General Workshops
Thursday
General Workshops
Thursday
A Study of the Risks of Normalization of Deviance
Keith Compton
In today's work environment, slow, seemingly insignificant deviations from standard practices can become the norm. The risks associated with these deviations are often not realized or understood. Yet they can cause significant safety and quality issues for an organization. This phenomenon, known as the Normalization of Deviance, was first noted after the space shuttle Challenger disaster.
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn the principles behind this phenomenon and be able to identify when such risks are occurring in their worksites. Participants will also learn some ways to correct these situations thus reducing the risks to their organizations.
Battery Cell Manufacturing
Jeffery Ramer, CSM, CSMC
This workshop provides and overview and awareness of constructing a battery facility, the hazards associated with the manufacturing of the battery cells and the processes used to construct the battery cells for electrified vehicles. The presentation will address the challenges of constructing a battery manufacturing facility, the manufacturing process, and the hazards associated with the process.
Creating Continuous Improvement for Safety
Craig Bengel, MS, CSP, CHST, ASHM
Many organizations tend to overlook the imperative of continuous improvement, given the ever-evolving conditions and diverse work environments, and the idea of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Nevertheless, a deliberate commitment of time and resources to a structured improvement roadmap can render the attainment of continuous improvement feasible and change the approach to “if it ain’t broke, improve it.” This roadmap comprises key pillars:
Psychological Safety: Creating an environment that fosters psychological safety is foundational.
Organizational Clarity: Establishing clear organizational goals, roles, and responsibilities is paramount. Clarity in objectives ensures that all team members are aligned with the overarching vision.
People Development: Investing in the development of personnel is indispensable. Continuous improvement is inherently tied to the skills and adaptability of the workforce. Training programs, skill enhancement initiatives, and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
Process Building and Standardization: Building robust processes and standardizing procedures streamline operations. Identifying and implementing best practices, coupled with a commitment to standardized processes, not only enhances efficiency but also lays the groundwork for sustained improvements over time.
Sustainability: Involves monitoring and reinforcing positive changes, incorporating feedback loops, and adapting strategies as necessary.
Effective Planning and Preparedness for Disruptive Weather
David Oliver, PhD, CSP, CEM and Joshua Durkee, PhD
Weather is the most frequent and often a major disruptor to our organizations, events, and daily routines. Storms do not need to reach traditional severe limits to affect event success, cause extensive property damage, injuries, and even fatalities.
Part 1 of this double workshop will explore concepts of planning and preparedness, including risk identification and assessment, development of Emergency Operations and Incident Actions Plans, and organization of key stakeholders in an effective incident command structure that facilitates actions to minimize negative outcomes, respond to calls for assistance, and recover operations as soon as possible.
Part 2 will focus on various severe and sub-severe weather phenomena, how to properly source weather information and support, and highlight pitfalls of common weather technology. Emphasis is placed on identifying credible sources for accurate, timely weather data including forecasts and real-time hyperlocal weather tracking as well as solutions for scalable weather support.
High Voltage Demonstration - Powerline Safety
Keith McBride
In the High Voltage Demonstration, LGE KU uses a specialized trailer with lines, transformers, and poles to demonstrate how electricity works, the dangers of electricity, downed power line dangers, and storm damage issues.
Kentucky OSH Inspection and Contest Procedures
Haley Kincer, Esq., and Seth Bendorf, CHST
This workshop presents an overview of the Division of OSH Compliance procedures, policies, and contest procedures. The presenters share updates including new standards, emphasis programs, and what happens after a case is contested.
Key NFPA 70E Changes Impact PPE Best Practices
Scott Francis
NFPA 70E (2024) compliance / electrical safety continues to evolve. Learn when, why, and how to re-visit the arc flash risk assessment and personal protective equipment (PPE) program selection.
The key NFPA 70E (2024) takeaway regarding arc flash risk assessment / PPE selection is the emphasis on assessing the condition of equipment maintenance - see new Annex S! Properly maintaining equipment is critical in protecting your organization’s electrical workers! What is the condition of maintenance of equipment at your facility? The answer impacts the risk assessment and PPE program selection.
What is the condition of your organization’s PPE-FR / AR clothing program? Is the appropriate FR, arc rated clothing being worn? Is your program a tasked based (donning a coverall for energized tasks) program or a daily wear program? Is your organization’s daily wear program plagued with inconsistent wearing the FR / AR clothing because workers deem it uncomfortable? FR / AR clothing - PPE can’t protect if it’s uncomfortable and not worn!
Discover the role of human performance and the condition of equipment maintenance on incident occurrence likelihood and incident energy severity. Learn how to improve your organization’s arc flash risk assessment (emphasis on condition of maintenance) to reduce likelihood of occurrence and PPE selection (emphasis on sustainable, comfortable, properly arc rated clothing) to mitigate injury!
Lithium Battery Hazards and Emergencies
Mac Cann
This workshop will provide an overview of the hazards associated with lithium-ion batteries and certain best practices on how to handle those hazards. It will address battery basics, hazard mitigation, community awareness, as well as and some transport and disposal options
PSM / RMP Outlook
Bayless Kilgore, CIH, CSP
OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard and EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP) have been in place since the early 1990s and have not had significant updates over the years. However, recently both OSHA and EPA have either proposed or updated the regulatory requirements for facilities that are subject to their rules. This presentation will outline the history and current outlook for OSHA's PSM standard and EPA's RMP and how it could affect your facility.
Safety Culture: Actions for Positive Influence
Ryan Neu, MS, CSP
Changing safety culture can be difficult. Often, it can be challenging to find a place to start or to identify what changing safety culture really means. When presented with an opportunity to influence someone's safety mindset, there can be barriers that are hard to overcome. The barriers present are typically based on past experiences and/or relationships. Participants will discuss simple practices and actions that can help break down the barriers that prevent us from being effective leaders in safety and create a positive safety culture.
Safety in the Transportation Cabinet
Tim Preston, Erica Russell, Jarrod Stanley
This workshop will address some of the areas the Transportation Cabinet is working to create safer environments for Cabinet employees and roadway users.
Suicide Awareness and Prevention within Workplaces
Beck Whipple
Today's workplaces must acknowledge the importance of suicide awareness and understand their role in prevention. With mental health concerns on the rise, we must work together to foster an environment where employees feel support-seeking is safe and managers feel confident and competent to respond. This workshop aims to equip participants with the tools and knowledge needed to identify suicide warning signs, provide support, and access resources for those in need. By addressing suicide in the workplace, we not only prioritize the well-being of our team members but also create a culture of empathy and understanding. Join in taking proactive steps towards building healthier, more resilient workplaces.
The 3 E’s – Educate, Empower, and Enforce
Colby Davis, CSP, PE
This workshop will show the success of implementing the 3 E’s at your establishment by educating employees, empowering employees and enforcing safety and health rules. Implementing these techniques can shift your safety culture from worse to first. Discussions will include techniques such as utilizing job task safety assessments, job safety observations, gate checks, driver vehicle inspection records, deviation notifications, post-incident reviews, and root cause data analytics to continuously evaluate and minimize risks.
The Safety Crossroads
Mark French, PhD., CSP, ASP, SPHR, SSBB
This workshop explores the intersection of physical and psychological safety, emphasizing how both are integral for individual and collective well-being. The presentation delves into how physical environments and conditions impact employees highlighting the interconnectedness between the two (2) domains. The discussion covers strategies for creating safe spaces that address both physical and psychological needs, fostering resilience and promoting overall health, safety, wellness, and security.
The Unthinkable Happened: Working with Responders
Brad Oser, MA, EMT
This workshop examines what happens during a real emergency in facilities. Working with local first responders brings a complexity to situations that employers may not expect. Mitigating an emergency with a favorable outcome for everyone is the goal but can often be elusive. The presentation examines barriers that come between facilities / employers and first responders as well as methods to overcome them.
Work Zone Traffic Control Safety
Tim Preston
This workshop addresses the use of ADFAD'S, Crash Cushions, and other devices to improve workers safety while working in construction or maintenance work zones.
Worker’s Compensation Trends and Safety Pays
Brian Black and Scott Wilhoit
The Department of Workers’ Claims provides compensation to workers injured in the course and scope of their employment while also providing a means for employers to fix their potential liability via insurance premiums. A key feature to keeping workers’ compensation premiums down is maintaining safety and providing a drug-free workplace. A discussion of trends in claims will be discussed. OSHA’s Safety Pays Program raises awareness of how occupational injuries and illnesses can impact a company’s profitability. The program features multiple tools to help employers estimate costs from workplace injuries. This workshop will explain the program and how it can be a great tool for employers to show the value of implementing workplace safety and health practices that keep employees safe while lowering work-related injury and illness costs.
Keith Compton
In today's work environment, slow, seemingly insignificant deviations from standard practices can become the norm. The risks associated with these deviations are often not realized or understood. Yet they can cause significant safety and quality issues for an organization. This phenomenon, known as the Normalization of Deviance, was first noted after the space shuttle Challenger disaster.
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn the principles behind this phenomenon and be able to identify when such risks are occurring in their worksites. Participants will also learn some ways to correct these situations thus reducing the risks to their organizations.
- Understand the concept of normalization of deviance.
- Identify situations where this phenomenon is occurring.
- Understand the causes that lead to normalization of deviance.
- Understand the risks associated with normalization of deviance.
- Learn some methods to reduce or eliminate the risks associated with this phenomenon.
Battery Cell Manufacturing
Jeffery Ramer, CSM, CSMC
This workshop provides and overview and awareness of constructing a battery facility, the hazards associated with the manufacturing of the battery cells and the processes used to construct the battery cells for electrified vehicles. The presentation will address the challenges of constructing a battery manufacturing facility, the manufacturing process, and the hazards associated with the process.
- Review of the challenges of constructing a battery manufacturing facility.
- Overview of the manufacturing process.
- Review of the specific manufacturing area and the hazards associated with the process.
Creating Continuous Improvement for Safety
Craig Bengel, MS, CSP, CHST, ASHM
Many organizations tend to overlook the imperative of continuous improvement, given the ever-evolving conditions and diverse work environments, and the idea of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Nevertheless, a deliberate commitment of time and resources to a structured improvement roadmap can render the attainment of continuous improvement feasible and change the approach to “if it ain’t broke, improve it.” This roadmap comprises key pillars:
Psychological Safety: Creating an environment that fosters psychological safety is foundational.
Organizational Clarity: Establishing clear organizational goals, roles, and responsibilities is paramount. Clarity in objectives ensures that all team members are aligned with the overarching vision.
People Development: Investing in the development of personnel is indispensable. Continuous improvement is inherently tied to the skills and adaptability of the workforce. Training programs, skill enhancement initiatives, and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
Process Building and Standardization: Building robust processes and standardizing procedures streamline operations. Identifying and implementing best practices, coupled with a commitment to standardized processes, not only enhances efficiency but also lays the groundwork for sustained improvements over time.
Sustainability: Involves monitoring and reinforcing positive changes, incorporating feedback loops, and adapting strategies as necessary.
Effective Planning and Preparedness for Disruptive Weather
David Oliver, PhD, CSP, CEM and Joshua Durkee, PhD
Weather is the most frequent and often a major disruptor to our organizations, events, and daily routines. Storms do not need to reach traditional severe limits to affect event success, cause extensive property damage, injuries, and even fatalities.
Part 1 of this double workshop will explore concepts of planning and preparedness, including risk identification and assessment, development of Emergency Operations and Incident Actions Plans, and organization of key stakeholders in an effective incident command structure that facilitates actions to minimize negative outcomes, respond to calls for assistance, and recover operations as soon as possible.
Part 2 will focus on various severe and sub-severe weather phenomena, how to properly source weather information and support, and highlight pitfalls of common weather technology. Emphasis is placed on identifying credible sources for accurate, timely weather data including forecasts and real-time hyperlocal weather tracking as well as solutions for scalable weather support.
High Voltage Demonstration - Powerline Safety
Keith McBride
In the High Voltage Demonstration, LGE KU uses a specialized trailer with lines, transformers, and poles to demonstrate how electricity works, the dangers of electricity, downed power line dangers, and storm damage issues.
- How an electric arc can happen.
- What causes your lights to blink.
- What can human contact look like.
- Accident prevention around downed lines.
- What to do if your car is involved in a powerline incident.
Kentucky OSH Inspection and Contest Procedures
Haley Kincer, Esq., and Seth Bendorf, CHST
This workshop presents an overview of the Division of OSH Compliance procedures, policies, and contest procedures. The presenters share updates including new standards, emphasis programs, and what happens after a case is contested.
Key NFPA 70E Changes Impact PPE Best Practices
Scott Francis
NFPA 70E (2024) compliance / electrical safety continues to evolve. Learn when, why, and how to re-visit the arc flash risk assessment and personal protective equipment (PPE) program selection.
The key NFPA 70E (2024) takeaway regarding arc flash risk assessment / PPE selection is the emphasis on assessing the condition of equipment maintenance - see new Annex S! Properly maintaining equipment is critical in protecting your organization’s electrical workers! What is the condition of maintenance of equipment at your facility? The answer impacts the risk assessment and PPE program selection.
What is the condition of your organization’s PPE-FR / AR clothing program? Is the appropriate FR, arc rated clothing being worn? Is your program a tasked based (donning a coverall for energized tasks) program or a daily wear program? Is your organization’s daily wear program plagued with inconsistent wearing the FR / AR clothing because workers deem it uncomfortable? FR / AR clothing - PPE can’t protect if it’s uncomfortable and not worn!
Discover the role of human performance and the condition of equipment maintenance on incident occurrence likelihood and incident energy severity. Learn how to improve your organization’s arc flash risk assessment (emphasis on condition of maintenance) to reduce likelihood of occurrence and PPE selection (emphasis on sustainable, comfortable, properly arc rated clothing) to mitigate injury!
- Identify key components of preventative and protective measures in the NFPA 70E (2024) arc flash risk assessment procedure that will impact "best practice" arc flash PPE selection to reduce both likelihood of incident occurrence and severity of injury!
- Recognize that NFPA 70E compliance/electrical safety continues to evolve and learn when, why, and how to re-visit the arc flash risk assessment.
- Explain how various human error precursor “states” of people impact PPE use and how human performance tools and PPE program "best practices" help improve human performance.
Lithium Battery Hazards and Emergencies
Mac Cann
This workshop will provide an overview of the hazards associated with lithium-ion batteries and certain best practices on how to handle those hazards. It will address battery basics, hazard mitigation, community awareness, as well as and some transport and disposal options
- Learn Lithium-Ion Battery Hazard Awareness and Mitigation
- Learn Air Monitoring and Site Cleanup for Battery Incidents
PSM / RMP Outlook
Bayless Kilgore, CIH, CSP
OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard and EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP) have been in place since the early 1990s and have not had significant updates over the years. However, recently both OSHA and EPA have either proposed or updated the regulatory requirements for facilities that are subject to their rules. This presentation will outline the history and current outlook for OSHA's PSM standard and EPA's RMP and how it could affect your facility.
- Review the history of OSHA's PSM standard and EPA's RMP rules.
- Summarize the proposed changes and/or recent updates to each standard.
- Discuss proposed changes that will have greatest effect on PSM and/or RMP covered facilities.
- Keys to success related to PSM and/or RMP.
Safety Culture: Actions for Positive Influence
Ryan Neu, MS, CSP
Changing safety culture can be difficult. Often, it can be challenging to find a place to start or to identify what changing safety culture really means. When presented with an opportunity to influence someone's safety mindset, there can be barriers that are hard to overcome. The barriers present are typically based on past experiences and/or relationships. Participants will discuss simple practices and actions that can help break down the barriers that prevent us from being effective leaders in safety and create a positive safety culture.
- Understand the distinctions of the Bradley curve.
- Identify barriers preventing someone from influencing the safety culture.
- Simplify practices to build relationships and open opportunities for positive discussions.
Safety in the Transportation Cabinet
Tim Preston, Erica Russell, Jarrod Stanley
This workshop will address some of the areas the Transportation Cabinet is working to create safer environments for Cabinet employees and roadway users.
Suicide Awareness and Prevention within Workplaces
Beck Whipple
Today's workplaces must acknowledge the importance of suicide awareness and understand their role in prevention. With mental health concerns on the rise, we must work together to foster an environment where employees feel support-seeking is safe and managers feel confident and competent to respond. This workshop aims to equip participants with the tools and knowledge needed to identify suicide warning signs, provide support, and access resources for those in need. By addressing suicide in the workplace, we not only prioritize the well-being of our team members but also create a culture of empathy and understanding. Join in taking proactive steps towards building healthier, more resilient workplaces.
- Understand the importance of suicide awareness in today's workplaces.
- Recognize the role of workplaces in suicide prevention.
- Identify suicide warning signs and provide appropriate support.
The 3 E’s – Educate, Empower, and Enforce
Colby Davis, CSP, PE
This workshop will show the success of implementing the 3 E’s at your establishment by educating employees, empowering employees and enforcing safety and health rules. Implementing these techniques can shift your safety culture from worse to first. Discussions will include techniques such as utilizing job task safety assessments, job safety observations, gate checks, driver vehicle inspection records, deviation notifications, post-incident reviews, and root cause data analytics to continuously evaluate and minimize risks.
The Safety Crossroads
Mark French, PhD., CSP, ASP, SPHR, SSBB
This workshop explores the intersection of physical and psychological safety, emphasizing how both are integral for individual and collective well-being. The presentation delves into how physical environments and conditions impact employees highlighting the interconnectedness between the two (2) domains. The discussion covers strategies for creating safe spaces that address both physical and psychological needs, fostering resilience and promoting overall health, safety, wellness, and security.
- Understand the connection between physical and psychological safety
- Understand how the workplace fosters the environment for safety
- Learn methods of improving and motivating safety
The Unthinkable Happened: Working with Responders
Brad Oser, MA, EMT
This workshop examines what happens during a real emergency in facilities. Working with local first responders brings a complexity to situations that employers may not expect. Mitigating an emergency with a favorable outcome for everyone is the goal but can often be elusive. The presentation examines barriers that come between facilities / employers and first responders as well as methods to overcome them.
- Identify the challenges between first responders and facility operators.
- Develop strategies for working with first responders to facilitate the highest chance of a favorable outcome for everyone.
Work Zone Traffic Control Safety
Tim Preston
This workshop addresses the use of ADFAD'S, Crash Cushions, and other devices to improve workers safety while working in construction or maintenance work zones.
Worker’s Compensation Trends and Safety Pays
Brian Black and Scott Wilhoit
The Department of Workers’ Claims provides compensation to workers injured in the course and scope of their employment while also providing a means for employers to fix their potential liability via insurance premiums. A key feature to keeping workers’ compensation premiums down is maintaining safety and providing a drug-free workplace. A discussion of trends in claims will be discussed. OSHA’s Safety Pays Program raises awareness of how occupational injuries and illnesses can impact a company’s profitability. The program features multiple tools to help employers estimate costs from workplace injuries. This workshop will explain the program and how it can be a great tool for employers to show the value of implementing workplace safety and health practices that keep employees safe while lowering work-related injury and illness costs.