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Concurrent Workshops - Round Two - Wednesday

Crane and Hoist Operation and Rigging - Part 1

Fall Protection plus What is New

Foundations of Workers Compensation

Green Beans & Ice Cream: The Definitive Recipe for Employee Engagement, Motivation, and Recognition

Hazards to Outdoor Workers

High Voltage Demonstration

Myths and Realities Concerning Mold Exposure

NFPA 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace

Safety and Your Staffing Partner

Safety Through Design: Machine Review

Simple, Straightforward, and Systematic Ergonomic Risk Reduction

911 Is Not the Answer

Speaker:          Barry Alexander
Location:         Nunn
Facilitator:       Lindsey Calendar

This workshop will discuss your role as the first responder with regard to Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and confined space emergencies. AEDs are an effective tool for saving lives during sudden cardiac emergencies. In the past year, 250,000 Americans died of sudden cardiac arrest, nearly one death every two minutes. Up to 50,000 of these deaths could have been prevented if someone had initiated the Cardiac Chain of Survival.

Confine Space Emergencies: Your Role as the First Responder. As one of the first to the incident, you are responsible for implementing the initial stages of emergency response. Your actions will directly affect the outcome of the response, and you are required to have certain competencies so that you are able to: 1) Recognize the need for confine space rescue; 2) Initiate contact and establish communications with victim where possible; and 3) Recognize and identify the hazards associated with non-entry confined space.

Speaker:         Mike Gibson, Ken Sheridan
Location:        Segell
Facilitator:      Kari Rudolph

Ken Sheridan and Mike Gibson will describe a systematic approach to safety culture change, which has brought Eon-US’s Energy Delivery group to near-zero recordable incidents. They will describe the steps to change through a "No Compromise" philosophy and the concept of "activation energy." Included in the discussion are lessons learned from their international, multi-cultural experiences with safety.

Speaker:          Randy Gray
Location:         Breathitt
Facilitator:       Jessica Parsley

The purpose of this workshop is to give employers, organized employee groups, and other interested parties, the essential basic information on how to conduct an accident investigation. The presentation reviews the essential tools and methods to follow, documentation needed to ensure a comprehensive investigation is performed, and how to prevent future re-occurrences.

Speaker:          Claude Gross
Location:         Brown
Facilitator:       Heather Scott

This workshop is designed to help integrate safety into all aspects of construction management including profitability, safety performance, and accountability. The causes of accidents, leadership commitment, action plans, and how to prevent accidents will be discussed.

Speaker:          Alison Randolph
Location:         Jones
Facilitator:       Jordan Wexler

A well planned worksite wellness program can improve multiple aspects of your workforce and business, such as improved employee health status, improved morale, reduced absenteeism, and healthcare cost containment. This workshop provides a brief overview of how to successfully start health promotion in a worksite setting and how to concentrate on a healthy heart initiative. Attendees will receive tips on how to design and implement a worksite wellness program. Some key points to be covered are state health trends, community resources, and program evaluations.

Speaker:          Art Rockwood
Location:         Stopher
Facilitator:       Matthew Kopecky

This session is for those persons responsible for maintaining injury and illness records. The forms 300, 300A, and 301 will be covered. The regulations and guidelines for recordkeeping will be discussed; and, if time permits, the compliance directive Kentucky OSH compliance officer will use to evaluate your records.

Speaker:          John W. Mann
Location:         McCreary
Facilitator:       Jared Renner

This presentation will give an overview of the Kentucky Workers' Compensation program with an emphasis on health and safety issues. Particular emphasis will be given to new developments in legislation and case law which have occurred since last year.

Speaker:          Grant Rowe
Location:         Taylor
Facilitator:       Josh Cope

With the expiration of the Wicker Amendment, there is much confusion and anxiety regarding OSHA enforcement of respiratory protection programs in healthcare facilities. This workshop will present the current regulations, highlight the key differences between the various types of respirators for healthcare workers, and educate the audience about product alternatives that do. After attending this workshop, the attendee will be able to establish an OSHA compliant respiratory protection program, assess and evaluate critical differences in the various respirators targeted toward healthcare workers, and select and implement respirators that do not require fit testing.

Speaker:          Joe Gierlach
Location:         French
Facilitator:       Jonathan Scott

The National Fire Protection Association Guidelines (NFPA) 70E require facility owners to perform an arc flash hazard analysis prior to allowing a worker to perform a task on energized equipment. The arc flash analysis identifies the presence and location of potential hazards and provides recommendations for PPE, boundaries for limited, restricted and prohibited approaches, recommendations for flash protection, and safe work practices. This session presents an overview of the ways your facility can comply with the NFPA, OSHA and NEC requirements.

Speaker:          Charles M. Sellards
Location:         Carroll Ford
Facilitator:       Brandon Griffith

This workshop introduces environmental, health, safety, and security professionals to combustible dust fire and explosion dynamics and terminology. Included is a review of recent incidents and discussion of hazard indicators, testing and assessment, data interpretation, mitigating and controlling hazards, applicable regulatory and consensus standards, resources and tools, and solutions.

Speaker:          Ted Buck
Location:         Morrow
Facilitator:       Erin Hampton

This workshop is designed to educate safety professionals on the benefits and advantages of vending machines in the industrial workplace. This program will navigate through the challenges faced today in dispensing critical personal protective equipment and the innovative solutions offered by Orr Safety's vending program. If you have ever needed documentation that verified who was issued equipment, when, and how much, then attend this informative workshop.

Speaker:          Al Abel , Lawrence Petkovsek
Location:         McCreary
Facilitator:       Melissa Seay

This is a crane and hoist operator and rigging workshop that will provide, to those involved in the lift, a review of safe practices to be used at all times. In the workshop participants will receive a worksheet, instruction, and will do an inspection of slings and hardware. Topics discussed will be: accident causation, rigging terms and risk management, prepare a lift from step one to step 14 (or more), review inspection criteria for slings, hardware and below the hook lifting devices, and procedures for lifting and moving the load. This workshop will assist participants in meeting compliance issues dealing with cranes and slings, review ASME B30.9 criteria for slings and ASME B30.26 for hardware (This is the first in a two workshop series. Part te will be presented in Round Four)

Speaker:          Richard Vaccaro
Location:         Taylor
Facilitator:       Maryanna Pendle

This workshop will cover what happens when you fall, the resulting forces that are generated, and how these forces are controlled. New equipment designed to address fall protection issues will be discussed. Also addressed will be the changes to ANSI Z359-2007, which requires changes in equipment, training, and field activities.

Speaker:          Dr. Michael Schumann
Location:         Segell
Facilitator:       Jerry Boyd

This workshop will cover the foundational theories of workers compensation law, including the history and development of our no-fault system. The trade-off between tort liability and workers compensation will be discussed. Further examination of the two pronged test of compensability ("arising out of" and "in the course of" employment) will be covered in depth. Legal doctrines, such as positional risk, peculiar risk, street risk, and increased risk will be explored. Concepts and theories such as acts of God, assaults, traveling employees, dual purpose trips, deviations from work, and horseplay will also be examined.

Speaker:          Bill Sims
Location:         Nunn
Facilitator:       Kevin Geidel

This workshop will explore the elements needed for a program that changes behavior without creating injury hiding. Participants will learn the pitfalls of focusing on injuries instead of safety achievements, the benefits of prevention-focused programs, and the danger of rewards not tied to specific behaviors. We will reenact the Herzberg experiment to confirm its findings and conduct a think tank for participants to share their experiences with injury hiding, abuse and favoritism and awards.

Speaker:          Brenda Jacklitsch, G. Scott Dotson, Kathleen MacMahon
Location:         Jones
Facilitator:       Leah Sallee

This workshop will present an overview of the hazards to outdoor workers, including physical, biological, and other hazards. Information about hazards such as environmental conditions, noise, lightning, ultraviolet radiation, vector-borne diseases, insects, and poisonous plants will be presented. The workshop will focus on mosquito and tick borne diseases and outdoor hazards that affect the skin, such as UV radiation, environmental conditions (i.e. temperature and humidity), poisonous plants, and certain chemical exposures. Recommendations for hazard prevention, worker protection, and treatment will be discussed.

Speaker:          Tim Tucker, Doug Mullins, Alan Sutton, Marcia Reisert
Location:         Carroll Ford
Facilitator:       Kasey Nussmeier

Electrical power lines are lifelines to the community, bringing safe energy to millions. But, there are times when high voltage lines can be a threat to life. This workshop offers a high voltage demonstration consisting of scenarios using commons items. The demonstration concludes when a sausage simulating human flesh contacts an energized line.

Speaker:          John Beltz
Location:         Breathitt
Facilitator:       Josh Read

Environmental mold exposure has been a hot topic for almost 10 years. Since exposure, sampling, and remediation of mold are mostly unregulated, there are many ways in which professionals (and non-professionals) view this issue. Research on the health effects of mold and mold metabolites is very incomplete, further muddying the waters. Due to this uncertainty, there is a lot of misunderstanding and fear regarding exposure to mold. This workshop will attempt to provide current information to help sort out “fact from fiction”.

Speaker:          Dave Rehm
Location:         Stanley
Facilitator:       Kyle Cutsail

This workshop will help you understand the basic steps necessary to comply with the NFPA 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, 2004 Edition. Topics include: understanding the hazards associated with electrical work - arc flash, arc blast, electric shock, implementation of the standard, PPE requirements, and employee training requirements. Materials will be provided for use in training at your workplace.

Speaker:          Travis Turchi
Location:         Stopher
Facilitator:       Lindsey Calender

This workshop will present objectives and solutions to working with staffing partners in all safety aspects. The staffing service takes on much of the recruiting, hiring, disciplinary action/termination, unemployment, and workers’ compensation activities. Some of the discussion areas include injuries, workers comp, exclusive remedy, OSHA involvement, injury reporting for the temporary workforce, safety training for the temporary workforce, worksite safety, and OSHA citations.

Speaker:          Steve Williams
Location:         Brown
Facilitator:       Jordan Wexler

Speaker:          Cindy Hung
Location:         French
Facilitator:       Alicia Mathis

Despite increasing effort and investment, many companies find that conventional, reactive approaches to ergonomics are not effective. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) and related compensation costs are not reduced rapidly enough. This workshop highlights simple techniques to systematically reduce ergonomic risks, accelerating workplace improvements and quickly leading to substantial improvements in health and safety metrics, as well as costs. Topics include effective approaches to ergonomics, critical success factors to maintain momentum, and real-world success stories.

Speaker:          Manuel Rodriguez
Location:         McCreary
Facilitator:       Justin Finan

This workshop will include a discussion of how to determine qualitatively and quantitatively if workers may be exposed to Cr(VI) concentrations that exceed applicable occupational exposure limits (OELs). We will then discuss how to determine who to sample and what sampling methods to use. An explanation of how to interpret and report the sampling results and what OELs to apply will be provided. In addition, the workshop will include guidance on what actions to take, based on the sample results, and a review of the OSHA standards and compliance guide.

Speaker:          Kathy Coffey, Ted Buck
Location:         French
Facilitator:       Richard Haehn

This workshop will visit the problems of properly managing your Hispanic /Latino employees and how to communicate even if you don't speak their language. We will look at the impact of the Hispanic labor force in Kentucky, discuss planning for the future, and look at cultural differences. This class is a site manager must. Stop shaking your head and pointing to the sky and take this light hearted class, packed with usable information such as English - Spanish Dictionary of Construction Words Most Commonly Used.

Speaker:          Cindy Hung
Location:         Breathitt
Facilitator:       David Grimes

Improved ergonomics create real value by lower workers’ compensation costs and enhanced productivity, quality, and revenue. This workshop highlights success stories that translate ergonomics improvements into ROI statements - demonstrating that ergonomic improvements lead to return-on-investments ranging from 1,475% to 5,746%. Improvement projects range from low-cost retrofits to significant investments, but the end result is the same - improved employee comfort and morale, coupled with cost savings that make bottom line sense.

Speaker:         Marcia Reisert, Tim Tucker, Doug Mullins, Alan Sutton
Location:        Carroll Ford
Facilitator:      Justin Kery

Electrical power lines are lifelines to the community, bringing safe energy to millions. But, there are times when high voltage lines can be a threat to life. This workshop presents a high voltage demonstration consisting of scenarios using commons items. The demonstration concludes when a sausage simulating human flesh contacts an energized line.

Speaker:          Rae Lynn C. Whitehouse, Frederick G. Huggins
Location:         Nunn
Facilitator:       Jay white

This workshop provides an overview of inspection procedures and policy used by the Division of Compliance and the contest procedures from the OSH Review Commission. The presenters will share updates on policy within the Division of Compliance, including any new standards and emphasis programs. Also presented will be an overview of the role the Review Commission plays in this process and the employer's legal rights.

Speaker:          Mike Bagley, Jack Tussey, John Thomas
Location:         Taylor
Facilitator:       Brandon Griffith

This workshop covers the safe operation of mechanical and hydraulic power presses. The presenters will describe the requirements of the KYOSH Program regulation, 29 CFR 1910.217. Topics of discussion will include guarding, two-hand controls, foot controls, light controls, and inspection of presses.

Speaker:          Steve Riley, Nannette Edwards, Allen Adams, CUSA
Location:         Brown
Facilitator:       Andrew Renn

This presentation will overview OSHA's Excavation standards. This workshop will provide information on how MSD implements the requirements of the standard and MSD's shoring methods.

Speaker:          Jimmy York
Location:         Segell
Facilitator:       Tm Sholar

This workshop will discuss how perception affects behavior, factors that affect our thinking, ideas to mitigate those factors, and how to keep focused. The material uses video clips in a way that is entertaining and reminds us safety is everyone's responsibility. This workshop will present safety in a little different light, in a way that adds understanding and value. The ideas presented in this workshop can be used to enhance any safety program.

Speaker:          Steve Eckhoff, Wayne Crowder
Location:         Stopher
Facilitator:       Nicholas Ekert

Learn from the best during National Youth Traffic Safety Month. America's Road Team Captains, professional truck drivers with millions of accident-free miles, will discuss how to reach out to teen drivers regarding safe driving habits. They will also touch on important issues like texting while driving, safety belt use, distracted driving, speeding, and aggressive driving.

Speaker:          Susan Draper, Randy Gray
Location:         Stanley
Facilitator:       Josh Cope

The employee misconduct defense states that when an employee is negligent or creates a violation by not following established training, instruction, and/or procedure, the employer can assert an affirmative defense by showing. This workshop will give an overview of what the employee misconduct defense is and the four elements that an employer must meet. Does the employer have an effective S&H Program designed to prevent the violation or procedure? Does the employer have an effective training program / instructions for the procedure? Does the employer have a means of discovering violations of the procedure? Does the employer have a means of enforcement of their safety rules and procedures?

Speaker:          Tanis Marquette
Location:         Jones
Facilitator:       Chloe Buchhotz

Speaker:          Meg Phillips
Location:         Brown
Facilitator:       Heather Scott

In late 2007, the American National Standards Institute published its new Z359 set of standards that explain minimum requirements for a comprehensive managed fall protection program and important changes in the manufacturing of equipment. The objective of this workshop is to summarize and clarify the 200-page document, which can be challenging to read and process, but is crucial for implementation. Key topic areas include changes to gate strength, roles/responsibilities, anchorage loads and certification, fall protection procedures, and fall rescue.

Speaker:          Barry S. Spurlock
Location:         Coe
Facilitator:       Chloe Buchhotz

This session is designed to help safety professionals measure their organization's safety efforts with leading measures and drive superior safety performance. This presentation provides strategies for develop