CIRMA Workshop: Vocational Technology: Hammering Home Safety; April 16, 2009

Workshop:

Vocational Technology: Hammering Home Safety

April 16, 2009
Southington, CT
9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon, Registration 8:30 AM

This seminar is open to CIRMA members only

SUMMARY

This workshop will help school employees create/improve a safer working environment in middle and high school technical education labs/industrial arts shops in concert with mandated safety standards/regulations.

School Districts

Vocational Technology Workshop is one of the many practical workshops CIRMA provides to its members. For more information about this and other CIRMA workshops, please email CIRMA at cirmaworkshop@ccm-ct.org.

"Effective safety education leads to attitudes and awareness that result in safe workpractices and accident prevention."

Penn Dept. of Education

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Both Tech Ed labs and Industrial Arts shops may be found in middle and high school facilities throughout Connecticut. Managing laboratory/shop safety and reducing teacher or supervisor liability go hand-in-hand. With appropriate safety protocols, including the required engineering controls, standard operating procedures, and personal protective equipment, students and teachers can safety participate hands-on learning opportunities.

This CIRMA workshop will expose technology education teachers, department supervisors, principals and others responsible for technology education in schools to legally based safety protocols and potential liability issues. It will explain the major tenets of OSHA standards including HazCom, Personal Protective Equipment, Machine Guarding, Housekeeping, Fire Suppression, Engineering Controls, Basic Electrical Safety, Hand and Power Tools and more. It will also provide concrete strategies to avoid liability issues.

When safety protocols are not in place or inappropriate, the potential for accidents and serious injury are especially acute in the laboratory/shop. Issues such as laboratory/shop occupancy loads, hot work, operating hand and power tools, machine guarding, fire suppression equipment, dust collection for indoor air quality, electricity, safer chemical storage, required eyewash flushing protocols, duty of care/liability, and much more, need to be addressed and enforced to protect teachers as employees and their students.

Participants will gain a working knowledge of prudent safety practices in a school technology lab/industrial arts shop, including:

Appropriate OSHA code requirements for Tech Ed labs/Industrial Arts Shops,
Prudent practices and regulations resources,
Strategies to promote safer academic labs/shops and avoid liability issues.

Participants will learn how to create and maintain a safer working environment in the school labs/shops based on existing legal and quasi-legal requirements.

AUDIENCE

Career & Technical
Education Teachers
Industrial Arts Teachers
School Business Managers
Curriculum Coordinators
Department Supervisors
Schools Administrators
School Health and Safety
Personnel
Anyone responsible for school safety

SPEAKERS Dr. Ken R. Roy
Glastonbury Public Schools Dr. Roy is on staff at Glastonbury Public Schools (CT) as Director of Environmental Health & Safety. He is an authorized OSHA training instructor. He serves as the science safety consultant/compliance officer for professional organizations such as the National Science Teachers Association and the National Science Education Leadership Association. He is a syndicated safety columnist worldwide and also the contributing safety editor/columnist. Dr. Roy provides safety trainer/consultant services for CIRMA.

As manager and senior consultant of National Safety Consultants, LLC, he provides professional services to educational and business communities in the areas of employee and employer safety.

WHERE SOUTHINGTON VO-AG SCHOOL
720 Pleasant Street
Southington, CT 06489
860-628-3229 X 415 COST per attendee This seminar is open to CIRMA members only and is free of charge

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For more information, please call Martin Connelly at 203-946-3743 or email cirmaworkshop@ccm-ct.org.

DIRECTIONS

From Hartford:
Take 84 West to exit 32 Queen Street. At end of ramp, make right onto Route 10. Go through four traffic lights—about 1 mile. At fifth traffic light, take left onto Flanders at first stop sign. The high school is on the right; the Vo-Ag school is at the rear of the high school.

From Waterbury:
Take 84 East to exit 32 Queen Street. At the end of the ramp, make a left turn onto Route 10. Go through three traffic lights—about 1 mile. At fourth traffic light take left onto Flanders at the first stop sign. The high school is on the right; the Vo-Ag school is at the rear of the high school.

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