DAY 1 - Tuesday, March 30, 2010

• "VPP APPLICATION WORKSHOP", Mark Norton, Assistant Director, VPP Coordinator, Arizona Division of Occupational Safety & Health
  
  
• "OVERVIEW OF CAL/VPP STAR PROCESS" , Iraj Pourmehraban, California VPP & PSM Manager, California Division of Occupational Safety & Health
  
  
• "MANAGEMENT COMMITTMENT" , David Sanders, Vice President and General Manager, Valero Energy
  
  
• "EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT ", Gilbert Aceves, VPP Coordinator, Morton Salt; Ed Wilson, Union Representative, Pratt & Whitney
  
  
• "ROLE OF CORPORATE MANAGER AND CAL/VPP BENEFITS" Christina Ross, HR Area Manager, Morton Salt
  
  
• "COMMON ONSITE FINDINGS (PART 1)", Joe Chiou, Cal/VPP Consultant, California Division of Occupational Safety & Health
  
  
• "COMMON ONSITE FINDINGS (PART 2)", Barry Blodgett, Cal/VPP Consultant, California Division of Occupational Safety & Health
  
  
• "MENTORING", Ron Owen, Advisory Engineer, Hitachi GST; Walter Gonzalez, Facility Manager, OM Contract Services GESC

DAY 2 - Wednesday, March 31, 2010

• "CONFERENCE OPENING & REGION IX BUSINESS", Terry Schulte, Region IX Chairperson, Valero Energy Corp.
  
  
• "FEDERAL VPP UPDATE", Ken Altha, Region IX Administrator, U.S> Department of Labor
  
  
• "CALIFORNIA VPP UPDATE", Iraj Pourmehraban, California VPP & PSM Manager, California Division of Occupational Safety & Health
  
  
• "ARIZONA VPP UPDATE", Mark Norton, Assistant Director, VPP Coordinator / Consultation Program Manager, Arizona Division of Occupational Safety & Health
  
  
• "SAFETY 101", Mark Norton, Assistant Director, VPP Coordinator/Consultation Program Manager, Arizona Division of Occupational Safety & Health
  
  
• "IMPLEMENTING NFPA 70E FOR ARC FLASH SAFETY", Daryn Lewellyn, President / Founder, Lewellyn Technologies.
  
  
• "PSM AND VPP", Wayne Howard, Process Safety Management Manager, Valero Energy Corp.
  
  
• "ELIMINATION OF HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS BY THE USE OF ENGINEERING CONTROLS", Richard Gerlach, Director, Corporate Safety and Health and Hal Stansbury, General Manager, Cintas Corporation
  
  
• "DEFINE YOUR SAFETY CULTURE FOR MAXIMUM COMMITMENT", Rosa Carrillo, President, Carrillo and Associates
  
  
• "LEGISLATION AND REGULATION OF VPPPA", Terry Schulte, Region IX Chairperson and VPP Coordinator, Valero Energy Corp.; Adam Pawlus, Assistant Executive Director, VPPPA
  
  
• "EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION FOR SAFETY INVOLVEMENT - “MAKE IT PERSONAL”, Ralph Mileham, Master Mechanic, IAM No. 190, Morton Salt
  
  
• "HAZCOM COMPLIANCE - FACT AND FICTION", Kevin Sly, MSDS Online
  
  
• "BUILDING SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP INTO YOUR OPERATIONS", John Roller, General Manager, West Coast Region and Mike Maddox, Corporate VPP Director, NuStar Energy LP
  
  
• "OSHA RECORDKEEPING", Peter Wilsey, Compliance Assistance Specialist, US Department of Labor

DAY 3 - Thursday, April 1, 2010

• "OSHA’S CRACKING DOWN ON RECORDKEEPING - ARE YOU PREPARED?" Kevin Sly, MSDS Online
  
  
• "SPECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (SGE’S)", Robert Kelly, Voluntary Programs & Outreach, Federal OSHA Region IX
  
  
• "INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE QUALITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT", Dan Drown, Principal Consultant, Drown Consulting
  
  
• "IMPROVING SAFETY THROUGH DETAILED RISK ASSESSMENTS", Scott E. Genta, Senior Engineer, Safety Management Services, Inc.,
  
  
• "VPP ON-SITE INSPECTION - WHAT TO EXPECT", Mark Norton, Assistant Director, VPP Coordinator / Consultation Program Manager, Arizona Division of Occupational Safety & Health,
  
  
• "COMBUSTIBLE DUST - OSHA UPDATE", David Osbon, Director, Technical Sales, Ashburn Hill Corporation
  
  
• "QUIT FEEDING THE MONSTERS: NEW TECHNIQUES TO CREATE A POSITIVE SAFETY CULTURE", Kevin Cobb, Sr. Safety Specialist, SafeStart
  
  
• "ANNUAL EVALUATIONS - THE OFTEN OVERLOOKED CRITICAL CORE OF VPP (PART 1)", Michael Norder, Norder Safety Consulting
  
  
• "PREPPING FOR VPP", Valerie McMahon, District Safety Specialist and Fred Graybill, Maintenance Manager, United States Postal Service
  
  
• "PROTECTING HEARTS - MANAGING AND PARTICIPATING IN AN AED PROGRAM", Henry Constantine, Marketing Director, Zoll Medical Corporation
  
  
• "SLAYING THE MONSTERS THROUGH BETTER OBSERVATION", Kevin Cobb, Sr. Safety Specialist, SafeStart
  
  
• "THE US MARINE CORPS AND VPP", Elizabeth Caro, Safety Specialist/VPP Coordinator and Terri Watkins, Occupational Safety and Health Specialist/VPP Coordinator, US Marine Corps

DAY 4 - Friday, April 2, 2010

• "MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT" Gilbert Aceves, VPP
  Coordinator and Christina Ross, HR Area Manager, Morton Salt
  
  
• "WORKSITE ANALYSIS", Valero Asphalt, Wilmington, CA
  
  
• "HAZARD PREVENTION AND CONTROL", Jeffrey Ho, Safety & Health Manager, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.
  
  
• "SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING", Siobhan Magee, Training and Development Specialist, Valero Energy