The WCS'11 Program and Schedule
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Program Schedule:

Monday, April 18th, 2011 (click on session title for description)

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 (click on session title for description)

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 (click on session title for description)

Optional Post-Conference Professional Development Courses

*You are on your own for lunch from 11:45- 1:00pm.

Please Note: All sessions, events, times and descriptions are subject to change without notice.

Latest Information: For the latest information and updates please check the news & updates page here.

Scent Friendly. The 2011 Western Conference on Safety is a scent-free environment. In consideration of others, please “scent-sitive” and reduce or avoid your use of perfume or other personal scents. They will appreciate you for it.

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Sessions:

Monday April 18, 2011

8:30 – 10:00am
Opening Plenary

7:30 – 8:30am
Registration and Safety Tradeshow Opens

8:30 – 10:00am
Opening Remarks
Norm Ralph, Master of Ceremonies
David Anderson, President and CEO, WorkSafeBC
Terry Swain, OSH Services, Pacific Safety Center Ltd

Opening Keynote Presentation: Sponsored by PHH Arc Environmental
The Humanity of It All: Exposing Love, Life, Work and Stupidity
By Dr. Louis Francescutti

A Professor in the School of Public Health and in the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta, and an Emergency Physician in the Emergency Departments of the Royal Alexandra Hospital and the Northeast Com-munity Health Centre in Edmonton Dr Louis is a much sought after international speaker. In his role as an Emergency Physician he has witnessed firsthand the devastating impact of preventable injuries, and has made it his mission to promote injury prevention. His dynamic and insightful presentation will fundamentally change the way you think about injury prevention and personal safety

10:30 – 11:45am

Session 2A
The Seven Deadly Delusions of Accident-Prone Companies
Safety performance in many organizations has stalled. Accident rates have reached a plateau and yet, serious accidents and fatality rates rage on. In more dramatic cases, such as the Texas City BP disaster, organizations that have “exemplary” safety statistics suddenly have a catastrophic accident. Looking into the root causes of these accidents and others such as the Piper Alpha explosion, NASA’s Shuttle disasters, and the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown, there are similar factors that lead to these catastrophic events. our speaker will discuss the common features of the mindset in these organizations, the human element, and how improved safety is well within your grasp.
Speaker: Corrie Pitzer, SAFEmap, International, Vancouver BC

Session 2B
Prevention through Design
“Prevention through Design” highlights the importance of designing out or minimizing hazards and risks early in the design and redesign processes to prevent and control occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities.  This session effectively explains the core of the prevention through design concept, and describes established principles and methodologies for controlling hazards and risks during the design and redesign processes.
Speaker: keith Arkell, Safety, Security & Emergency Management, Metro Vancouver

Session 2C
Best Practices for New Worker Orientation and Training
Young, new and migrant workers need special attention because it has been shown that they are at more risk of injury than their older or more experienced counterparts, especially in the first four to six months of employment. We’ll discuss how experience has shown that a successful training or outreach program will:

• Cover the overall training needs (health and safety rights and responsibilities, hazard recognition and control, preparing for emergencies),

• Recognize the difference between education and training, and

• Incorporate best practice approach for reaching young, new or migrant workers and acknowledge the differences between these groups
  

Tailored, audience-specific approaches that match the needs of the workers are best at achieving higher awareness for health and safety, and fewer accidents or incidents.
Speaker: Jan Chappel, Senior Technical Specialist, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety

Session 2D
Hazard vs Risk: Knowing the Difference Will Save A Life
We have a problem today that occupational health and safety practitioners and professionals don’t know the difference between risk and hazard. They are controlling hazards and they think that in doing so they are controlling risk when in fact the situation could not be further from the truth. In this session the issue of hazard versus risk will be explored and clarified.
Speaker: Glyn Jones, M.A.Sc. P. Eng, CIH, CRSP, EHS Partnerships, Calgary Alberta

1:15 – 2:45pm

Session 3A
Supervising for Safety
When workers are promoted to supervisor, educating and training them in their responsibility and accountability for safety is often overlooked. This session overviews their responsibility for safety and the essential skills they need to motivate their workers to work safely. Great session for new and experienced supervisors.
Speaker: Isabel Krueger, CRSP, Safety Matters, Vancouver BC

Session 3B
Tools for Tough Conversations
Are you frustrated by how easy it is a tough conversation to go bad? Do you wonder how to manage the conversation when your own emotions are taking over, let alone those of the other person? This session explores conflict resolution tools to help you move in the direction you want when the conversation feels full of friction, and you want to make progress and preserve the relationship.
Speaker: Clare Connolly Sr. Learning Advisor, WorkSafeBC

Session 3C
Successful Safety Management: Why Some Program Work While Others Fail
In 1999 Bill Meechan started work with a heavy marine construction organization and over a period of years was instrumental in reducing their accident and loss time rates by over 70%. Bill will share his thoughts on how to achieve success in workplace safety. Plus his trend setting views on how safety culture and strategy comes from senior management but strategy is driven by lead hands and supervisors. Bills success in OSH and passion for workplace safety won him the 2010 BC Lieutenant Governors Award for Safety.
Speaker: Bill Meechan

Session 3D
Making Safety Training Fun
Are your training presentations giving your participants that glazed-over look? Are you really getting the message across?  Come play games that can be adapted to almost any training, helping participants learn in a fun, interactive way.
Speaker: Cathy Cook, Executive Director, BC Municipal Safety Association

3:15 – 4:30pm

Session 4A
Practical Elements of a Respiratory Protection Program
The protection of employees from occupational respiratory hazards is best achieved through implementation and maintenance of a comprehensive respiratory protection program. The best option for controlling worker exposure to respiratory hazards are controlling at the source and substitution for a less hazardous material. Unfortunately this is not always possible and respiratory protection is required. Having a properly developed, implemented and maintained program is essential to worker safety. This session will overview the fundamentals required for a respiratory program to be successful.
Speaker: Stacy Richardson, 3M Canada

Session 4B
Safety When Policing the Workplace Fails
You write new safety rules. You send them out to everyone, you enforce the rules and yet people continue to have accidents. Learn about workplace culture and how it can be affected in other than punitive ways. Discover what a “Healthy Organization” is and where safety fits in it.
Speaker: Bill Guest

Session 4C
Taming the Beast: Understanding BBS
We hear Behaviour Based Safety (BBS) in just about every strategic safety discussion. Some will sell it as a “magic bullet” that will cure all your safety issues. Others will condemn it as a predator that will feed on your resources and leave you battered. This presentation will put BBS into perspective, show where and how it fits into your safety systems, and provide the background to help you make a decision about when to invite it into your organization.
Speaker: Dave Fennell, Imperial Oil Resources

Session 4D
RSI’s: An In-Depth Examination
An in-depth presentation on one of the leading causes of accidents and injuries, back-related repetitive strain injuries. Our speaker will discuss risk factors and the ergonomic elements that can reduce the risks. It includes program elements to reduce pain including biomechanical and technique training, warm-up and stretching programs, with examples from municipal, railroad, driving and office environments. This session will help you identify key areas your safety program should be addressing to reduce accidents and injuries on your worksite.
Speaker: Shona Anderson CCPE, Anderson Ergonomics Consulting Inc

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

8:30 – 10:00am
Opening Keynote

Opening Keynote Presentation:
Life’s Greatest Difficulty: Choice
At no other time in our history has there been so much change in so little time. From computers to ipods to GPS enabled phones, technology is on the move. Change creates stress and the need to choose alternative responses to that stress. Change is constant and unrelenting with regard to the demands it places on our abilities to make choices. Poor occupational health and safety choices can be risky. Your vision of yourself and your workplace impacts the decisions you make. Some risks are inherent in the job, others are created by one’s inability to make good choices. All decision making is a form of risk-taking. The diversity of the risks faced in the workplace continues to increase. Change creates stress that can alter one’s vision and decisions. Dr. Reese provides information that helps you to monitor your attitudes, correct your vision and make safe and sound decisions in your workplace.
Speaker: Dr James Reese.

10:30 – 11:45am

Session 6A
Team Leadership Building: Putting Strengths and Weaknesses Together for Success
As a leader, you must choose members of a team with complementary skills that are relevant to their mission. You must motivate each team member from the very beginning. People are motivated when they believe there is “something in it for them”. Recognize that there may be teams in an organization that naturally clash. Friction can be reduced by introducing cooperative goals, thus improving team efficiency. Teams require directions from leaders. Often, leaders are set apart and expected to act independently. Leaders must maintain control of teams and assist them in focusing on mission-oriented actions. It is important to maintain focus and encourage cooperation. Committed team members have greater job satisfaction. Learn the essential “Do’s and Don’ts” about motivating teams. Emphasis is place on the premise that success is a team sport.
Speaker: Dr James Reese

Session 6B
Safely Climbing the Social Media Ladder
If you want to know how to start smart with social media - or if you’re simply curious – this session is for you. Discover how CCOHS uses tools like Twitter, Facebook and SlideShare to promote workplace health and safety. Understand the basics, learn important do’s and don’ts for building your online presence, and walk away with ideas on how to incorporate various social media tools to support your health and safety initiatives.
Speaker: Krista Travers, Canadian Center for Occupational Health & Safety.

Session 6C
Finding the Hidden Monsters: Safety Inspections Made Easy
Safety inspections are designed to find the dangers or monsters on the worksite, but often fall short because of a lack of a systematic and proven inspection system. This session will help guide you through hazard and risk identification in your inspections process. A great way to slay your safety monsters.
Speaker: Tom Lauritzen, 24/7-Safety, Burnaby BC

Session 6D
Motor Vehicles are Workplaces Too!
Regulators throughout Canada are realizing that workers who drive during any part of their job are at risk and that regular drivers licenses are not meeting the need to ensure proper training or supervision of this task. Terasen Gas, together with Thinking Driver have come up with new 3 part, driver safety initiative. This session will overview this new initiative and how it impacts worker/driver safety. Includes an overview of Terasen’s anti-distracted driving program.
Speakers: Jason McIvor Terasen Gas, and Spencer McDonald, Thinking Driver.

1:30 – 3:00pm

Session 7A
Blockbuster Session: Guide To Living A Long & Healthy Life
Dr Art Hister is a daily analyst on Global TV as well as the author of two best-sellers; Midlife Man and A Guide to a Longer and Healthier Live. Using humour to discuss and debate the evidence that healthy lifestyle adjustments improve all measures of health, he will address issues around lowering the risk of life-limiting chronic illness and premature death, and lowering, perhaps even reversing our inevitable aging.
Speaker: Dr. Art Hister, Vancouver BC

Session 7B
Blockbuster Session: Shiftwork and Fatigue: Shattering Myths!
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: Last year this session was jam-packed with people spilling out into the hallways trying to get in, and others being turned away. We that kind of response we just had to bring this session back in 2011!
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

Session 7C
Blockbuster Session: Hazard Assessments Made Easy
A fundamental concept in managing occupational health and safety is the recognition, evaluation and control of hazards. Many organizations are making this a mandatory activity for those involved in safety. This session will assist you in recognizing workplace hazards pose, and discuss common strategies for controlling hazards. It will also provide a process to help you through the identification process for all activities in the workplace.
Speaker: Jim Moroney, CRSP, Calgary Alberta

Session 7D
Blockbuster Session: Selling Safety to Management
Often safety people approach management with a request for resources to address a safety concern using the justification “we need to do it because its regulated” and then can’t understand why the boss the isn’t interested or willing to commit. This session will explore how to build a business case that makes it easier for your manager to buy into your safety concern and make it easier for him/her to approve the proper solution to it.
Speaker: Norm Ralph, BC Rapid Transit Jim Hopkins, BC Rapid Transit (invited)

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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.

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(An Additional Course date has been added and will run Thursday April 21/11. Due to limited seats, please call 604-233-1842 to register. )

Post-Con 1 Joint Health & Safety Committee Training (A WorkSafe Certification Course) - 1 Day Course

(Level 1: WorkSafe)

Ideal for new safety committee members or for existing members looking to refresh or upgrade their safety knowledge and skills. If your 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 that the participant has taken training that meets the criteria that WorkSafeBC has specified for safety committee training.

Fees:
$235 up to March 18, 2011
$265 after March 18, 2011
HST extra

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Post-Con 2 Supervisors Safety Training - 1 Day Course

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, then accidents and injuries nearly always follow. This jam packed one-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 Fees:
$265.00 up to March 18, 2011
$295.00 after March 18, 2011
HST extra

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Post-Con 3 Accident Investigations - 1 Day Course

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 to effectively investigate accidents with the objective of helping to reduce or prevent future accidents. This is one of our most popular courses.

Course Fees:
$265.00 up to March 18, 2011
$295.00 after March 18, 2011
HST extra

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Post-Con 4 Project Management for the Health & Safety Professional - 2 Day Course

This two-day, hands-on course is designed to provide health and safety practitioners with the tools and techniques to plan, manage, close and evaluate a project related to the health and safety environment. Based on best-practices in project management today, participants will also examine the leadership skills required to link health and safety project management to the operational areas of his or her entire organization.

Participants will work on a "live" project from the health and safety environment and apply PM tools and processes to simulate a complete project life cycle: from initiation to closure.  Comparisons will be drawn between participants' current projects and past case studies.

Course Content:

During this course, health and safety practitioners will learn to:

• Use the terminology and processes of modern project management;

• Define the business case for a health and safety project;

• Prepare a complete and accurate project plan for a health and safety project;

• Facilitate team discussion to learn from the experience of others;

• Use project management forms and templates for a health and safety project;

• Discuss project life cycles and the importance of milestones for project control;

• Build a project schedule with major milestones;

• Identify the interaction of a health and safety project with the day-to-day operations of an organization;

• Build a communications plan for the health and safety project to ensure its long-term success;

• Value the importance of post-project reviews and evaluating project success; and

• Value the benefits of a consistent project management methodology.
  

This course is one of the six required courses for the designation of Certified Health & Safety Consultant (CHSC).

CSSE has awarded each of these courses 16 CHSC Maintenance Points.

Course Registration Fees:

CSSE Members: $749.00 + HST
Non-Members: $949.00 + HST

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Please Note: All sessions, events, times and descriptions are subject to change without notice. Pacific Safety Center reserves the right to limit quantities and to correct errors or omissions prior to processing a purchase or registration request.