With over 4,000 people succumbing to heat-related illness every year, and thousands more suffering from heat stress, it's important to make prevention your first line of defense. Sometimes working in hot conditions is unavoidable, but having solid procedures and a well-trained and observant staff can go a long way toward avoiding injury and even death.
Join us on June 9 for an in-depth webinar with two industry experts and an M.D. You'll learn how to address and prevent heat illnesses in your workplace. Don't forget to bring your managers along.
- How acclimatization is vital for keeping workers safe
- The four essentials of heat illness prevention
- What Cal/OSHA requires of you in terms of keeping workers safe in the heat
- How to put together written procedures that comply with the standards and provide a backbone for a heat illness training program
- What the environmental risk factors are for heat illness
- How to preemptively change work conditions to avoid heat stress
- How to assess and evaluate work environment controls and whether they will reduce heat-related illnesses
- How to train your employees and managers to recognize the signs of heat stress, and what they should do before they do anything else
- What to do in the event of heat illness or emergency, and the necessary first aid steps to take to save lives
About Your Speakers:
Don Dressler of Don Dressler Consulting of Irvine has been working with heat illness safety for over 15 years as the head of an agricultural trade association's safety and loss control staff and since 2003 as a safety and human resources consultant and attorney. Dressler focuses on safety, employment and human resources issues, accident investigations, OSHA compliance and workers' compensation.
Dressler drafted Heat Illness plans beginning with the very first regulations on the subject adopted by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board in 2005. He adapted training materials for Spanish speaking employees to help with training, and obtained a license to the BLR publication on heat illness so it could be translated to Spanish as an effective training tool.
He serves as Risk and Safety Consultant to the California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers, Group Safety Manager for the 3,500 members of the Attorneys and Accountants Association safety group sponsored by the American Association of Attorney/Certified Public Accountants and also legal advisor to the California Association of Agricultural Labor, an association of California farm labor contractors.
Gil Molina is CEO of the California Association of Agricultural Labor, one of the most active farm labor contractor associations in California. Molina is a former U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Investigator. His has expertise in dealing with compliance issues in agricultural employment matters. He is fluent in Spanish and is frequently conducts safety and supervisory training, Cal-OSHA compliance training, including heat illness training for supervisors and employees.
Sheilaja Mittal, MD, QME, MRO, is the Medical Director for WorkWell Medical Group and has an extensive medical perspective for identifying signs of heat illness and how to respond when the first signs of heat stress begin.
This program qualifies for Continuance of Certification (COC) credit for CSPs, who will earn 0.05 COC points for attending this webinar.
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A webinar is remarkably cost-effective and convenient. You participate from your office, using a regular telephone and a computer with an Internet connection. You have no travel costs and no out-of-office time.
Plus, for one low price, you can get as many people in your office to participate as you can fit around a speakerphone and a computer screen.
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