LIVE STREAMED - Virtual Attendance does not qualify for BWC Discount Programs or CEUs.

Retired lieutenant colonel, professional pilot, and fourth-generation military member, Jason Harris brings nearly three decades of leadership experience from the U.S. Air Force. With 11 deployments and over 2,000 combat hours, Jason has developed his proprietary “No Fail Trust^®” methodology, a proven framework for cultivating mutual trust and high performance in teams.

Jason’s keynote, “No Fail Trust: The flight plan to cultivating a high performance team,” will provide actionable strategies for navigating challenges and building a culture of empowerment, commitment, and accountability. Safety leaders and teams will benefit from Jason's insights as they work to foster a culture where trust drives compliance, innovation, and accident prevention. This engaging presentation is ideal for professionals dedicated to ensuring workplace safety, mitigating risks, and achieving exceptional outcomes in high-stakes environments.

Like other areas of the country, Ohio has seen a rise in mental illness, suicide, and deaths related to drug overdose over the past decade. The COVID pandemic has further exacerbated these challenges. As called for by Governor DeWine in his 2023 State of the State address and supported by the legislature in the state budget, Ohio must be the model in helping our citizens overcome mental health challenges so they improve mental and physical health, attain a good-paying job, complete an education, support a family, and contribute to our communities. We must better understand?risk?– the root causes leading to mental illness and substance use disorders – and?resilience?– the ability to adapt and grow in the face of adversity. 
SOAR is a fact-finding mission – to partner with and study Ohioans across the state, using a “science in our communities” approach; joining with Ohioans where they live. SOAR is building a state-wide coalition and ecosystem to drive new and continued advances in mental health and substance use prevention science and treatment interventions. The SOAR Study investigates social, environmental, psychological, trauma-related, and biological factors leading to (or protecting from) the development of persistent distress, mental illness, substance use disorders, overdoses, and suicide AND how this is expressed in the brain and behavior. This approach allows us to identify patterns of how risk is passed between family members and resilience, allowing families to “break the chains” of mental illness. It also helps us understand how resilience lives and emerges in the context of personal features, family and community supports, and health care activities and supports. 

After this session, you will be able to:

• Describe the State of Ohio Adversity and Resilience studies
• Describe the rationale for a longitudinal, family-based study to understand how we can transform mental and physical health in Ohio, and reduce suicides and overdoses
• Describe how individuals from Ohio can participate, and what some of the study activities are

• Identify locations and populations more susceptible to trafficking.
• Distinguish barriers to identification.
• Summarize with addressing human trafficking through an interprofessional lens.

• Identify confined spaces, dangers within confined spaces and when will rescue services be needed.
• Discuss common hazards within confined spaces, such as low oxygen, hazardous atmospheres, improper use of equipment.
• Explain proper completion of a confined space permit, air monitoring and rescue standby.

• Discuss safety in rope rescue operations.
• Demonstrate correct usage techniques for each piece of rope rescue equipment.
• Identify best practices in rope rescue operations

• Identify how to schedule your day in a manner that will allow for the completion of more tasks in a shorter and more efficient manner. For many people, this is a revolutionary paradigm shift in their time management.
• Explain how to convert lost time into productive minutes by mastering the art of task grouping. Cultivating this mindset will allow you to spend less time doing exactly the same tasks in a different order during your day.
• Discuss two mindsets that can have a significant negative effect on your efficiency and overall productivity. Many people don’t realize how much time they lose as a result of having one or both of these “hard to realize” and “harder to admit” ways of thinking.

• Develop an understanding of why being a trusted advisor is crucial for the safety profession.
• Implement human relationship skills that "earn you the position of a trusted advisor".
• Use a "self-assessment" of your current state.

This session describes the development and evaluation of a virtual simulation health and safety training system (HH-VSTS) for home health care workers. The HH-VSTS enables home health care workers to detect and manage health and safety hazards in client homes. HH-VSTS development includes assessing efficacy in a real-world environment and examining barriers and supports to widespread implementation.

This team was awarded a grant from BWC's Workforce Safety Innovation Center® (WSIC) in the latest funding cycle. The WSIC initiative offers grant opportunities to support the research and development of innovations in personal protective equipment (PPE) and personal protective technology (PPT) to enhance workplace safety. 
 

• Describe health and safety hazards encountered by home healthcare workers and challenges presented by current training methods.
• Identify the process of participatory approaches to product design, including engagement with community partners (e.g., home healthcare workers and managers) to ensure products meet the needs of the intended users.
• Examine supports and barriers to the usability, learnability, and implementation of a virtual simulation home healthcare training system.

• Explain how a Total Worker Health® approach to well-being can support your efforts, your organization, and your employees.
• Discuss the three foundational aspects to building a strong strategic plan for your company well-being strategy. 
• Recognize potential barriers within your organization that might be holding back your well-being efforts.

This dynamic presentation will explore the critical considerations in selecting and effectively engaging a training consultant and an industrial hygiene consultant. Our panel of experts will delve into what clients should and should not expect from industrial hygiene and safety training consultants, ensuring clear, realistic expectations from the outset. Additionally, we’ll cover key post-contract steps, offering practical advice on maintaining productive partnerships and avoiding common pitfalls. Participants will gain insight into evaluating potential risks, establishing robust risk management strategies, and ensuring accountability throughout the consulting process, leading to successful project outcomes and long-term consultant relationships.

After this session, you wil be able to: 

• Identify key qualities and competencies to look for when hiring a safety trainer or industrial hygiene consultant.
• Discuss the common challenges and risks involved in working with safety and IH consultants and how to manage them.
• Develop strategies for creating effective contracts and follow-up processes to ensure consultant engagement success.

• Explain the open enrollment process.
• Describe the tools employers can use to make an informed selection of a MCO.
• Describe the differences in roles between BWC/ IC/MCOs.

• Define Worker’s Compensation Fraud.
• Learn how the Special Investigations Unit detects and investigates fraud.
• Identify some red flag indicators that may point to fraudulent activity.

• Identify key elements of coordination and communication needed during HazMat incidents.
• List the key policies and procedures involved in responding to HazMat incidents.
• Identify overall strengths and weaknesses of HazMat plans.

• Identify the pros and cons of task-based and daily wear approaches.
• Recognize Incident Energy and Arc Rating for effective decision-making.
• Explain best practices from the last 20 years

• Identify the need to collect IH data and samples.
• Determine appropriate exposure limits for comparison.
• Develop an IH monitoring plan at your workplace

• Explain the very real and serious threat that a pallet rack collapse presents to a facility and the workers therein.
• Distinguish between minor, major and critical damage, as well as the appropriate response for each damage level, including the Critical Damage Response protocol for those instances when damage is such that a catastrophic collapse may be imminent.
• Identify the need for every facility to have a Strategic Site Safety Plan, as well as how having a designated Rack Safety Officer assigned to every shift can help keep all workers safe.

• Identify how Safety Leaders are using AI to understand leadership performance, team engagement and culture.
• Describe how AI can be used to measure, critique and track performance to identify opportunities for improvement and evaluate change effectiveness.
• Explain practical insights and best practices to help leaders create a positive environment for productive conversations, more effective planning and enhanced risk mitigation.

• Explain an overview of self-care
• Describe self-care and practical applications
• Implement self-care tactics and strategies

• Identify the 4 types of workplace violence
• Explain the role/requirement for employee involvement
• Describe the methodology for developing an effective program

This session will cover practical applications of virtual reality (VR) including what is known about training effectiveness in addressing workplace violence, key challenges to delivering staff education, and focus group results describing gaps in current education. Participants have an innovative learning opportunity to trial our virtual reality co-designed simulation scenarios. Insights to apply are strategies for teaching health care workers proactive thinking, resilience, and adaptability. 

This team was awarded a grant from BWC's Workforce Safety Innovation Center^® (WSIC) in the latest funding cycle. The WSIC initiative offers grant opportunities to support the research and development of innovations in personal protective equipment (PPE) and personal protective technology (PPT) to enhance workplace safety. 

After this session, you will be able to:

• Identify key educational challenges in current curricula and skill gaps for prevention of workplace violence in healthcare.
• Identify advantages of incorporating co-designed virtual reality simulation scenarios for addressing educational gaps in workplace violence.
• Describe innovative technological solutions for addressing gaps in workplace violence training.

• Explain how human movement limitation contributes to pain, injury and lost days of work and explore some of the empirical research that supports these claims.
• Demonstrate the quick and easy self-assessment system you can begin to implement immediately to identify and uncover those most critical underlying movement pattern dysfunctions that contribute to increased risk of injury. 
• Identify the most appropriate corrective approach including specific exercise implementation to improve employee physical capabilities and strengthen your current ergonomic programs.

This dynamic presentation will explore the critical considerations in selecting and effectively engaging a training consultant and an industrial hygiene consultant. Our panel of experts will delve into what clients should and should not expect from industrial hygiene and safety training consultants, ensuring clear, realistic expectations from the outset. Additionally, we’ll cover key post-contract steps, offering practical advice on maintaining productive partnerships and avoiding common pitfalls. Participants will gain insight into evaluating potential risks, establishing robust risk management strategies, and ensuring accountability throughout the consulting process, leading to successful project outcomes and long-term consultant relationships.

After this session, you wil be able to: 

• Identify key qualities and competencies to look for when hiring a safety trainer or industrial hygiene consultant.
• Discuss the common challenges and risks involved in working with safety and IH consultants and how to manage them.
• Develop strategies for creating effective contracts and follow-up processes to ensure consultant engagement success.

• Identify who needs to wear fall protection.
• Describe why we wear fall protection.
• Discuss the components of a fall protection program.

LIVE STREAMED - Virtual Attendance does not qualify for BWC Discount Programs or CEUs.

This session will examine Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Recordkeeping forms, general recording criteria, and specific situations that must be recorded on OSHA Injury & Illness Recordkeeping documents. The primary focus of the lecture will be determining recordability to ensure accurate records are maintained. This session will also cover reporting requirements and electronic record submission.

After this session, you will be able to:

• Identify recordkeeping requirements for workplace injuries and illnesses.
• Recognize OSHA recordkeeping forms.
• Discuss regulation 1904 scope and requirements.

• Describe the goal of emergency management
• Describe the emergency management roles and responsibilities of several key agencies at the federal, state, and local level
• Provide proven and best practices with regards to emergency management preparedness and response

• Describe the updates to the inspection priorities. 
• Explain past injury data.
• Recognize what to look forward to for the current year. 

• Define emotional health.
• Recognize how to lead from a place of emotional health.
• Identify how to lead others to a place of emotional health.

• Identify the science behind kindness and how to cultivate it for driving safety and performance.
• Recognize the importance of establishing emotional, professional, and physical safety.
• Explain how to be viewed as charismatic.

• Explain how complacency and other states of mind can lead to making errors with very serious consequences.
• Summarize how personal safety skills can carry over to outside of the workplace—24/7 safety is important not only to the individual but their family, friends, coworkers, etc.
• Identify strategies to ensure incidents like these never happen again, regardless of whether you’re at work, at home or on the road.

We will discuss our Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Workforce Safety Innovation Grant and the development of a motorized, portable lateral patient transfer board. The session will include teaching on focus group experiences with operating room (OR), intensive care unit (ICU), radiology, emergency and transport staff, a discussion on navigating industry partnerships and intellectual property, and the engineering design process of a motorized transfer board to reduce worker injuries. We will demonstrate the preliminary results and future directions of the technology. 

This team was awarded a grant from BWC's Workforce Safety Innovation Center® (WSIC) in the latest funding cycle. The WSIC initiative offers grant opportunities to support the research and development of innovations in personal protective equipment (PPE) and personal protective technology (PPT) to enhance workplace safety. 

After this session, you will be able to: 

• Identify key safety considerations in lateral patient transfers for healthcare workers
• Describe basic physical and engineering principles of lateral patient transfer and a motorized system
• Explain basic concepts in technology innovation and commercialization

• Explain the business and strategic imperatives of prioritizing workplace mental health/PH&S as an essential part of your safety program with relevant supporting statistics.
• Identify effective strategies for securing leadership buy-in to support workplace mental health/Psychological Health & Safety.
• Explain the valuable insights and practical knowledge on Psychological Health & Safety factors to apply in your own workplace (grounded in the principles of ISO 45003: 2021 and CSA Z1003 the psychological health & safety standards)

• Explain why transportation safety should be part of an organization's culture.
• Identify how driver behaviors contribute to risk and liability.
• Explain how our driving concern enhances an organization's transportation safety program.

• Identify parties responsible for claims/injury management and their distinct role.
• Describe the interplay of relevant statutes, rules, policies, and forms impacting effective management of a new injury.
• Define how all parties interact to facilitate a safe and early return to work

• Identify what steps to take at the onset of a claim to determine if it is proper.
• Recognize how to best utilize social media and surveillance investigations.
• Identify opportunities to recover costs once a claim has occurred.

• Identify proper harness fit.
• Explain harness donning/doffing.
• Identify if they pass or fail inspection.

• Recognize the range of return-to-work services offered by the Ohio BWC.
• Identify opportunities for early referral and use of return-to-work services.
• Recognize the ways to access return to work services for your injured employees.

“I immediately fired a supervisor who was harassing employees. But the employees are suing me anyway! They say I did not take steps to PREVENT it from happening. What should I have done?” 
Who is REQUIRED to conduct HARASSMENT training?  What can happen if you don’t? In 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) gave us new harassment guidelines. Have you included these topics from the EEOC Guidelines into your training, which include bystander intervention, conflict resolution, defining “bullying,” social media and tolerance? Scott will show you exactly how to comply the EEOC’s Guidelines for your bullying & harassment training program … and how to get universal BUY-IN! 

After this session, you will be able to: 

• Identify how to comply with the EEOC’s Harassment Training Guidelines.
• Recognize how to get WIDESPREAD BUY-IN from your employees to STOP BULLYING EACH OTHER.
• Define what constitutes BULLYING & HARASSMENT to keep it from happening in the first place.

• Define the attributes of the tasks that can qualify for the minor servicing exception.
• Identify the required steps to develop the control solutions that are the alternatives to LOTO.
• Explain the elements in documentation that will be the proof of OHSA regulatory compliance.

• Identify how accountability contributes to organizational success.
• Recognize the key elements required to create a culture of accountability.
• Explain the best ways to increase accountability in the workplace.

• Understand the Integration of Technology and Personal Skills in EHS: Learn how the combination of technological advancements and personal skills such as critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving can enhance environmental health and safety practices.
• Apply Visual Literacy to Hazard Identification: Discover how principles of visual literacy from art education can be applied to improve hazard identification and risk management in the workplace.
• Develop Strategies for Enhancing Personal Skills: Gain practical strategies to foster and enhance critical personal skills among employees, leading to more effective safety solutions and improved safety practices in your organization.

• Explain the requirements for safety and health programs and policies.
• Identify common hazards cited for ineffective safety and health programs and policies.
• List solutions to implement a safety and health management system in your workplace.

• Describe the importance of awareness around the work zone
• Explain the impact of provide alerts in vehicle.
• List benefits of lane level data on the work zone boundary. 

• Explain the difference (and importance of) musculoskeletal mobility, flexibility and integrity.
• Demonstrate a format, and specific drills, that positively benefit joints and soft tissues.
• Discuss how to integrate MS programming immediately into the workday for improved health and safety.

• Identify confined space hazards.
• Discuss confined space solutions.
• Describe industrial rescue hazards and equipment.

• Explain how each subsequent step uses the information from the previous steps and why it is important to be thorough and complete.
• Define each step in the risk assessment and mitigation process.
• Identify examples of the documentation generated and how this can be used to demonstrate that the best decisions were made to mitigate hazards and risk.

• Explain why OSHA’s strategies for reducing construction fatalities have not yet achieved the desired results.
• Analyze Lockout/Tagout regulations and energy source identification to understand their role in controlling hazardous energy.
• Evaluate how OSHA’s General Industry Standard, particularly Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), can enhance a construction company’s safety and health program.
• Modify procedures and training for specific staff to incorporate energy controls and strategies.

• Explain how specific actions, interactions, and reactions contribute to building or damaging trust in relationships.
• Identify the 5 common "misses" that can cause trust to be damaged or lost, and how you can begin to rebuild it.
• Describe the cost and value when there is and when there isn't a high level of trust in the workplace, and how a lead can directly affect the level of trust within a team. 

• Identify the role nutrition and fitness plays in the risk of workplace injury and recovery. 
• Explain the role nutrition and fitness plays in employee productivity.
• Identify opportunities the employer can utilize to encourage good nutrition and fitness goals. 

• Explain the distinctly different mechanisms of head injury
• Describe results of impact mitigation testing of the latest generation of safety helmets
• Identify simple and evidence-based guidance for selection of helmet ratings and technologies that provide superior protection

• Explain the changes in how the program operates. 
• Describe improvements to user interface.
• Identify benefits of participating in the program.

• Execute proper case and utilization management through injured worker advocacy with accountability
• Identify that lack of communication and clear objectives create possible unnecessary barriers
• Implement the application of risk mitigation strategies especially with challenging cases

LIVE STREAMED - Virtual Attendance does not qualify for BWC Discount Programs or CEUs.

Safety advocate Candace Carnahan draws from her deeply personal experience and knowledge of traumatic workplace injuries. Over the past 20 years, Candace has inspired more than half a million people worldwide with her powerful message about the importance of safety awareness and personal accountability.

In her keynote, “It could happen to you”, Candace emphasizes the need to combat complacency and take proactive steps toward an injury-free workplace. With humor, passion, and unforgettable storytelling, she highlights the countless opportunities to intervene in the name of safety, leaving audiences inspired to embrace a culture of vigilance and care.

• Identify how important physical and mental well-being is in the workplace.
• Explain why employers should prioritize worker well-being.
•  Identify ways to support employees in navigating physical and mental health challenges. 

• Describe the impact of a claim on employer premiums. 
• Recognize cost-containment strategies that can reduce future premiums. 
• Identify Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) resources to assist with claims management. 

• Explain updates made to ANSI lockout and machine guarding standards.
• Discuss specifics relative to pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
• Review fluid power risk reduction safety functions in B11.26.

• Describe the key steps in effective project management
• List attributes associated with effective influence of professionals
• Summarize with personal examples

• Define what visible leadership is and why it is critical to you and your teams success.
• Identify the enablers and threats to being a visible leader.
• List some actionable strategies that can be implemented today to move forward.

• Describe the difference between 'ergonomic' related injuries versus 'traditional' safety injuries
• Identify methods to investigate ergonomic related injuries arising from the workplace
• Describe strategies to determine corrective actions for musculoskeletal injuries

• Increase awareness of a science-based explanation of substance use disorder, prevention and treatment as it relates to the employee and the workplace.
• Identify the barriers facing employers and employees as they reconsider addiction for the brain disease that it is.
• Identify workplace policies and practices that could be impacted by this reframe.

• Explain the "why" behind the impact advocacy can have in work settings
• List (3) methods to building a peer support culture in the workplace
• Identify moments where vulnerability can build trust and respect in the workplace

• Identify the changes in the fire code from the 2017 Ohio Fire Code (OFC) to the 2025 OFC.
• Explain how the changes to the OFC will affect your place of business.
• Describe the code development process before a new fire code can be enacted.

• Define the roles between BWC and MCOs, including the various compliant reporting processes.
• Describe the relevant statutes, rules, policies, and contract terms governing MCOs’ activities.
• Define and identify how to better use MCO medical management and return-to-work services.

• Identify the impact of substance use on the workplace (even from off the job use)
• Explain the benefits and ROI of offering DFWP education and training
• Recognize practical opportunities for business to operate drug-fee

• Identify the parties to a claim and their roles.
• Explain the different functions of BWC vs the MCO
• Describe the process from filling to outcome management.

• Identify and compare various types of PPE suitable for specific workplace hazards.
• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate proper PPE fit for diverse work scenarios. 
• Assess effective PPE maintenance strategies to enhance longevity and reliability. 

• Define a confined space.
• Explain permit required confined space.
• Explain how to identify hazards, eliminate or substitute them, and select suitable PPE.

• Identify the key provisions and requirements of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).
• Describe practical steps employers can take to ensure compliance with the PWFA.
• Explain the benefits of accommodating pregnant workers for both employees and the organization.

• Explain the importance of a comprehensive wellness approach.
• Identify and utilize multiple wellness resources.
• Implement prevention and education strategies.

• Identify what audiences find interesting in your message and how to give them what they want.
• Review, discuss, and critique sample communications.
• Identify the four types of memory biases that impact message retention.

• Explain how psychological safety impacts a team’s ability to succeed.
• Identify critical leadership skills that enable an environment of psychological safety including building trust, setting healthy boundaries, and empowering others.
• Execute a self-assessment and action plan that will pave the way for enhancing psychological safety in the work environment.

• Identify when a chemical may be hazardous.
• Describe how to protect yourself and stay safe.
• Recognize the resources to use when you spill a hazardous chemical.

• Explain the potential explosion/fire hazards present in underground mines
• Describe the capabilities and limitations of current Self Contained Self Rescuers (SCSRs)
• List the three main modules that comprise the OCSR.

• Define relevant terms like risk perception and risk tolerance.
• Explain how employees’ risk posture affects their willingness to engage in high-risk activities or situations.
• Describe methods to reduce employee’s risk tolerance.

• Identify the parties to a claim and their roles.
• Explain the different functions of BWC vs the MCO
• Describe the process from filling to outcome management

• Identify common pitfalls of underperforming new hire safety orientation
• List concrete key elements of an effective new hire safety orientation program
• Describe 14  practical ways to make new hire safety orientation effective, engaging, interactive and sticky.

• Discuss the ability to view HR through the lens of a CEO, understanding the strategic importance of passion and ownership in driving organizational success.
• Identify valuable insights and strategies to leverage the power of human resources, transforming the workplace to enhance employee engagement and overall productivity.
• Develop a tangible, actionable plan to implement HR Like a Boss principles, ensuring practical application and positive outcomes in the workplace.

• Explain how defining lifts can create a safer work site.
• List actionable items for creating lift plans.
• Provide guidance to execute lift plans effectively.

• Compare their current understanding of a risk assessment with one that is compliant with the standards.
• Describe the critical elements of a risk assessment and how they are used in subsequent steps in the risk reduction effort.
• Recognize a compliant method of documenting a risk assessment. 

• Identify how to humanize the safety function.
• Explain building culture & trust
• Explain how to overcome the imposter syndrome.

• Identify common signs of grief and emotional distress in the workplace and understand their impact on team performance and safety culture.
• Develop strategies to support employees through grief while maintaining a productive and safe work environment.
• Build personal resilience and learn techniques to foster emotional well-being for both safety managers and their teams.

• Define impairment and explain how it is more than drugs and alcohol.
• Explain how an Impairment Detection Technology (IDT) system can benefit both the worker and employers.
• Discuss why employers are seriously considering IDT in addition to current testing practices.

LIVE STREAMED - Virtual Attendance does not qualify for BWC Discount Programs or CEUs.

This course will provide an overview of important internal policies companies should have in place at the onset of an injury. We will review the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s (BWC) claims process and employer premium calculation to demonstrate the effectiveness of various claim management strategies. Lastly, we will discuss BWC’s rating plans, rebate programs, and safety services. 

After this session, you will be able to:

• Identify optional claim management strategies.
• Explain how employer premium is calculated.
• Describe the available BWC rebate programs.

• Explain how the study took place.
• Explain metrics of the case study.
• Explain implementation of the program.

• Identify the needs, barriers, and benefits to consider when planning a disability-focused employee resource group.
• Identify the benefits of organizational leadership support.
• Describe best practices to secure, maintain, and increase staff engagement with a disability-focused ERG.

• Explain biological spill response and decontamination.
• Identify how HAZWOPER principles can be applied to bio-hazards. 
• List the components of an effective response plan.

• Identify the forces that fuel leadership success and those that hinder it.
• Explain how leaders can take charge and transform a "me first" culture into a collaborative, success driven environment.
• Discuss the building blocks for crafting a sustainable coaching culture. 
• Equip leaders to use their strengths for quicker, more productive outcomes, giving them more time for what matters most.

• Discuss the importance of personal wellness and self-care, regardless of position.
• Identify the pillars of wellness and how they apply to individuals.
• Develop strategies for self-care.

• Explain what a SPCC plan is.
• Identify what is needed to create a SPCC Plan
• Explain what tanks need containment.

• List a few common industrial inhalation hazards
• Describe existing inhalation hazard technology in terms of performance, cost, and size.
• Identify what advances in inhalation hazard technology can be realized to improve worker health and safety.

• Explain why hearing protector fit testing is necessary to ensure workers are protected from noise.
• List the steps for conducting a hearing protector fit test.
• Describe key factors for a successful hearing protector fit-testing program.

• Define distracted driving.
• Identify when we are most vulnerable to be distracted.
• List steps we can take to reduce the risk of being distracted.

• Identify the differences between the HAZCOM and lab standard.
• Explain the role of the Chemical Hygiene Officer (CHO).
• Describe the spill clean-up procedures for labs

• Identify why some organizations are NOT struggling to hire. (Hint: It's not always money.)
• Explain how to begin a funnel to help when you need to hire.
• Identify simple things you can do to make people WANT to work for you.

• Enhanced Hazard Recognition: Develop skills to more effectively identify and assess potential workplace hazards by improving observational techniques and recognizing key indicators that may signal underlying issues.
• Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving: Apply critical thinking and problem-solving methodologies to address gaps in hazard assessments and implement effective corrective actions and controls.
• Integration of Observation and EHS Practices: Explain how integrating the art of observation with traditional EHS practices can enhance risk management frameworks and training, leading to more comprehensive and proactive safety measures.

• Analyze Incident Data: Understand how to extract meaningful insights from safety incident reports to identify underlying issues and trends.
• Implement Actionable Changes: Learn strategies for translating incident findings into practical improvements that enhance workplace safety and prevent future incidents.
• Foster a Proactive Culture: Discover methods for using incident investigations to build a proactive safety culture that encourages continuous learning and organizational resilience.

• Define psychological safety.
• Recall examples of and explain metrics that can quantify psychological safety.
• List examples of the inverse relationship between perceptions of safety and accident/injury rates.

• Identify common issues in functional job descriptions that contribute to confusion about job match and delayed return to work.
• Apply new ORS physical demand factors and scales for duration and strength definitions when reviewing FCE reports.
• Apply a strategic approach to the design of a RTW plan that includes accommodations, assistive technology and ergonomic equipment to improve job retention.

• Identify elements of a complete safety program.
• Review strategies to prioritize your efforts when managing a safety program.
• Provide tools to execute and continually improve your program.

• Describe an ergonomics job improvement strategy.
• Recognize injury risk factors for different types of work. 
• Identify opportunities to reduce injury risk.

• Define Combustible dust and explain the science behind explosions.
• Explain the basic NFPA and OSHA requirements and distinguish between them.
• List and explain the steps to complete a Dust Hazard Analysis

• Explain the basic concepts of industrial ventilation.
• Identify characteristics of poorly designed and installed industrial ventilation systems.
• Identify the basic measurements of industrial ventilation.

• Identify of lithium-ion technology, constructions, and hazards.
• Explain hazard and risk assessment for thermal runaway events and other battery emergencies.
• Identify the response considerations for lithium-batteries, battery energy storage systems, and electric vehicles.

• Distinguish between the three types of violence, their causes, precursors, and purposes.
• Develop de-escalation skills for each of the types of violence.
• Develop verbal and physical self-protection skills.

• Identify the scope of heat stress and strain in occupational settings.
• Recognize the need for monitoring heat stress in occupational environments.
• Assess heat strain through physiological monitoring.
• Implement strategies to mitigate heat stress and strain using a heat stress management plan.