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The June 21 Plenary Session will be structured as a town hall and is titled “BBS at a Crossroads: Understanding the Human Side of Safety Performance Improvement.”
p.m. will be structured as a town hall. Ti- tled “BBS at a Crossroads: Understanding the Human Side of Safety Performance Improvement,” it will feature Dr. Thomas Krause as moderator and, as panelists, Dr. E. Scott Geller and Dr. Todd Conklin, se- nior advisor for safety, health, and quality at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Ala- mos National Laboratory.
This conference’s Executive Summit is scheduled for 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. on June 22. Panelists expected to participate include Bobi Garrett, deputy laboratory director and chief operating officer of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo.; Stuart MacVean, president and CEO of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC; Scott Simmons, vice president North America for McCormick & Company, Inc.; and Jeff Westphal, vice president, U.S. Building Operations for Denver-based PCL Construction Enterprises Inc.
The brochure also touts “social learn- ing stations” at the conference that will be focused on inspiration, innovation, relax- ation, learning from failures or mistakes, and role playing, believe it or not.
Pre-conference seminars conferring CEO credits are taking place June 16-19. The list of those includes preparation work- shops for the ASP, CSP, CHMM, OHST, and CHST exams, corporate safety man- agement, fatigue management, lockout/ tagout, behavior-based safety, and confined space evaluation. The post-conference seminars taking place June 22-25 are simi- lar, with ASP and CSP exam preparation workshops, along with risk management, accident prevention, slip and fall preven- tion, and a seminar on implementing an ANSI Z10 management system.
“The Colorado Convention Center is a great venue,” said Dan McNeill, director of professional development at ASSE. “We were in Denver in 2012, and this year will be even better. We’re on track for a record- breaking expo and we also have a shot at achieving our best attendance ever. In the
The conference’s Networking Night Out is a night baseball game (6:40 p.m. start) at Coors Field to watch the Colorado Rockies take on the Arizona Diamondbacks. The first 10,000 fans entering the park for the game will receive a $1 hot dog coupon.
months leading up to the conference, we’ve been trending higher than past years.
“Our sessions are more relevant than ever, and we’re really focused on what mat- ters to safety professionals, such as the new OSHA walking-working surfaces rule,” Mc- Neill added. “Attendees no doubt will have a great experience and learn a lot at this year’s event.”
Having previously served as ASSE’s manager of education for nine years, Mc- Neill is leading the annual conference’s planning efforts for the first time in his new role as director of professional develop- ment. “We’ve got a terrific team where ev- eryone does their part in making the event a success,” he said. “Stepping in and taking the reins didn’t worry me because I already was familiar with the dedication of the staff members behind it.”
Expo Hours and Highlights
The exposition hours are:
■ Monday, June 19, 3-5:30 p.m. ■ Tuesday, 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
■ Wednesday, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
The expo inside five halls of the conven- tion center is a magnet for the more than 4,000 safety and health professionals who are expected to attend this event. It will fea- ture flash sessions in various locations; “Su-
per Sessions” during morning expo hours “where some of the most popular sessions,” ASSE promises, will be presented in the expo; hands-on demonstrations; and the large ASSE Resource Center placed roughly in the center of the expo.
Out and About
The conference’s Networking Night Out is a night baseball game (6:40 p.m. start) at Coors Field to watch the Colorado Rock- ies take on the Arizona Diamondbacks. Hosted by the Colorado Chapter of ASSE, this is priced at $50 per person. (The first 10,000 fans entering the park for the game will receive a $1 hot dog coupon, according to the team’s online schedule.)
As happens every year, several of Safety 2017’s technical tours were sold out months in advance. A June 20 tour of the National Wind Technology Center south of Boulder was sold out early, but June 20 and 21 tours of the construction site in Aurora where the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center is being built—its opening is set for late 2018—were still available in mid-April. Two Denver Zoo safety tours also were sold out by then.
Jerry Laws is the editor of Occupational Health & Safety.
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