General Workshops
Round 2
Thursday, 10:30 - 11:45 am
Round 2
Thursday, 10:30 - 11:45 am
Applications for Powered Air Purifying Respirators
Ted Buck, QSSP
Franklin Room
Construction and industrial environments generate and utilize a variety of toxic gases and particulate matter. Increased concentration levels of these contaminants make these areas often hazardous for employees and contractors. This session will examine the different types of air purifying respirators, examine the OSHA standards regarding classification, explain the various Powered Air Purifying (PAPR) applications, and demonstrate the equipment with student participation. Participants will learn:
- Best applications and work environments for PAPRs;
- Limitations for air purifying respirator devices; and
- Hands-on assembly and use of an actual device.
Ergonomics: Designing Your Work to Your Population
Michael Chapman, EdD, LAT, ATC
Grant Room
This session provides safety and organizational leaders a baseline industry knowledge of human movement, biomechanics, and ergonomic principles used to improve your process. In addition, the presentation will dive into best practices associated with musculoskeletal disorder risk identification, and mitigating solution development to support your organizations injury prevention programs. Participants will learn how to:
- Define the concepts of human movement, biomechanics, and ergonomics as well as the importance to workplace health and safety;
- Describe the various types of ergonomic hazards and how they affect employee safety;
- Discuss the benefits of implementing ergonomic best practices in the workplace;
- Review industry standard ergonomic tools utilized in evaluating musculoskeletal disorder risk; and
- Identify best practices to develop MSD risk reduction solutions in the workplace.
Head, Heart, Ownership: Nucor’s H2O Based Safety
Tanner Cloyd
Taylor Room
Head, Heart, Ownership. Nucor Gallatin’s Behavior-Based Safety program revolves around these words. Are our heads in the game? Do we care about our teammates to have tough conversations? Are we willing to say STOP when something isn’t right? This session discusses Nucor Steel Gallatin’s journey to develop a behavior-based safety program focused on three (3) core criteria: Highly Effective, Simple to Use, and Led by Teammates.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Hazard Reporting Program
Steve Hilton
Russell Room
This session addresses the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s (KYTC) near miss program - Safety Opportunity Report. The presentation is designed for detecting unsafe work practices and reporting near misses. There are no apps to download, and it is compatible with I-Devices, Androids, and PC friendly. The goal of the presentation is to eliminate hazards and employee incidents by being proactive rather than reactive. It gives every KYTC employee the ability to report near misses or unsafe work practices from any location and anonymously. The Safety Opportunity Report QR code can be scanned with an employee’s smart device camera and from there the employee is directed how to report the condition.
Safety Culture and Whistle Blower Protection
Scotty Dunlap, EdD, CSP, and Eddie Runyon, AA, BS
Oldham Room
Organizations can capitalize on developing safety as a critical component of organizational culture. However, when this is not carried out well, workers might feel the need to engage in whistle blowing when they believe they are at risk and management has not responded to their concerns. This session addresses the key elements of integrating safety into organizational culture and the elements of whistle blowing protection and the subsequent investigative process. This presentation will allow you to identify ways in which organizational culture can be developed to include safety and whistle blowing ramifications when workers do not believe they are working in a safety environment.