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NSC, Ark-LA-Tex Safety Conference Central Arkansas

Thursday, August 20, 2009

This event seeks to bring the safety and health community together to share knowledge in order to prevent injury and death in the workplace, on the road and in our communities.
Who Should Attend? Safety managers, Business Owners, Human Resource Professionals, City, County, State Officials

City of Pine Bluff Convention Center
#1 Convention Center Drive
Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71601

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Principles of Safety and Health

Having an NSC chapter in the Ark-LA-Tex offers you the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in your safety career and to earn the prestige and recognition of the Advanced Safety Certificate.

Your journey begins this August 24th with and intensive four-day course-the Principles of Safety and Health.   Here’s what you’ll learn:

•   Develop knowledge and skills that increase your competence and confidence

•   Examine real-life cases to help avoid mistakes and maximize safety success

•   Determine when personal protective equipment should be used and how to get employees to use it

•   The benefits recordkeeping to prevent injuries and illnesses to meet OSHA requirements

•   The elements of incident inspections and how to use them to prevent injuries

•   The impact of industrial hygiene and HAZCOM standards on your safety plan

Continue your safety education path with Safety Management Techniques- September 21st -24th and Safety Training Methods- October 26th -29th completing your Advanced Safety Certificate by year’s end.

Member Testimonial: Marty Reep, Armstrong Wood Plant

Marty Reep has worked at the Armstrong wood plant in Warren, Arkansas, for more than 15 years. As Environment, Health and Safety manager, he’s led the plant’s employees in building a world-class safety culture.

The plant, known locally as the Witt plant, was the first facility in Armstrong’s flooring business to reach one million plant hours without an OSHA recordable injury. The plant’s 265 employees achieved this record in just 18 months, and they have worked 2.1 million hours since their last day’s away case in October 2005. Marty Reep

Armstrong General Manager – Solid Wood Operations, North America, Harry Bogner said, “Under Marty’s leadership, our employees have committed to making injuries unacceptable in the manufacture of our products. During his tenure, Witt has consistently been at the top in safety performance, not only for our solid wood business but for Armstrong as a whole.”

Marty said, “Our employees have made the difference, and I am very proud of our success. Safety is a mindset and a concerted effort at our plant. Our employees watch out for each other every day.”

In addition to his role at Armstrong, Marty is a Methodist minister for two churches and alderman for the Warren City Council. He said, “I want to help and serve people. As a lifelong resident of Warren, the Armstrong plant and its employees mean a lot to me; it’s part of our community. I want to contribute to the vitality of Armstrong as an employer here and to the health of the place my family and friends call home.”

Marty represents Armstrong as a member of the National Safety Council Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas (NSC Ark-La-Tex) Chapter. The Witt plant recently held a safety round table event that included Sally Head, director of NSC Ark-La-Tex; attendees from the local hospital; the county judge; director of the local health department; and Armstrong employees Ken McBride, plant manager; Mike White, Human Resources manager; Hugh Harrod, Lumberyard manager; Jay Fugatt, controller; John Hamaker, Lumber Procurement manager and Marty. Speakers were Bill Lacy with the Arkansas Insurance Commissioners’ Office and State Representative Gregg Reep.

Marty said, “Our plant has enjoyed a tremendous amount of safety success in the past several years, and we want to share what we’ve learned. I personally have a passion for safety, and I’m happy to be part of creating safer environments at work and beyond. Our involvement with the National Safety Council gives us a forum, and the tools, to further that goal. I encourage anyone interested in safety to join the organization.”

NSC Advocacy Videos

Click here to experience the videos that the NSC has created to raise awareness.

The NSC recently created a You Tube channel (http://www.youtube.com/NatlSafetyCouncil) that you can promote to your members, prospects and customers. The channel currently houses two videos: “Support Safety” and “Death by Cell Phone.” Since posting “Death by Cell Phone” on May 5, we have received more than 10,000 views.

Please help us get the word out on distracted driving by promoting this channel and the “Death by Cell Phone” video. Both videos are to be shared with everyone. The channel provides a method for downloading the native video file in case there are companies that want to share it with their employees.

New Local Chapter Benefits Saves You Money

Quality training for your employees just got more affordable and convenient with our turn-key training menu; fees are less than open enrollment.

An instructor comes to your facility to teach the class. Because you are a member, you pay no fees for mileage and overnight expense. Ark-LA-Tex member companies are not charged for our instructor’s travel costs.

We can customize the training with your company’s policies and include special emphasis on any particular challenges at your site.

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Help your employees keep their kids safe.

One of the most stressful things you employees who are parents have to do is manage their teen’s transition to that of a licensed driver.

Help out by hosting a free Alive@25 Parent Program at your facility. This three hour session NSC can help parents and teens understand the risks and to make sure teenagers become safe and responsible drivers.

Safety Ambassador Booth Exhibit Hits the Road!

Safety Ambassdor Booth Display

The Safety Ambassador Booth Exhibit will hit the roads of the Ark-LA-Tex in 2009 to bring about a grass roots effort to reduce the staggering numbers of unintentional injuries and death.

Motor vehicle crashes, unintentional drug overdoses, falls, both in the workplace and at home and overexertion are the top causes of injury and each of these are presented within the Safety Ambassador program along with printable hand-outs and posters. These unintentional injuries affect your work force dramatically. Free to anyone, the program helps anyone put on an effective presentation to employees, civic organizations, professional groups, students or churches.

By including our member companies, local and regional government and hopefully many community volunteers, we hope to have Safety Ambassadors in every community. We need you to help us network through trade shows, the media, professional and civic groups to put forth our message of prevention using the Safety Ambassador Program.

For more than ninety-six years, the National Safety Council has saved lives by preventing injuries at work, on the roads, in homes and communities through leadership, research, education and advocacy. But more work is needed. We offer this plan and hope you will contribute to get this program into every community we serve, including yours.

Please make a commitment now to support our efforts in 2009 with a donation.
Corporate Sponsorship -----$5,000 Benefactor-------------------$2,500 Contributor-------------------$1,000 Supporter----------------------$500

What is the National Safety Council's Safety Ambassador Program?

It's an outreach program focusing on motor vehicle safety, falls prevention, unintentional drug overdose, and overexertion. Whether directly, or indirectly, each of us has been touched by these issues. Yet, the injuries and deaths caused in these areas are preventable. Change can happen, but the Council can't do it alone. We need your help.

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Schedule for 2009

Print the lastest schedule. Click here for the Safety Training Schedule 2009.

Last update (06.13.09)

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