SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – A two-day event in Bend will offer employers and workers a variety of opportunities to learn new skills to improve workplace safety and health, network with local safety and health professionals work and to share best practices.
Topics at the Central Oregon Conference on Occupational Safety and Health include providing fall protection, hazard identification and accident investigation, implementing safety and health in various welding and cutting tasks, addressing bloodborne pathogen hazards, and proper registration of an injury or illness.
In addition to all these topics and more, the conference – to be held September 19-20 at the Riverhouse on the Deschutes – offers sessions focusing on safety and health challenges in fire and emergency services.
On Monday, September 19, the conference will feature a keynote address by a nationally recognized speaker. Marie Knight of Knight Leadership Solutions will present “Life and Leadership Lessons from the Popcorn Bucket,” which will draw on popular lines from the big and small screens to reveal life and leadership lessons for success.
“In short, if you’re not living your life, something or someone else is,” Knight said. “We have to take control and be intentional about how we lead our lives and, in the words of Doc to Marty in ‘Back to the Future III,’ ‘Your future isn’t written yet. No one has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it good.’”
The Oregon Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Oregon OSHA), part of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, encourages employers, managers and workers to attend the conference in Bend. The event is a joint effort of Oregon OSHA and the Central Oregon Safety and Health Association.
The Oregon Association of Fire Chiefs’ Safety and Health Section helped create the conference’s fire service track. Track topics include reducing the negative impacts of stress, improving employee psychological resilience, and addressing natural gas emergencies.
The American Society of Safety Professionals Broken Top Chapter provided support in creating occupational safety and health topics for safety professionals.
Other conference topics include:
- Tips for more effective safety training
- Machine lock/tagout and storage
- Improving your safety culture through safety and health management
- Limited spaces. do you have them If so, what now?
- Security Committee: Time to Stand Up!
- Respiratory protection program management and requirements
Registration for the two-day event is $210. Monday-only participation is $90. Tuesday-only attendance is $120. For more information or to register, go to safeseries.cventevents.com/central22.
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Oregon OSHA, a division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, enforces the state’s workplace safety and health regulations and works to improve workplace safety and health for all Oregon workers. For more information, go to osha.oregon.gov.
The Department of Consumer and Business Services is Oregon’s largest business regulatory and consumer protection agency. For more information, go to www.oregon.gov/dcbs/.
