Tuesday

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Track ABCDE - Environmental: Multi-Media
Leader(s):	Sherman Hampton
Co-Leader(s):	Sandra Nichols
7:30 to 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 to 9:20	Update on Surface Water-Related Litigation in Texas » Speaker(s): Sara Burgin The ongoing Texas drought has heightened significance of Texas Water Code provisions that authorize use of state water. Sara Burgin will provide an overview and a status update on litigation relating to the curtailment rule and the endangered Whooping Cranes. Ms. Burgin will also discuss ongoing activities of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to resolve objections of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to limitations and other provisions relating to discharges containing elevated temperature in proposed TPDES permits.
9:20 to 9:50	Break
9:50 to 10:40	2012 TPDES Permit Issues and Rules for Using Reclaimed Water » Speaker(s): Lial Tischler The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) adopted Procedures to Implement the Texas Surface Water Quality Standards (IP) on July 28, 2010. Region 6 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disapproved the 2010 IP, primarily because of issues with respect to the application of the whole effluent toxicity (WET) test in TPDES permits. On January 27, 2012, TCEQ proposed to revisions to the 2010 IPs to address EPA’s disapproval of the WET IPs and an issue with respect to disinfection of small domestic sewage discharges. TCEQ has received notification from EPA that the 2010 IP provisions that were uncontested are acceptable for TPDES permitting. This means that certain “new” provisions in the 2010 IP will be implemented, including the requirement for lower minimum analytical levels (MALs) in applications and permits. The changes in permit applications and TPDES permits that will occur when TCEQ starts using all of the uncontested 2010 IP provisions for future TPDES permit development will be discussed in this presentation. TCEQ is also proposing a 2013 update of the surface water quality standards. The proposed revisions to the 2010 standards will be identified and discussed, although most of the changes are relatively minor in terms of their potential impacts on dischargers.
10:40 to 11:10	Break
11:10 to 12:00	Waste Storage Areas » Speaker(s): Herb Clark The standards for the various types of waste storage areas can be confusing. This presentation will discuss these requirements, including management and notification requirements, as well as closure standards for each type of area. The types of storage areas to be included in the presentation are less than 90 storage of hazardous waste, satellite accumulation areas, universal waste storage areas and storage areas for nonhazardous waste.
12:00 to 1:50	Lunch Keynote Speaker: Dan Borné, President of LCA & Sports Announcer for LSU Football Michael Fossum, Astronaut with NASA Dr. Scott Geller, Author & Professor at Virginia Tech University Mark Griffon, Investigation Board Member, U.S. Chemical Safety
1:50 to 2:40	Enterocci: When is it an Industrial Wastewater Discharger Issue and What does that Mean » Speaker(s): Phyllis Frank Many of the segments especially around urban areas are listed as impaired for bacteria. Management of bacteria in point source discharges is a focus area in wastewater permitting. This presentation will discuss the circumstance under which an industrial permittee may have a limit for bacteria and discuss recent experience in the disinfection of enterococci.
2:40 to 3:10	Break
3:10 to 4:00	Tank Inspections » Speaker(s): Herb Clark The Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) regulations require that an SPCC plan establish procedures for the inspection and testing of oil storage tanks and containers. The details of the inspections and testing are left to the judgment of the engineer certifying the plan. However, this flexibility has resulted in many SPCC plans that have very general commitments to inspect tanks rather than a regular schedule, as required. This presentation will discuss tank inspection requirements, what agency inspectors will be looking for and different tank inspection standards.

Track ABCDE - Safety - "Under the Hard Hat"
Leader(s):	Steve Reed
Co-Leader(s):	Alisha Nash
7:30 to 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 to 9:20	Safety Demotivators / Motivators: A Lesson in Leadership » Speaker(s): Joel N. Tietjens, CSP, CSHM It’s interesting to examine organizations and see what type of culture drives the processes. Values create the culture and from that a system is developed that gets product and services out the backdoor. Safety is a part of that system. Some organizations do a great job in creating an environment that motivates their workforce to get the job done, but do it in a safe, healthy, and environmental friendly fashion. Others do things, sometimes unknowingly, that demotivate their workforce. It’s a matter of leadership and understanding what moves people forward. Let’s examine some demotivators that exist in organizations, but then examine those things that can move people forward in safety performance. Leadership is the key.
9:20 to 9:50	Break
9:50 to 10:40	Teaching Supervisors to Coach for Performance » Speaker(s): Shawn M. Galloway Managing for standardization and policy/procedure compliance does not inspire the vital discretional effort necessary for operational performance excellence. There is a vast difference in managing for compliance and coaching for performance. Supervisors influence worker behavior perhaps more than any other level in an organization. Yet most supervisors have not received formal training on coaching and effective performance feedback skills. Providing such training has proven to be a very effective measure to reduce incidents and improve quality in many organizations. For values (i.e., safety, quality, customer service) to become established in an organization, they must be reinforced by leaders at, or near the point of decision. Supervisors are in a unique position to facilitate the creation of a culture that focuses on safety excellence. Discover steps to take supervisors from cops to coaches, identify how to transfer these strategies.
10:40 to 11:10	Break
11:10 to 12:00	Developing a Safety Excellence Strategy: The Missing Link to Sustainable Performance » Speaker(s): Shawn M. Galloway Organizations must maintain a memorable framework to base decisions, prioritize initiatives and measure progress, not just results. Failing less, achieving zero incidents, new programs, developing leading indicators, building a sustainable safety culture are all great initiatives and goals, but they are not strategies. The presenter will share a strategy framework and execution methodologies to better influence your path towards sustainable excellence in safety performance and culture. Key Points: Defining what is and isn’t a safety strategy • The framework of a safety strategy and execution tactics • How many of the best in safety, create and deploy a safety excellence strategy • How to get out of the Perpetual Cycle of Avoiding Failures • How the business strategy to dominate market share applies directly to safety • The key elements of Balanced and Transformational Performance Scorecards for Safety • The Four Vital Elements of Marketing Safety
12:00 to 1:50	Lunch Keynote Speaker: Dan Borné, President of LCA & Sports Announcer for LSU Football Michael Fossum, Astronaut with NASA Dr. Scott Geller, Author & Professor at Virginia Tech University Mark Griffon, Investigation Board Member, U.S. Chemical Safety
1:50 to 2:40	Reducing the Risk of Workplace Fatalities » Speaker(s): Leonard Schooler Many organizations assume that improving Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR) and focusing on reducing minor injuries will also reduce the risk of workplace fatalities. Although this may be true in some organizations, it is not true in many others. This presentation presents a model that helps explain this phenomenon. By improving the quality of safety information, accurately assessing risk and by taking appropriate actions, both the TRIR and the risk of fatalities can be reduced. BASF uses a concept titled the “AB Incident” to classify the risk of incidents, independent of the harm that occurs. “Schooler’s Triangle” is a graphical representation of this concept, which is easily understood by all employees. Use of a simple risk classification methodology, understood by all, leads to increased employee engagement and to better safety information. This improves management’s ability to take actions that truly reduce the risk of fatalities.
2:40 to 3:10	Break
3:10 to 4:00	Safety Leadership Influencing Change with or without Authority » Speaker(s): Sean Benoit, CSP This presentation will discuss influencing change in the organization. Too often we hear Safety Professionals discussing the reasons why they can’t influence change in their organizations, with the most heard reason being not enough or no authority. We will discuss why authority doesn’t always equal influence by using real life examples and best practices in the field of influence in order to share these leanings to allow you to make changes in the safety culture of your organization.

Track ABCDE - Process Safety - Beyond Compliance
Leader(s):	Shanahan Mondal
Co-Leader(s):	Lee Haring
7:30 to 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 to 9:20	Effectively Reducing Occupant Vulnerability » Speaker(s): M. Cem Ozbey One important component of a Facility Siting Study is the prediction of building damage under scenario blast loading. A follow up study is typically performed to examine methods to reduce blast induced building damage. This presentation provides effective and practical solutions to reduce occupant vulnerability inside blast loaded structures. Topics include commonly practiced building upgrade options for different construction types as well as ways to reduce the blast loading on the structures. Non-structural items will also be discussed as they can contribute significantly to occupant vulnerability.
9:20 to 9:50	Break
9:50 to 10:40	OMG! I Have to Calculate What? » Speaker(s): Susan Strausser The PSM standard and prudence requires us to develop the relief design bases for pressure relief devices. You can design your own pressure safety system with confidence by just understanding where to apply the various standards and guidelines, for example API or ASME. A calculation tool is helpful but not essential. As a group, we’ll bring our knowledge to the table and share ideas.
10:40 to 11:10	Break
11:10 to 12:00	Improving the Quality of Incident Investigations » Speaker(s): Kris Smith Why, as an industry, do we continue to have significant near misses and tragic accidents? We spend a lot of time, energy and money to ensure we conduct quality investigations. We form teams, we build timelines, we analyze for root causes. But the simple truth is, after all the tools and training, the time and energy, we’re still satisfied with the same results. How many times have your investigations listed improper training and/or insufficient procedures? While humans are, in fact, involved in most accidents, they are hardly the cause of them all. So, what do we need to do to make a meaningful impact on the quality of investigations? This presentation will feature ways to improve the quality of investigations. It will also feature the critically important steps of an investigation that are often overlooked, and suggest simple tools to employ in discovering the “real” root causes. Finally, we will discuss how to use information from previous investigations to improve the quality of future investigations.
12:00 to 1:50	Lunch Keynote Speaker: Dan Borné, President of LCA & Sports Announcer for LSU Football Michael Fossum, Astronaut with NASA Dr. Scott Geller, Author & Professor at Virginia Tech University Mark Griffon, Investigation Board Member, U.S. Chemical Safety
1:50 to 2:40	Managing the Chemical NEP - Practical Advice » Speaker(s): Mark Farley Effectively responding to a process safety inspection represents the best opportunity to minimize the potential for enforcement. The handling of issues such as witness interviews, walk arounds, and document production also ensures that the employer is well positioned to challenge any citations that are issued. This presentation will provide practical advice on how to prepare for and then effectively manage the Chemical NEP and other process safety inspections.
2:40 to 3:10	Break
3:10 to 4:00	Process Safety Culture, Leadership, and Operating Discipline – How They Fit Together and Sustain Continuous Improvement » Speaker(s): Steve Arendt Process safety culture has been a key organizational factor in several major process safety incidents. Leadership has been a focal point of the UK Process Safety Leadership Group's report following the Buncefield accident. API/AFPM have been focusing on PSL as one of its refinery process safety assessment areas. Operating discipline, as a product of a Conduct of Operations program, has been a sore point for many companies whose incident causes involve "people did not follow the procedures." How do these aspects/issues fit together? How do we assess them? How do we improve them? Where should we start? This presentation will discuss a way to address culture, leadership and operating discipline and real-life examples.

Track ABCDE - Award Winning Best Practices
Leader(s):	Bob Brennecke
Co-Leader(s):	Bill Shaw
7:30 to 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 to 9:20	Safety Excellence Award Process / Silver Bowl » Speaker(s): Amanda Allred Since 1988, the Houston Business Roundtable has been recognizing Greater Houston Area Industrial Contractors for their outstanding safety performance. This award process is essentially a "best practice to find best practices," and over the years has brought many of the Owner Companies in the Gulf Coast together with their Contractors in a cooperative effort to improve on-site safety, eliminate accidents, and most importantly, reduce injuries to employees. This year some significant revisions were made to the safety award process to increase recognition and improve the sharing of best practices.
9:20 to 9:50	Break
9:50 to 10:40	Brock Care Program / Target Zero » Speaker(s): Tony Sattler The Brock Cares Program is a no cost program offered to all of our field employees. We utilize a third party Chaplain Service. They routinely visit our jobsites and are available for crisis care, any needed help, and confidential discussions 24 hours a day, 365 days a year nationwide. Increased employee loyalty to the company and appreciation for company management, reduced employee absenteeism and turnover, and increased productivity are just a few of the many benefits we have received from the program.
10:40 to 11:10	Break
11:10 to 12:00	Total Safety Quest for Safety Excellence / W3 » Speaker(s): Ellis Pellerin Total Safety uses multiple safety management systems to manage safety world wide including the OSHA VPP Challenge Process, Performance Training (Subject Matter Expert (SME) Program), Training Management System - Beyond Compliance, Management Accountability, Worker's Rights & Commitment (Shield of Rights & Commitment Coin), and Well-being of Workers World Wide (W3). This presentation will discuss these systems and their successes.
12:00 to 1:50	Lunch Keynote Speaker: Dan Borné, President of LCA & Sports Announcer for LSU Football Michael Fossum, Astronaut with NASA Dr. Scott Geller, Author & Professor at Virginia Tech University Mark Griffon, Investigation Board Member, U.S. Chemical Safety
1:50 to 2:40	Heart of Zachry Process » Speaker(s): Jon Atteberry, CSP The purpose of the Heart of Zachry award is to recognize all employees at ISG Sites that achieve outstanding safety performance for the calendar year. The award recognizes those sites that meet a high standard of performance, and encourages cooperation and partnership between the sites rather than competition. Sites that meet the criteria will be designated as Distinguished Safety Sites and individual employees will be recognized by receiving The Heart of Zachry Medallion. Each year the criteria are changed, and this forces employees to stretch a bit more for safety excellence.
2:40 to 3:10	Break
3:10 to 4:00	Management Commitment and Employee Involvement » Speaker(s): Bill Shaw The element of VPP is Management commitment and Employee involvement. Evergreen Employee involvement program requires employees to conduct proactive safety functions and they are rewarded safety bucks. Each employees can spend these safety bucks in a safety auction which includes their families. This includes the employee families in the safety process.

Track ABCDE - Employee Health
Leader(s):	Malinda Tange
Co-Leader(s):	Monica Perry
7:30 to 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 to 9:20	Fitness For Duty » Speaker(s): John Turner This presentation will explore Fitness For Duty programs in the workplace. Identifying the physical demands of the job, limitations of employees and Pre-Placement Agility Exams are important parts of Fitness for Duty Programs. The speaker will give examples of Pre-Placement Agility Exams and discuss uses of Fitness for Duty Programs in the workplace. The presentation will also discuss Fitness for Duty programs and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
9:20 to 9:50	Break
9:50 to 10:40	Hearing Conservation » Speaker(s): Dr. Fred Bahkt In 2000, 6745 hearing loss claims were processed by the Federal Government at a cost of almost 40 million dollars. Despite the common sense nature of prevention of hearing loss in the work place, there is still work to be done. During this presentation Dr. Bakht will review evaluation of hearing, differential diagnosis of non occupational hearing loss, noise induced hearing loss, and prevention of hearing loss. He wil also discuss evaluation of threshold shifts and when to refer, when to report/OSHA recordables.
10:40 to 11:10	Break
11:10 to 12:00	Synthetic Drug Abuse and Testing » Speaker(s): Sandra Vanderploeg Question: If a company conducts only pre-employment drug testing, can it feel confident that it has a Drug-Free Workplace? Answer: No. Statistics tell us that no company can feel 100% confident that it is Drug Free. However, additional awareness of the changing nature of substance abuse and some steps to include in your program to reduce your liability will help. This informative session will bring you some of the latest facts about synthetic drug abuse like Bath Salts and Synthetic Marijuana that standard drug tests do not detect. Facts about what drugs are detected in the various types of testing can help you make better policy decisions about testing in your workplace. Are your supervisors trained to detect signs and symptoms of employee substance abuse that could cause your company to incur unwanted liability? Find out more so that you can be sure your company has a Drug-Free Workplace that gives you confidence.
12:00 to 1:50	Lunch Keynote Speaker: Dan Borné, President of LCA & Sports Announcer for LSU Football Michael Fossum, Astronaut with NASA Dr. Scott Geller, Author & Professor at Virginia Tech University Mark Griffon, Investigation Board Member, U.S. Chemical Safety
1:50 to 2:40	SWORD OF TRAUMA - WOUNDED WARRIORS LET US UNITE TO HEAL and FIGHT FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!! » Speaker(s): Monica Perry, Maria Gallegos Trauma is like being pierced with a sword. We use the sword metaphor to show that just like removing a sword, healing can hurt but it does not last forever. You can live in pain for the rest of your life or you can remove the sword of trauma, heal the wound it leaves, and then use your sword to become stronger, more creative and calmer. When you heal, you break the cycle for generations.
2:40 to 3:10	Break
3:10 to 4:00	NORM Detection and Protection in Industry » Speaker(s): Justin Harris This presentation discusses sources of NORM encountered in the petrochemical industry. This is a discussion of health effects due to exposure to ionizing radiation and ways to prevent such exposures. This will cover detection, regulations, program implementation and situations that have the highest probability of personal exposure. All topics discussed will outline ways to keep ionizing radiation As Low As Reasonably Acheivable (ALARA).