Tuesday, April 13, 2010
7:30 am
Registration and Safety Tradeshow Opens
8:30 – 10:00am
Opening Remarks
Safety and Health Week
Opening Keynote
Presentation:
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE SMALL STUFF!
As safety people we live in a world of email, meetings
and interruptions that distract us from what is most important. It's
our job to help lead our workplaces to be safer and healthier. In “It’s
All About The Small Stuff” Hugh D. Culver MBA, CSP
demystifies leadership to reveal the surprising and often overlooked
habits of great leaders. Fast paced, hilarious and totally
practical, this is the perfect message as you plan for 2010
and redirect your team from “busy-ness” to building
human strength, community and results. You will learn:
- Why you need to be Goal Driven and Success
Ready
- How to move from crazy-busy to focussed and
productive
- Why you need to Clean your Window to get more
of what you want
- The value of asking!
Hugh’s adventure exploits have taken him
from the arctic to the Antarctic, from mountain peaks to the
rapids of some of the wildest rivers. While his business adventures
have included a private airline, real estate, tourism and consulting
to leading organizations like: Imperial Oil, Shoppers Drug
Mart, Royal Bank of Canada, Sun Rype Products, Telus, and the
Red Cross, as well as four universities and four colleges.
Hugh is a passionate advocate of the enduring power of vision,
personal choice and constant improvement.
Keynote Speaker: Hugh Culver, Marathon Communications,
Kelowna BC
10:30 – 11:45am
Session 6A
Workers With Addictions: Creating a Safer, Healthier
Workplace
Do you work with or manage people who appear to be challenged
with an alcohol or drug problem? Are you concerned about their
safety or the safety of others? Dr. Baker will review the most
effective techniques for dealing with employees whose alcohol
or other drug problems have affected their workplace safety,
performance or behaviour
Speaker: Dr Ray Baker MD, HealthQuest Occupational Health Corp.
Session 6B
FACING THE TIGER™ - Manage conflict & difficult
people with confidence
Discover the tools and process to deal with the Tigers (difficult
people) in your life and create better, healthier relationships.
This powerful program continually gets rave reviews with every
participant and in every industry. Facing the Tiger™ will
teach you a simple, profound and totally practical approach
to creating healthy relationships - everyday.
- Learn the real cost of unresolved “Pinches” and
how we mask it.
- Discover the Three Worlds and how most conflict
resolution gets on the wrong track.
- Find out why sometimes people don’t
receive you the way you intend and how to change it.
- Take away the four-step process to creating
success in difficult conversations.
Speaker: Hugh Culver, Marathon Communications,
Kelowna BC
Session 6C
Training for Competency of a Marginally Literate
Workforce
Safety and Training programs need to recognize the issue of
marginal literacy in the workforce and the challenges it causes
when worker safety and competency is at stake. This session
will overview marginal literacy, how to identify and access
it in the workplace and how to go about addressing it.
Speaker: Glyn Jones, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., CIH, CRSP, EHS Partnerships
Ltd.
Session 6D
Violence in the Workplace
This presentation
is designed for all people dealing with potential violence
from co-workers, customers and visitors who are in the workplace.
Hear how two of BC’s largest
employers deal with this growing concern. A practical session
for those facing these risks, (and that’s nearly all
of us).
Speakers: Laurie Lowes, Manager Health & Safety London
Drugs, Mike Stortz, Overwaitea Food Group
1:30 – 3:00pm
Session 7A
Making the Most of Your Workplace Safety Inspections
Looking for tips on how to conduct your safety inspections?
Trying to get more participation? Then this session is for
you. Learn how to plan and conduct successful safety inspections,
rate hazards, and get advice on implementation. A great session
for safety committees, supervisors, or anyone responsible for
doing safety inspections on the worksite.
Speaker: Nicole Biernaczyk,
Session 7B
Supervising for Safety
When workers are promoted to Supervisor, educating and training
them in their responsibility and accountabilityfor safety is
often overlooked. This session overviews the skills they need
to successfully manage people in order to provide a safe work
environment. Great for new and experienced supervisors.
Speaker: Isabel Krueger, CRSP, Safety Matters, Vancouver BC
Session 7C
Managing Contractor Safety
WorksafeBC and the court systems have been putting an increased
focus on owner responsibility for sub-contractors safety performances.
If your organization hires contractors or subcontractors it
is critical that you understand who the “owner” is,
what the owners responsibilities are and the responsibilities
of the contractor. This session will guide you through the
regulatory maze and provide you with tools to better manage
contractor safety.
Speaker: Keith Arkell, Safety, Security & Emergency Management,
Metro Vancouver
Session 7D
Shiftwork and Fatigue: Shattering Myths
This workshop will deliver the most recent scientific research
on the best way to maximize safety and performance while minimizing
the effects of undue fatigue as they relate to shiftwork, on-call
and overtime practices. Focus will include both organizational
strategies as well as personal strategies. if you are involved
in planning or working shiftwork, you need to see this session.
Speaker: Mike Harnett, WorkSmart Injury Solutions, Edmonton
Alberta
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Optional
Post Conference Professional Development Courses:
Please Note: You do not need to attend the conference in
order to register for these optional Post Conference courses.
PC–1
Joint Health & Safety Committee Training (Level 1: WorkSafe) -
1 Day Course
**SOLD OUT**
8:30am to 4:30pm, Wednesday April 14, 2010
Joint Health & Safety Committee Training Course – A
WorkSafe Certificate Program
Ideal for new safety committee members or for existing members
looking to refresh or upgrade their safety knowledge and skills.
If you organization is setting up its first safety committee
or looking to make its existing committee more effective, then
this one day course is just what you need. Topics include:
promoting workplace health and safety, applying the process
of safety inspections and accident investigations, participating
in constructive committee meetings, helping your committee
work together plus much more.
Bonus: Participants may choose to write the optional
WorkSafe exam. Successful exam participants will be awarded
a WorkSafe certificate. It demonstrates the participant has
taken training that meets the criteria that WorkSafeBC has
specified for safety committee training.
Course Leader: Isabel Krueger CRSP, Safety Matters.
Fees:
$235 up to March 12, 2010
$265 after March 12, 2010
GST extra
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PC–2
Supervisors Safety Training - 1 Day Course
**SOLD OUT**
8:30am to 4:30pm, Wednesday April 14, 2010
Supervisors are some of the most influential people in preventing
workplace injuries and accidents. If they understand their
key roles and have the specific skills needed to follow through
on that understanding, a safe worksite almost always follows.
If they don’t and have never been taught how to supervise
for safety (as well as productivity), then accidents and injuries
nearly always follow. This jam packed 1 day course guides your
supervisors through the fundamentals they need to ensure safety
on the job. Includes: What the regulatory agencies expect of
supervisors, understanding risk taking, how to motivate for
safety, how to interact with risk taking individuals, key prevention
activities for supervisors and much more.
Course Leader: Randy Kelbert, KITS Corp.
Course Fees:
$265.00 up to March 12, 2010
$295.00 after March 12, 2010
GST extra
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PC–3
Accident/Incident Investigation Course - 1 Day Course
**SOLD OUT**
8:30am to 4:30pm, Wednesday April 14, 2010
Great course for safety committee members, supervisors, or
anyone who is required to conduct and/or review accidents and
incidents in the workplace. It will help you do an effectively
investigation accidents with the overall objective of helping
to reduce or prevent future accidents. One of our most popular
courses.
Course Leader: Terry Duncan
Course Fees:
$265.00 up to March 12, 2010
$295.00 after March 12, 2010
GST extra
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PC-4 Applied
Risk Communication - 2 Day Course
**SOLD
OUT**
April 14 & 15, 2010 (8:30am to 4:30pm each
day)
Presented in Cooperation with the Canadian
Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE)
This two day course provides OH&S professionals
with an opportunity to learn new insights into the role of
communication in the management of risks. Participants will
engage in robust and challenging case studies; learn and apply
new risk analysis techniques; proactively plan communication
messages and develop powerful risk management strategies inclusive
of communication, including the even larger challenge of managing
cultural change. Participants will learn and practice more
effective interpersonal communication techniques that can be
applied immediately to assist in their risk management challenges
and be integrated into their risk management plans.
Who Should Attend:
Communications is the key component in every aspect of health
and safety, making this session invaluable to every OH&S
professional, occupational health nurse, industrial hygienist
and the broader risk management community.
Course Content:
Risk communication theories
Managing risk apathy and risk "over reaction"
Interpersonal communication skills
Matching risk communication to organizational culture
Introduction to change management
Case study analysis and problem solving
Course Credit:
- This course is one of the courses eligible
for CSS’s Certified Health & Safety Consultant
(CHSC) certification program.
- The Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals
has awarded this course 1.0 CMP’s
- Completion of each this course will count
as one elective credit towards the OH&S Certificate at
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Fees:
$650.76 (CSSE Members)
$865.98 (Non-members)
GST extra
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Please Note: All sessions, events, times and
descriptions are subject to change without notice.
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