Over 240 individuals die each year from falling objects. When objects at heights is often an afterthought or not even a thought during safety at heights planning, workers pay the ultimate price. A dropped tool or poorly kept platform take on a new level of risk at height – endangering not only the worker at height but individuals below. Topics covered will include definitions of “Objects at Heights” including dropped objects, risks and costs associated with O@H, standards and regulations, the latest dropped objects statistics and an overview of best practice within the hierarchy of controls.

Take a look at your work area, what you’re doing and where it’s done. Are you planning a new area? Office? Production/Lab area? The best way to prevent injury is to design hazards out, and the best time to do this is during the planning phase. This session will give you ideas and information to take back to your workplace.

The New Era Cap Company is the world-wide leader in headwear, headquartered in Buffalo, NY.  In this session attendees will get an overview of New Era Cap Company’s Health Safety and Wellness Programs.  See how Management Commitment and Union Involvement were critical to their success. Through them, New Era is able to foster positive practices and promote the interests of employees.

This seminar covering metalworking hazards technical solutions provides information about health and safety hazards affecting those that work with metal. With recent regulatory changes, we aim to increase awareness surrounding concerns with exposures to hazards such as Manganese, HexChrom and Silica. Topics covered include a regulation and standards summary, arc radiation hazards, respiratory hazards and protection, noise hazards, engineering controls, heat stress hazards, confined space and fall protection, head, eye, and face impacts, the impact of safety on productivity, and ergonomics.

Is that what your employees are thinking? Delivering interesting and entertaining safety meetings can be very difficult. Safety meetings and training play an important role in keeping your employees safe. This workshop continues to be one of the most highly attended sessions at many of the National Safety conferences in the US, it features 10 walk away ideas that you’ll be able to use to immediately impact your safety meeting. We will address the components that make meetings successful, interesting, interactive, entertaining and effective. 

Learn how the Newest Technology in the world can be applied to managing the Health and Safety of your employees. This technology can assist in reducing injuries from material handling, give early warnings of pedestrian collision with industrial vehicles and even notify others of a worker injury or a hazardous environment. We will also explore new presentation tools for training including the use of Holographic instructions. We will look at what is available in Smartphone Apps including Apps and devices that measure sound, temperature, air velocity, gas, detect radiation or even see mold with a thermal camera attachment! Finally we will explore Apps that can simplify your safety audits and inspections.

Are your workers protected when it comes to Fall Protection? Fall Protection topped the list of the most frequently violated OSHA standards for 2014. At #1, there were 7,900 inspections carried out, which resulted in 8,176 citations and a total of more than $20 million in fines collected. In this session we will review employee training requirements, an overview of the standard as well as the latest products and industry trends. We will have live demonstrations with our state of the art Fall Demonstration trailer.

We are all well aware of all the distractions drivers face today, but did you know that your company may be held liable for incidents caused by distracted employees while on the road? A well-structured safety policy for drivers allows all affected employees to know what the rules are and the consequences of not following them. After attending this session, you will be provided with the major points needed to address and implement a distracted driving policy.

A Lone Worker (LW) is an employee who performs an activity that is carried out in isolation from other workers without close or direct supervision. Included are those who work outside normal business hours or traditional facilities, plant maintenance and more. When an injury or a health related illness occurs, a delay in emergency response or medical assistance can be devastating. Employers have a duty to assess risks to lone workers and take steps to avoid or control risks. This session focuses on current OSHA 29 CFR 1926.800 and offers a “Common Sense” approach to keep your employee safe.

Every day nearly 2,000 people are injured while using a ladder, and as many as 100 of them will suffer a long-term disability. Today, one person will die in a ladder-related accident. Fall-related accidents while on a worksite account for one of the largest expenses to organizations. Reducing the number of ladder-related injuries is becoming top priority for the nation’s foremost companies, and Dave Francis, National Safety Director at Little Giant Ladders, is leading the charge. Upon completing this workshop, the participant should be able to: 1. Recognize ways to reduce the three most common kinds of ladder-related accidents and injuries. 2. Identify recent advancements in climbing equipment that will reduce risks on the job. 3. Improve workplace safety training by utilizing free live and online resources. 4. Demonstrate teaching techniques that will improve safety training among coworkers.