The Ohio Safety Congress & Expo offers exciting speakers, memorable stories and inspiration for your continued quest to provide a safe and productive work environment for your business.

Tuesday, April 1
Opening session
8:30 to 9:30 a.m.

The future of workers’ compensation in Ohio
Marsha Ryan, Administrator, BWC

Marsha Ryan was appointed Administrator of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation by Governor Strickland effective May 1, 2007. She is an experienced executive with expertise in energy issues, customer service and care, regulatory policy, governmental affairs, and board governance. She is a leader in strategic planning and organizational design, and has successfully led large organizations through a major integration of customer service operations and systems subsequent to a merger. With more than $19 billion in assets, BWC is the largest exclusive state-fund workers’ compensation system in the United States and the second largest underwriter of workers’ compensation insurance in the country. Ryan will share with the audience her plans to focus on ethics and accountability within BWC operations and her desire to bring fairness to all customers of the agency. Session SCG901 CEUs and credit for BWC’s discount programs are not available for this session.

NIOSH's Role in a Healthier Tomorrow
Dr. DeLon Hull, NIOSH’s associate director for research and technology transfer
Course Materials (3MB PDF)

Keeping workers healthy and productive remains the goal, despite the evolution of workplaces and work functions since passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. In his 32 years with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Dr. DeLon Hull has observed this transition and developed new approaches to the prevention of work-related health problems. Dr. Hull will discuss the changes in how we approach the prevention of work-related disease and injury, new initiatives for improving worker health and the worker issues we are likely to face in the future.

Dr. Hull has worked at the NIOSH laboratories in Cincinnati, Ohio since 1976, and for an 18 month period served as the NIOSH Deputy Director in Washington D.C. He is currently an Associate Director at NIOSH, responsible for research and technology transfer, partnerships, the NIOSH Research to Practice (r2p) initiative and several other programs.

Wednesday, April 2
General session
8 to 9 a.m.

Leading with people-based safety
E. Scott Geller, President, Safety Performance Solutions
Course Materials (1MB PDF)

People-based safety is an extension and evolution of behavior-based safety which has been found to significantly reduce industrial injuries. The components of people-based safety are reflected by the acronym – ACTS. Specifically, in a total safety culture, people ACT to protect each other from unintentional injury, COACH one another to identify barriers to safe acts and provide constructive behavior-based feedback, THINK in ways that activate and support safe behavior, and focus and scan strategically to SEE hazards and at-risk behavior. The ACTS vision for a total safety culture is easier said than done. Specific leadership principles and strategies are needed to empower a work force to become self accountable for injury prevention and actively care for the safety and health of others. This is ‘people-based leadership’ and will be explained in this spirited, evidence-based presentation. Session SCG902

Thursday, April 3
General session
8 to 9 a.m.

Living on the edge: The life of a Navy SEAL
Former Vice Admiral and CIA deputy director Albert Calland

From 1962 when the first SEAL teams were commissioned, to present day, Navy SEALs have distinguished themselves as an individually reliable, collectively disciplined and highly skilled maritime force. Because of the dangers inherent in naval special warfare, prospective SEALs go through what is considered by many experts to be the toughest training in the world. With 33 years experience as a Navy SEAL, retired Vice Admiral Albert Calland has seen it all at home and abroad, and credits rigorous training and proper equipment for his survival and career success.

Calland, an Ohio native, also served as deputy director for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Counterterrorism Center. He is the executive vice president for security and intelligence integration at CACI Inc., a company which provides national security, intelligence and IT solutions to U.S. government agencies and commercial businesses. Session SCG903