cases, the people responsible for
communicating the safety material have never been trained in public speaking, adult education,
or training communications. This workshop will give you several ideas that you’ll be able to use to
immediately impact your safety meeting. We will address the components that make meetings
successful, interesting, interactive, entertaining, and effective.
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VPP OSHA Track
Room: Cay
Todd Frace
Covanta Energy
Rahway NJ
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Innovative Safety Training Tips & Techniques
This workshop will guide participants through preparing, presenting and using safety training to
improve their organization’s safety performance. The major focus will be on ways to get the
employees attention and have them take safety training beyond the classroom. The workshop will
show many innovative examples of how to make safety training interesting and more effective.
The workshop will also show different means to train employees by the use of newsletters,
electronic bulletin boards, tailgates, etc.
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Construction Track
Room: Tus
Brian Bennett, PhD, CSP
Norman Deitch, OHST
EHS Excellence Consulting, Inc
Langhorne, PA
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Surviving the Arrested Fall
Is your fall protection program one that can be considered a best practice by OSHA’s Voluntary
Protection Programs (VPP)? Does it exceed the minimum OSHA requirements? Does it include a
rescue element? This workshop will provide a discussion by two experienced OSHA VPP
evaluators. The discussion will include examples of fall protection program weaknesses that
OSHA VPP evaluation teams have recognized in both general industry and construction worksites
as well as examples of those considered best practices will also be presented. It will also include
a detailed discussion of suspension trauma.
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Hourly Track
Room: Cypress C
Gary Higbee, CSP
Safe Start
Belleville, ONT
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Culture vs. Climate
We may all want to have a positive safety culture, but might be uncertain about what it really
takes to get there. There is no magic wand to wave and simply jump from your current safety
performance level to having a culture in your organization that elevates the functioning of your
safety program. It takes time and some work to achieve this goal. Your first action is to create a
climate where the safety effort can grow before you can effect a cultural change. In this session,
you will learn how to establish a safety climate that will be the basis for establishing a positive
safety culture.
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General Track
Room: Mohawk
John Debringer, John Debringer
Presentations
Galt ,GA
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Ensure your Safety
Safety isn’t boring when you know how to make it fun and have the tools to build a more
productive workplace with zero injuries to report. John will show you how to break through the
mindset of, “We have heard it all before” and help your employees take personal responsibility for
their safety on and off the job. Discover new skills to rekindle your team and regain their vision,
passion, and energy for helping others work safely while acknowledging their own accountability
for achieving results.
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Health Track
Room: Birch
Cathy Krueger
Glens Fall Hospital
Glens Fall, NY
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Cumulative Trauma Disorders and Ergonomics: Different Approaches to Address
Employee Discomfort
This topic will review the definition of cumulative trauma disorders and ergonomics. Examples
will be given on several different first aid and medical treatment approaches to address employee
discomfort and ergonomic complaints.
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12:00 PM-1:00PM
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LUNCH - ONEIDA ROOM
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WEDNESDAY-08:30-10:00am
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WORKSHOPS
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General Track
Room: Mohawk
Bill Margaretta
New Jersey Safety Council
Cranford, NJ
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Vision Testing - Safety’s Blind Spot
This program will explore the various elements of an occupational vision testing program.
Attendees will learn the components of safe sight as well as practical ways to implement a vision
testing program. This program will explore the components of visual testing and the safety risks
and rewards. This topic was the lead article in the February 2009 Occupational Safety and
Health magazine. A follow-up article will be published in June. Attendees will have fun
discovering interesting aspects of their own visual field.
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VPP Excellence Track -
Room: Sen
Stuart Mirowitz
William Taylor
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Pearl River, NY
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Improving an Effective Safety and Health Inspection Program
This workshop will highlight various aspects of an improved inspection program, using the PDCA
(Plan, do, check Act) model. Plans for improvement generated such as items revised training
program for those conducting the inspections, providing mentors for those who are new to
conducting inspections, revision of the inspection documentation and a detailed plan to ensure
that all areas of the 550 acre site is inspected.
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VPP/OSHA Track
Room: Ono
Brian Bennett, PhD, CSP
Norman Deitch, OHST
EHS Excellence Consulting Inc.
Langhorne, PA
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The Value of VPP
The Value of Participating in the VPP – Many companies interested in the VPP do not apply
because they are uncertain of the business benefits that they will realize when compared to their
perceptions of the cost and complexity of the program. This workshop will focus on the financial
and business benefits of the VPP, as well as those for the safety and health of the employees. It
will also include an introduction to the principles of a safety and health management system, the
VPP application process and subsequent VPP events.
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Construction Track
Room: Cay
Jeff Hutchens
Turner Construction
New York, NY
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The Shell Model
Turner recently completed construction on a control facility at a major refinery without the use of
ladders and without injury. Safety lessons learned, including the importance of preplanning, will
be discussed.
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Hourly Track
Room: Cypress C
Joe Cornell
Deb Root
Unison
Norwich, New York
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Employee Based Safety Circles
During EHS employee perception surveys and accident investigations it was apparent that our
employees did not accept ownership for injury prevention. The Unison Norwich EHS steering
committee felt that small groups of empowered employees could change that perception if
provided with training, tools and support. Our overall definition of a Safety Circle is a group of
5-8 employees from a department that self-inspects their department for regulatory requirements,
near miss situations, and observations of their peers for unsafe acts. The training program was
developed by members of EHS steering committee and approved by the plant manager to
explain how the Safety Circles function as an organization and expectations for their activities.
The Circles are supported by an hourly health and safety coordinator and a salaried employee.
Each Safety Circle makes a 15 minute presentation to the plant manager and his staff each
quarter on their accomplishments goals.
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Emergency Response Track
Room: Tus
Ed Jerome
OSHA
Albany, NY
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Planning for Workplace Emergencies and Evacuations
What employers must do to protect your employees, yourself and your business. This will include
a review of emergency action plans, rescue operations, training, OSHA requirements and
assistance.
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Health Track
Room: Birch
Jane Whitehouse, CIH, CSP
JWhitehouse & Associates, Inc.
Troy, NY
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How to Contract with an Industrial Hygiene Consultant
This presentation will provide information to help you determine if and when you need an
industrial hygiene consultant and how to best select and work with that consultant to meet your
company’s health and safety objectives. The session will guide you on how to define your
industrial hygiene needs and how to turn those needs into a scope of work for the industrial
hygiene consultant. We will talk about the pros and cons of the many choices you will need to
make in selecting and working with a consultant such as big or small consulting firm, lump sum or
time and materials, one time project or long term relationship and professional CIH or industrial
hygiene technician. We will also discuss where and how to locate an industrial hygiene
consultant and some of the common mistakes made in selecting and working with a consultant.
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10:00am – 10:30am
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Refreshment Break - Oneida
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10:30am – 12:00pm
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WORKSHOPS
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General Track
Room: Sen
Jason Snyder, Greg Taylor and
Ginny Keefer
Hollingsworth and Vose
Greenwich, NY
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Employee Involvement
This session will discuss an hourly driven safety committee and observation based safety process.
We will discuss how to empower hourly employees to take responsibility of their safety and the
safety of their co-workers. We will also discuss how to use safety trends to develop a lean focus for
a productive and effective observation including giving and receiving feedback.
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VPP Excellence
Room: Ono
Rainer Hoff, PhD
Gateway Consulting Group, Inc.
East Amherst, NY
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Management of Change Best Practices
Process Safety Management is crucial because its purpose is to prevent or minimize the
consequences of catastrophic releases of toxic, reactive, flammable or explosive chemicals.
Facilities that utilize potentially hazardous material and/or processes are required by law to
maintain a formal Management of Change (MOC) process. In most plants MOC has proven to be
a costly and inefficient process. Over the last five years Dr. Rainer Hoff has analyzed MOC
business processes at twelve major refineries and chemical plants in North America. Utilizing real
MOC data and process simulation models, Dr. Hoff has been able to isolate where process
inefficiencies typically occur and develop MOC Best Practices to circumvent the problems.
This presentation is a synopsis of a 2-day MOC Best Practices seminar presented regularly by Dr.
Hoff. Attendees will take away a set of action items that will be immediately applicable to
improving their MOC process.
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VPP/OSHA Track
Room: Cypress C
HAZCOM Compliance – Fact and
Fiction
Chuck Haling
MSDSonline
Chicago, IL
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HAZCOM Compliance – Fact and Fiction
The Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) is one of the most violated OSHA compliance
standards. While HCS aims to help keep workers safe, it has created a costly administrative
headache for companies trying to comply with it. Central to this challenge is managing a
compliant Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) library. This presentation will reveal the facts
about compliance guidelines for MSDS management systems, as well as demonstrate the
benefits of electronic MSDS management as it relates to employee safety, cost savings, and
reducing the risk/liability associated with meeting stringent compliance standards.
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Construction Track
Room: Cay
Brian Bennett, PhD, CSP
Norman Deitch, OHST
EHS Excellence Consulting Inc.
Langhorne, PA
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VPP In Construction
OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs is the premier program in the United States for
recognizing excellence in safety and health management. Recognizing that the construction
industry was under-represented in the Voluntary Protection Programs and accounted for a much
larger percentage of workplace injuries and fatalities as compared to general industry, OSHA, in
2005, designed the Mobile Workforce Demonstration for Construction Program. This program was
designed to overcome the obstacles that have prevented construction companies from
participating in the VPP and encourage more participation of construction companies, including
the smaller trades employers. Those obstacles include the fact that most construction projects are
too short to qualify for the VPP criteria of a minimum of 12 months of OSHA log statistics and the
limited site control of many construction companies.
The newly approved demonstration program provides a method for high performing construction
companies to obtain VPP participation for all of the company’s projects in a limited Designated
Geographic Area (DRG). That area is usually within the jurisdiction of a single OHSA Area Office
or Region. The actual DRG is agreed upon by both OSHA and the VPP applicant.
The requirements and application process for this program differ significantly from the standard
OSHA VPP. This workshop will present the principles of the demonstration program and the
specific requirements of the program.
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Hourly Track
Room:Tus
Joe Dolan, CSP, CHMM
Bob Morgan
John Bawiec
Tropicana Products Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
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Increasing Hourly Involvement in the VPP
Part 1 (45min) Maintaining Employee Involvement- How to continue to have levels of
participation after obtaining the VPP Star.
This session will demonstrate that the best safety and health management systems involve hourly
employees at every level of the organization.
Part 2 (45 min) - Union Perspectives on Employee Involvement in Safety - or Real Questions
Real Answers.
The second part of this presentation will be in the form of 20 actual questions that have been
asked by Union Hourly employees at our work site over the past several years.
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General Track
Room: Mohawk
Lola Miller, Tanya Aguglia, David
Doyle, John Olsen, Barry Regan,
Kirk Stallsmith
Georgia Pacific
Plattsburgh, NY
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Parking the “Luck Truck” with People, Principles and Processes
Even the best safety programs have an element of luck either preventing or creating an incident
free environment. Georgia-Pacific’s Plattsburgh operation has embraced the fundamentals of
Charles Koch’s Market Based Management philosophy, which helped him grow his company to
one of the largest privately owned companies in the world. MBM is a large set of ever-evolving
“mental models” that are organized by and interpreted through a framework of five
interdependent and mutually reinforcing dimensions: vision, virtues and talents, knowledge
processes, decision rights and incentives. The MBM Guiding Principles, which are a model
within the virtue and talents dimension, form the MBM culture and was our “Key” to parking the
“Luck Truck.” Join the GP Plattsburgh team as they explain how integrating this business
concept into safety has enabled them to regain their VPP Star Status and drive their safety
culture with People, Principles and Processes.
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Health Tracks
Room: Birch
Stephen Levin, MD
Mount Siani/J. Selikoff Center for
Occupational and Environmental
Medicine
New York, NY
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Health Hazards in Older Workers
A review of the common health hazards often associated with an older workforce.
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Lunch - Oneida
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1:00pm – 2:30pm
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WORKSHOPS
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General Track
Room: Sen
Jay Rohman
The Encouraging Safety
Organization
Troy, MO
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Encouraging a Culture of Safety
A culture defined in short is the totality of a society in regards to their beliefs, behaviors, and
outcomes. Whether facilities have in house employees, contract employees, or both, safety is a
must. An unsafe work environment costs money! To create the type of culture that promotes
positive safety consciousness, an organization must recognize certain requirements. This program
will focus on those four requirements: encouraging and empowering leadership; employee
involvement and commitment; accurate assessment for measureable return on investment; and
ongoing process of improvement.
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VPP Excellence Track
Room: Ono
Tim Dooley
Kevin Kasier
General Electric
Niskayuna, NY
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Supervisor Participation in VPP
This workshop will explain how supervisors participate in VPP implementation and support Health
and Safety programs at a large manufacturing site. The Health and Safety programs are drawn
from the experience of actual organizations and make it possible to address two key objectives:
strengthening management commitment and increasing supervisor involvement in the VPP
process. Examples of supervisor involvement, training programs and initiatives that have proven
effective in actively engaging a diverse, bargaining and non-bargaining staff will be discussed
during the workshop.
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VPP/OSHA Track
Room: Cay
Brian Bennett, PhD, CSP
Norman Deitch, OHST
EHS Excellence Consulting Inc.
Langhorne, PA
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Surviving Your Initial VPP Evaluation
Surviving Your Initial OSHA VPP On Site Evaluation – Worried about your upcoming initial VPP
evaluation from OSHA. This workshop will prepare attendees for their initial onsite VPP
evaluation. The speakers will discuss the evaluation process, from the opening conference
through the celebration. Time will be spent discussing how to prepare for and manage the
evaluation. It will address what written materials will likely be reviewed, what areas will be
focused on during the walk around inspection of the workplace and how to resolve issues, how to
prepare employees for the interviews, reviewing and responding to the draft report, all follow-up
actions, and planning for the VPP presentation celebration.
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Emergency Response
Room: Tus
Tom Aurelia
Turner Construction
Albany, NY
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Compressed Gas Cylinders: Sleeping Giants
Learn about the proper procedures for safe handling and storing of compressed gas cylinders.
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Hourly Track
Room: Mohawk
Doc Doherty
Infinium, Linden, NJ
Jim Miner
General Electric, Schenectady, NY
Joe Whalen
International Paper, Ticonderoga,
NY
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VPP - What's in it for Me?
Union representatives and other hourly workers share real life experiences and many years of
personal knowledge with the Voluntary Protection Program. Pros and cons, benefits and pitfalls
will be the primary focus of this workshop. Open forum and question and answer time is included.
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General Track
Room: Cypress C
Rick Recuparo
Cognisco
New York, NY
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Do You Know What Your Employees Think They Know About Safety?”
Assuring an employee will act and react in a safe manner given a job performance activity is key
in any safety program that reduces risk. Any employee can memorize a manual but
understanding it and knowing how to implement it is what reduces risk. We measure risk by
uncovering what employees understand misunderstand and what they do not understand about
their job responsibilities as well as how confident they are in what they think they understand.
With this information you can fine tune your training and stop an accident before it happens.
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Health Track
Room: Birch
Warren Silverman, MD
Access Health Systems
Latham, NY
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Disability Management
While many workplaces have seen the benefit or at least are aware of the benefits in managing
Workers’ Compensation injuries to control costs in such matters, the employees who are out with
medical conditions unrelated to work injuries are often ignored. Increasingly, it is recognized
that various levels of management for the disabled worker may offer significant financial benefits
to both the employer and the employee. Tools used for workers compensation may be useful for
such situations
This presentation will discuss the issues involved in the disabled worker, as well as strategies
being utilized to manage and control costs and loss. The justifications and procedures to be
considered will be discussed. Parallels to the workers compensation return to work programs and
other similar programs will be explored.
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2:30pm – 3:00pm
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Refreshment Break - Oneida
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Main Menu
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