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October 2, 2025 - October 3, 2025
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Professional Development 2025
October 2, 2025 – October 3, 2025
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Join us for two (2), 1-day each, professional development seminars that can earn you a total of 1.4 CEUs
Each seminar is 1-day long (0.7 CEUs each session), and you can choose to sign-up for one seminar or both.
If you register for both seminars, then the social event is included and you will save $25 on the seminars!
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Day 1: Thursday October 2, 8 am – 4 pm (0.7 CEUs)
Cultivating Healthy Connections – Creating Community at Work after the Pandemic Challenges
Presenter: Leslie Yerkes – Catalyst Consulting Group
Objectives of this day-long, highly interactive workshop will include:
- Focusing on the culture as much as we focus on the strategy and execution of our organizations.
- Learning new ways to connect to support performance relationships in the new era of remote
and hybrid working models. - Managing and working in teams effectively, whether together or distanced, to foster trust and connection to the values and mission of the organization.
- Fostering psychological safety in every interaction.
- Using the power of strength-based questions (appreciative inquiry) as a cultural norm and
change process.
This workshop supports learning and practicing tools and techniques for the changing landscape of the workplace and evolving processes for engaging all generations of a workforce contributing to high-performance, sustainable commitments, and a climate that supports the goals of safety, quality, service and well-being for all.
Day 2: Friday, October 3, 8 am – 4 pm (0.7 CEUs)
Risk Reduction for Machines in Manufacturing
Presenter: Mark Eitzman – Integrated Mill Systems
Mark is a machine safety consultant and educator and will present on:
- Societal & Industry Demands for Safety and Productivity, Manufacturing Safety Maturity, the ROI of contemporary technologies & techniques
- Attaining Regulatory (OSHA) Compliance with current laws and standards
- Team/Task-based Risk Assessment and Mitigation Plan
- Contemporary Risk Reduction Technologies and Techniques for Machinery Safety
- Minor Servicing Exception and Alternative Measure (how/when to permit access without LOTO)
- Installation, Validation and Post-Commissioning Management of Change and Industry 4.0
This workshop provides an understanding of the current, standards-based approach to attaining both safety and productivity. Baseline/compare the approach at your enterprise with those of the most safety mature manufactures. The content is appropriate for a cross-departmental audience (EHS, Eng/Maint, Ops., Mngt.)
BONUS Social Networking Event: October 2 from 6 pm – 8 pm Eastwood Event Center – Appetizer and Cash Bar. Social event is included if you register for both days!
Hotel: You can stay at the Residence Inn connected to the Event Center. To reserve your room(s) at a rate of $149 +tax per night, call 330-505-3655. under “American Society of Safe”.
Seminar Costs:
- $100 for each day of training. $10 to add the social event on October 2nd, or
- $175 for both days and social event is included, a total savings of $35!
Venue: Eastwood Event Centre
Venue Website: https://www.eastwoodeventcentre.com/
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