16th ANNUAL UPPER MICHIGAN

SAFETY CONFERENCE

Friday, April 29, 2016

Bay College Besse Center KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

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44 North

Accident Fund Insurance Company of America

AGC Michigan

Airgas

American Transmission Company

Besse Forest Products Group

Boss Products, a Div. Of the Toro Company

Brown Rehab and Review Management

Champion Inc.

CJ Graphics Inc.

Connor Sports

Eagle Mine

Enbridge

Grede Casting Integrity

Gundlach Champion Inc

Hastings Air Energy Control, Inc.

J. F. Ahern Co.

LP Sagola

Marquette Board of Light and Power

Master Lock

Michigan Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing (M-CAM)

Midway Rentals and Sales

MIOSHA

Northern Michigan University Public Safety/Police Services

Northern Machining and Repair, Inc.

OK Industrial Supply

Operating Engineers 324 Training Center

Potlatch Corporation

Pro-Tec Equipment

Roy Ness Contracting & Sales

Superior Extrusion, Inc.

Total Tool Supply Inc

Trimedia Environmental & Engineering Services

UPPCO

VAST

Verso

7:00 am Check In/Continental Breakfast

8:00 am MIOSHA Welcome and Michigan Workers Memorial Day Roll Call

Keynote Speaker Eric Giguere “The Buried Truth”

9:45 am Session 1

11:00 am Session 2

12 noon Lunch/Vendor Viewing

12:45 pm Session 3

2:00 pm Session 4

3:15 pm Evaluations & Door Prizes

Lunch will be served at 12 noon in Café Bay

Dessert will be served in the exhibit area so participants can visit our vendors and sponsors

“The Buried Truth”

Hear the amazing

story about when

Eric was buried

alive when a trench

collapsed while on

the job.

AGENDA & KEYNOTE SPEAKER

2015-2016 SAFETY COUNCIL MEMBERS

Evaluations & Door Prize @ 3:15 pm

SESSION 1 9:45 AM

Confined Space in Construction Presented by Paul Wrzesinski, Director of Safety Health & Environmental with AGC of Michigan

This presentation is an overview of the new MIOSHA Part 35 Confined Space in Construction for employers/employees whose

work is regulated by the MIOSHA Construction Safety standards. The focus of the session is to provide "awareness" of the new

regulation requirements and the hazards associated with confined spaces. Topics that will be part of the presentation include:

1) Understanding of the hazards involved with confined spaces, 2) The necessary precautions to eliminate or provide

protection from the hazards, 3) Rescue options, and 4) Employee roles as part of the entry team.

Trenching, Shoring and Excavating Hazards Presented by Matt McClintick, Director of Safety & Workforce Development with Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association (Mita) The goal of this Part 9, Trenching, Shoring & Excavation presentation is to heighten awareness of the hazards related to excavations and trenches. Interaction with the attendees is used to identify hazards from specific job site inspections and appeals from actual MIOSHA citations. Methods for measuring and calculating angle of repose for compliance, and new resources in technology will also be reviewed.

The ABC’s for Success in All We Do

Presented by Dr. Jim Surrell, Author Dr. Jim Surrell, author of “SOS”, returns to the Safety Conference to deliver his 26 words of wisdom and his simple guide to

wellness and success. If your workplace needs a wellness boost, then join the Doctor as he covers A – Attitude, B – Believe,

and C – Choices and Consequences. Great session for all workplaces interested in improving the morale of their employees.

Are you Weather Ready? Presented by Matt Zika, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with National Weather Services in Marquette Significant weather threats exist – ranging from dangerous winter storms to hazards associated with summertime

thunderstorms. Are you and your employees weather ready? Does your employer have a Weather Safety Action Plan in place?

Join Matt as he looks back on significant weather events over the last few years and shares examples where Weather Safety

Action Plans in the workplace have reduced injuries and loss of life.

Active Shooter/Incident Presented by Guy LaPlante, Detective-Lieutenant with NMU Public Safety We often think that workplace shooter incidents are happening elsewhere in the world and will never happen here. The truth

is – it’s happening here. The focus of this presentation is to open your mind to the reality of violence and how vulnerable

people can be and how to prepare for turning the tables on a situation. Learn what to do in a critical incident where threats

are imminent. Learn how to deal with fear and how you will react from simple practiced training habits. Can you interrupt the

cycle of your assailant and fight back? What have you done to prepare yourself or your colleagues against violent acts? These

are basic housekeeping tactics open for discussion that people need to be practicing in the work place.

Basic Hazardous Materials/DOT General Awareness Presented by Dustin Rayburn with FRG Corporation Are you employed in an industry that involves the preparation or transportation of hazardous materials? This basic awareness

presentation will cover the purpose, scope, and applicability of the DOT regulations and your responsibility for DOT

compliance. In addition, a review of basic safety practices that should be used in the event of a transportation incident

involving hazardous materials will be covered.

SESSION 2 11:00 AM

Working Safely Together—Construction Safety Presented by John Hartwell, Apprentice Coordinator with Operating Engineers 324 JATF Working safely takes teamwork! Operating Engineers (OE) 324 has great partners they work with to ensure the latest safety

techniques and standards are shared throughout the construction industries. This presentation will give attendees an overview

of relationships that OE 324 has with various entities such as MIOSHA, MSHA, MUSAR, MDOT and others. Attendees will gain

an understanding of how these relationships benefit contractors, owners, and end users. Attendees will also gain an

understanding of how these relationships are formed and how they can get involved.

Rigging Safety Presented by Bob Biddle, Millwright Instructor with Michigan Carpenter & Millwright Apprenticeship Training Do you know and understand the OSHA and MSHA guidelines for Basic Rigging? These guidelines establish uniform

requirements to ensure that the hazards associated with rigging are evaluated, safety procedures implemented, and that the

proper hazard information is conveyed to all affected employees. This presentation will overview the hazards associated with

rigging as well as proper rigging practices.

Basic Safety Committee – What every company should have! Presented by Michael Taylor, CSP, Senior Loss Control Consultant with Accident Fund Insurance Company of America What every company should have! Come learn what you are doing well, could be doing better or how to get a Safety

Committee started within your organization. Examples will be provided of what a committee should be performing regularly

to be an effective part of creating that safety culture that we all strive for in offering a safe work environment for our

employees.

Preparing Yourself for Dog Encounters and Attacks Presented by Hector L. Hernandez, Speaker, Trainer, and Author Do you encounter canines while on the job? Teaching you how to stay safe in a dog encounter is this trainer’s main objective.

Hector will demonstrate how "reading a dog's body language" can teach you the difference between a harmless encounter and

a potentially dangerous one, as well as how to react to both. Having the ability to understand and teach the body language and

behavior between human and dog….that is what could save dog and human life.

Respiratory Protection Presented by Curtis Johnson, Senior Industrial Hygienist with MIOSHA Do you know what the MIOHSA Respiratory Protection program requirements are? This presentation will summarize employer

requirements under established rules and regulations. Requirements for workplace monitoring and use of respiratory

protective equipment, both mandatory and on a volunteer/comfort use, will be covered.

Executive Safety Round Table Presented by Honor F. Sheard, Health and Environmental Safety & Security Manager with Marathon Petroleum Co. And Ron Bonner, P.E., Global Safty Manager with Ford Motor Co. Join us for the Executive Safety Round Table, as we welcome Honor Sheard, Marathon Petroleum Company and Ron Bonner,

Ford Motor Company, to this year’s Safety Conference. This two person panel will discuss how top executives and managers

have committed to ensuring their employees stay safe while working. These safety professionals will also share the steps they

have taken to become forward-thinking safety leaders in a global market. This presentation is intended for extended

discussions, with questions and answers that allow for learning and professional exchange.

THANK YOU TO ALL

OUR CONFERENCE SPONSORS

SESSION 3 12:45 PM

The “A,B,C,D/R” of Fall Protection Part I (two hour outdoor presentation) Presented by Patrick Harel, Territory Manager with Capital Safety Patrick returns to deliver his popular fall protection demonstration. The two-hour session will cover the standards related to

working at heights in various industries. The program will focus on the personal fall arrest systems (PFAS), harness, connector,

anchor and rescue. Attendees will be able to watch as a load cell test weight is dropped to simulate the impact forces on the

body in free fall – a visual you don’t want to miss! Suspension trauma will be addressed along with a discussion on why the

need for a proper onsite rescue plan is so important. “Because a portion of this presentation is conducted outdoors, please

remember to dress accordingly”.

High Line Power Demonstration Presented by Jim Tefft, Supervisor Field Operatons with WE Energies The Highline Demo is illustrated using a 7,000 volt scaled model of a distribution power line commonly found in residential

areas. This demonstration creates real life electrical hazards, offering the opportunity to teach the audience what to do and

not do when faced with one of these hazards. The hazards covered are: a wire on the ground; a wire on a car; buried

underground wires; trees and overhead wires; kites, and your service entrance into a home. The demo stresses the

importance of staying away from down lines and using the one call “Miss Dig” system in Michigan and the “Diggers Hotline” in

Wisconsin. Q & A follows the presentation.

NEW Silica Rules Presented by Lex Koltowicz , Project Industrial Hygienists with TriMedia Environmental & Engineering OSHA has proposed a new rule for silica exposure across all industries that will simplify but significantly lower the permissible

exposure limit (PEL). A new PEL, combined with the ongoing silica enforcement priority for OSHA field staff, could present

compliance issues for construction, demolition, and renovation contractors. This presentation will explain the laws and

proposed PEL in straightforward terms. It also explores what we know about current exposure levels from common work

activities and how to meet compliance requirements for the proposed rule in the most cost-effective and efficient manner.

Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention (SHARP) Presented to Todd Dunn, Retired, Michigan Department of Corrections Violence in the workplace is becoming all too common. Join Todd as he gives an overview of the Sexual Harassment and Rape

Prevention (SHARP) course developed by Pressure Point Control Tactics (PPCT). SHARP training has been specifically designed

for use when control methods and assault prevention methods are required. Principles and strategies for effectively reducing

the likelihood of assault using actual techniques of countering an attack are stressed in this program. SHARP covers not only

the laws pertinent to sexual harassment, passive and active assault, but also how to avoid it and how to counter it with

controlled measures, verbal and physical techniques (including limited use of force).

Are You A Safety Leader? Presented by Brian Kellogg, Senior Occupational Safety Consultant with MIOSHA Safety & Health is not just a role that belongs to supervisors. A supervisor maintains what has already been established while a

leader moves the organization forward and develops new strategies and tactics. Your title does not designate who or who is

not a leader. This program will discuss concepts and ideas of leadership in safety and health from the top to the newest team

member of the workforce.

Lockout/Tagout (LOTO)

Presented by Steve Bastian, QSSP, Certified Lockout Practitioner with Master Lock Company

Thousands of work accidents occur while repairing or servicing industrial equipment. Most of those accidents are due to

energy sources that have not been isolated, in fact thousands of injuries and multiple death occur due to failure to properly

lockout. Master Lock, a leader in LOTO, will present on the need for LOTO, who is affected by it, and the steps to safely isolate

and lockout hazardous energy. OSHA Standard for the Control of Hazardous Energy (CFR 29, Part 1910.147).

SESSION 4 2:00 PM

The “A,B,C,D/R” of Fall Protection Part II (two hour outdoor presentation) Presented by Patrick Harel, Territory Manager with Capital Safety Patrick returns to deliver his popular fall protection demonstration. The two-hour session will cover the standards related to

working at heights in various industries. The program will focus on the personal fall arrest systems (PFAS), harness, connector,

anchor and rescue. Attendees will be able to watch as a load cell test weight is dropped to simulate the impact forces on the

body in free fall – a visual you don’t want to miss! Suspension trauma will be addressed along with a discussion on why the

need for a proper on site rescue plan is so important. “Because a portion of this presentation is conducted outdoors, please

remember to dress accordingly”.

Safety Can Be Fun! Presented by Pamla Lauscher, Communications Leader with Verso Corporation Safety is a serious topic, but it doesn’t have to be boring! Back by popular demand from our 2015 conference, Pam will give

you ideas that incorporate fun activities into your presentations that are relevant to your training and assist in the delivery of

your message. This presentation will be filled with handouts, games, video clips and other ideas that you can take back to your

work place to enhance the quality of your safety program. This is designed to be a fun and interactive session that will

encourage employee involvement and participation. Safety can be fun!

Scene Safety at a Pipeline Incident Presented by Lamar Kelley, Senior Safety Coordinator with Enbridge Pipelines and underground utilities are everywhere, including the Upper Peninsula. Are you prepared to support a pipeline

incident if it happens in your community? This session will provide an overview of the Enbridge U.S. liquids pipeline system and

route, which will provide general background on the commodities shipped through our underground pipeline system. We will

then review how to respond to pipeline emergencies, including scene safety at an event per Enbridge response and teaming

up with our local first responders. We'll wrap up with a Q&A and review training opportunities with Enbridge. We'll also

provide information about our Safe Communities grant opportunities.

Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management Presented by Mary Ann St. Antoine, Environmental Quality Analyst with Michigan DEQ This overview presentation will introduce you to hazardous waste regulations including accumulation, storage and labeling,

waste characterization and generator status. Do you know if your waste is hazardous, liquid industrial by-product or non-

hazardous? Changes in the liquid industrial waste, Part 121 (Liquid Industrial By-Products) including the elimination of the

uniform hazardous waste manifest will be covered in this important safety waste management presentation.

Eye Injury Prevention and First Aid Presented by Joe Cherry with Cherry Optical Incorporated Knowing what to do for an eye emergency can save valuable time and possibly prevent vision loss. This presentation will focus

on eye injuries, first aid procedures in the workplace, work environment/vision hazards, special safety eyewear protection and

the proper eye protection materials needed to prevent harm to the eyes. Information regarding appropriate safety eyeglass

standards will also be covered.

Chainsaw Safety Presented by Chuck Oslund, Class “C” Advanced Sawyer Chainsaw Instructor/Operator Every year over 165,000 people are injured while using chain saws in the United States. Chainsaws are relatively common and

may seem simple to use, but using a chainsaw, clearing brush, and felling trees are operations that require training and proper

safety precautions. This presentation covers the essential preparations and procedure requirements and illustrates why

training and practice are essential to the safe operation of the “most dangerous hand tool” purchased on the open market.

REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION

The Annual Safety Conference is held on the Bay College campus in the

Besse Center

The Exhibit Area/Networking is available ALL day

Visit our sponsors and exhibitors during dedicated time between sessions and throughout the day.

Paid registrants are eligible to win door prizes.

CLICK HERE TO BEGIN

YOUR REGISTRATION

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CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Thank you to the Michigan Coalition for Advanced

Manufacturing (M-CAM) for their sponsorship at this year’s

Safety Conference

VISIT OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER

ERIC GIGUERE’S WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE:

http://www.safetyawarenesssolutions.com

EXECUTIVE SAFETY ROUND TABLE

Join us for the Executive Safety Round Table, as we welcome Honor Sheard, Marathon Petroleum Company and Ron Bonner, Ford Motor Company, to this year’s Safety Conference. This two person panel will discuss how their top executives and managers have committed to ensuring their employees stay safe while working. These safety professionals will also share the steps they have taken to become forward thinking safety leaders in a global market. This presentation is intended for extended discussions, with questions and answers that allow for learning and professional exchange. The Executive Round Table is in Session II.

MIOSHA Welcome and Michigan Workers Memorial Day Roll Call

Nella Davis-Ray, Director, Consultation Education and Training (CET)

Workers Memorial Day is observed every year on April 28. It is a day to honor those workers who have died on the job; to acknowledge the grievous suffering experienced by families and communities, and to recommit

ourselves to the fight for safe and healthful workplaces for all workers.

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