LOCATION: Grand Long Beach Event Center, 4101 East Willow St., Long

Beach, CA 90815 (2 Blocks from the Long Beach Airport Holiday Inn))

Dr. Katherine A. Hart, CSP, is an author, speaker, and visionary on innovative organizational management concepts. Kathy founded K.A. Hart & Associates two years ago to work with company executives and directors struggling to motivate and engage their employees. With over 20 years experience in various corporations, she is nationally recognized as an expert in improving business results by clarifying objectives and enhancing communication. Keynote speeches and workshops include topics on leadership development, group dynamics, communication, and safety integration.

Audiences rave about Kathy’s presentations because of her high energy, topic relevancy, and participant interaction. “Kathy knows how to illustrate processes and methodologies in a fun and exciting way.”

Learn how to increase your communication ability and leverage the strengths you bring into relationship with others. Discover how to be mentally prepared when interacting with others, as well as fully present for those you are in conversation with. Session take-aways include a strategic influencing framework and other associated tools guaranteed to improve your conversation outcomes.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has developed a new regulation aimed at reducing the risk of chemical attack, by making it difficult for terrorists to acquire those chemicals domestically. The Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Interim Final Rule was published in the Federal Register on April 9, 2007, and requires those facilities which store chemicals found on the “DHS Chemicals of Interest” list to register that information with DHS. This presentation will include a discussion on the process, facility levels of risk, including the Site Security Plan which will be required for all facilities considered to be “high risk”.

In her role as a Senior Disaster Response Manager with Haley & Aldrich, Ms. Mathews brings 13 years of experience in private sector disaster planning, including 8 years as the Disaster Response Manager for NBC Universal. Ms. Mathews clients range from motion picture studios and television networks, to amusement parks and arenas, as well as colleges, high-rise office buildings and large manufacturing plants.

Ms. Mathews is a Certified Emergency Manager; a Federal Emergency Management Agency Emergency Response Instructor; a Department of Homeland Security Instructor of Terrorism Awareness for First Responders; an American Red Cross Basic Life Support Instructor; and, she holds a High-Rise Fire/Life Safety Specialist's certificate issued by the City of Los Angeles Fire Department.

Sharon handles all aspects of human resources for Poms & Associates Woodland Hills corporate office, Albuquerque, Denver and Virginia offices and all outside employees. Her duties include recruiting, hiring, employee relations, administration of benefits, compliance issues, internal policies and procedures and all training. Sharon is also available to consult and advise Poms’ clients with regard to Human Resource issues as well as being available to conduct training.

Sharon has developed many of our training programs including our sexual harassment prevention and EEO training for both public entities and private for-profit clients. Prior to coming to Poms, Sharon worked as an HR consultant with a firm in the central valley of California. She worked with a variety of industries including manufacturing, agriculture, finance and non-profits. Her emphasis was on compliance issues and internal harassment investigations for the company’s many clients. Sharon has a liberal arts background and a Juris Doctor in law, graduating from law school in 1985. She is certified through the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).

She is active in the local Professionals in Human Resource Association chapter and currently serves as the Communications Chair for District 10. This presentation will focus on safety and training issues in the workplace with regard to older workers. Do older workers present special and unique safety issues? How to best address those issues and what are some best practices. What kind of training best suits the older work?

Morning Keynote: Frank White, JD

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 pledged that every working man and woman in the U.S. would be assured safe and healthful working conditions “so far as possible.” Over the past 35 years, as federal and state agencies, businesses, worker representatives and safety and health professionals in the U.S. developed and implemented a broad range of creative and often groundbreaking policies, strategies and practices in their efforts to fulfill that promise, only rarely have they looked beyond our own shores for models of effectiveness or examples of success. However, with the emergence of the EU and more recently, of Asia, as ascendant competitive forces in the increasingly global economy, there has been a parallel but less noticed leveling of the global occupational safety and health playing field. In fact, there are strong arguments that the regulatory frameworks, policy initiatives and business practices emerging from these regions are becoming the new archetypes of safety and health performance improvement. If we as the collective safety and health community in the U.S. are still committed to making progress in this common quest to protect our workers “so far as possible,” our perspectives must shift to a more global vantage and we need to consider how to adapt and apply these new successful approaches

John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH - "Bayesian Decision Analysis to Improve IH Data Interpretation"

Dick Monod de Froidville - "Cal/OSHA Citation Appeals Process

Dr. Katherine A. Hart, CSP - "Strategic Influencing: It’s All About Building Relationships "

Vickie Wells, MS, CIH, CSP - "Est. Occupational Exposure Limits (PEL Stds. In Calif.)"

Tony Softich - "Mgmt. of Construction H&S in International Settings"

Nancy Matthews, CEM - "Reducing Risk Of Chemical's Getting Into Wrong Hands"

Florence Wu, PhD - "Significant and Methods of Long Term Sampling of Airborne Fungi

Scott Smith, CPE - "Integrating ergonomics into Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma"

Sharon K. Stull , J.D., SPHR - "Safety/Training - Generationally Diverse Workplace"

Lunch / Vendor Raffle

Keynote Speaker - John Howard MD, MPH, JD, LLM (Director of NIOSH)

Keynote Speaker - Frank A. White "The New Global Drivers of Safety and Health: Are We Keeping Our Promise of Protecting U.S. Workers “So Far As Possible”?