Program and Schedule

The WCS'12 Program and Schedule
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Please Note: All sessions, speakers, 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.

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2012 Western Conference on Safety Writeups

8:30 - 10:00am

Introduction and Welcome

It’s the job of leaders in your organization to keep everyone engaged on safety issues, yet fatigue, apathy, and life stresses blur employees’ focus and block their attention. For many employees, safety is someone else’s problem, something easily taken for granted. And that’s an attitude that leads to accidents. Richard Hawk’s proven solution? Learn how to leverage the power of personal leadership, sell people on the benefits of your safety program, and keep everyone motivated and inspired. Create a vibrant safety culture that everyone buys in to.

Presented by Richard Hawk, Lewisville Texas

10:30 to 11:45am

Spice It Up: Easy Ways To Make Your Safety Program Come Alive

"Oh, no! Not another boring safety meeting.” Stop torturing your employees with the same old safety “blah, blah, blah”. Why not try something different? Bring new energy to your safety meetings with tips and techniques guaranteed to put a smile on everyone’s face. Teaching safe behavior doesn’t have to be bland and boring.

Presented by Richard Hawk, Lewisville Texas

Zombie Walkers: Are You Working Among the Living Dead?

The world is full of zombie walkers. You probably work with a few. The people that park in the same parking spot every day, have the same thing for lunch every day and when they get home from work they even don’t remember driving. These are the same kind of people that cause your recordable injury chart to look like the ascent of Everest. They can be seen walking through the facility with their safety glasses on their foreheads and respirators around their neck. Change is possible... but it requires change on your part first. You can’t roll out the same safety programs, the same policies, the same posters, the same boring training programs and expect anything different. This session will show creative programs, activities, incentives and concepts that have used by EH&S professionals from industries throughout North America. A great session for everyone.

Speaker: Steve Laughlin, CJ&K Training Services, Lindenhurst, Illinois

Automated External Defibrillators (AED’s) in Action

This action packed session will clarify the laws and liabilities surrounding AEDs and will provide you with information on how to implement an AED program in your workplace. Learn how easy it is to use an AED and see some of the common types of AEDs available on the market. If time permits, the session will end with a “Hands-on” opportunity for participants to use the AED equipment.

Speaker: Wendy Schultenkamper, Education Director, Lifesaving Society BC & Yukon Branch, Burnaby BC

Safety Committee Fundamentals

Does your safety committee sometimes wonder what its role is? Does it sometimes seem to lose its way and forget its principal objectives? Do you have new safety committee members who could benefit from hearing from an expert on what safety committee’s fundamental objectives, duties and tasks really are? This session is a great refresher for existing members and a wonderful introduction for people new to safety committees.

Speaker: Isabel Krueger, CRSP, Safety Matters, Burnaby BC

1:15pm to 2:45pm

Dealing With Difficult People

Do you have to deal with difficult people at work or in your personal life? Ever asked “I wonder if I could have handled that better?” This session is for you. Explore how individual perceptions, assumptions and mindsets affect the outcome of our personal interactions and how to manage anger during difficult interactions. There will be a specific focus on the skill of defusing angry people and dealing with verbally aggressive subjects. Our speaker is a former Calgary police hostage negotiator and certified mediator.

Speaker: Gary McDougall, Conflict-Solutions, Calgary AB

Successful Wellness Programs in the Workplace: The Skytrain Experience

Organizations are discovering just how powerful and far reaching good Workplace Wellness programs can be. The challenge is understanding what separates the ineffective programs from the successful ones. Come hear how BC Rapid Transit (Skytrain) researched and developed their own in-house program that is improving their employee’s lives and saving the organization significant money. A terrific session for anyone wanting to know more about Wellness programs.

Speaker: Norm Ralph, CRSP, Senior Safety Analyst, BC Rapid Transit Company

Safety Project Methodogy

An overview of project methodology to support robust and successful health and safety projects. Covers project life cycles and input tools for organizing, managing and leading an efficient and effective safety project.

Speaker: Tammy Green, Corporate Project Manager and Corporate Safety Manager, Russell A. Farrow Ltd. Ayr, Ontario.

Introduction to Occupational Safety & Health

Description: New to the OSH world? Wondering what all those crazy OSH/JSA/COR/WCB/CRSP letters mean? Find yourself in the role of safety person for your organization or elected to the safety committee and wonder what you’ve gotten yourself into? Curious to know what a safety program is and what it consists of? This session is for you. Will guide you into the fascinating world of Occupational Health & Safety.

Speaker: Cathy Cook, Executive Director, BC Municipal Safety Association

Raise A Glass to Safety

Jeremy Shorthouse was named the 2010 Safety Leader of the Year in Canada. Three years ago Vincor’s health and safety statistics were 500% higher than its U.S. parent company. Using humour and anecdotal examples, Jeremy will tell the remarkable success story of taking a vertically integrated business, which includes viticulture (farming), production facilitites, warehousing, hospitality, food service and retail, from being a “safety follower” to a “safety leader” in the wine industry.

Speaker: Jeremy Shorthouse, National Environmental, Health & Safety Manager, Vincor Canada.

Bullying in the Workplace

Workplace bullying is subtle and difficult to pinpoint. This session is designed to raise your awareness and help ensure it doesn’t happen to you or someone you know. Workplace bullies walk a fine line, flirting with our respectful workplace policies, or worse still operate openly.

This session will identify specific behaviours, looks at ways in which you can protect yourself from the workplace bully and give you a strategy in the event you find yourself the target of the workplace bully.

Speaker: Gary McDougall, Conflict-Solutions, Calgary AB

Social Media & Mobile Technologies

Current research and developments are leading us into exciting new possibilities and reaching new levels of connectivity in the world of safety. This presentation will cover social media technology and how you can apply it to our workplace safety world, mobile technology: what it offers and how it can improve work flow, Safety Consciousness: how these technologies can be combined to influence and create a safety culture.

Speaker: Neil Jubinville, Safebook Industrial, Alberta

Demystifying the Hazard Analysis Process

A combination of the popular Worksite Safety Inspections session and the Hazard Analysis session, this timeslot focuses on the fundamentals of how to plan, inspect, determine risk levels, and identify potential solutions all in one session. If you are a safety committee member or a supervisor who needs to identify and resolve potential safety hazards in the workplace then this session is for you!

Speaker: Tom Lauritzen, 24/7 Safety, Surrey BC

8:30 – 10:00am

Prescription for Pressure

As Health & Safety people you are constantly under pressure to create a healthy, stress-free, high performance environment. As you constantly on guard to defend against disaster, your physiology can do with some upgrading. Come laugh and learn as we establish 7 practical techniques that you can use to thrive under pressure and create mental toughness, a superior body and mind and greater happiness in all areas of your life.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kenford Nedd, International Stress Control Center.

10:30 – 11:45am

World Class Safety – On and Off the Job

Improving workplace safety from ‘just average’ to world class requires more than traditional safety methods and compliance with rules and regulations. It requires motivating individual employees to improve their 24/7 safety awareness and safety skills both on and off the job. Learn why the company’s ‘workplace only’ safety agenda isn’t sufficient and what you need to do to capture the hearts and minds of your people.

Speaker: Don Wilson, Electrolab

What's Right for Me? Education and Professional Development: What's Out There?

Whether you are new to safety or a seasoned professional, keeping your skill set current as your career progresses is critical. This session will outline professional development and educational opportunities, and explains how to creat a professional development plan.

Speaker: Bruce Jackson, CRSP, Senior Manager, Prevention Quality, WorkSafeBC

Workplace Violence: A New Approach to an Old Problem

The risk of workplace violence is something none of us want to imagine and is hard to access, but this presentation will provide a new perspective and will explain a unique approach taken to mitigate risk that can’t be eliminated.

Speakers: Buck Page, CRSP, Analyst, Safety/Security/Environment BC Rapid Transit Company Ltd and Kevin Calder, Owner, K. Calder & Associates

Supervising for Safety

Description: When workers get promoted to supervisor, something that often gets overlooked is educating and training them in their responsibility and accountability for safety of their workers. This session overviews their legal responsibilities and what essentials skills they need to motivate their workers to work safely. This session has been in the last 2 conferences and the demand was so high we had to bring it back for a 3rd time! Great for new and experienced supervisors.

Speaker: Isabel Krueger, CRSP, Safety Matters, Burnaby BC

1:00pm to 2:45pm

Dynamic Risk Assessment or Situational Safety: Does It Apply Everywhere?

Take at look at Traditional Risk Assessment and explore dynamic or situational safety approaches as you are taken on a journey of theory and practice. Build upon the story of a police officers experience, and a football coaches training, you will explore the importance of these concepts. You will question, does the concept of dynamic risk assessment span all occupations or only emergency service... and does it span the globe no matter what the industry?

Speaker: Eldeen Pozniak, CRSP, Director, Pozniak Safety Associates, Saskatoon Saskatchewan

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. This is a great session for safety committees, supervisors or anyone responsible for doing safety inspections on the worksite.

Greg Swan, CRSP, Public Services Health & Safety Association, Eastern Region Field Consultant, Ontario.

Vancouver Riots: The London Drugs Experience

The 2011 Stanley Cup riots in Vancouver caught nearly everyone by surprise. When the unexpected happened and the rioters broke into the Vancouver London Drugs store there were 20 employees inside. Come hear what happened and how London Drugs safety planning ensured all 20 people were able to go home, safe and sound, to their families that night. A fascinating behind the scenes look at how one organization planned for the unthinkable.

Speakers: Laurie Lowes, Manager, Health & Safety and Tony Hunt, General Manager Loss Prevention, London Drugs.

Power & Movement: Strategies and Techniques to Improve Your Personal Strength

You will actively learn how a simple hand movement can enhance overall balance and strength and demonstrate why the pelvic tilt has been replaced by the not so pretty but effective “butt out” move. The goal is to send you away with at least one new “Ah Ha!” piece of information or skill that has you saying “That was really a great session”.

Speaker: Brenda DeJong RN, COHN(C), Occupational Health, Safety & Ergonomics Specialist. WorkWell Consulting.

Post Conference Courses (all courses run 8:30am to 4:30pm)

Joint Health & Safety Committee Training (A WorksafeBC Recognized Course)

Description: 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 safety 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 WorkSafeBC exam. Successful exam participants will be awarded a WorkSafeBC certificate demonstrating that they have taken training that meets the criteria that WorkSafeBC has specified for safety committee training.

Fees:
$235 (up to March 23, 2012)
$265 (after March 23, 2012)
HST Extra

Course PC-2 (1 Day)
PC-2 Accident Investigation Course was sold out but has just been expanded.
As of today we 3 seats available.

Accident/Incident Investigations 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 reducing or preventing future accidents. This is one of our most popular courses.

Fees:
$265 (up to March 23, 2012)
$295 (after March 23, 2012)
HST Extra

Supervisors Safety Training 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 worse still 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.

Fees:
$265 (up to March 23, 2012)
$295 (after March 23, 2012)
HST Extra

Obligations & Liabilities Course Co-Hosted by the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering

This two-day course is designed to develop an awareness and understanding of the obligations and potential liabilities that may be encountered by the OH&S professional when providing advice in the area of occupational health and safety. The focus is upon defining the types of obligations and potential liabilities and illustrating ways and means of reducing these risks.

Because every occupational health and safety professional can be at risk, this seminar provides invaluable information to every level of experience - from the novice to the seasoned professional and from the "internal" consultant to the commercial consultant. Take action to safeguard yourself and your clients.

The course exam is provided to participants by email within five business days of course completion. Participants have 4 weeks from the release date to complete the exam.

Lunch is not provided

Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (CRSP) Examination Preparation

Workshop* (Co-presented by Canadian CRSP Workshops)

This popular seminar reflects the new CRSP certification process. It is intended to help prepare you to apply for your Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) accreditation and to write the CRSP exam.

The seminar includes an overview of the CRSP application process and the accreditation system, plus extensive reviews of the various exam subject areas. Taught by a highly qualified Canadian Registered Safety Professional who also holds a Certified Safety Professional designation.

Attendees will complete practice exams which will identify gaps in their knowledge and skills. A Manual is provided for on-going practice and study.

COURSE LEADERS: Jim Moroney, CRSP

FEES: $595 (UP TO March 23, 2012)

$695 (AFTER March 23, 2012)

*The Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP) does not endorse any prep course providers, nor does the BCRSP evaluate the providers or the providers’ material for consistency with the BCRSP’s Examination Blueprint, nor does the BCRSP benefit financially from this or any examination preparatory course.

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