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Meet Ohio OSHA Compliance Assistance Specialists (CASs) Melissa Linton and Charles Shelton who will present inspection statistics and results, including recent significant OSHA enforcement actions, and will discuss OSHA fatality inspections and OSHA’s enforcement plans and initiatives for the upcoming year.  This interactive session will allow participants to direct questions to the CASs on current enforcement efforts and issues related to safety and health in the workplace to get OSHA's perspective.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Recall OSHA inspection statistics and results.
2. Explain recent significant OSHA enforcement actions.
3. Distinguish results and causes from a study of OSHA fatality inspections.
4. Explain Employer Rights and Responsibilities.
5. Summarize OSHA’s enforcement plans and initiatives for the upcoming year 

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This session provides strategies to promote a culture of safety, boost productivity, and prevent loss. Take away valuable insights on determining your current workforce’s approach to safety through complacency, compliance, or culture. Learn the internal and external factors affecting your workforce. We cover selling the safety return on investment to top leaders, empowering your safety champions, setting goals, and measuring results, and equipping your team with safety tools. Learn how to appeal to a younger risk tolerant workforce.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Identify a workplaces values and efforts towards providing a safe working atmosphere by recognizing complacency, compliance, or cultures.
2. Describe the difference between leading and lagging indicators and how they can use leading indicators to measure safety initiative results.
3. Describe and present a case to senior management as a request for an investment in workplace safety.

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This session presents a review of sections of the Ohio Fire Code including automatic sprinklers, standpipes, fire hydrants (including NFPA 25-Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems), fire alarms and devices (including NFPA 72- National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code®), exit lights, emergency lights and egress pathways, and electrical safety and violations.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Recognize the Ohio Fire Code and requirements to maintain fire protection systems.
2. Identify violations.

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The pace of change in work, the workplace, and workforce has markedly increased over the past decades. This is a result of convergent technologies, social, demographic, and other factors, and will likely continue. Understanding these underlying trends is essential for occupational safety and health practitioners aiming to keep up. For worker safety, stand-out developments (such artificial intelligence) present both hazards to be avoided and opportunities to be seized.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Describe forces driving the future of work. 
2. Identify technologies.
3. Explain the TWH model.
4. Recognize opportunities for OSH outcomes.

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Updated OSHA regulations and an ongoing increase in OSHA citations have created a renewed focus on fall protection, and many organizations are recognizing a need to re-evaluate their fall protection programs. While achieving compliance is critical to address the legal requirements, OSHA regulations are not specific or robust enough to truly address all the risks. This session gives you the information you need to ensure your organization is not only compliant, but also effectively addresses risk to keep your workers safe. For example, even if you're technically using the correct fall protection solution outlined in the OSHA regulations to address a fall hazard, there are a number of additional factors that must be addressed to truly protect workers using a fall protection system. Have you evaluated fall clearances and created a rescue procedure? Do your employees know how to use the equipment and follow the correct procedures? Just handing an employee a piece of equipment is not enough. This session covers the most misunderstood requirements from OSHA fall protection regulations and provides tips for addressing these items, as well as additional best practices that should be implemented to reduce fall risk. Key topics include roof fall protection, anchorages, ladder climbing systems, leading edge equipment and training. 

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Explain why OSHA compliance alone is not to protect employees from fall risk.
2. Summarize the elements beyond equipment selection that are critical for protecting workers from falls. 
3. Identify specific aspects that are the most common for fall protection system failure. 

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Over the past several years the development of safety programs, requirements, and expectations have drastically shifted. This shift is due to change in generations, technology, and work-life balance. The key to defining a strong safety culture is knowing your audience and listening. This session describes how an emerging professional transformed a 100+ year old company with no safety program into a safety-focused organization with a strong safety program and culture.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Describe knowing your audience and listening to their needs.
2.  Explain building a trusting relationship and earning respect not expecting it.
3. Recognize being human, and owning your mistakes.

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This presentation teaches the audience to focus on what really matters. We discuss suicide and present statistics on the subject. We have been trained to focus on the negative aspects of our lives and to hope that somehow a positive result will magically appear. This presentation is designed to help people see what is important in their lives and to appreciate the moments that matter.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Define what is necessary in life and hopefully be able to distinguish the difference between where they are now and where they want to be emotionally.
2. Identify ways of recognizing that something is off and learning some appropriate ways of addressing those issues.

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In this session we discuss modern challenges such as the pandemic, inflation, mass shootings, and bias-based profiling. We show how an organization can utilize new standard operating procedures, high quality training, and technology to win.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Identify modern challenges. 
2. Explain the new standard operating procedures.

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How can you heal the human brain and improve mental health conditions? In 2008, Scott was diagnosed with PTSD. His son was born with Asperger’s Autism. Traditional psychiatric care was unhelpful, even though they sought the best care the medical profession could offer. In 2008, they went to the Amen Clinic to undergo nuclear SPECT brains scans. In August 2020, they had follow-up scans which showed between 75% to 85% improvement. In fact, Scott’s follow up scans showed that his OCD was gone. In this session, you will learn how to care for your brain! Scott will show authenticated photographic evidence of how his brain has improved. How does the human brain rewire itself and how can you make it happen? What is “BDNF” and how does it aid growth of new neurons? Based on Scott’s newest book, “Healing The Human Brain”, he will show you how you can regain your life and your organization by building a better brain. Scott will not only outline these processes for you in his own unique, practical, and entertaining style, but he will show you how to use this information now!

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Identify how Scott rewired and repaired his brain from PTSD. 
2. Explain how the brain actually repairs itself. 
3. Identify what you need to do to protect and rewire your brain.

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This session gives an up close and personal look at substance abuse and addiction. We delve into the illicit drug industry, describing where drugs come from and how they are distributed in our communities. Hear about legal aspects and gain an understanding of the brain and how addiction occurs. The focus is to reduce stigma through education and understanding that an individual with a substance abuse history can recover and become a productive employee that is able to contribute again to society.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Recognize that those struggling with addiction can recover. 
2. Identify that an addict is at war with their brain.

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With the alarming predominance of workplace accidents caused by human error, the importance of engaging teams and individuals with safety procedures in a way that is meaningful to them and can promote significant change is crucial. Most human factors involved in accidents occur in the arena of memory, awareness and attention, judgment and reasoning, and attitude and risk perception.

Scott details his unforgettable, life-changing story of turning a paralyzing setback into a powerful comeback that inspires teams to develop a true safety MINDSET. Scott details how easy it is to become desensitized to common safety routines, and how 'just this once' can tragically impact the rest of their lives.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Develop new patterns of thinking that affect behaviors and support safety and productivity.
2. Understand how a shared company vision can impact workers to take safety seriously.
3. Cultivate ways to unlock your grit that can improve your safety performance.
4. Learn how personal accountability can keep you and your teammates safe.

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Newcomers to the human resources and safety industry share stories on the importance of reaching out to all departments and positions to grow the focus on safety and prevention. This session demonstrates how employing psychological safety, in addition to developing leadership skills, can create and foster a safe and high-performance work environment.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. List strategies of HR & EHS department collaboration.
2. Execute management buy-in.

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As more organizations begin to prioritize mental health at work, effective leadership skills may be the best medicine to heal an ailing workforce. In this session, we discuss the intersection of leadership and employee well-being. We demonstrate how a focus on leadership development can support the success and vitality of your organization through times of constant change and disruption. Attendees learn how OhioHealth successfully leveraged their Leadership Academy during the pandemic to support employee wellbeing, and how they are translating their learnings to help other organizations to do the same.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Describe how leadership development can support the health, wellbeing, and safety of your workforce. 
2. Identify leadership skills and competencies that can build a healthy and inclusive workplace culture 

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The pressure to cut costs and increase efficiency with fewer employees is a reality for most American manufacturers. Justifying a safety program and its costs isn't always high on the priority list even if we say it is. Learn ways to promote safety even when production is king. 

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Identify important gaps in their current safety culture. 
2. Discuss leadership techniques to grow their safety program.
3. Distinguish between safety priorities to get the most from any amount of resources. 

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In this interactive session attendees will explore what makes good work relationships, ways to enhance relationships, and how to build healthy and productive work environments. We will provide tools to continue building good work relationship and explore ideas to start and reinforce activities learners currently do in the workplace.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Discuss various techniques which can be utilized to start building work relationships.
2. Implement tools to continue building good work relationships.

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Have you fallen behind using effective training techniques in your classes and are relying on PowerPoint? Do you wish you had a button to press to revive your trainings? In this session we discuss how active learning is critical to saving your trainings and although you may not have a button to press for help, stepping into this session will save your trainings and get you and your learners on their feet.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Define what is active learning and how it can make an impact in your trainings. 
2. Identify a variety of activities you can add to your trainings. 
3. Explore ways to revive your learners. 
4. Recognize trends in training that work for every type of learner. 

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We are in a brawl with few rules, where the fast, adaptive, and agile will expunge the slow, over-thinking, and complacent. In the past, change was episodic, transient, and gradual. Now, change is constant as business, technology, and society itself continue to evolve at an unprecedented pace that will only accelerate. Talent, ideas, speed, distinction, and leadership are keys to winning in the New World of Work.

After this session, you will be able to:

1. Identify what it takes to lead a team that is aligned, resolute, engaged, agile and takes accountability and ownership to achieve what matters most. 
2. Implement the proven principles that accelerate desired change and will allow you to avoid the roadblocks that impede peak performance. 
3. Recognize how to awaken the whatever it takes attitude, belief, resolve, perseverance, confidence, determination, drive and creativity to achieve what matters.