| | KEYNOTE Perform Like a Champion
Aaron Davis, Aaron Davis Presentations, Inc.
8 am - 9 am, Basic - Advanced
Courage, mental toughness and the ability to change and adapt quickly are just a few characteristics that all champions possess. As a member of the Nebraska 1994 National Championship football team (considered by some as one of the best teams ever assembled), Aaron has a keen understanding of what it takes to achieve incredible results. Today's corporate environment is more competitive than ever before and it's those who are able to focus when others fold, who consistently stay at the top! Individuals will learn strategies to remain mentally tough in a competitive environment, be reminded of the importance of impeccable integrity and the power of passion. Plus, attendees will be encouraged to never lose the ability to laugh at themselves and to have fun, and will hear tips on how to adapt to change quickly while still enjoying the ride. |
| | Wednesday All Day Sessions |
| | B01 OSHA Compliance for the Scaffold Industry - DEMO
Doug James, Safway Services, LLC.
10 am - 5:30 pm, Intermediate
This course will provide OSHA Regulation Training for safety personnel and those who inspect and ensure scaffolds are OSHA compliant. Course will provide an overview of Federal OSHA Sub Part L (Scaffold) and each participant will receive a copy of the 29CFR 1926 Sub Part L Standards book. |
 | B02 Trench & Excavation Safety - DEMO
John Lindstrom, Hennepin Technical College
10 am - 5:30 pm, Basic
OSHA considers trenching and excavation to be the most hazardous of all construction activities. This course provides workers with an understanding of the hazards associated with work in trenches and how to eliminate them. Classroom and hands-on training in a simulated trench will be provided. |
| | Wednesday AM Sessions |
| | B03 Awakening the Leader in You (Repeat)
Bob McCall, Duke Power
10 am - 11:30 am, Basic - Advanced
Learn eleven keys to motivating your team and opening new avenues in your leadership style. Join Bob McCall as he takes you through his 23 years of leadership experience to help you unlock your leadership potential. Bob has worked in Nuclear, Fossil, Transmission, Distribution and Fleet. With more than 30 years in the industry, Bob has stories to share that will convince you to make the change in yourself that will bring about a change in your team. Bob’s goal for you is to “Make a better you, and good things will follow”. |
| | B04 Behavior Based Safety in Construction
Tim Palmer & Todd Stewart, Wanzek Construction
10 am - 11:30 am, Basic
The cornerstone of a proactive and successful safety culture is engaging and involving your employees at all levels in recognizing safe/at risk behaviors and providing employees a process to contribute to the overall safety success of your company. This session will demonstrate how an active employee observation and supervisor safety process will lead to project success and how you can get your safety program energized with their involvement. We will also discuss how to utilize the data and information you have collected to make improvements and action items in your safety system. |
| | B05 Continuous Improvement in VPP and Contractor Management
Erin Welken, John Deere and John Keller, Tesoro
10 am - 11:30 am, Intermediate
Part One: Have you ever wondered how John Deere continues to lead the way throughout the Agriculture industry? It is their commitment to Continuous Improvement that puts them above their competition. This session will give you an overview of their continuous improvement process and how they engage all employees to continuously improve their work area.
Part Two: The second half of this session will cover the logistics of having more than 2,000 personnel onsite to complete a six week plant shutdown. Items to be covered are PSM hazards, safety, work loading and overall TAR logistics. |
 | B06 Hearing and Hearing Protection in the Industrial Workplace
Brady Ness, Sanford West
10 am - 11:30 am, Intermediate
This course will include discussion on hearing and the effects of excessive noise on the ear. We will also cover annual monitoring of employees hearing, how to measure noise in the workplace, and the fitting and selection of noise protectors. |
| B07 Interpretation of Industrial Hygiene Sampling
George Gruetzmacher, UW Whitewater and UW Madison
10 am - 11:30 am, Basic
This course will review the full process of exposure assessment and interpretation following the AIHA exposure sampling strategy. These methods include considerations for the number of employees sampled, the variability of exposures, selection and adjustment of the occupational exposure limit, exposures where combinations of hazards are found, and other factors. Free software products will be identified and used to assist in making the assessments. Although useful to IHs, this course is specifically geared toward safety professionals, managers and employees who receive sampling results. The process of taking IH samples and measurements will not be discussed. |
| | B08 Leadership Made Simple
Aaron Davis, Aaron Davis Presentations, Inc.
10 am - 11:30 am, Basic - Advanced
Leadership is simple, but it's not easy. Aaron had the opportunity to be coached by one of the greatest college football coaches of all-time. Dr. Tom Osborne was the head football Coach at the University of Nebraska Lincoln for more than thirty-years. His winning percentage was more than 80% with three National Championships. What was more impressive was the legendary leadership style that he consistently modeled to his assistant coaches, players and administration. Why was his leadership style so successful? This presentation reveals the answers! Individuals will be reminded of the importance of transparency in leadership, that it's acceptable to treat people differently as long as you treat them equally and fair, and how the leader sets the tone not by words, but by consistent actions. |
| | B09 Teaching Supervisors to Coach for Performance (and be Safety Coaches)
Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety
10 am - 11:30 am, Intermediate
Managing for standardization and policy/procedure compliance does not inspire the vital discretional effort necessary for operational performance excellence. There is a vast difference in managing for compliance and coaching for performance. Supervisors influence worker behavior perhaps more than any other level in an organization. Yet most supervisors have not received formal training on coaching and effective performance feedback skills. Providing such training has proven to be a very effective measure to reduce incidents and improve quality in many organizations. For values (i.e., safety, quality, customer service) to become established in an organization, they must be reinforced by leaders at, or near the point of decision. Supervisors are in a unique position to facilitate the creation of a culture that focuses on safety excellence. Discover steps to take supervisors from cops to coaches, identify how to transfer these strategies throughout the workplace; ensuring more effective and results-oriented supervision methodologies. |
| B10 Workers' Compensation Fraud in North Dakota
Rob Forward, Workforce Safety & Insurance
10 am - 11:30 am, Basic - Intermediate
A brief overview of the Workers' Compensation system in North Dakota will be given, followed by a discussion of fraud investigations of employees, employers and medical providers. Specific case examples will be given. |
| | Wednesday PM Sessions |
| B11 Fall Protection - Authorized Worker
Dan Bergerson, Midwest Safety Consulting, Inc.
1:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Basic
This course offers an awareness of the issues involved with fall protection. A focus on the theory of fall protection and the need to protect workers at height highlights this informative seminar. Participants are introduced to the legislation governing fall protection as well as the components of a fall protection system including body holding devices, anchorages, connectors and rescue. This class will give you the needed information to work at heights safely. |
| | B12 Behavior-Based Safety: Dead, Alive or Failing to Thrive?
Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm, Advanced
Whether you like it, love it, or have never heard of it, behavioral safety processes have created value and controversy for thirty years. Multiple methodologies argue for a dominant position in the marketplace resulting in confusion, closely held secret magical formulas, and strengthening a dangerous resolve to do-it-yourself. This session provides insight into commonly-found misconceptions and approaches, enabling you to ensure your path leads to positive transformation, rather than failure. |
| | B13 Employee Involvement in VPP and Employee Recognition Programs
Deb Goetz, Gary Knutson & Patty Tangen, Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm, Intermediate
Presenters will share how they took their facility from “Ow” to “WOW” by changing their focus to more employee involvement in developing a culture of safety at their workplace. Through more employee awareness, involvement and recognition they saw their Workforce Safety Insurance rates go from having a high surcharge on their annual premium to a remarkable improvement of receiving a discount below the industry standard premium. |
| | B14 Getting to the Next Level of Safety Performance (Repeat)
Bob McCall, Duke Power
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm, Basic - Advanced
With more than thirty years experience in the utility industry, Bob McCall has developed a philosophy for getting a company’s safety performance to the next level. Three keys seem simple, but these keys will require Passion, Care, Leadership, Drive, Truth, Courage and Belief from all involved. These keys will take leaders and the organization on a journey of improvement that will last. |
| B15 GHS: Changes to the HazCom Standard
George Gruetzmacher, UW Whitewater and UW Madison
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm, Basic
OSHA published changes to the hazcom standard in the spring of 2012. After 20 years of work, the Globally Harmonized System for the Classification of Chemicals (GHS) is coming to the United States. This presentation will review those changes, as well as the basics of the new classifications, the changes to safety data sheets, and the new labeling requirements of GHS. |
| B16 Habituation and Complacency - Enemy Number One
Gary Higbee, Higbee & Associates, Inc.
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm, Intermediate
Habituation and complacency are constant problems because they diminish safety awareness. Some of the very things intended to raise awareness often only promote higher levels of complacency. Learn about the issues associated with habituation and complacency and how you might deal with them effectively. |
| | B17 Leadership Made Simple (repeat)
Aaron Davis, Aaron Davis Presentations, Inc.
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm, Basic - Advanced
Leadership is simple, but it's not easy. Aaron had the opportunity to be coached by one of the greatest college football coaches of all-time. Dr. Tom Osborne was the head football Coach at the University of Nebraska Lincoln for more than thirty-years. His winning percentage was more than 80% with three National Championships. What was more impressive was the legendary leadership style that he consistently modeled to his assistant coaches, players and administration. Why was his leadership style so successful? This presentation reveals the answers! Individuals will be reminded of the importance of transparency in leadership, that it's acceptable to treat people differently as long as you treat them equally and fair, and how the leader sets the tone not by words, but by consistent actions. |
| B18 Safe Lifting in the Medical Care Setting
Jessica Miller & Jeanne Dekrey, St. Alexius Medical Center
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm, Basic
This course will identify the recommended safe lifting weight limitations for health care workers. We will discuss how to educate workers on what the limitations are as well as how to identify the actual physical limits. We will summarize a Safe Patient Handling policy update which was made according to those recommendations and discuss how one medical facility has adopted safe handling equipment to meet the needs of staff in various areas, including nursing units as well as general medical areas. Finally, we will review how to use ongoing staff education to facilitate a climate change toward the use of safe handling equipment. |
| | B19 Beyond Compliance - The Human Factor
Gary Higbee, Higbee & Associates, Inc.
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Intermediate
It doesn't take us long before we realize that just meeting compliance requirements will not move an organization toward world class safety performance. Human performance, sometimes called human error, is a frustrating contributor in a great number of incidents. We are going to discuss what causes human error and what we can do to limit its effect. We will discuss how supervisors and coworkers can recognize and limit the components of human error. |
| | B20 Contractor Safety Performance: A Framework for Managing Expectations
Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Advanced
In this time of strategic outsourcing, many companies are using third parties and outside contractors to support various business operations. Assuring these third parties meet defined safety performance criteria can be extremely challenging. Do you hold contractors accountable for maintaining certain incident rates, or what they do to achieve them? How do you select contractors who are a good fit from a safety standpoint? Are your safety practices uniform, or are there different expectations for contractors and employees? Having a set system in place that establishes accountability is essential – but not always easy. You’ll learn how to improve communication, and the overall relationship, between contractors and your organization; proven approaches that work well with short- and long-term contractors; how to create a framework of clarity around safety excellence; why you need to look at safety performance, not just results; the nuts and bolts of a successful measurement system that provides vital leading indicators, indicating progress toward expectations; real-life examples of the tools, methodology, and language that have worked for other organizations; and goal-setting strategies that work: How to actually accomplish the recommended actions relating to the safety practices of your contractors. |
| | B21 Human Performance
Erin Welken, John Deere
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Intermediate
Have you wondered what the "missing link" may be in your safety program? Do you have humans with performance issues that lead to error? This session is intended to be a high level overview of Human Performance, including background, industries it has been used in successfully, and the intent of the program at John Deere. This session will challenge you as a safety professional to re-think some of the thoughts that can creep into your mind when seemingly "small" incidents continue to occur on your watch. |
| B22 Implementing Incident Command Operations
Stefan Salmonson, PROtective Services, Inc.
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Intermediate - Advanced
Now that you understand how the National Incident Management System is structured and operates, can you implement the related terms (C-FLOP), interface personnel/equipment and respond to scenarios requiring inter-department communications to survive natural, medical, industrial and terrorist events? This advanced presentation is a must for all first responders, in both the public and private sectors. A scenario, requiring participant involvement and/or interaction, will be included. |
| | B23 Getting Started with Behavior Based Safety
Joel Osbeck, Larson Manufacturing and Scott Holm, 3M Brookings
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Basic - Intermediate
Scott and Joel have worked together in safety and health for a number of years together and now at separate companies. Both share the attitude that employees will not intentionally perform unsafe acts unless they are influenced by an outside source that would cause them to make a poor decision. Join Scott and Joel to see how they address this topic successfully using different techniques. |
| | B24 Process Safety Management: Preventing Catastrophic Releases
George Gruetzmacher, UW Whitewater and UW Madison
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Basic
This basic introduction will outline the thirteen elements of the OSHA standard for process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals (PSM). PSM is a management system for preventing the catastrophic release of toxic or flammable chemicals. Inspired by catastrophes like the 1974 explosion and fire in Flixborough England killing 28 people, the 1984 Bhopal disaster killing thousands, and a series of explosions and fires in refineries in the US, the PSM standard establishes a systematic method of prevention. Everyone working at a PSM covered facility is affected by the program, including outside contractors. |
