66th Annual Pulp & Paper Safety Association

Safety & Health Conference at the Caribe Royale

 Orlando Florida June 14 -17^th. 2009.

“World Class Safety Results - Proven Strategies for Success”

 Sunday June 14^th 

     ·         Golf and Conference Registration

    ·         Vendor Meeting, Vendor Suites Open

    ·         Chairman’s Reception  

Monday June 15^th.

Morning Program

  8:00 - 8:15.  Invocation – Welcome & Opening Remarks – General Chair

  8:15 - 8:50.  Keynote Address - Ms. Janet Froetscher, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Safety Council.  Named in 2008 by Crain's Chicago Business as one of the 20 "Women to Watch."  Ms. Froetscher will share her views on what constitutes "World Class Safety".

  8:50 - 09:00. Break

  9:00 - 10:00.  Opening Session – The Safety Doctor – Dr Isabel Perry.  "World Class Safety Begins with ME and YOU". Attendees will learn about the behaviors that contribute to accidents and how to prevent them.  Be ready to participate and have fun in some learning excercises.   

10:00 - 10:15. Break   

10:15 - 11:15.  How to engage senior leaders - Bob Strenge, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing and safety champion for Boise Inc. will share his thoughts on how motivate leader’s involvement in safety efforts.  

11:15 - 12:00.  United Steelworkers - Mike Wright   

12:00 - 1:00. Lunch 

Afternoon Program

1:00 - 1:45. Employee empowerment – what it means in a world class operation. Kevin Cobb, Electrolab Training Systems.  Kevin’s 10 year Broadcast News experience makes him an entertaining and thought-provoking speaker. In this session he will explore what many companies are doing to empower their employees to not only manage personal risk in the workplace but how they can also dramatically improve off the job safety through the implementation of simple techniques.      

1:45 - 3:00. What it takes to achieve zero injuries. Presentations from sites with world class safety results. Site representatives will discuss how culture, values and strategies can drive sustained injury free performance. (3 to 4 sites, facilitator led panel discussion).   

3:00 - 3:15. Break 

3:15 - 3:45.  Felt Leadership – front line leaders, breaking down the barriers to actively caring. Hear from a

Smurfit Stone manager who turned a location with poor safety performance, a very diverse workforce and poor

employee-management relations into an award winning plant.

3:45 - 4:30 Leading indicators measure process but do not get you to world class.  Shaker Chandrasekaran. Former Mill Manager now a Senior Vice President of Manufacturing at Weyerhaeuser Comapny, Shaker brings a passionate belief in safety as a value and will share how leading from the heart achieves excellence in safety.  

4:30 - 7:00 Vendor Suites Open

Tuesday June 16^th.

Machine Guarding & Safety Seminar (AFPA and PPSA joint partnership)

8:00 – 9:00  Orientation to General Machine Guarding Principles

9:00 – 9:45  OSHA Perspective of Machine Guarding in the Pulp, Paper, Wood Products and  Recycle

Industry

9:45 – 10:00 Break

10:00 – 11:00 Topic TBD (Trends or Energy Isolation, etc?)

11:00 – 12:00 Innovations, ideas and successful applications of machine guarding and safe practices in the

industry

12:00 - 1:00. Lunch

  4:30 - 7:00 Vendor Suites Open

Wednesday June 17^th.

Morning Program

 8 - 8:10.  Opening Remarks, program announcements – General Chair

  8:10 - 9:15 Rapid, lasting improvement - Site representatives will discuss the critical changes they made and how

they made them to dramatically improve their safety performance. (3 to 4 sites, faciitator led panel discussion)      

 9:15 - 10-00.  Combustible Dust: Dr. Vahid Ebadat of Chilworth Technology  This presentation will discuss the conditions that are required for dust cloud explostions to occur and presents a well-tried approach to identify, assess, and eliminate/control dust explosion hazards in facilities.         

10:00 - 10:15. Break         

10:15 - 11:15. What we can expect from the new administration – Eric Hobbs and Larry Halprin, Attorneys at Law. Hear first hand from legal experts what changes in direction you can expect to see and if those changes will it affect your business.          

11:00 - 12:00. Fallprotection - Bill Reichle Associates, Fall Hazard Risk Consultants - Bill will present a case study on typical "fall from height" challenges that face the paper industry and remediation steps that can be implemented to minimize fall exposures.

12:00 - 1:00. Lunch 

 5:00 - 9:00. Awards Banquet