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Safety Webinars with Dr. Laura Helmrich-Rhodes
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MI’s regulatory compliance consultant Dr. Laura Helmrich-Rhodes was scheduled to present four webinars during 2021 to assist the spring industry. Two of the webinars were already conducted, in February on “OSHA under the President Biden Administration: Back to the Future or a Whole New Era?” and in March on “Creating Your Own In-House Training Programs in the COVID Era.” Still to come this year is “Advanced Accident Investigation Techniques,” on Tuesday, April 27. This webinar is appropriate for safety coordinators/managers, and engineers/technical employees. “This will focus on what your company needs to do to formalize the accident investigation process, retention of evidence and records,” explained Helmrich-Rhodes. “An overview of pros and cons of more advanced investigation techniques such as Root Cause Analysis, Barrier Analysis, and Fault Tree Analysis will be presented.” The Tuesday, May 18, webinar will tackle “Leading and Lagging Indicators.” “Measuring your safety, health
and environmental efforts to determine if you are meeting or exceeding your goals are necessary, but what metrics have real meaning in those areas, and which can help you to lead your organization to the health and safety culture you aspire?,” said Helmrich-Rhodes. Helmrich-Rhodes is a former member of Pennsylvania OSHA Consultation. In addition to her work with SMI, Helmrich-Rhodes is an associate professor in the Safety Sciences Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on topics such as OSHA standards, safety communications, workers’ compensation and human relations. The registration fee per webinar is $129 for each computer terminal for nonmembers. All webinars are complimentary for SMI members, but registration is required. All seminars are scheduled for one hour and begin at 1 p.m. Eastern, Noon Central, 11 a.m. Mountain and 10 a.m. Pacific time. For complete details and to register, contact Dina Sanchez at dina@smihq.org.
SMI Annual Convention In Arizona Will Be Held in 2022 Due to the ongoing challenges related to COVID-19, the SMI executive committee announced in January that the 2021 SMI Annual Convention would be postponed until 2022. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale (the original 2021 location) from April 22–April 26, 2022. “While disappointing, we felt this is the best decision for SMI,” said SMI executive director Lynne Carr.
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