Pre Seminars

Occupational Risk Assessment Strategies

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

Instructors:

Paul A. Esposito, CSP, CIH, CPEA, Vice President, ESIS Global Risk Control Services, Annapolis, MD

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 10-2815

People-Based Safety: The Human Dynamics of Achieving an Injury-Free Workplace

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

Instructors:

E. Scott Geller, Ph.D., Senior Partner, Safety Performance Solutions, Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 09-2806

Training Supervisors to Become Safety Coaches

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

Instructors:

Shawn M. Galloway, President and Chief Operating Officer, ProAct Safety, Spring, TX

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 IH CM Points # 09-2825

Effective Communications for the Safety Professional

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
• Focus your written and spoken communication in a minimum of words
• Conduct briefings with minimal PowerPoint text
• Give your audience a supportive takeaway document

Instructors:

Philip E. Goldsmith, CSP, ARM, Deputy Chief for Risk Management, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 IH CM Points # 11-2426

Strategic Leadership Skills for Safety

Strategic Leadership provides the vision and direction for the growth and success of an organization. When applied to safety, strategic leadership skills can enhance safety performance and influence culture.  In this seminar, you will learn a leadership approach used by senior management and how you can develop and leverage these same skills to improve your organization’s safety performance.

Learn to

• Practice the principles of strategic leadership for safety
• Leverage strategic leadership skills to reduce losses, increase engagement in safety and motivate others to be more receptive to changes and actions leading to safer work practices

Instructors:

Robert Pater, M.A., Managing Director, Strategic Safety Associates/MoveSMART, Portland, OR

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 IH CM Points # 10-2823

Legal Issues and Exposures for the Safety Professional

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.

Learning objectives:

• 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

Instructors:

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

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 IH CM Points # 11-2428

Influencing Your Organization on the Value of Safety – (CANCELLED)

Our success as safety professionals is dependent upon our ability to both influence and educate the decision makers in our organization on the value of safety. We must be engaged in our organization’s decision-making process and take steps to enhance our credibility by demonstrating safety success.  Join us for this seminar to learn a strategic model, based on business marketing strategies, that will help you gain management support for all of your safety efforts.

Learn to

• Identify the needs of your customers (management, your workforce, your board of directors, etc.)
• Determine what motivates the decision makers in your organization and tailor your safety services(product) to meet their needs while achieving safety goals
• Demonstrate the impact of safety and health on the organization’s business goals and outcomes to leaders in your organization through use of business-marketing concepts

Instructors:

James Boretti, CSP, President, Boretti, Inc., Visalia, CA

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 09-2794

Creating Safety Training Programs that Work

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

Instructors:

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

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points #09-2804

Prevention Through Design (PtD) at Every Phase of the Project

Recent studies indicate that approximately 40% of work-related fatalities are design related. Prevention through Design (PtD) is an approach that can eliminate or reduce work-related hazards by designing them out of the project. Attend this seminar to become more knowledgeable on the occupational safety, environmental and health issues in the design/ redesign process.  You will learn to prevent or minimize work-related hazards associated with facilities, materials, and equipment during: construction, manufacture, use, maintenance and disposal/demolition

Learn to

• Evaluate the benefits of PtD for your project
• Influence management on the benefits of using PtD
• Implement PtD into your project

Instructors:

Jay Jamali, CSP, CHMM, EHS Director, Enviro Safetech, Inc., San Jose, CA

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points #09-2796

Fall Protection in Construction

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

Instructors:

Kimlee Lindgren, OSHA Training Institute, Boston, MA

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 09-2808

Predicting Errors Using Human Performance Measurement Tools

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

Instructors:

T. Shane Bush, CPT, President, BushCo, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 IH CM Point # 09-2807

Avoiding Violence in the Workplace – (CANCELLED )

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.

Learning objectives:

• 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

Instructors:

Carol Fredrickson, Violence-Free, Phoenix, AZ

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 11-3690

Fleet Safety and DOT Compliance

Currently, the leading cause of workplace fatalities in the United States is from vehicular incidents. In any industry, if your organization uses commercial motor vehicles, you need to develop and deliver a fleet safety management program and keep your organization in compliance with DOT regulations.

Learning objectives

• Create an effective fleet management safety program
• Determine driver qualifications and driver performance criteria that are appropriate for your company
• Comply with current DOT regulations
• Discuss technological solutions to monitoring driver behavior

Instructors:

Steve Vogel, PhD, MS, CDS, President, Vogel Safety Services, Englewood, CO

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 11-3692

Basic Electical Safety/Arc Flash with Application of NFPA 70E (2012 Edition)

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.

Learning Aids
An arithmetic/scientific calculator with square root function is required for this seminar. A fully charged laptop with MS Excel is recommended.

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

Instructors:

Paul A. Zoubek, CSP, CIH, Principal, Zoubek Consulting, LLC, San Diego, CA

Credits:

2 Days / 1.4 CEUs / 2.34 Safety CM Points # 11-2421

Planning, Developing, Managing and Tracking the Organizational Performance of EHS Initiative and Programs: A Mini Safety MBA

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

Instructors:

David E. Downs, CSP, CIH, QEP, CPEA, President, EHS Management Partners, Inc., Excelsior, MN

Credits:

2 Days / 1.4 CEUs / 2.34 IH CM Points # 09-2827

Leading Measures of Safety Performance: A Measurement and Metrics Workshop

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

Instructors:

Earl Blair, Ed.D., CSP, Associate Professor & Program Director, Safety Management, Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Barry S. Spurlock, J.D., CSP, Member - Consultant, Spurlock & Higgins LLC, Louisville, KY

Credits:

2 Days / 1.4 CEUs / 2.34 IH CM Points # 09-3295

Techniques for Hazard Recognition

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

Instructors:

David. F. Coble, MS, CSP, President, Coble, Taylor & Jones Safety Associates, Cary, NC

Credits:

2 Days / 1.4 CEUs / 2.34 IH CM Points # 09-2818

Delivering a High-Performance Safety Management System (CALL FOR AVAILABILITY)

Sponsored by ClickSafety

How effective is your safety management system? Designed to assess the effectiveness of your system, this seminar evaluates methods and enables you to continuously measure your safety management efforts.
Learn:

• Safety management approaches and techniques
• Human behavior
• Zero incidents
• Six Sigma
• International system standards
• VPP as a model
• Critical management activities
• Managing safety for profit
• Return on investment
• Integrating safety management in the management process
• System effectiveness by measuring and interpreting results
• Leading indicators, corporate-wide standards and international system standards
• Safety design standards for new processes, equipment and systems

Instructors:

James Skipper Kendrick, CSP,  President, Kendrick Global Enterprises LLC, Hurst, TX

Credits:

2 Days, 1.4 CEUs / 2.34 IH CM Points, Approval # 09-2779

Implementing the Right Safety and Health Management System

Safety and health management systems (OHSAS 18001, OSHA VPP or ANSI Z-10) can be utilized as best practices to reduce work-related injuries and illnesses and change the safety culture. In this seminar, you will learn about these systems and the benefits each brings to an organization.

Learning objectives:

• Discuss details of the available management systems
• Select a system that is most appropriate for your organization
• Implement a safety and health management system using the OSHA VPP roadmap

Instructors:

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

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points #11-2419

Critical Issues in Construction Safety

Designed for the construction safety professional, you will identify the differences between general industry and construction, relative to hazard identification and control. Learn the most common construction hazards, safety and health programs, hazard communication, personal protective equipment, fire prevention and protection, heavy equipment, traffic control, welding, electrical, scaffolding, training, fall protection, recordkeeping and more.

Learn to

• Recognize the most common construction exposures and develop solutions for each issue
• Understand that it is impossible to be in compliance with the law
• Define critical
• Identify critical issues relative to OSHA standards and to preventing injury, illness, and death in construction
• Share the good, bad and ugly of personal experiences

Instructors:

Kimlee Lindgren, OSHA Training Institute, Boston, MA

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 IH CM Points # 10-2820

Using Near-Miss Data for Successful Loss Control

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

Instructors:

Shawn M. Galloway, President and Chief Operating Officer, ProAct Safety, Spring, TX

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 10-2822

Managed Fall Protection

Fall protection is critically important for providing a safe environment for your organization’s workers. However, fall protection is a very complex subject that requires comprehensive study to successfully manage an effective program. This seminar will provide guidance regarding the numerous regulations, standards, equipment options, and critical elements that will support your efforts to deliver an effective fall protection program.

Learn to

• Implement the core elements of a fall protection program
• Apply the Hierarchy of Control when evaluating and controlling fall hazards
• Practice common use, limitation and inspection requirements for fall protection equipment
• Identify action steps to improve your existing fall protection program

Instructors:

Ronald NIblock, CSP, Safety Specialist, LJB Inc., Lansing, MI

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU/ 1.17 Safety CM Points #11-2418

Integrating Safety Into Your Organization’s Strategic Plan

Join us for this seminar to develop long-term goals for safety that can be integrated into your organization’s strategic plan.  You will learn by example, participating in exercises and a case study of the steps taken by a major corporation to achieve the integration of safety throughout the management planning process.  This case will demonstrate how the use of safety management systems, leading metrics, worker perception surveys, and the integration of business systems like six-sigma contributed to the success of this effort.

Learn to

• Develop a safety policy consistent with your organization’s strategic vision
• Write strategic goals and objectives for your safety effort
• Develop data sources for leading metrics and a balanced scorecard
• Determine which programs (safety management systems) are most effective for injury and illness rate reduction
• Recognize interaction and integration opportunities with your organization’s other business initiatives

Instructors:

Paul A. Esposito, CIH, CSP, CPEA, Vice President, ESIS Global Risk Control Services

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 10-2813

Using the Safety Principles of High-Reliability Organizations

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.

Learning objectives:

• 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

Instructors:

T. Shane Bush, CPT, President, BushCo, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 10-2814

Workers Compensation for the Safety Professional

Workers’ Compensation is a major source of cost to any business.  Even in today’s competitive insurance environment, few safety professionals understand the direct relationship between worker injuries and Workers’ Compensation insurance costs.  This seminar will fill in the gaps in the safety professional’s knowledge of the system.  Participants will discover how the ultimate cost of Workers’ Compensation insurance is determined by the type of plan, the employer’s short and long-term loss experience, and the care with which the organization audits the computation of premium.  It will address the impact of experience modification, retrospective rating plans, payroll classification and audit tips, identification of problem claims, return to work strategies, and other opportunities to produce measurable reductions in insurance cost.

Learn to

• Discuss the coverage provided by Workers’ Compensation insurance
• Make the Workers’ Compensation rating system work for the organization
• Identify primary sources of the organization’s own loss experience and target safety efforts toward these loss sources
• Return injured employees to productive work quickly
• Aggressively manage claims to control medical and indemnity cost
• Allocate Workers’ Compensation costs to business units

Instructors:

Philip E. Goldsmith, CSP, ARM, Deputy Chief, Risk Management, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 10-2815

Avoiding the OSHA Top 20 – (CANCELLED)

Every year OSHA tabulates data on the 20 most-frequently issued citations for the previous year. In this seminar, you will Learning objectives: strategies and tactics to minimize the risk of receiving any of OSHA’s top 20 citations.

Learning objectives:

• Write programs, train your workforce, conduct inspections and maintain the appropriate records to avoid OSHA violations
• If an OSHA inspection is inevitable, prevail in this visit by having the necessary documentation to support your management actions

Instructors:

Jay Jamali, CSP, CHMM, EHS Director, Enviro Safetech, Inc., San Jose, CA

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU / 1.17 Safety CM Points # 11-3691

CHST Examination Preparation Workshop

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

Instructors:

Steven P. Pereira, CSP, President, Professional Safety Associates, Denham Springs, LA

Credits:

3 Days / 2.1 CEUs

Corporate Safety Management

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:

Samuel Gualardo, MA, CSP, President, National Safety Consultants, Inc., Salix, PA

Credits:

3 Days / 2.1 CEUs / 3.5 IH CM Points # 09-2778

Safety Management I

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

Instructors:

Joel N. Tietjens, CSP, CSHM, President, T-JENS & T-JENS, Inc. , Spring, TX

Credits:

3 Days / 2.1 CEUs / 3.5 Safety CM Points # 09-2775

CSP Examination Preparation Workshop (CALL FOR AVAILABILITY)

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.

Learning objectives:

• Collecting, assessing, managing SH&E and security risk
• Concepts of probability, statistics and basic sciences
• Engineering: safety and environmental, occupational health, fire protection
• Applied management principles, ergonomic analysis, risk management
• Legal/regulatory and issues in SH&E and security
• Workers’ Compensation

Instructors:

C. David Langlois, CSP
Langlois, Weigand and Associates, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA

Credits:

3 Days / 2.1 CEUs / 3.5 Safety CM Points # 09-2775

ASP Examination Preparation Workshop – (SOLD OUT)

This workshop is full. Please call Customer Service for availability.

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

Instructors:

Michael Weigand, CSP
Langlois, Weigand and Associates, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA

Credits:

3 Days / 2.1 CEUs / 3.5 Safety CM Points # 09-2774

Reducing Losses from Occupational Health Risks and Environmental Exposures (CALL FOR AVAILABILITY)

Go beyond accident prevention and learn how to assume responsibility for the health and environmental challenges within your organization. Learn to recognize and address health and ergonomic risks, and enhance your ability to effectively manage major losses and liabilities.

Learn:

• 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

Instructors:

James Skipper Kendrick, CSP, President, Kendrick Global Enterprises LLC, Hurst, TX

Thomas Cecich, CSP, CIH , President, TFC & Associates, Apex, NC

Credits:

2 Days, 1.4 CEUs / 2.34 IH CM Points, Approval # 09-2780

Math Review for Certification Exams (CALL FOR AVAILABILITY)

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

Instructors:

• C. David Langlois, CSP
• Michael Weigand, CSP
• Langlois, Weigand and Associates, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA

Credits:

1 Day / .7 CEU