COURSE TITLE

Improving the Effectiveness of Your Health & Safety Program

August 6, 2008 (Wednesday)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Every professional or supervisor seeks to improve their impact in supporting their organization. This can be through greater professional competence, improved management or business skills, or better allocation of available resources among competing demands. This one-day course focuses on ideas and tools to help the seasoned H&S practitioner or supervisor examine their current programs and devise ways to improve effectiveness. Topics include case studies and leading edge concepts:

• Setting Priorities in Program Improvement

• Requirements of Key OSHA Health Regulations

• Lessons Learned: Successful Deployment of a Risk-based Process to Prevent Ergonomic Injuries

This session will cover the basic elements of a risk based safety and health program, along with critical success factors, and how to evaluate the readiness of your organization to successfully adopt one. Although this topic illustrates RSI prevention, the concepts apply to other injury and illness preventive programs as well.

• Prudent Practice, Assurance Auditing, and Due Diligence

Public and government expectations regarding EH&S performance have evolved. At one time meeting federal and state regulations was considered success – now usually they are merely the “minimum,” and an organization is expected to use management systems and other advanced tools to continually improve EH&S performance. This session will focus on understanding this evolution, how an organization can decide what EH&S practices to meet, and then how to audit and perform due diligence to verify attainment.

COURSE DIRECTOR

Hank McDermott, PE, CSP, CIH, H. J. McDermott, Inc., Health and Safety Consulting, Moraga, CA

OTHER SPEAKERS

Kelly Doughty, CSP, Health, Environment and Safety Operations, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA

Michael Horowitz, CIH, Senior Industrial Hygienist, Cal/OSHA Compliance, Oakland, CA

Chris Laszcz-Davis, MS, CIH, REA, Principal, The Environmental Quality Organization, LLC, Lafayette, CA

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Describe simple ways to analyze existing health and safety programs and identify areas where improvement effort will give the biggest pay-back.

• Identify key health regulations and provide a “quick-check” list of key requirements in some of the comprehensive health standards such as HazCom, Hearing Conservation, Respirators, and Ergonomics.

• Describe the basic elements of a risk based program, especially one aimed at computer-related repetitive stress injuries, and how to evaluate the readiness of your organization to successfully adopt one.

• Understand the evolution of public and government expectations regarding EH&S performance, and describe how an organization can decide what EH&S practices to meet, and then how to audit and perform due diligence to verify attainment.

AUDIENCE

Industrial hygienists; safety professionals; occupational health nurses; and other involved in or needing information on setting up and/or improving your organization’s health and safety program.

CREDIT

8.4 BRN contact hours
1.0 ABIH IH CM point, Approval #08-1830
0.5 BCSP COC point

Course Schedule

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School of Public Health - COEH Continuing Education