Chapter Meetings
ASSE Puget Sound Chapter Meetings are held at Angelo's Ristorante, located at 601 SW 153rd Street in Burien, WA.
"Angelo's of Burien is still about food and family" - The Seattle Times, August 2008
4th Annual ASSE/WSIA Safety Professional Development Conference
September 16, 2010 - Embassy Suites, Lynnwood, WA
Featured Presentations:
Highlights from H&S Consultants – Tips for Engaging CEO to Frontline
Herb Sherburne & Gordon Coffey, Health & Safety Consultants, Specialty Safety Services, Inc.
This Dynamic Duo will present the fundamental best management practices they’ve gleaned respectively from over 25 years of supervising, training, advocating, and consulting for workplace safety. “Lessons Learned” will be shared to demonstrate integration of these practices into daily company operations.
“Safety & Health Strategic Planning = Good Risk Management” & Workshop
David Steinbacher, M.P.H. CSP, Director-Environmental Health & Safety, ZymoGenetics, Inc
Dave will do an encore of his well-received presentation as debuted for the joint ASSE-RIMS meeting earlier this year in January. As a bonus, a collaboration workshop follows his presentation to assist in drafting your own strategic plan for Environmental Health & Safety. This presentation is based on Dave’s October 2009 Professional Safety Magazine article, “SH&E Strategic Planning: A Maturity-Criticality Approach to Continuous Improvement”. Key objectives covered in his planning approach includes: streamlined goals/benefits; fundamentals for SH&E strategic planning, risk-based SH&E evaluations & prioritization; and a Maturity-Criticality Rating Scheme for Risk Ranking to provide targeted input for strategic planning which supports continuous improvement results.
Production & Profits through Safety – Employee Input, A Case Study
John Von Lossow, Safety Director, McKinstry Co.
John will relay the benefits of engaging your workforce on regular basis to readily anticipate, prevent and mitigate the “Next Upset Condition”. He’ll share how his cross-section team developed and uses their “Accident Mapping” techniques for job site and maintenance shop interventions. When initially implemented, these efforts resulted in a dramatic turn-around in behavior, safety and increased productivity.
The Fundamentals of Human Performance
Jeffrey (Gunny) Evans, Senior Safety Trainer, Bechtel National, Inc.
Gunny will outline the philosophy, principles and tools for Human Performance Improvement in order to be proactive in reducing human error rates and the consequences of human error that result in occurrences. He will specifically identify three key principles of human performance, and differentiate between error and violation. He will demonstrate why behavior and results are important in defining human performance.
Alternate Training Techniques for Next Generation Workforce: Gen X & Y
Adam Gerson, Occupational Safety & Health Manager, Occupational Safety & Health Administration-Region X (US DOL)
Competing for employees’ attention spans. Adam will describe effects from technology advancements and the “Gamer Generation” interaction preferences. He will provide us with a tour of alternate training technique options which includes use of “Virtual Simulators”. Some simulators will be demonstrated; and includes one for Construction Equipment Operators. Adam will also cover other applications for virtual training (e.g. work place hazard reviews, emergency incident response & regional coordination, etc.)
For more information, contact the ASSE / WSIA PDC Facilitators:
- Carol Sangster (ASSE-PSC) 206-224-4761;
- Herb Sherburne (WSIA)
CEU Application submitted to ASSE Society for this event.