Featured here, find a list of this year’s presentations/workshops. This page will continually be updated as new presentations are approved, then added. The list will feature topics, speaker name(s), company affiliation, and the ability to sort by and/or days being offered, so be sure to check back often!
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Reframe Your Risk: How conversations provide the highest impact metrics of your leaders, culture and risk
Jamie Dabbs, TDIndustries
Lively discussion on TDIndustries engagement journey and the disruption of the daily safety huddle. This journey resulted in a more robust and resilient daily planning activity and extreme growth in measurable safety engagement, with focuses on:
1. Impactful and effective opportunities to better engage the C-Suite
2. Measurable cultural alignment
3. Stronger leaders
This session will challenge you to identify ways to improve your own safety programs and ensure you are focused on the right KPIs to measure success. If you want to help your team produce daily planning sessions that you would be proud enough to share with the CEO, then this is the session for you!
Offered on:
Monday at 10:30am
Safe 4 the Right Reasons
Dale Lesinski , DiVal Safety
A safety message that motivates employees to practice safe behaviors because they WANT to, not because they HAVE to. “Safe 4 the Right Reasons” is personal, sustainable and proven with over a decade of success.
Offered on:
Monday at 10:30am
10-Hour General Industry Safety and Health Course – (2-day session)
Bryan Lane, University of Tennessee
Provides instruction on general industry safety and health hazards including walking/working surfaces; exits, fire; hazcom, and electrical. Participants who complete the course receive an OSHA 10-Hour General Industry card.
Offered on:
Monday at 10:30am
Tuesday at 8:00am
Permit to Work Systems and the Evolution to Control of Work
Scott Gaddis, Intelex Technologies
This session will explore understanding of PTW & COW programs and the process for defining work activity, risks, and required controls. We will discuss developing a good permit process, how to centralize permitting for review and permit authorization and evolving from PTW to COW.
Offered on:
Monday at 10:30am
The Violence Epidemic: Awareness & Response to Active Shooter Threats
Brink Fidler, Defend Systems
While workplace violence continues to escalate, forward thinking administrators and risk managers are looking at safeguards that can be taken to protect their employees. This workshop will explore ways to make existing facilities safer, safety design improvements, emergency preparedness, critical response, lessons learned from
tragedy, pre-attack indicators, actions that increase survivability, and more.
Offered on:
Monday at 10:30am
Confined Spaces
Jimmy Lee, Emergency Response Services, Inc.
Overview of the requirements in the Confined Space Entry Regulations to include; Confined Space and Permit Spaces by definition, Employer Responsibilities, Permit Program and Roles of Participating Employees including Rescue Services.
Offered on:
Monday at 1:00pm
Workplace Violence: Training for Tomorrow
Dr. Steve Webb, Safe Secure Systems
Join VPPPA Leader Magazine Author of the article “Are You Ready” and Board Certified Workplace Violence and Threat Assessment Specialist Dr. Steve Webb as he highlights research from recent workplace violence incidents and how his “Learner Mindset” can keep yourself and others S.A.F.E. in a world full of threats.
Offered on:
Monday at 1:00pm
Workplace Fatalities Investigated by TOSHA
Wendylee Fisher, TN Department of Labor & Workforce Development - TOSHA
This presentation will consist of photos and discussion surrounding the workplace fatalities that were investigated by TN OSHA during calendar year 2021.
Offered on:
Monday at 3:00pm
OSHA Injury & Recordkeeping Training (2-hr session)
William K. Principe, Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP
Bill will teach you the OSHA Injury and Illness Recordkeeping analysis, explaining what OSHA means by work-related, significant aggravation, and restricted work activity, covering the important OSHA interpretations, and addressing the recordkeeping analysis for COVID-19 cases.
Offered on:
Tuesday at 10:00am
From Good to Great-How Safety Can Be Transformed with Technology
Scott Gaddis, Intelex Technologies
This session will cover technology solutions and how data can be used to improve loss control. Topics covered will be new technologies, using data for prescriptive analysis, core safety applications that build a better SMS, and improving training and communication.
Offered on:
Tuesday at 10:00am
Tennessee Weather Disasters and How You Can Prepare for the Next One
Krissy Hurley, NWS Nashville, TN
Get your weather questions ready! Learn about weather disasters across Tennessee and the best ways to keep you and your family smart and safe before the next weather event strikes.
Offered on:
Tuesday at 10:00am
Leaving a Safety Legacy
Wylie Davidson, Legacy Safety Solutions
Leaving a Safety Legacy is a refreshing look at a presentation designed for attendees to put a stronger value on what matters most; their own personal safety as well as the people around them, both on the job and at home.
Offered on:
Tuesday at 11:00am
Why Professional Translation is a Critical Part of Safety
Diana Sanchez-Vega, Sanchez-Vega Communications, LLC
This presentation will address compliance risks and threats to health/safety resulting from workplace communication with limited English proficient workers provided by ‘makeshift’ interpreters and machine-only translations, and how to address these matters.
Offered on:
Tuesday at 11:00am
The Basics of Navigating the Life Safety Code and DNV’s Top Findings
Kelly Proctor CHFM, CHSP, CHOP, DNV Healthcare
This presentation will help participants understand the importance of navigating thru NFPA 101 and other NFPA standards. Additionally, it will provide participants a better understanding of how to determine what other NFPA standards apply to healthcare and how to know what edition to follow.
Offered on:
Tuesday at 11:00am
REWARD & Next Step Program
Brian Holmes, Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation
Discuss post work injury best practices to reduce workers’ compensation costs to employers and employees by returning injured workers back to work.
Offered on:
Tuesday at 2:00pm
The Impact of Heat Stress on the Workplace
Michael Callihan, The University of Alabama
This presentation will highlight the risk factors, signs and symptoms, and emergency treatment of heat stress.
Offered on:
Tuesday at 2:00pm
TOSHA Update
Wendylee Fisher, TN Department of Labor & Workforce Development - TOSHA
Wendylee Fisher, Asst. Commissioner (TOSHA) and Steve Hawkins, C.O.O. of FDRsafety, LLC, will provide information on recent state activities and the status of any upcoming or proposed changes in regulations.
Offered on:
Tuesday at 2:00pm
Infectious Disease in the Workplace
Michael Callihan, The University of Alabama
This presentation will highlight the history of respiratory infectious disease, risk factors for the spread of infectious disease, and mitigation techniques for limiting the exposure to infectious disease.
Offered on:
Wednesday at 8:00am
Basic Fire Hazards and Protections
Jere Wright, The Marvin Companies
We will discuss the basics of fire safety, prevention, plans and basic fire protection methods for your home.
Offered on:
Wednesday at 8:00am
Top 10 Most Cited
Mitchell Cothran, TOSHA – Department of Labor & Workforce Development
What violations are inspectors finding, and how can I prevent those hazards where I work? Well, let me show you the top 10 violations.
