Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 3-Feb - 1 Day / .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
This is an intensive review of essential math skills. This workshop is specifically designed for those preparing for certification examinations (ASP, CSP, CHST, OHST) and needing a hands-on review of essential skill areas. Learn
• Conversions - SI and English conversions of mass, length and time
• Dimensional analysis - multi-step conversions (e.g., converting miles per hour to feet per second, pounds to micrograms)
• Number manipulation - exponents, scientific notation, significant digits, answer accuracy and rounding and logarithms
• Shapes and formulae - area, circumference and volume of rectangles, triangles, circles, trapezoids, cubes and cylinders
• Graphing - two dimensional graphing of linear, exponential, trigonometric and logarithmic functions
• Algebra - laws and concepts, word problems
• Trigonometry - right angles, trigonometry functions and word problems
• Operation of a scientific calculator
Calculators: Attendees will be provided the scientific calculator TI-30X IIS in the Math review workshops.

Instructor(s): C David Langlois, CSP Michael Weigand, CSP Langlois, Weigand & Associates, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA.

Start Date: 4-Feb, End Date: 6-Feb - 3 Days / 2.1 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This workshop will prepare you for the BCSP's Safety Fundamentals Examination, which leads to the ASP designation. You will review more than 350 problems addressing all four sections covered by the exam. Learn to
• Determine whether you are ready to attend the Safety Fundamental Examination
• Obtain answers to questions about Fundamentals Exam materials
• Identify areas where additional preparation is needed
• Become familiar with resources available to prepare for the exam
• Utilize information about certification requirements and scoring procedures in your test preparation
• Review content material utilizing a testing format
Calculators: Attendees will need to use scientific calculator TI-30X IIS in the Math, ASP, CSP, and OHST workshops. These calculators will be included in the cost of and provided in the Math Review seminar. ASP, CSP and OHST attendees that do not attend the Math Review seminar may bring their own TI-30X IIS calculator or purchase one at the SeminarFest registration desk.

Instructor(s): C David Langlois, CSP Michael Weigand, CSP Langlois, Weigand & Associates, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA.

Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 3 Days / 2.1 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This workshop is designed to prepare individuals for the Comprehensive Practice Examination leading to certification as a CSP. The workshop consists of lectures, sample problems, and discussions on a variety of subjects essential to prepare the student for the exam. Learn
• Concepts of probability, statistics and basic sciences
• Engineering: safety and environmental, occupational health, fire protection
• Applied management principles, ergonomic analysis, risk management
• Workers' Compensation
• Legal/regulatory and issues in safety, health, environment and security
Calculators: Attendees will need to use scientific calculator TI-30X IIS in the Math, ASP, CSP, and OHST workshops. These calculators will be included in the cost of and provided in the Math Review seminar. ASP, CSP and OHST attendees that do not attend the Math Review seminar may bring their own TI-30X IIS calculator or purchase one at the SeminarFest registration desk.

Instructor(s): Michael Weigand, CSP, Langlois, Weigand & Associates, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA

Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 3 Days / 2.1 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This seminar provides CHST education and experience requirements and over 200 questions addressing the eight areas to be covered by the exam. Learn
• Safety program management and administration
• OSHA regulations and inspections
• Training and orientation
• Hazard communication
• Inspections and audits
• Job hazard analysis/pre-job planning
• Accident investigation
• Recordkeeping requirements

Instructor(s): Steve Pereira, CSP, President, Professional Safety Associates, Denham Springs, LA

Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 3 Days / 2.1 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This seminar will help identify potential problem areas, recommend resources available to prepare for the exam, explain certification requirements and scoring procedures, review content material utilizing a testing format, and minimize test shock. Learn
• Fundamentals: calculator, mathematics, statistics, chemistry, physics
• Engineering technology
• Basic and applied sciences
• Law, regulations and standards
• Control concepts
• Pre-event survey and inspection techniques
• Post-event Investigation
• Data computation and recordkeeping
• Education, training and instruction
Calculators: Attendees will need to use scientific calculator TI-30X IIS in the Math, ASP, CSP, and OHST workshops. These calculators will be included in the cost of and provided in the Math Review seminar. ASP, CSP and OHST attendees that do not attend the Math Review seminar may bring their own TI-30X IIS calculator or purchase one at the SeminarFest registration desk.

Instructor(s): C. David Langlois, CSP, Langlois, Weigand & Associates, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA

Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 5-Feb - 3 Days / 2.1 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This seminar provides a foundation of fundamental elements and techniques for managing an effective safety system. Through examples, case studies and other resources, you will take away a framework for an effective safety management system that can be implemented in your organization. Learn
• Techniques to establish accountability for safety efforts
• Effective, proven system elements of a safety management system
• Strategies for each element
• Sample policy statements and performance standards to assist the management team in carrying out its safety responsibilities
• Approaches to selling safety to various levels in the organization
• Moral, financial, and legal responsibilities to today's safety professional
• Strategies to control workers' compensation costs
• How to budget for a safety management effort

Instructor(s): Joel N. Tietjens, CSP, CSHM, President, T-JENS & T-JENS, Inc., Spring, TX

Start Date: 6-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This seminar may be taken as a continuation of Safety Management I or as a stand-alone seminar for those who wish to strengthen an existing safety management system. Safety Management ll attendees will use case studies to learn measurement techniques with recommendations for implementation. Learn
• How to fulfill the expectations of your organization related to the expanded roles of today's safety professional
• Effective safety auditing
• To recognize how the ADA and other strategic management efforts impact the safety management system
• Preparation for a deposition
• Analysis of the ethics of safety-related matters
• How to reinforce safe behavior in your organization
* Please bring to class 1) a copy of a safety policy, 2) a copy of several safety rules, or 3) a one or two-page memo on your company's safety policy or rules.

Instructor(s): Joel N. Tietjens, CSP, CSHM, President, T-JENS & T-JENS, Inc., Spring, TX

Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 8-Feb - 1 Day / .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
OSHA recently published major modifications to its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to align with the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). In this seminar, you will learn how these changes can affect your organization, and what actions you need to take to your operations to keep your organization compliant.

Learn to
• Assess your workplace program to determine what needs to be done to comply with the modified requirements
• Implement HazCom 2012 to address chemical safety and health conditions in your workplace

Instructor(s): Jennifer Silk, Occupational Safety and Health Consultant, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Start Date: 9-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 1 Day / .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
As safety professionals advance in SHE management, as corporate departments streamline, or as safety professionals incorporate risk management techniques into their safety practice, an understanding of environmental laws and regulations is necessary. While there are numerous federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations covering a vast array of topics, in this seminar you will be focusing on the most relevant federal laws and regulations: the Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; Emergency and Community Right to Know Act; Toxic Substance Control Act; and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. Learn to
• Communicate the basic operation, intent and requirements of the environmental laws and regulations most relevant to the safety professional
• Identify corporate and individual risks and liabilities associated with the environmental laws and regulations discussed in this seminar
• Implement steps to assist your organization comply with these environmental laws

Instructor(s): Neil A. Feldscher, CIH, CSP, Esq., Chief, EHS Compliance, NYC Environmental Protection, Bureau of Engineering Design & Construction, EHS Compliance Directorate, Corona, NY

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
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Environmental assessment remediation_Getchell_0911Z
Environmental site assessments_hansen_040501

Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 5-Feb - 3 Days / 2.1 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This seminar is for the safety professional who is facing the challenges of management responsibility in the corporate world. If you have recently joined the corporate management team or would like to enhance your business skills, this seminar will provide you with the steps to success in these areas. You will also learn how to make safety a key function of the overall business process of your organization. Learn to
• Design your safety management system to support the business objectives of your corporation
• Most advantageously position the safety function in your corporate structure
• Obtain management and non-management support for your safety responsibility
• More effectively conduct industry safety networking
• Use proven techniques to negotiate in the business world
• Adopt the working habits of highly effective safety professionals
• Benchmark your organization's safety and health system
• Make appropriate adjustments to your safety effort in response to corporate mergers, downsizing, rightsizing, and reorganizing Instructors

Instructor(s): Samuel Gualardo, CSP, President, National Safety Consultants, Inc., Salix, PA

Start Date: 6-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This seminar is designed to support your efforts in assessing the effectiveness of your system and gaining recognition for it. The curriculum will guide you in the evaluation, measurement and demonstration of the outcome of a safety management system. Learn to
• Evaluate methods for assessing the performance of a safety management system
• Consider various approaches to safety management and discuss how they may benefit your organization
• Implement a process that will enable you to continuously measure the effectiveness of your safety management efforts
Seminar Content
Evaluating safety program performance
• Evaluating safety management approaches and techniques
• Integrating safety management in the management process
• Critical management activities
Exploring Safety Management Approaches
• Human behavior
• Zero incidents
• Six Sigma
• International system standards
• VPP as a model
• Critical management activities
• Managing safety for profit
• Return on investment
Demonstrating Safety System Effectiveness:
• Measuring and interpreting results
• Developing leading indicators
• Developing safety design standards for new processes, equipment and systems
• Developing corporate-wide standards
• International system standards

Instructor(s): James "Skipper" Kendrick, CSP, President, Kendrick Global Enterprises LLC Thomas Cecich, CSP, CIH, President, TFC and Associates, Apex, NC

Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
The safety professional aspiring to a higher position has an increased scope of authority that includes health and environmental exposures. This seminar explores the areas of activity outside of accident prevention for the safety professional ready to assume responsibility for the health and environmental challenges within their organization.

Learn to
• Discuss major causes of occupational illness
• Consider practical approaches for reducing the incidence of occupational illness that can be implemented in your organization
• Recognize the most common environmental concerns and consider possible solutions for each
• Discuss the relationship between the environmental issues and the overall safety and health system
Seminar content
• Environmental liability exposures
• Occupational health risks
• Implementation and management of ergonomics
• Risk assessment process
• Waste management
• Environmental considerations
• Regulatory dealings
• Managing major losses
• Process safety management

Instructor(s): Joel N. Tietjens, CSP, CSHM, President, T-JENS & T-JENS, Inc., Spring, TX Thomas L. Roberts, CSP, CIH, CHMM, President, Occupational & Industrial Health, Systems, Inc., Nacogdoches, TX

Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 5-Feb - 3 Days / 2.1 CEUs

Seminar Description:
With career growth, the safety professional increases interaction with the senior management team. There is an expectation that the safety professional needs the knowledge of all aspects of the organization's operations in order to more effectively integrate a safety system into the company's business. This seminar is designed to support those challenges. Learn to
• Practice techniques that will enhance your ability to manage the business aspects of your safety effort
• Interface more readily with other areas of your organization that can support your efforts
• More effectively communicate the results of your safety program with senior management
Seminar Content
• Business Communication
• Writing Safety Procedures
• Strategic Planning
• Business Ethics
• Financial Management
• Business Statistical Analysis
• Acting as a Consultant to Your Organization
• Human Resource Management
• Risk Management
• Insurance and Claims Management
• Legal Liability
• Contract Language
• Crisis Management
• Corporate Security
• Developing Corporate Systems for Training, Education, and Resource Information
• Building Trust Throughout the Organization

Instructor(s): James "Skipper" Kendrick, CSP, President, Kendrick Global Enterprises LLC

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Start Date: 6-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
Maximizing safety performance excellence can only be accomplished when line managers accept and own the safety responsibility. This seminar will assist safety professionals and practitioners in their efforts to create an environment where their role and the role of the line management team can be enhanced to produce safety performance excellence. Learn to
• Train line managers on the techniques they must utilize to effectively execute their safety responsibility
• Implement a strategy to assist their organization in improving its safety culture
• Take steps toward achieving safety performance excellence based upon the critical elements necessary for reaching this goal
• Practice common and contemporary safety management approaches and work toward achieving senior management commitment to safety

Instructor(s): Samuel Gualardo, MA, CSP, President, National Safety Consultants, Inc., Salix, PA

Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
You will learn the latest methods in measurement as applied to safety management systems. You will examine the proper application and limitations of various safety metrics, determine measurement priorities, learn about communicating with management through leading measurement systems, and identify methods for using measurement as a powerful driver of safety performance. Learn to
• Distinguish the roles leading and trailing indicators play in effective safety management systems
• Recognize key steps in utilizing leading measures and metrics
• Use basic safety metrics calculations and tools
• Develop a leading measures implementation strategy specific to your organization
• Identify pitfalls in establishing performance measurement systems
• Prepare a report for senior management using leading safety metrics

Instructor(s): Earl Blair, Ed.D., CSP, Associate Professor & Program Director, Safety Management, Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Barry S. Spurlock, Esq., CSP, CEO - Consultant, Spurlock & Higgins LLC, Louisville, KY

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Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 3-Feb - 1 Day / .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Risk management is a critical a part of every organization's management process and the principles of this discipline are valuable for the safety professional's efforts. There are some important commonalities for risk management and safety and additional areas of focus in risk management including financial and operational tools that will help safety better align with organizational goals. This overview of risk management is designed to assist safety professionals learn the risk management process and better integrate the safety program with their organization's risk management function. Learn to
• Prioritize your organization's pre-loss and post-loss objectives
• Identify and analyze liability, property and net income exposures and their impact on your organization
• Understand the link between accident/loss experience and the cost of insurance, retention and risk transfer mechanisms.
• Apply the risk management process to tactical and strategic issues

Instructor(s): Philip E. Goldsmith, CSP, ARM, Deputy Chief, Risk Management, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Start Date: 4-Feb, End Date: 4-Feb - 1 Day / .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Market forces are influencing companies to incorporate workplace safety and health performance into their sustainability goals. Although the US business community has been slower to embrace sustainable development and manufacturing than their European counterparts, there is now significant change afoot in the United States and safety and health will have a role in this movement. Join is this seminar to learn the concepts underpinning sustainability and how your organization can construct a sustainability model. Most importantly, you will gain insight on how safety and health will be impacted and also realize opportunities from this emerging trend in business. Learn to
• Strategize your safety efforts to build in safety's role in sustainable performance
• Influence your organization's sustainability goals and performance in the areas of safety performance (safe working conditions) for employees and supply chain contractors
• Contribute to your organization's sustainability efforts related to product safety, renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions, product packaging initiatives and external product and internal recycling programs with hazardous materials implications

Instructor(s): Kathy A. Seabrook, CSP, CMIOSH, President, Global Solutions, Inc., Mendham, NJ

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
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Start Date: 5-Feb, End Date: 6-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
All accidents, injuries, illnesses and near-miss incidents should be investigated to determine the cause(s) so that appropriate corrective (remedial) action can be taken to prevent similar events. In addition, OSHA has requirements for investigating certain job-related injuries and illnesses. Under OSHA1910.119 Chemical Process Safety Management Standard, all incidents that did or could have resulted in the catastrophic release of highly hazardous chemicals or catastrophic explosions must be investigated by a team within 48 hours. Learn to promptly conduct thorough investigations and identify root cause(s) of the event. Learn to
• Interview witnesses and gather facts
• Identify the injury or loss event, the accident event and preceding events associated with the incident
• Draft a report and document, preserve and maintain chain of custody of photos and critical evidence
• Use a causal factors guide to identify all possible causes of the incident and subsequent corrective (remedial) action
• Set up a system for tracking outstanding recommendations
• Document and handle unrelated but important information uncovered in the investigation

Instructor(s): Steven P. Pereira, CSP, President, Professional Safety Associates, Denham Springs, LA

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Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 1 Day / .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
The concept of transformational leadership was introduced by leadership experts James Burns, Bernhard Bass and B.J. Avolio. According to Burns, transformational leadership can be seen when "leaders and followers make each other advance to a higher level of morale and motivation." Through the strength of their vision, transformational leaders are able to inspire followers to change expectations, perceptions and motivations to work towards common goals. In this session, you will explore this concept one step further and learn to apply this powerful leadership approach to achieve safety excellence. You will also gain insight into the potential disastrous consequences, if leadership fails. Learn to
• Align transformational leadership concepts with safety outcomes
• Effect a value change in your organization's work teams
• Influence employee behaviors for better safety performance
• Distinguish between safety management and safety leadership

Instructor(s): Corrie Pitzer, President, Safemap International, Vancouver,

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Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 8-Feb - 1 Day / .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
This seminar is intended to provide an overview of the OSHA standards related to fall protection in the construction industry. The focus will be placed upon the information needs of those safety professionals responsible for the direct supervision of affected operations or those who oversee contractors. Learn to
• Develop and implement an effective fall protection program
• Determine the best methods for protecting employees
• Identify and take steps to comply with the requirements of the relevant OSHA standards
• Identify which OSHA standards have fall protection requirements
• Recognize the difference between fall arrest, restraint and positioning systems, and fall prevention and fall protection
• Conduct training as required by OSHA standards
• Discuss how OSHA enforces the fall protection standards

Instructor(s): Kimlee Lindgren, OSHA Training Institute, Boston, MA

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Start Date: 9-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
The importance of safe crane and rigging operations cannot be overstated. Through detailed analyses, it has been determined that most crane-related incidents could have been prevented had their safe use been considered at a pre-job meeting. It is imperative that everyone involved in crane activities proceed with extreme care and adequate training. This seminar will provide an overview and key resources to adequately prepare for safe crane operations. Learn to
• Apply OSHA and ANSI/ASME standards to crane safety practices
• Identify the types of cranes most frequently used and the safety practices effective for each type
• Assess crane management for risks associated with assembly/disassembly, inspection and maintenance, rigging principles and pre-lift plans
• Evaluate crane operators for compliance with requirements, qualifications, responsibilities, and accountability for crane operation safety

Instructor(s): Kimlee Lindgren, OSHA Training Institute, Boston, MA

Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 4-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This seminar has been revised to cover the updated 2012 edition of NFPA 70E electrical safety and arc flash requirements. You will learn to meet OSHA and NEC standards and implement an electrical hazard-control and management program for your organization. Learn to
• Describe engineering design and management requirements and practices including application of the 2012 National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 70E electrical safety requirements
• Discuss the basic principles of electricity, including basic circuitry and electrical units and engineering controls
• Identify hazards of electricity to the human body
• Explain general requirements for electrical installations, wire design and protection, and hazardous locations
• Apply safety-related work practices for energized systems, including the assignment of protective clothing, other personal protective equipment (PPE), and approach and flash boundaries utilizing NFPA 70E and IEEE 1584 arc flash calculations
• Implement training requirements for qualified persons
• Establish an electrical safety program
• Demonstrate skills learned through hands-on laboratory sessions on basic principles, reverse polarity, risk assessment, and PPE/personnel protection assignment based on shock and arc flash potential.

Instructor(s): Paul A. Zoubek, CSP, CIH, Principal, Zoubek Consulting, LLC, San Diego, CA

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Start Date: 5-Feb, End Date: 5-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Risk assessment and implementation of engineering control methods are essential to worker safety from machine hazards. In this seminar, you will learn how to perform a machine safeguarding risk assessment using ANSI B11 and implement engineering control methods to achieve acceptable risk. Learn to
• Identify types of machine hazards to recognize the need for risk assessment
• Utilize ANSI B.11 "hands-on" approach to identify and correct hazards
• Implement a risk assessment protocol used globally by companies
• Provide guidance on machine safeguarding control methods under ANSI and OSHA recommendations in order to achieve acceptable risk to employees and machine operators
• Employ safeguarding methods using guard and device options

Instructor(s): Paul A. Zoubek, CSP, CIH, Principal, Zoubek Consulting, LLC, San Diego, CA

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Start Date: 6-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This is an overview of the elements involved with the field of Industrial Hygiene. Learn hazard recognition, evaluation, and control for the participant who is either beginning in the field or in need of an overview refresher course. Practical hands-on case studies will be utilized in developing sampling strategy, sampling methods and use of control measures. A basic review of industrial hygiene equipment and current regulatory requirements will be addressed. Learn
• The role of industrial hygiene; PEL vs. TLV; Toxicology vs. hazard; Instrumentation
• Evaluation strategies; Control measures; Indoor air quality; Industrial hygiene reports/calculations

Instructor(s): Thomas L. Roberts, CSP, CIH, CHMM, President, Occupational & Industrial Health Systems, Inc., Nacogdoches, TX

Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 8-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
You can improve performance effectiveness and efficiencies in your organization's SH&E program by identifying gaps and implementing a custom ANSI Z10 system. In this seminar, you will receive a complimentary copy of the ANSI Z10 2012 standard and learn how to best implement it to achieve a higher level of safety results. Learn to
• Implement and explain the ANSI Z10 standard including the mandatory requirements
• Integrate the Z10 standard with other systems such as the ISO 14000, OHSAS 18001 or OSHA VPP
• Apply tools and resources to develop a policy statement, conduct reviews, establish objectives and perform audits that comply with the standard
• Align this standard with the organization's efforts for sustainable growth and social responsibility

Instructor(s): James Howe, CSP, Chair of ANSI Z10, Safety Solutions, Medford, OR

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
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Start Date: 9-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
What gets measured gets managed. This statement is true in safety. The Balanced Scorecard System is a management system that can provide a new approach to measurement of safety program effectiveness. The Balanced Scorecard system provides a clear vision of the status of an operation and translates that vision into actions that facilitate identification of improvement in safety results. Using this system, you will learn to organize benchmarks in four perspective categories, learning and growth, business process, customer and financial. Using these four perspectives, you will learn to establish metrics that can be collected and analyzed on a continual basis to achieve a more meaningful metric for measurement of safety improvements. Learn to
• Define the Balanced Scorecard management system and describe its application to safety management
• Implement the Balanced Scorecard management system to measure the effectiveness of your safety and health program

Instructor(s): Terry Mathis, CEO, ProAct Safety, The Woodlands, TX

Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 4-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
Every organization needs a variety of hazard recognition techniques (as many as 20 to 25 different techniques), to be reasonably assured that the majority of hazards are found. In this seminar, you will learn a variety of techniques including: job hazard analysis, the multi-step planning process, the 10 second drill, out-of-view observations, permitting, new equipment reviews, blue print reviews, safety-by-design, and more. Learn to
• Use a variety of hazard recognition methods
• Select the appropriate hazard recognition method for your organization
• Establish a management system that develops, implements and audits routinely the various hazard recognition techniques needed
• Train your workforce on a variety of techniques for hazard recognition

Instructor(s): David F. Coble, MS, CSP, President, Coble, Taylor & Jones Safety Associates, Cary, NC

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Start Date: 5-Feb, End Date: 5-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
The great safety program you are implementing for your organization can't be done alone. You need the support of leaders at all levels of your organization and the buy-in of your workforce. The solution is - clout and requires a new set of competencies including political savvy. In this seminar, you will learn how to navigate a political roadmap through your organization. Learn to
• Recognize how politics currently play out in your workplace
• Inventory your political status in your organization
• Employ techniques to influence those in power in your organization and increase your clout
• Integrate your role as a safety professional in the political network in your organization
• Use your internal political connections to negotiate for greater support of your safety efforts

Instructor(s): Mark Hansen, P.E., CSP, CPE, CPEA, Director Portfolio Environmental and Risk Management, Natural Gas Partners, Irving, TX

Start Date: 6-Feb, End Date: 6-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Errors in the workplace are often the result of human factors at the organizational, supervisory and front-line level of the company. An innovative method for managing these threats is the HFACS so that accurate analysis and tracking can be conducted and effective intervention programs can be developed. In this workshop, you will learn to implement the HFACS and employ this method to analyze human error in complex systems for more successful safety management. Learn to
• Quantify and track human factors associated with accidents, incidents, and near-misses
• Develop data-driven interventions targeting specific forms of human error and those human factors that drive them
• Implement a safety system that recognizes not only what went wrong, but also "what went right" to achieve a more effective safety effort

Instructor(s): Scott A. Shappell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Clemson Univeristy, Cleamson

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Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
The greatest challenge to a construction safety professional is managing a safety effort that is conducted through contractors. This is an environment where authority is an issue. In this seminar, you will learn the unique techniques and tools that have been effective in implementing a successful contractor safety program. Learn to
• Engage the management team and facilitate the leadership process through 14 safety principles and several safety models that drive behaviors and systems
• Implement techniques and tools that position the management team to lead safety rather than react
• Develop a systems approach to safety management that utilizes a partnership approach to safety
• Introduce a safety metrics program that leads project teams to higher levels of safety performance
• Evaluate and select contractors based on potential as well as actual safety performance
• Develop cost-effective contract language/safety specifications that drive world-class project management behaviors
• Steward and report safety in a manner that builds on proactive activities as well as traditional measured results

Instructor(s): Jack Toellner, P.E., CSP, MPH, Lead Safety Advisor - Training/Special, Projects, ExxonMobil Development Company, Houston, TX

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Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 8-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
CEOs want their safety and health professionals to easily integrate with colleagues across all spectrums of the business and able to design and execute business strategy. In this seminar, you will learn the business partnering model, re-framing safety and health to a value-add function and collaborator in your organization. You will explore the world of business partnering, learning from models established by safety organizations that have re-positioned themselves for success using this approach. Leave this session with a new vision of how safety should be delivered to your organization, and be ready and equipped to transition from being transactional to transformational. Learn to
• Combine technical and consulting knowledge to establish a gateway for business partnering with your organization
• Practice the ten internal consulting competencies that are the framework for business
• Apply a researched and proven eight-step consulting process model to align safety with the business goals of your organization

Instructor(s): Katherine A. Hart, Ed.D., CSP, Founder and Principal, ClearVision Consulting, Alameda, CA

Start Date: 9-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Coaching skills, the ability to work with an individual (employee or leader), group, team, or organization to help them get unstuck in their current ways of thinking and acting about safety and health, and to transfer their learning into overall improved results for the organization, is quickly becoming a foundational part of every safety and health professional's toolbox. Coaching can dramatically increase the service and value you bring to your organization and also provide a different framework for you to work with and get the best performance out of others. By understanding coaching skills you will learn how to move beyond a "safety cop" to an enabler and partner to those within the organization. In this seminar, you will learn to excel in coaching, identify the differences between coaching and performance management as it relates to safety, and share an easy-to-apply coaching model. Learn to
• Describe the key roles and types of coaching
• Use a recognized coaching model
• Applying coaching techniques, guide your organization's workforce to better safety and health performance

Instructor(s): Katherine A. Hart, Ed.D., CSP, Founder and Principal, ClearVision Consulting, Alameda, CA

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Behavior based safety coaching_Geller_0704
Engagin learners_Fanning_0811Z

Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 4-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
Meeting the diverse challenges and demands in safety requires strong leaders who can put leadership principles into practice. In this seminar, you will learn the principles that link leadership skills to safety and health management. You will take away practices that will improve your effectiveness as an influential leader in your organization and enhance the contribution you make to its core business objectives. Learn to
• Recognize the characteristics of an effective leader
• Assess the five levels of leadership as they relate to your role in health and safety
• Explore the differences between managing and leading
• Act as a positive force in leading safety and health in your organization
• Exercise influence in leadership decisions

Instructor(s): M.E. Eddie Greer, CSP, OHST, Director Business Development, Board of Certified Safety Professionals, Savoy, IL

Start Date: 5-Feb, End Date: 6-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This seminar is designed for new or experienced EHS managers and consultants working in the international arena. You will walk away with resource materials and problem solving tools to develop, implement and monitor an effective global EHS safety management system. The seminar incorporates British and European safety and health management systems and U.S. based multinational experience. Learn to
• Discuss strategies for developing, implementing and monitoring a global environmental safety and health management system
• Explain how many U.S. multinationals manage compliance with non U.S. safety and health regulations (Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East)
• Develop an overview and knowledge of the European health and safety directives for your European sites
• Describe how to manage cultural, language and religion issues at non U.S. sites to achieve desired global business results
• Develop a network of safety professionals actively involved in managing global EHS systems

Instructor(s): Kathy A. Seabrook, CSP, CMIOSH, President, Global Solutions, Inc., Mendham, NJ

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Creating xordinary safety culture_walker_0500
Global harmonization of safety standards_manuele_1105
OSH disparities in developing countries_findley_0405

Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
While you are watching out for your organization, you may be exposed to legal liability. Legal liabilities can arise even while you are in compliance. Litigation of disputes has become commonplace and your best defense is being aware of this risk. In this seminar, you will learn how to identify legal risks and protect yourself. Using real life examples, you will learn civil and criminal liabilities for which a safety professional may find themselves exposed in the normal course of their practice. Learn to
• Recognize the various liability exposures of a practicing safety professional
• Avoid both the civil and criminal liabilities that are encountered in the workplace
• Protect against the potential liabilities and misperception of unethical practices related to your certifications

Instructor(s): Neil A. Feldscher, CIH, CSP, Esq., Chief, EHS Compliance, NYC Environmental Protection, Bureau of Engineering Design & Construction, EHS Compliance Directorate, Corona, NY

Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
This workshop prepares you with current safety thinking on assessing and communicating risks for critical situations. You will learn to develop crisis communications plans, prepare key messages and deliver briefings or guide your organizations leadership for these communications. Following this hands-on practicum, you will leave with best practices on risk and crisis communications and greater confidence in the leadership you provide your organization in preparation for and during a crisis. Learn to
• Write a Risk/Crisis Communication Plan that navigates organizational constraints
• Create messaging for highly- charged events such as sabotage, safety calamity, health outbreak, death, losses, warnings or environmental crisis
• Upgrade your analytics through message maps and audience profiling
• Leverage social media to build credibility during a crisis

Instructor(s): Pamela J. Walaski, CSP, CHMM, President, JC Safety & Environmental, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; Marianne Fleischer, President, Fleischer Communications, San Franscisco, CA

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Risk Crisis Communication_Ferrante_0610
Understanding crisis mgmt_nyblom_0303

Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 4-Feb - 2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Seminar Description:
You may not have had time to pursue an MBA, but you can get a sampling of the content of a graduate-level business program with a safety slant. In this seminar, you will learn strategy for planning, developing, managing and tracking the performance of your safety programs. Through lecture and team participation, you will accomplish these objectives. Learn to
• Describe tangible and intangible values commonly used to make business decisions
• Using provided software, conduct a Value Priority Analysis to determine business value ranking
• Use EHS Balanced Scorecard techniques to develop effective objectives and targets
• Using provided software, conduct financial analysis of EHS initiatives
• Using a provided presentation template, develop a management-level presentation of a sample initiative
All software tools will be provided to participants for their future use.

Instructor(s): David E. Downs, CSP, CIH, QEP, CPEA, President, EHS Management Partners, Inc., Excelsior, MN; William L. Heim, CSP, CIH, Principal Consultant, Alliance Health and Safety, Shoreview, MN

Start Date: 5-Feb, End Date: 5-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Strategic thinking is one of the most important characteristics of a leader. Organizations and business leaders are emphasizing the importance of strategic thinking as one of the top five desired skills for corporate leaders. This workshop will guide you in achieving greater consciousness to your thinking which sets the stage for being a more proactive and successful leader in your organization. Learn to:
• Increase strategic thinking skills
• Enhance organizational productivity and performance
• Excel in execution and follow to ensure the success of strategic initiatives
• Identify barriers to effective decision making
• Elevate decision making from tactical to strategic

Instructor(s): Trish Ennis, CSP, ARM, Senior Risk Control Consultant, Willis Group, Denver, CO

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
SHE strategic planning_Steinbacher_1009

Start Date: 6-Feb, End Date: 6-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Accidents, incidents, events, and potential disasters may lurk around every corner or may be staring you right in the face. The Pre-Accident Investigations Workshop will help you create operational learning teams to identify complex conditions and situations in your organization before they cause harm. This workshop applies a new and highly proactive approach to safety management using a process of aligning and developing the capacities of a team to achieve results. Participants will understand, strategize, and practice the foundational ideas and concepts of a highly resilient, safety learning organization. Learn to
• Establish operational learning methods and processes
• Practice the Event Pre-Mortem Concept
• Employ worker- led learning teams to improve operations
• Implement the practice the foundational concepts of human performance and high reliability

Instructor(s): Todd Conklin, Ph.D., Sante Fe, NM

Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Using incident data to improve safety is nothing new. But what happens when the goal is attained and your accident data starts to lose its statistical significance? Near miss data can help fill in gaps left by dwindling TRIR rates, and provide clear information to focus on. But near miss data is problematic to gather and often misunderstood. Learn how to avoid the common problems and take an important step toward more proactive safety metrics. Learn to
• Conduct accurate near miss reporting
• Determine the most effective accident prevention strategies based on near-miss trends
• Use near-miss data to achieve proactive safety management

Instructor(s): Terry Mathis, CEO, ProAct Safety, The Woodlands, TX

Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 8-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
You can turn supervisors, who are often an obstacle to safety, into safety coaches who can identify and modify the behaviors that cause accidents. The coaching skills taught will also help improve many other areas of worker performance and build supportive relationships between supervisors and workers. Learn to
• Train supervisors on coaching skills they can use to assist workers in becoming more safe and more productive
• Motivate supervisors to participate in safety efforts and make it an important part of their job description
• Focus safety efforts on a list of precautions that are within the power of supervisors and workers to control

Instructor(s): Terry Mathis, CEO, ProAct Safety, The Woodlands, TX

Start Date: 9-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Your organization's senior management looks to you for SH&E leadership and will reward you with resources and their support for your efforts. In this seminar, you will learn what the senior management of your organization want to know about SH&E and how to communicate this information with key management. Your knowledge of the organization's business goals and senior management's expectations of SH&E will strengthen your bond with the C-Suite. Learn to
• Demonstrate a general understanding of business language and a foundation from which business decisions are made
• Identify the expectations of the C-Suite for the SH&E process
• Develop, implement, and align SH&E efforts driven by organizational objectives from the C-Suite
• Report on and present SH&E data that gets the attention and involvement of decision-makers

Instructor(s): James Boretti, CSP, President, Boretti, Inc., Visalia, CA

Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 3-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Being a safety expert is the starting point in fulfilling your organization's expectations for a world-class safety effort. To advance your work and impact your organization's effectiveness on all levels requires becoming a strategic partner with your leadership. In this seminar, you will connect the dots between your present role as the safety content authority and the path to achieving a new role as the trusted advisor and agent of change. Learn to:
• Create an impact on all your organization's objectives
• Implement strategies that will advance your organization's values and sustainability
• Demonstrate the ability to balance care for the safety and health of your workforce with the organization's financial objectives
• Influence your organization's leadership as an agent of change

Instructor(s): Jim Spigner, Senior Vice President, BST, Ojai, CA

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Leader and change agent_derose_0304
Transformation safety culture_Simon_0409

Start Date: 4-Feb, End Date: 4-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
This seminar will familiarize you with management and quality assurance principles, how to develop a safety and health management system, and present a methodology to audit safety and health management systems. OSHA's Program Management Guidelines will be used as the template for the seminar presentation, with examples from OHSAS 18000 and ANSI Z10. Techniques on interviewing and scoring employee and supervisor interviews will also be discussed. Learn to
• Discuss management systems
• Describe the difference between compliance and management systems audits
• Differentiate between some of the existing safety management systems (VPP, OHSAS 18000 and Z10)
• Locate references for safety management system audit criteria
• Measure and score audits
• Learn techniques for interviewing and scoring employee and supervisor perceptions and organizational culture
* Prerequisites: Students should either have auditing experience, and their company should have some type of established auditing program, not necessarily a health and safety management systems auditing. A basic understanding of management principles or quality programs (e.g., VPP,TQM or ISO 9000/14000) will be helpful.

Instructor(s): Paul A. Esposito, CSP, CIH, CPEA, Vice President, ESIS Global Risk Control Services, Annapolis, MD

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Safety auditing_huang_0106
Safety audits two studies_swartz_0202
SHE auditing_hansen_1202

Start Date: 5-Feb, End Date: 5-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
The tremendous power and role of habit in our lives and our organizations has become a subject of much research and commentary. In this seminar, you will learn the latest principles explaining how habits are formed and how they can be altered or replaced to improve individual and organizational performance. You will review using techniques for making modifications to habitual behavior, examining these principles in the context of using safety as a gateway to improving overall organizational performance and profitability. Learn to
• Recognize the impact of habits in the lives of individuals and organizations
• Apply knowledge of the habit cycle to safety scenarios in the workplace
• Create a framework for development of safety habits
• Identify and transform destructive habits to positive ones
• Create links between organizational goals and keystone habits

Instructor(s): David Natalizia, Principal, United Risk Services, Castle Rock, CO

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Employee engagement_Williams_1208
Improving business outcomes_Turnbeaugh_0310
Peer to peer safety feedback_Frances_1111Z

Start Date: 6-Feb, End Date: 6-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Slips, trips, and falls have been and remain a major cause of workplace injuries in all industries for as long as loss data has been tracked. Unfortunately, even though new technologies are available, accident rates still remain high. However, you can take actions that will make a difference in your loss experience and in this seminar, you will learn these methods. You will learn that a relatively straightforward set of factors related to floor-related issues, footwear and walking style, can reduce the risks of slips, trips and falls and these measures can be employed in your workplace immediately. While this seminar is focused on same-level falls, many of the points covered will be useful for those seeking to prevent falls from heights. Learn to
• Develop a broad plan for slip, trip, and fall prevention
• Implement key risk reduction methods for falls on the same level
• Evaluate and select solutions for problem areas
• Determine which prevention methods work best together

Instructor(s): David Natalizia, Principal, United Risk Services, Castle Rock, CO

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Slip resistance measurement_DiPilla_0602
Slips trips falls in construction mining_radomsky_0901
Walkway surface safety traction in the workplace_DiPilla_0701

Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Advanced safety efforts have moved past prescriptive approaches and towards a risk-based foundation. Standards and regulations such as OHSAS 18001, ANSI Z10, and the forthcoming Federal I2P2 (and others) all rely on programmed risk identification as a basis for their execution. In this seminar, you will learn principles of systematic risk reduction and outline a system for identifying, analyzing, and acting on risks. This approach works well as a standalone approach to risk reduction and also as a method of conformance to applicable standards and regulations. Learn to
• Apply risk category models and key approaches to risk classification
• Conduct risk identification in varied situations
• Analyze identified risks and plan prevention activities
• Apply management principles for a productive analysis of complex issues

Instructor(s): David Natalizia, Principal, United Risk Services, Castle Rock, CO

Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 8-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
As you progress in your career as a safety and health professional, opportunities may arise for you to act as an expert witness in litigation or as a witness for your own or your company's work. Or perhaps you are thinking about self-employment as an authority for litigation on safety and health matters. This seminar will provide you with a foundation of skills needed to take on the role of an expert witness. Learn to
• Provide expert witness testimony in accordance with the laws of the U.S. Legal System and its litigation process
• Use the rules of civil procedure and evidence to establish the functional framework for your testimony
• Respond in the role of a safety expert in depositions and at trial
• Conduct the business aspects to support your expert witness services
• More effectively communicate as an expert

Instructor(s): Neil A. Feldscher, CIH, CSP, Esq., Chief, EHS Compliance, NYC Environmental Protection, Bureau of Engineering Design & Construction, EHS Compliance Directorate, Corona, NY

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Being an expert witness_Murray_0309
Expert witness_coniglio_0102

Start Date: 9-Feb, End Date: 9-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
This seminar offers hands-on training in basic business operations for those who would like to improve the effectiveness of their consultant practice or would like to make the transition from employee to independent practitioner. Learn to
• Establish or more effectively operate an independent consulting practice
• Discuss the most difficult challenges facing the independent consultant
• Create a business plan for optimum performance of the consulting practice
• Conduct key business operations
• Address financial issues
• Construct proposals, contracts and letters of agreement
• Use marketing, sales, financial and practice management in your business

Instructor(s): Deborah R. Roy, MPH, RN, COHN-S, CET, CSP, Corporate Director of Health, Safety & Wellness, L.L. Bean, Inc., Freeport, ME

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Selecting a safety and health consultant_popp_1000

Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 3-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
High unemployment plus mounting economic pressures have combined to create the "perfect storm" - the most violence-prone workplaces in a generation. You can significantly reduce the chance of a violent episode and, in this seminar; you will learn to protect your workforce and organization with thorough training and buttoned-down procedures. This seminar will be delivered by the Violence-Free organization, experts on workplace violence who conduct training to take the danger, fear and uncertainty out of any potentially explosive situation. Learn to
• Recognize the signs of a violent situation brewing in your organization
• Take proactive steps to avoid a violent episode
• Reduce your organization's liability risk
• Identify hidden dangers that could become explosive

Instructor(s): Carol Fredrickson, Violence-Free, Phoenix, AZ

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Terrorism and violence in our schools_dellagiustina_0300
Workplace violence_smith_1102

Start Date: 4-Feb, End Date: 4-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Ergonomics incorporates best equipment and behavior for accomplishing tasks as safely as possible. Cumulative trauma injuries - such as soft-tissue and others - are prevalent and often the result of a mounting series of ongoing perceptions, decisions, actions and omissions, at work and at home; these both reflect and contribute to a company's ergonomic culture. At the highest ergonomic level, executives and managers have realistic expectations of return on investment, strategically allocate resources and lead/participate appropriately. And workers think more cumulatively, recognize forces building at just-beginning stages and make needed modifications. In this seminar, you will learn the kinds and levels of ergonomic cultures so you will be able to apply strategies for overall ergonomic performance and injury reduction. Learn to
• Identify kinds and levels of ergonomic cultures to assess your organization
• Recognize barriers to moving to a higher- level ergonomic culture
• Explore strategies for activating executives and managers to become more effective ergonomic culture proponents
• Plan for elevating worker engagement in changing their mental and physical ergonomic habits and actions.

Instructor(s): Robert Pater, Managing Director, Strategic Safety Associates/MoveSMART, Portland, OR

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Aging workforce using ergonomics_Perry_0410
Ergonomic investments_Brace_0209
Work conditioning_Bowers_0810

Start Date: 5-Feb, End Date: 5-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
In this seminar, you will learn how to create training programs that actively engage your trainees using brain compatible learning principles. Discover three key learning patterns that help your trainees focus, pay attention, and remember your content. You will learn how to create instructional programs that accomplish your training goals. Learn to
• Identify three learning style patterns that indicate the best way to teach
• Discuss brain compatible teaching principles that relate to focus, attention, memory and application
• Improve your ability to create training programs that meet training goals by using the learning style patterns and effective teaching techniques shared in the seminar

Instructor(s): Ann Anzalone, National Trainer and Adjunct Professor - Wright State University, Division of Professional Practice; McGregor School of Antioch University Private Practice - Learning Style Assessments, Dayton, OH

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Conducting an effective needs assessment_Cekada_1211Z
Engaging learners_Fanning_0811Z
Training a multigenerational workface_Cekada_0312

Start Date: 6-Feb, End Date: 6-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Studies on human error clearly demonstrate that reducing human error to zero is not possible and that some organizations actually experience an increase in average error rates with traditional error reduction approaches. While you cannot reduce human error to zero, gaining a greater understanding of human error may provide you with the ability to bring the impact of the consequences down to zero. In this workshop, you will learn the results of the latest studies on human error performed by NASA and others and take away tools available to address human fallibility. Learn to
• Differentiate between active error and latent error
• Identify error precursors in your workplace
• Implement tools in your organization that are designed to aid your efforts in reducing the consequences of errors to zero

Instructor(s): T. Shane Bush, CPT, President, BushCo, Inc.m Idaho, Falls, ID

Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
World-class safety performance is the result of a mix of safety culture, behavior and management systems that is unique to each organization. Without a strategy, there is no road map with which to plot a course, and the safety culture and organizational systems that impact safety performance are often "legacy" leftovers rather than the result of conscious planning for the best outcomes. In this seminar, you will learn a diagnostic and action-planning framework to guide the interaction of organizational culture and management systems for successful safety performance. Learn to
• Develop a strategic plan for long-term culture change interventions
• Create a framework that becomes the foundation for the restructure of your organization's safety culture and safety systems

Instructor(s): Steve Simon, Ph,D., President, Culture Change Consultants, Inc., Larchmont, NY

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Corporate culture_Erickson_1108
Cutlure of Safety_Petersen_0307
Transforming safety culture_SimonCistaro_0409

Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 8-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Throw out everything you know or thought you knew about presentations and get ready for an exciting, mind-blowing way of development and delivery. Presentations today need to be a blend of plot, story, color, images, and flow and, in this seminar you will learn how to make it happen. You will leave with new ideas for engaging presentations that will increase and improved retention of the powerful messages you deliver. Bring your laptop with PowerPoint-2007 or 2010 (preferred) and be open to new ideas. Learn to
• Incorporate plot, story, color, images, and flow into your presentations to improve learning and retention
• Create memorable presentations for training
• Apply principles and best practices for presentation design to the training you deliver
• Improve you presentation delivery skills

Instructor(s): Don Weatherbee, EHS Manager, Sika (Lyndhurst and Lakewood), Lyndhurst, NJ; Barry R. Weissman, MBA, REM, CSP, CHMM, CHS-V, CIPS, Corp EHS, Benjamin Moore, Flanders, NJ

Start Date: 3-Feb, End Date: 3-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Risk assessment is a fundamental part of OHSAS 18000 and ANSI Z10 Management Systems, as well as a powerful tool for any safety and health program. A skillfully performed risk assessment can make the difference between proactive and reactive safety management. In this seminar, you will learn the methodology of occupational risk assessments and how to implement these important strategies into your program. Learn to
• Implement the risk assessment actions that satisfy the requirements of the OHSAS 18000 and ANSI Z10
• Select an appropriate risk assessment matrix to clearly identify your organizations risks
• Develop and use leading metrics that will quantify the potential for loss and risk reduction in your organization
• More proactively manage safety and health in your organization through the application of occupational risk assessment

Instructor(s): Paul A. Esposito, CSP, CIH, CPEA, Vice President, ESIS Global Risk Control Services, Annapolis, MD

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Charting safety performance_prevette_0506
Identifying and measuring leading indicators_toellner_0403
Trailing safety indicators_Wachter_0412

Start Date: 4-Feb, End Date: 4-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Learn the skills necessary to analyze safety data in order to evaluate programs and make program decisions. Techniques presented in the seminar include data collection methods, data analysis techniques, trend analysis, and the development of valid and reliable safety performance measures. Learn to
• Examine safety data utilizing a variety of statistical techniques
• Use a variety of statistical techniques to reach conclusions about safety program performance
• Analyze data to determine appropriate safety program interventions
• Develop a safety performance program utilizing various safety metrics and statistical procedures that can be used in the workplace to monitor and evaluate safety performance

Instructor(s): Christopher A. Janicak, Ph.D., CSP, ARM, Associate Professor, Indiana Unversity of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

Start Date: 4-Feb, End Date: 4-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Effective safety and health management requires a variety of communications methods - verbal and written, formal and informal, to a variety of audiences - senior management, middle management, supervisors and workers. As a member of the management team, you must be able to communicate effectively throughout the organization. In this workshop, you will learn to create emails, presentations, briefings and reports that will get your point across. Learn to
• Select the best way to get your message across to your audience
• Use visuals to clarify your ideas
• Choose a writing style that is appropriate for the need, i.e., safe-operating procedure, proposal for a project or annual report
• Reinforce communication techniques through complementary communications techniques
• Focus your written and spoken communication in a minimum of words
• Conduct briefings with minimal PowerPoint text
• Give your audience a supportive takeaway document

Instructor(s): Philip E. Goldsmith, CSP, ARM, Deputy Chief, Risk Management, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Compromises in pursuit of safety_peters_0806
Directing SHE function_harf_0404
Safety leadership four factor model_krause_1105

Start Date: 5-Feb, End Date: 5-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
High-reliability organizations such as nuclear power plants, aircraft carriers and firefighting crews warrant closer attention from safety professionals because they operate under trying conditions. However, they experience fewer than their fair share of problems. This success may be attributed to their method of noticing the unexpected and, while in progress, their ability to halt or contain the development of this event. In this seminar, you will learn the attributes of those organizations and discuss how their actions can be applied to any industry. Learn to
• Better recognize the signs of an impending untoward event
• Apply the principles used by high-reliability organizations to avoid or mitigate unexpected occurrences that could result in loss

Instructor(s): T. Shane Bush, CPT, President, BushCo, Inc.m Idaho, Falls, ID

Start Date: 6-Feb, End Date: 6-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
This workshop will help you understand the dynamics of human nature relevant to increasing the kind of involvement in occupational safety that prevents workplace injuries. You will be able to discuss and implement the psychological principles and strategies applicable to improving the human dynamics of your organization and achieving an injury-free workplace. Learn to
• Utilize principles of people-based psychology, practice and strategies to facilitate a total safety culture
• Increase empowerment, ownership and involvement in occupational health and safety
• Help people develop self-accountability for safety
• Give and receive safety-related feedback
• Align safety management systems to drive positive culture change
• Use assessment, decision making and improvement tools

Instructor(s): Steve Roberts, Senior Partner, Safety Performance Solutions, Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Actively caring for safety_Geller_0112
Interpersonal intervention_Geller_0509
People based leadership_Geller_0308

Start Date: 6-Feb, End Date: 6-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Many approaches to handling fire protection needs are simple in concept but sometimes challenging in implementation. This seminar will help you improve the way you identify fire risks and develop protection strategies. A selection of important but often overlooked fire protection issues will be discussed. The seminar focus is on practical solutions rather than just code compliance. Learn to
• Identify and evaluate critical fire risks and protect options
• Develop, implement, evaluate and improve fire protection processes
• Recognize and manage the impact of changes in your facility and processes on fire protection
• Evaluate fire protection system and feature readiness

Instructor(s): Stephen J. Musur, CSP, CFPS, Consultant, Chubb & Son Inc., Chicago, IL

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Fireground strategies and tactics part 1_Baker_0208
Fireground strategues and tactics part 2_Baker_0308
Leasons learned from Charleston sofa super store_Baker_0709

Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Data analysis has been used for years to drive improved performance for businesses; however the quality of data now being accumulated and the speed in which it is being reported is allowing for businesses to gain valuable insights to improve their company's performance.

Learn to

• Determine how leading indicators can be used to drive improved outcomes
• Analyze metrics to drive system and process change
• Apply safety analytics in your organization to improve safety performance
• Initiate culture change to ensure processes are being implemented

Instructor(s): Todd Hohn, CSP, Vice President of Strategic Resources, UL PureSafety, Franklin, TN

Start Date: 7-Feb, End Date: 7-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Last year, OSHA most frequently gave citations in manufacturing for violation of LOTO (29CFR1910.147). This standard regulates the servicing and maintenance of equipment in which the unexpected energization or start up of the equipment, or release of stored energy could cause an injury. In this seminar, you will learn the A to Z on compliance with this regulation through the development and implementation of a practical written LOTO program, LOTO training program (initial and refresher) as well as equipment- specific LOTO procedures for equipment that does not meet the OSHA eight-point exclusion. You will also have a hands-on opportunity to test a wide range of LOTO devices. Learn to
• Cite the minimum performance requirements for the control of machines and equipment
• Implement and develop a LOTO plan for your organization
• Provide LOTO training to employees
• Develop tool-specific LOTO procedures for tools that do not meet the OSHA eight-point exclusion

Instructor(s): Jay Jamali, CSP, CHMM, EHS Director, Enviro Safetech, Inc., San Jose, CA

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Equipment LO_Chinniah_0210Z
OSHA LOTO standards review_mutawe_0202

Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 8-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
Every day we are faced with making decisions that challenge our personal lives, the relationship we have with our organization and credibility as safety professionals. As our organizations move closer to transparency, the conflict between ethical behavior and alignment with the interests of our employers can be challenging. How do we embrace this new era of transparent information while serving our organization's needs, all while remaining true to our profession? In this seminar, you will explore these challenges and takeaway guidelines for acting in an ethical manner specific to safety professionals. Learn to
• Analyze a challenging situation in the framework of ethical behavior practices to maintain a position true to the safety profession
• Provide guidance to your organization on balancing organizational goals and safety's position on ethics

Instructor(s): James Boretti, CSP, President, Boretti, Inc., Visalia, CA

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;
Ethical climate and safety perform_Kapp_0708
Ethics absurd yet preferred approach to safety mgmt_Wachter_0611Z
Professional ethics_Nichols_0707

Start Date: 8-Feb, End Date: 8-Feb - 1 Day/ .7 CEU

Seminar Description:
In this seminar, you will learn how to evaluate spaces to determine if they are permit-required confined spaces. You will also review the proper entry and rescue procedures into and from confined spaces. The following topics will be covered: development of a written program; training requirements for entry and rescue; inventory; monitoring; ventilation; permits; recordkeeping; retrieval; communication; contractors; and rescue team evaluation. The latest confined space equipment will be available for your inspection during the seminar. Learn to
• Evaluate a space to determine if it is a confined space, and/or permit-required
• Develop confined space entry and rescue procedures
• Determine the appropriate training for your confined space entrants, attendants, entry supervisors and rescue team
• Evaluate the capability of your designated confined space rescue team to respond to your confined spaces emergencies

Instructor(s): Jay Jamali, CSP, CHMM, EHS Director, Enviro Safetech, Inc., San Jose, CA

More information on this topic can be found in the following PSJ articles;

Anatomy of confiined space fire_finkel_0502
Confined spaces OSHA standard_Taylor_0711Z
To permit or not permit_gammel_0600