Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Traditional approaches to improving workplace safety focus primarily on training efforts, policies and procedures, and the working environment. These are all important to safety performance, but are based on the assumption that everyone is inherently and equally safe when these conditions are met. However, research shows that certain individuals are more likely than others to and engage in unsafe behaviors. By measuring each individual’s unique “Safety DNA” using validated psychometric testing methods, organizations can use this valuable information to decrease exposure in their workforce, hire safer employees, and build stronger safety leaders that can sustain a thriving safety culture. Please join us for this informative webcast!

OSHA is turning up the heat on its Recordkeeping Rule with increased enforcement efforts, a proposed Recordkeeping Modernization rule involving radical changes to data collection requirements, and plans for an eventual Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) standard. HR professionals and safety managers need to stay compliant and aware of activity surrounding the standard. This session covers the main components of the rule, including OSHA Forms 300, 300A, and 301, as well as provides an overview of current related regulatory activity, a review of recordable incident criteria and scenarios, and actionable steps for achieving and maintaining compliance with the standard.

Under health care reform, voluntary benefits will play an increasingly important role in many employers’ benefits strategies. Many employers will shift toward providing only bare-bones core medical coverage and transferring more responsibility for additional coverage to the employee via voluntary benefits offerings. In this webinar, you'll learn how employers are reacting in different ways to changes under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and how voluntary benefits could help you react seamlessly to these changes. We'll outline key ingredients for a successful voluntary benefit program, commonly offered voluntary benefits, and ways that voluntary benefits can solve employers' and workers' headaches under health care reform.

Every year, thousands of employers are cited for violating one of the many OSHA standards.

These violations bring with them not only fines, they also put you on OSHA's "radar“.

The best way to avoid fines and intense inspections is to know not only what the common violations are, but to be in compliance before you get inspected!

Avoid OSHA violations through understanding the OSHA Standards that apply to your business.

The following OSHA Standards will be covered in this presentation (those in Bold Text apply to nearly every employer):

• Hazard Communication
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Respiratory Protection
• Eye & Face Protection
• Hand Protection
• Control of Hazardous Energy (LOTO)
• Recordkeeping
• Fire Prevention Plans Standard and Exit Routes Standard
• Medical and First Aid standard
• Emergency Action Plan standard

This program is taught by a safety expert with over 18 years of professional speaking and training. The information should be shared with employees on all levels. The cost and financial impact of victimization strikes the bottom line of companies of all sizes. When employees are victimized, they miss work for medical appointments, sick days, court appearances, filing police reports, counseling and many do not return to work.

Prevention and awareness training is the key to showing employees that their safety is important, on and off the clock. It shows that employers care about them.

Participants will learn how to "not look like a victim". Implement a Safety Plan. Trust your instinct. Focus on raising your awareness level. Learn about ways you can prevent crime. Educate yourself about safety and security tools. This program will help empower you to take control of your safety and security.

If OSHA has fallen off your radar screen, it is time to put it back on. Over the past two years, OSHA has been changing, and more changes are on the way. Employers in all industries are seeing a continued shift away from the government’s recent emphasis on cooperative efforts with employers to a more aggressive enforcement approach.

This presentation will briefly review the essential elements of OSHA compliance and an effective workplace safety and health program, with an eye to preparing for increased civil and criminal enforcement, as well as the use of safety issues to unions and a growing group of whistleblowers. The presentation will also explain how, when used properly, safety compliance can be a “profit center” and not another administrative cost.

In this fast-moving, informative and entertaining session, get the “why” and the “how” on worksite wellness. Come away with useful takeaways that can be applied immediately toward any worksite wellness initiative – whether you are just getting started or already have a robust worksite wellness program in place. After participating in this session, you’ll have what you need to convince senior leaders that worksite wellness is one of the best ways to mitigate costs AND enhance productivity. To ensure real results, you’ll come away with helpful tips to move any worksite wellness program from a “check the box” program to an “out of the box” program to achieve maximum benefits.

This session will provide a background on how lean thinking and tools can help safety and any HR function. Following the teachings of W. Edwards Deming, Toyota created a production system, now commonly referred to as lean production. What is not well understood is that “lean” works in any office and business, regardless of size. Whether healthcare, small enterprise, food service, or non – profit, “lean” can help improve teamwork, culture and drive continuous improvement, but only if we go back to basics and strip away the mystery that this thinking is only for the manufacturing floor. Participants in the session will gain new insight into both “how” and “why” standards should be developed.

We often get requests for information on how to manage difficult people. Our work environment inevitably creates conflict situations on a daily basis. Conflict can be about the work (e.g. my approach versus yours, schedules, priorities) or about relationships (e.g. I don’t trust you, your style is different than mine). Conflict can be a source of creative solutions... but only if people understand both the value of conflict and how to resolve it. Join us to learn how you naturally respond to conflict and how you can leverage conflict for win-win outcomes.

Say “Goodbye” to anxiety when conflict arises!! As women we have an underutilized resource that can be leveraged to improve safety and environmental performance—our feminine energy that projects caring and empathy. These are key to preventing and resolving conflict.

Research consistently shows that women have leadership strengths and frequently receive higher performance reviews than men. Yet many women in EHS express frustration that their observations, opinions and ideas are not taken seriously, even in areas as basic as safety design for women’s bodies.

Now be honest ... not one woman in EHS can honestly say they don't experience conflict with co- workers and business associates. Do you understand the cause of conflicts in starting new programs, implementing solutions or finishing projects? If you're concerned with these questions ... or your response to these questions ... you're not alone.

Our webinar is strongly recommended for any woman in EHS who faces more work in less time and higher expectations from top management.

This brief 15 minute session is the introduction to the two day event. There will be an overview of the sessions and speakers for the event, but more importantly, it will give you an overview of the IHR certification program and the progress we’ve made within the Institute. You will learn about the opportunity to become certified within the Health & Safety Institute and the other HR verticals that are available for either yourself or your colleagues. There will also be an introduction of the Institute's Advisory Board. You will be given guidance on how to chat online with colleagues and access the virtual exhibit hall. You will also have the opportunity to ask any questions as it relates to the overall program, prior to its commencement. Even if you have attended one of our events in the past, we’d still encourage you to attend. If this is your first time attending an event, the introduction will provide you an overview of the certification program.