ASSE Newsletter - Georgia Society of Safety Engineers
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ASSE Newsletter - Georgia Society of Safety Engineers
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF SAFETY ENGINEERS ASSE GEORGIA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER Chapter Officers President Matthew Parker 706-722-3310 matthew.parker@cardno.com President Elect David Brani 678-444-2908 dbrani@atslab.com Vice President Neal Howard 404-266-4146 nhoward@chubb.com Treasurer Jimmy Mize 770-403-9111 jimmywmize@yahoo.com Secretary Camille Oakes oakesc@mscdirect.com 678.309.6635 Construction Committee Co-Chair Philip Greisen, CHST (770) 459-2745 x111 philip@prosafesolutions.com, Govt Affairs Phil Critcher phil@riskengsolutions.com Delegate Ed Davis Edward.Davis@Wellsfargo.com Delegate Rick Gruca rick.gruca@gmail.com Delegate Matthew Crouse crouse229@yahoo.com Past President Kenyon Brenish 770-733-9475 Kenyon.brenish@us.issworld.com Newsletter Matthew Parker 706-722-3310 matthew.parker@cardno.com April 13th Meeting – 12:00noon If You Could Only Put 3 Ergonomic Elements In Your Safety Program, Do These 3… Speaker: Don Robinson, CSP, CPE, ALCM Probably most safety professionals need to have more of an ergonomics emphasis in their safety program. And why not? Muscular skeletal disorders account for about 1/3 of all injuries. Employers pay $15-20 billion per year in Worker's Compensation costs for MSD’s. Your company may need an ergonomics program or just a more effective approach in your safety program to address these MSD injuries. Don Robinson will present 3 important ergonomic program elements or activities that are some of the most proven and effective ergonomic elements that you should be doing in your safety or ergonomics program. Most safety professionals are pressed for time. These elements can give the most “bang for the buck” and reduce the risk of MSD injuries. Don Robinson is Safety Manager, Workplace Design for Norfolk Southern in Atlanta, GA. He specializes in ergonomics issues across the railroad, including program management, task analysis, ergonomics training and office ergonomics. From, 2007 until 2010, he was Corporate Ergonomist & Safety Manager at Georgia Pacific, a paper and building products company with over 250 locations worldwide. Prior to Georgia Pacific, he was Corporate Ergonomist for Gold Kist, Inc., from 1999 to 2007, the nation’s third largest food and poultry company. Prior to Georgia Pacific and Gold Kist, Inc. he was an ergonomics and safety consultant with Liberty Mutual Insurance, where he consulted w/ a number of Fortune 1000 companies in a variety of industries on ergonomics and safety issues. He has obtained certifications as a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) and a Certified Safety Professional (CSP). He is past president of the Louisville, KY ASSE Chapter and a 30 year ASSE professional member. He has a B.S. degree from Clemson University in Administrative Management with a minor in Occupational Safety & Health. The meeting is held at Georgia Power Company headquarters located at 241 Ralph McGill Blvd, Atlanta GA, 30308 (directions are located on our website: http://georgia.asse.org/ Please RSVP to oakesc@mscdirect.com Members $10 & Non-Members $15.00 Be there by 11:15 to network and get your lunch. ASSE GEORGIA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER IH Corner Heat Stress Heat stress is a serious condition of the human body in which the body is unable to properly regulate its critically rising temperature. Failure to adequately respond and treat any person with such a condition runs the risk of causing death. While predicting such a condition is difficult because of the variety of factors that influence it, heat stress is nevertheless a condition that can be prevented through awareness of symptoms, implementation of accurate responses, and utilization of proper equipment. The various factors that influence the likelihood of a person being affected by heat stress are both physical and environmental. A person’s individual physical factors, including age, weight, fitness, degree of acclimation, drug/alcohol use, and medical conditions, all impact how sensitive a person is to heat stress. In addition, if a person has sustained previous heat injury, this makes him or her more liable than others to suffer from heat stress. The type of clothing worn must be taken into account. President’s Message Keep up the good work!! Our meetings have been growing in number and participation. But we still have room for improvement. We have 680 members as of April 7th. That includes the main chapter in Atlanta and the the sections in Northeast Georgia and Southwest Georgia. If you combine the monthly attendance of all of these, we have approximately 120 attendees each month. That means there are at least 560 of you that are not reaping the full benefits of your membership. The meetings give you an opportunity to network and learn from professional colleagues. This month we have Don Robinson from Norfolk Southern speaking to us about ergonomics. He is a leader in this discipline in Georgia. You will learn something. Please join us on Monday April 13th. Next month is our annual one day PDC. We have an outstanding lineup of speakers: NFPA 70E Update – Danny Raines Shotgun Safety Never Works - Mike McCarroll, PROSAFE ISO 45001 – Ed Foulke (Former Director of OSHA) OSHA Update – Kurt Petermeyer (OSHA Regional Administrator) Worldwide Safety Programs – Alexi Carli, UPS 20 Common IH Mistakes – Matthew Parker, Cardno Please plan to attend. We will be in the normal banquet hall in April and we will be in the large auditorium in May. See you there! Matthew Parker President – Georgia Chapter The environment also plays a key role in how a person responds to heat conditions. Beyond the ambient air temperature of a given environment, air circulation, radiant heat, conduction, and relative humidity all affect the possibility of a person’s developing heat stress. The heat will be here before you know it. Review your plans and prepare for some monitoring. Need a good IH? Give me a call, I know a few. Matthew Parker, MS, CIH, CSP Cardno 706-722-3310 Quote of the Month “History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid”. Dwight D Eisenhower ASSE GEORGIA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER Young Professionals We are trying to get a Young Professional group started. Our target audience includes graduating college and university seniors and those with up to seven years of SH&E experience. Please contact Camille at oakesc@mscdirect.com for more information Call for Speakers The Georgia Conference The 2015 Georgia Safety, Health, and Environmental Conference will be held September 9-11, 2015 at the Savannah Marriott Riverfront Savannah, Georgia. We will be adding information on attending, becoming a speaker, sponsor and/or an exhibitor to the official website in the near future. We had a great 2014 Conference Join us in 2015!! We are seeking nominations, referrals, suggestions, ideas, recommendations, proposals, hints, etc for speakers for the ASSE meetings. Please contact any of the board members with your thoughts!!! OSHA in Georgia Newsletter Stuff Employer name: K.W. McAvoy & Son Inc. 3500 Greensboro Road, Washington, GA If you are not receiving this from matthew.parker@atcassociates.com please send an email to GA-ASSEsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Membership Stuff Ready to join? Don’t know how? You can apply online: http://www.asse.org/membership/becom eamember.php Future Meetings Put these dates on your Calendar NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! May 11, 2015 Annual One Day PDC Multiple Speakers/Topics June 8, 2015 Topic TBD Speaker TBD Date investigation initiated: OSHA initiated the investigation on Nov. 5, 2014, after the agency received a complaint related to safety and health hazards at the facility. Investigation findings: OSHA issued 12 serious citations to the employer for not having a program to ensure machinery could not accidentally start up during maintenance and servicing; exposing workers to amputation hazards due to unprotected rotating conveyor parts; allowing employees to use compressed air for cleaning in excess of 30 pounds per square inch; failing to ensure forklift operators were trained and used seat belts; allowing excessive amounts of sawdust to accumulate causing fire and explosion hazards and several instances of failing to protect employees from contact with hazardous equipment. Two other violations include the employer's failure to ensure electrical boxes were covered and not using permanent fixed wiring. A serious violation occurs when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard about which the employer knew or should have known. Proposed Penalties: $45,500 View citations here: http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/osha/OSHA20150394fs.pdf* http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/osha/OSHA20150394fs2.pdf* ASSE GEORGIA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER Picture of the Month Fall Protection Stand Down Building on its unprecedented participation from last year's event, OSHA has announced this year's Fall Safety Stand-Down to prevent falls in construction, scheduled for May 4-15, 2015. Last year, tens of thousands of employers and more than 1 million workers across the country joined OSHA in a week-long construction Fall Safety StandDown, the largest occupational safety event ever hosted in the United States. During the 2015 two-week stand-down, employers and workers will pause during their workday to focus on preventing fatalities from falls through talks, demonstrations and trainings. The National Fall Safety Stand-Down is part of OSHA's construction fall prevention campaign, with NIOSH National Occupational Research Agenda and CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training. The newly launched 2015 National Safety Stand-Down Web page (https://www.osha.gov/StopFallsStandDown/) provides details on how to conduct a stand-down; receive a certificate of participation; and access free education and training resources, fact sheets and other outreach materials Disassembly Required Braves Stadium OSHA has formed a strategic partnership with Georgia Tech Research Institute, American Builders 2017 and the Associated General Contractors of Georgia to ensure the highest level of worker safety and health during the construction of the new SunTrust Park, Atlanta Braves Stadium, in Atlanta. An estimated 6,000 workers will be covered during the construction of the 41,500-seat baseball stadium and mixeduse 60-acre development. The partnership focuses on reducing worker injuries and illnesses, increasing safety and health training, sharing best work practices and ensuring employers use safety and health management systems to find and fix hazards before workers can be harmed. The partnership will target silica exposure monitoring, ergonomics, 100 percent fall protection, electrical safety, heat illness prevention, and multi-language signage to ensure worker safety and health. ASSE Risk Assessment Program Workplace situations and challenges are constantly evolving, and safety professionals must evolve along with them. To that end, ASSE is now offering a Risk Assessment Certificate Program. For more information visit http://www.asse.org/education/cra/ Risk assessment is a process that helps identify and prioritize workplace risks. Debuted at SeminarFest and slated for the upcoming Safety 2015 conference, the certificate program is a 40-hour program of continuing education and training in risk assessment. Participants must complete all 40 hours (4 CEUs) within 2 years to receive the certificate. The program involves a 3-day classroom risk assessment seminar. Upon completion, the participant will earn 2.1 CEUs. An additional 10 hours of electives will count as another CEU, with the final .9 awarded for the participant’s final project. The program is designed to help participants build their skills to match the level of risk assessment in industry today. This helps you advance not only your career, but gives your organization confidence in your ability to help analyze the risks it is evaluating right now and into the future. Workshops are built in throughout, and a final project connects your learning to the current industry standard. Safety professionals can expect to gain more than just new knowledge from the program. They’ll benefit from being able to use what they learn almost immediately. The program is designed to keep on collecting and publishing data, examples and references. Particpants will learn to talk about risk and its applications in a language that is clearly understood by the senior management.