BKN – Thursday Keynote – Inside the Winning Locker Room!

Jim Craig, Jim Craig
8:00am-9:30am, All Levels
1.25 POST
When Coach Herb Brooks began building the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, he said, “I’m not looking for the best players – I’m looking for the right ones.” Herb understood the importance of recruiting over hiring, and invested the appropriate time, research and energy into ensuring he had the right players on his roster. Herb’s meticulous recruiting paid off, as is evidenced by the inspiring victory by one of the greatest underdog teams in Olympic history. Through this session, learn best practices from the ‘Miracle’ team’s goalie himself on how to carefully qualify everyone you attach to your business, to recruit only the type of players who will best serve your team, and how to uncover your captain and team leader as you create the future for your teams and thereby your companies. Jim will share how his team was able to overcome unanticipated obstacles and provide you a framework to develop yourself and your own teams. Anything is possible if you Believe!

B01 – Safety for Effective Leaders-Empowering People to Work Safely!

John Drebinger, John Drebinger Presentations
10:30am-12:00pm, All Levels
John will help you celebrate your safety successes and teach you effective communication and motivational skills to empower your people to work safely. You will leave this session inspired with new tools, passion, and energy to work safely and continue to help your people build a stronger safety culture that prevents injuries, because it’s the right way to work! You will:
• Have a fun time re-energizing your passion for watching out for your safety and your employees at work and at home.
• Practice skills to empower your employees to take personal responsibility for their own safety and techniques to help them comfortably share safety with others.
• Avoid common leadership mistakes that undermine your safety message.
• Discover new ways to motivate employees to focus on the positive and stay away from negative attitudes and the blame others game.
• Be aware and learn techniques to overcome the hazards of complacency.
• Effectively convey your value-based safety message.
• Be congruent with what you say and do.
• Learn five reasons people “want to” watch out for the safety of others and
• Never feel regret knowing you could have prevented an injury.

B02 – Patient Care and Packaging for Confined Space and High Angle Environments

Troy Gardner/Brad Warr, ROCO Rescue
10:30am-5:00pm, Intermediate
6.5 LCCR
Safely moving a person who has been injured or has suffered a medical emergency can be challenging enough when working at ground level. What if that person is inside of a confined space or working on an elevated platform/structure? We will look at some of the most popular patient packaging devices used by rescue teams to safely transport a person to the ground where they can receive definitive medical care. Participants will have the opportunity to apply and ride inside of these various devices in a number of different configurations to fit the given environment. Course Max: 20

TO ATTEND OR NOT TO ATTEND….THAT IS THE QUESTION? Making the decision to send a rescuer along with a patient being moved in a high angle environment is a risk-based assessment. For many teams it is a skill that is not often practiced but when needed, is critical to the success of the event and/or the viability of the patient. Rescue attendants must have the vertical mobility to positions themselves where they will have the greatest impact on patient care and navigate the environment. We will discuss and demonstrate various techniques to accomplish this critical role.

B03 – Fall from Height Head Injury: A Patient Care Scenario

SIM ND
10:30am-12:00pm, Basic
1.5 LCCR
Using high-tech patient simulators, attendees will practice assessing and providing first aid to a patient with a head injury following a fall from height. Topics will include scene safety, spinal stabilization, signs and symptoms of traumatic brain injury, and teamwork and communication in an emergency environment. Course Max: 30

B04 – Building Employee Engagement for a Stronger Safety Culture

Eric Svendsen, Safety Culture
10:30am-12:00pm, All Levels
There is a proven correlation between higher levels of employee engagement and a stronger commitment to safe-work behaviors. Engaged employees are five times less likely to have an accident, seven times less likely to have a loss-time injury, and they cost the organization one-sixth the cost of unengaged employees. They are natural owners of their environment, are actively looking for opportunities to contribute, and are natural champions of leading a safety culture-if we just let them lead! This presentation explores the “how-to’s” and advantages of building employee engagement and ownership in our employees. Participants work in small groups to apply the drivers of engagement specifically to their own environment.

B05 – Traffic Control Around Open Excavation (Employee and Public Safety)

Dale Robinson, HR Safety Consulting, LLC
10:30am-12:00pm, All Levels
Did you know that many workers have been struck and killed while working around open excavations and even public traffic have entered work zones that were not properly marked. OSHA references the MUTCD for sign, signals and barricades in work zones and around excavations to protect employees and the public. This session will cover elements of controlling traffic and properly marking hazardous work zones.

B06 – Policy to Passion

Joe Melton/Bill Spreeman, CSSI
10:30am-12:00pm, Basic-Intermediate
This seminar explores the evolution from a traditional safety culture to an engaged culture owned and driven by an empowered and impassioned workforce. Traditional (lagging indicators) and innovative (leading indicators) performance metrics will be reviewed. This information is intended for experienced safety and operations leaders seeking to accomplish world-class performance levels sustained by an engaged workforce. We will explore how incorporating a passion for safety can change an organization and provide a motivating case study. This seminar is an excellent opportunity for organizations who desire to be top in class in all things they do, especially safety.

B07 – New to Safety

Danny Smith, SafeStart
10:30am-12:00pm, All Levels

Given today’s business climate, many managers find themselves with safety as “another hat to wear” in addition to their regular duties. This may be especially true with individuals in small to medium sized companies where down-sizing, reductions in force, and the overall drive to “do more with less” have occurred. This session focuses on the major concerns safety managers have and explore ways to gain support from all levels of the organization. At the conclusion of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
1. Determine “where to start” in their safety journey – both personally and for their employers.
2. Evaluate the current status of their safety program versus best practices.
3. Develop a plan to get buy-in, participation, and engagement from all levels of their organization.

B08 – Going from Good to Great: Transforming Safety Performance with Technology – REPEAT

Scott Gaddis/Justin McElhattan, Intelex Technologies
10:30am-12:00pm, All Levels
Safety professionals have access to more safety technologies than ever before. However, most organizations are still working on paper and spreadsheets within siloed data systems – unable to achieve great performance. This session will cover technology solutions and key applications that will transform safety programs for the better. You’ll learn about new technologies for safety, core safety applications that build a better safety management system, technologies that will improve training and communication, using big data and prescriptive analytics to improve performance, and how to improve safety from your mobile device.

B09 – Reasonable Suspicion of Drugs

Travis Jacobson, Minnkota Power
10:30am-12:00pm, All Levels
1.5 ICCR, 1.5 POST
In order for employers to keep a safe working environment for their employees, it is important to have a reasonable suspicion program in place. This presentation will touch on some signs and symptoms that employers can use to formulate reasonable suspicion and potentially lead to drug testing the employee. I will help boost the confidence of Supervisors, etc. to act on signs and symptoms that an employee exhibits and feel confident that they should go to the next level to report reasonable suspicion of drugs on the job. The presentation will talk about what steps to take after you have formulated reasonable suspicion (e.g. “The Meeting,” documentation, process, testing, employee assistance program, etc.).

B10 – Selling Safety – 3 Key Elements Safety Pros Need to Close the Deal

Joel Ferguson/Sam Gubler, Grainger
10:30am-12:00pm, Intermediate
Most safety professionals did not pursue the safety profession to be salespeople. However, salespeople have superior influential skills that are critical to our role as safety professionals and our ability to protect people, property, and the environment. As safety professionals develop, much focus is placed on technical skills, the ability to interpret codes, standards, and best practices and implement them into system design and policy development. Safety, however, does not happen without the element of people, and the buy-in of all people within the organization can make or break the implementation of safety initiatives and the development of safety culture. Safety professionals must add to their core competencies the skills common among salespeople to have influential conversations, demonstrate safety’s value, and align this value to the organization.

B11 – Noise Regulations: Insight on the OSHA Hearing Conservation Standard and the Tools to Appropriately Monitor Your Worker

Rob Brauch, AccuTec-IHS, Inc. 
10:30am-12:00pm, Intermediate-Advanced
An in depth look at the hearing conservation standard. We will address when to use the OSHA PEL standard, when to use the OSHA HC standard and how the two OSHA standards differ from one another and the ACGIH standard. Having a better understanding of the standards, the presentation will shift focus to accurate measurements and exposure predictions.

B12 – You Can’t Bubble Wrap the World

Danny Smith, SafeStart
1:30pm-2:30pm, All Levels
1 ICCR
In industrial safety, the hierarchy of controls is very effective in reducing injuries. However, statistically most worker injuries occur outside of the workplace – where industrial controls are not applicable. While we can’t bubble wrap the world, we can teach employees personal safety skills they can use 24/7.

B13 – “What’s Wrong with Fred?” A Patient Care Scenario

SIM ND
1:30pm-3:45pm, Basic
2.25 NCCR, 2.25 POST
Using high-fidelity simulators, purposeful debriefing, and deliberate practice techniques learners will have a hands-on opportunity to manage 3 different kinds of patients. Learners will be confident recognizing signs of a stroke, managing an opioid overdose, and using a team-based approach to CPR with an AED. Course Max: 30

B14 – Grain Handling Safety

Joe Melton/Bill Spreeman, CSSI
1:30pm-2:30pm, Basic-Intermediate
In this session we will cover the most cited OSHA 1910.272 standards, while discussing solutions and techniques for compliance with these standards. We will cover common exposures in the Grain Industry and recent events for Workshop learning moments. The presenter has 15 years’ experience in grain handling operations and grain safety. This experience will lead to an interactive question and answer session. The presenter has performed over 300 mock OSHA audits on grain handling and processing facilities. Attendees are encouraged to come ready with questions and mindset for learning.

B15 – The Lone Worker!

Dale Robinson, HR Safety Consulting LLC
1:30pm-2:30pm, All Levels
Lone workers are found in a wide range of situations and are those who work by themselves without direct supervision. OSHA does not have a specific requirement to develop and implement a work alone policy in the USA. But failure to have a policy could be considered a General Duty OSHA requirement and has been cited by OSHA in the past under the General Duty Clause. This session will discuss and introduce ways to protect, communicate and monitor the lone worker.

B16 – Believe in Safety

Brandon Schroeder, Believe in Safety
1:30pm-2:30pm, All Levels
Brandon Schroeder was an active tradesman for 15 years before one day changed his perspective on safety forever. August 24, 2011 should have been listed as Brandon’s date of death, but it was instead his catalyst for change. Brandon was involved in an arc flash accident that shook a building over a block away from the accident site. He was lucky enough to survive, not without a fight, and chose to tell his story to thousands worldwide to affect change in how employees view safety. Listen to Brandon as he recounts the events of the tragic day that nearly took his life, outlays the contributing factors, and informs your employees regarding retrospective avoidance techniques. Brandon brings safety into real world application, so your employees walk away with techniques on how to make safety a priority in their daily lives.

B17 – Unleashing Safety Culture through Control of Process Variability

Scott Gaddis, Intelex Technologies
1:30pm-2:30pm, Intermediate-Advanced
There’s no magic bullet for an easy and quick fix when it comes to building a safety culture. Every organization is unique and dynamic in nature, and each has its own personality. This presentation will explore safety management systems regarding the right focus areas, key program elements, finding and prioritizing gaps, and how best to mitigate such risks with practical programming. An event case study will be covered and how to identify the right risks in your management system, root cause understanding, and how new technologies will threaten or help your safety performance. Understanding adaptable safety process models, and how best to leverage system growth and robustness through new human factor approaches is the goal of this session.

B18 – Return to Work Services Overview

Osten Richter, WSI
1:30pm-2:30pm, Basic
This session is an overview of the services provided by Return to Work of Workforce Safety & Insurance. Return to Work supports the Claims Department to facilitate a safe and efficient return to work for injured employees. The team’s purpose is to educate, assist, and coordinate while working collaboratively to provide support for injured employees.

B19 – Coaching Safety-Leadership Performance and Behaviors

Eric Svendsen, Safety Culture
1:30pm-3:45pm, All Levels
2.25 POST
Safety leadership must be reinforced through coaching, and coaching must be done in a way that transfers ownership for performance and behavioral changes to the person who is being coached. Our coaching method starts with communicating a concrete goal against which current levels of performance and behaviors are measured. Participants learn established coaching principles, how to generate options for improvements with the person they are coaching, and how to transfer ownership for those improvements and gain a solid commitment for improvements from the person who is being coached.

B20 – Competent Person for Trenching and Excavating

Scott Overson, OSHA
1:30pm-2:30pm, All Levels
During this one-hour presentation, OSHA will define and explain the responsibilities of the competent person in trenching and excavating. This will include an in-depth review of the requirements of the competent person to classify soil, define the protective systems and plan for emergency response.

B21 – Using the Right Metrics to Evolve your Safety Program

Joel Ferguson/Sam Gubler, Grainger
1:30pm-2:30pm, Basic
What information are we missing? How do we get the right metrics? What do we do with them? As safety leaders, these questions are common when wrestling different injury logs, LOTO audits, etc. We are going to look at the identification of metrics that should be captured in a safety program, recognition of how leading and lagging indicators affect approach to safety, and finally the measurement methods to improve safety culture and performance. Join us as we look at what we have, what we need, how to get it, and how to use it!

B22 – Using Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) to Enhance Workplace Safety

Lori Guasta, NSC
2:45pm-3:45pm, All Levels
1 POST
Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) is an operating philosophy combining human factors engineering with organizational psychology. The goal of HOP is to create more efficient, more resilient, and safer workplaces where employees and leaders are both engaged and valued by each other and the organization. This session will provide an overview of the six key HOP principles to enhance workplace safety.

1. Everyone makes mistakes
2. Employees are masters at adaptive problem solving
3. Organizational context drives employees’ actions, behaviors, and decisions
4. Leadership response to failure matters
5. Blame fixes nothing
6. Improvement happens through learning

B23 – Why Training Fails – Lessons in the Field

John Young, NDSC
2:45pm-5:00pm, Intermediate
You have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on training. You have a written safety and health program. However, during your accident investigation you determine that training was a root cause contributor to this accident. During this class, John Young will discuss and identify the most common training failures he observed during his 20 years of conducting investigations and provide suggestion to reduce or mitigate training failures.

B24 – Windshield Time: Managing Safety with your Drivers and Fleet

Jason Uhlir, Minnkota
2:45pm-3:45pm, Basic
1 POST
We will cover strategies that can be used to reduce risk related to company vehicles and employee miles driven. Driving being one of the most dangerous things employees do daily, this session will provide many options to help companies improve the safety performance of both their drivers and their fleet.

B25 – Four Components of OSHA 1910.147

Bill Belongia, Master Lock
2:45pm-3:45pm, Intermediate
This session will focus on a critical breakdown of 1910.147 and allow attendees to understand the requirements and best practices within four components of Lockout Compliance. As they are built, efficient work practices are created to produce satisfactory results. Benefits and Takeaways from this session include the following:
• What important inclusions within your Lockout Policy you may be missing.
• How identification of hazardous energy will produce compliant Equipment-Specific Lockout Procedures for your machinery, and how Task-Based Sectional Lockout can enhance your Lockout Management System.
• Creative ideas on Training and assignment of roles and responsibilities within your Lockout Program.
• Methods of efficient Lockout Auditing, Reviewing, and Inspecting that capture changes throughout your Lockout Program.

B26 – Would You Watch Out For My Safety

John Drebinger, John Drebinger Presentations
2:45pm-3:45pm, All Levels
1 ICCR
Learn how to be your brother’s keeper in a positive and comfortable way. John gives people the “why” and “how” of working safely and the benefits of bringing that same safety mindset home with them. He shares proven techniques to make people feel empowered to approach others in a safe and comfortable way, when conveying their safety concerns. You will leave this session with new tools, passion, and energy to help your people work safely at work and bring that same safety mindset home with them. You will:
• Have a fun time re-energizing your passion for watching out for your safety and the people around you.
• Use skills to empower and care about each other’s safety and techniques to help you comfortably share safety with others.
• Learn how to recognize and handle distractions safely and refocus when distractions occur.
• Discover and develop successful skills to correct un-resourceful behaviors in an effective and inoffensive way.
• Understand how to respond when someone watches out for their safety; and know the “how-to” of being their brother’s keeper.

B27 – First and Goal

Joe Melton, CSSI
2:45pm-3:45pm, Basic-Intermediate
In this session, Joe will review the safety climate and the steps that it takes to move from good to great. He will focus on developing a world-class, top of your industry safety organization and share dashboard ideas on how to get there.

B28 – Capabilities and Limitations of Real-Time Personal Exposure Monitors

Brian Liddell, USDOL/OSHA Health Response Team
2:45pm-3:45pm, Intermediate
OSHA’s Health Response Team has investigated many accidents and fatalities related to chemical exposures in the oil and gas industry. In many of these cases, improper selection, maintenance or use of gas detection meters by employers and workers was a contributing factor to the accident or fatality. This presentation will discuss example cases to illustrate the importance of employers and workers understanding the capabilities and limitations of gas detection meters.

CANCELLED – B29 – Safety Technology Pilot & Implementation Roadmap: Making Innovation Accessible

Dylan Staack, REPSS
2:45pm-3:45pm, Basic
An overview of the instrumentation available to assist the EHS professional accurately monitor their exposures. The session will look at various tools for monitoring, and will be a guideline for the EHS professional when choosing those instruments. The session will include instruments for hands on display and demo following the delivered material.

B30 – 101s of NFPA 70E and Key Changes Over the Past Years

Kam Alipour, Cintas
2:45pm-3:45pm, Basic-Intermediate
During this session, you will learn the key basics of staying in compliance with NFPA 70e when it comes to protecting your electrical workers. Learn about Arc Flash Assessments, proper PPE standards, why not all FR is the same and much more. This will help you build out a proper program or help fill in any gaps you are missing in your current program.

B31 – OSHA Update – REPEAT

Scott Overson, OSHA
4:00pm-5:00pm, All Levels
This presentation will give an overview of key rulemaking activities currently affecting business and industry.

B32 – Improve Accountability and Efficiency in your Lockout Management System

Bill Belongia, Master Lock
4:00pm-5:00pm, Basic
We will dissect how 1910.147(c)(5) applies selection criteria to identify your program’s optimal safety padlocks and drive efficiency in your facility. Learn how decisions on lock features and methods of deployment impact accountability, efficiency, and compliance. Learn how to choose the optimal safety padlock for your facility and/or program based on the type of lockout being performed and who is performing it. You will also learn strategies to set up your lock and key management system to comply with OSHA 1910.147(c)(5).

B33 – 29.CRF.1910 Blah, Blah, Blah: What Comes Next Makes All the Difference

Danny Smith, SafeStart
4:00pm-5:00pm, All Levels
Compliance training is obviously required, but does it go far enough? If your safety program is only meeting minimal requirements, then it’s likely that it’s not keeping your workers as safe as possible. Moving from basics to best practices that address human factors can produce more reliable and predictable outcomes. Attendees will learn how to: distinguish the differences between technical and people systems, evaluate the effectiveness of their existing training programs in addressing the human factors that impact outcome reliability, and identify key areas where their company’s safety processes could be improved by utilizing a holistic approach to move beyond compliance.

B34 – Safety vs. Risk Management: The Balancing Act

Jason Uhlir, Minnkota
4:00pm-5:00pm, Intermediate
Safety and Risk Management are two important topics for businesses that commonly get confused. Even more challenging is the fact that often the two topics are “hats” worn by the same manager. This session is intended to cover the basic principles of “safety” and “risk management” and focus on the times these two topics don’t exactly align. Participants will leave with a better understanding of each topic, and strategies that can be used to help limit liability to themselves or their companies.

B35 – Workplace Violence: Using Technology to Reduce Risk

Kenna Carlsen, NSC
4:00pm-5:00pm, All Levels
1 ICCR, 1 POST
Unfortunately, none of us can say, “This won’t happen where I work.” Workplace violence is a chronic threat across all industries and occupations, but technology solutions exist today to better protect your workforce. Join us as we dive into the new Workplace Violence: Using Technology to Reduce Risk report and playbook from the Work to Zero initiative at the National Safety Council. This resource equips organizations with information and solutions, and examines key steps employers can take.
• Designating a workplace violence prevention task force
• Conducting regular table-top exercises or simulations
• Utilizing technology to prevent workplace hazards
• Fostering a workplace culture where psychological safety is prioritized.

All employers should have a Workplace Violence Prevention Plan in place to be prepared for the worst, and this session will help you better protect your workplace.

B36 – Real-Time Exposure Monitoring Provides More than a Warning of Unsafe Conditions

Jedd Hill, USDOL/OSHA Salt Lake Technical Center
4:00pm-5:00pm, Intermediate
Real-time monitors are an essential resource to notify workers of potentially hazardous conditions. Yet these monitors are more than just an alarm, they often collect and provide essential data that can be used to assess exposures where high concentrations and/or IDLH conditions are possible. This presentation will discuss potential strategies and opportunities to utilize data from personal monitors to better protect worker health and safety.

B37 – Introduction to Workers Compensation – Claims 101

Reyne Richter, WSI
4:00pm-5:00pm, Basic
1 POST
When someone is injured at work, do you know what to do? Claims 101 will focus on the claims process and philosophies. We will focus on the importance of having a claims management philosophy, the importance of injury reporting timeliness, and developing a return-to-work program. Managing a claim is a team effort, so we will discuss the team players.

B38 – Combining Electrical Maintenance and Your Electrical Safety Program. Are You Prepared?

Joe Schommer, RESA Power
4:00pm-5:00pm, All Levels
The world of electrical maintenance, electrical hazard protection and accident prevention can be a confusing place. Learn best practices in regard to ensuring that your Electrical Maintenance Program and your Electrical Safety Programs are working in concert with each other. Be prepared by arming yourself with the knowledge of the types of Preventive and Predictive Maintenance being implemented within the electrical power distribution systems throughout our industries.