February - 2014 4th Quarter 2013 Inside the Issue A Letter From Our Chairman Peter Masias ● A Letter from the Corporate Director of Safety & Risk Management Conference Green Bay Packaging Chairman - 2 ● 2014 Safety What a Great Year PPSA Members! and Health Conference - 3 With the New Year in full swing, we wanted to provide you with the most ● 2014 Conference up-to-date safety information. Inside this quarterly report, you will find the End of Year Speakers - 4 Injury and Illness Statistics reports. If you have questions regarding the reports, please let ● OSHA Newsletter - 7 us know. ● For the Life of a Friend - 8 PPSA is currently in the middle of planning our 71st Annual Conference in St. Petersburg, ● Red Wing Shoe Florida at the Viony Resort June 22-25 (www.ppsa.org/14conference.) This year the Recall - 10 conference theme is The Flaming Cs of Safety. Attendees can expect some HOT topics ● Safety Flash Near Miss to include individual commitment and the importance of developing a caring culture, new - 11 control methods celebrating safety innovations, and life changing injuries and how to focus ● GHS Update - 14 on the high risk areas. ● Executive Eagle Award Information - 16 In addition to our upcoming conference, PPSA is pleased to welcome three new board members - Hazel A. Ladner, Regional Safety and Health Manager for North America at ● Executive Eagle Award MeadWestVaco, Steve Gearheart, Safety Director at Hartford City Paper, and Eric Barnes, Nomination Form - 17 Regional EHS Manager for International Paper. Be sure to welcome Hazel, Steve and Eric ● Safety Innovator Award at the June Safety and Health Conference. Information - 18 ● Safety Innovator Award This year PPSA is looking to add webinars to our list of member benefits. We are aiming Application - 19 to do one every quarter. If you are seeking training on a certain topic, let us know and we ● Legal Corner - 20 may be able to help. Please send all your ideas to the Education Committee Chair – Sue ● EHS Survey Cooper, [email protected] or Elise Hitchcock, [email protected] Results - 21 ● End of Year Safety We hope you enjoy this quarterly report and that everyone ended 2013 with great safety Statistics - 24 records. We look forward to bringing you up-to-date safety information throughout the ● PPSA Board of coming year and look forward to seeing you all in June. Directors and Staff - 47 Thank You - ● About PPSA - 48 Peter G. Masias, CSP PPSA Board Chairman 1 A Letter from the Conference Chairman Matthew Kanneberg Division Safety Manager, Containerboard Mills RockTenn The Flaming Cs of Safety The Flaming Cs of Safety…no doubt one of the ‘hottest’ and ‘fiery’ safety conference titles ever. Ok, maybe we had a little too much fun when deciding the title, but the flaming description certainly does not underscore the importance of a critical few attributes of a strong safety culture. We have centered the conference on three day themes of Caring Leadership, Control with an emphasis on modern safety innovation and technology, and the inevitable Consequence of risk that contributes to life changing injuries. There has been genuine excitement this year around the great speakers who will be supporting our conference. Our speakers make up a diverse group from among our industry, within the safety and health field as well as some of North American’s most well-known motivational and technical speakers. We are proud to announce Dave Weber with Weber Associates as our conference Key Note speaker. Learn more about Weber Associates at www.weberassociates.com or see more info about Dave at www.daveweber.com . We are challenged every day to do what seems impossible - create an injury free culture. What some do not realize is that several of our own member sites are doing just that. Caring leadership that strives to build respect and trust, cultivate open communication and empower and engage everyone is certainly at the heart of that strong safety culture. For some the word caring means soft and if we think of the most influential caring leader in our life, most times the term “soft” would not enter our mind. Caring leaders will use the unfortunate consequences of incidents/injuries to learn and make their site safety management system better – seeking true root causes without a focus on blame. Caring leaders will also seek out innovation to make processes efficient, interesting, fun and accessible to all. If you want to know who to send to this year’s conference, the answer is simple…anyone who has a passion to be a safety leader. The term leader does not have to equate to manager. A safety leader is any person who has a passion to improve their knowledge in safety, collaborate ideas with fellow industry members, and be open to new and innovative ideas. Though the majority of conference participants continue to be health and safety professionals, the heart of this year’s theme is around caring leadership and we certainly encourage leaders at all levels of your organization to consider just a couple days to expand their safety knowledge! See you in St. Petersburg! Matthew Kanneberg Conference Chairman 2 3 2014 Health and Safety Conference Key Note Speaker Register for the PPSA Conference Online Today! 4 Register for the PPSA Conference Online Today! 5 Register for the PPSA Conference Online Today! 6 OSHA proposes new rule to improve tracking of workplace injuries and illnesses OSHA Quicktakes Newsletter On Nov. 7, OSHA issued a proposed rule to improve workplace safety and health through improved tracking of workplace injuries and illnesses. The announcement follows the Bureau of Labor Statistics' release of its annual Occupational Injuries and Illnesses report, which estimates that three million workers were injured on the job in 2012. "Three million injuries are three million too many," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels. "With the changes being proposed in this rule, employers, employees, the government and researchers will have better access to data that will encourage earlier abatement of hazards and result in improved programs to reduce workplace hazards and prevent injuries, illnesses and fatalities. The proposal does not add any new requirement to keep records; it only modifies an employer's obligation to transmit these records to OSHA." The new proposal would require that establishments with more than 250 employees who are already required to keep records to electronically submit the records on a quarterly basis to OSHA. The agency is also proposing that establishments with 20 or more employees, in certain industries with high injury and illness rates, electronically submit their summary of work-related injuries and illnesses to OSHA once a year. For more information on the proposed rule, read the press release and visit the Improved Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses Rulemaking Web page. The public had 90 days, through Feb. 6, 2014, to submit written comments on the proposed rule. On Jan. 9, 2014, OSHA held a public meeting on the proposed rule in Washington, D.C. For information, read the Federal Register notice. Thank you to our Platinum Sponsors 7 For the Life of a Friend For the Life of a Friend - are we willing to Learn, The policies, procedures, and rules? What would we have done, to save our friends life, For employee protection, and hazard correction, Had we known he was going to die. They’re important, and valuable tools. How long will we suffer, and wake up at night, To grieve, and to ask ourselves why? For the Life of a Friend - are we willing to Stop, And say No, when the job is not right? The risk that he took, must not have seemed bad And work through the problems, to get them resolved. No worse than some others he’d taken. Not ignored, or just moved out of sight. He thought he could save time, without getting hurt, And this time, he was simply mistaken. For the Life of a Friend - are we willing to Speak, When we see, someone else could get hurt? We cannot take back that horrible day, To challenge the risk, the tools, or the job, Our chances were missed, and they’re gone. Or their simply, not being alert. Now, all we can do, is to learn from the loss, And improve things, as we carry on. For the Life of a Friend - are we willing to Thank, Those who do their job, Safely and Well? For the Life of a Friend - are we willing to Change, If we want them to know, how important that is, The way we expect things to be? Then it’s them, that we most need to tell. For the Level of Safety, on which lives depend, Is determined by you, and by me. We cannot keep doing, what we’ve always done, And expect things to change in the end. The behaviors and risks, we accept as a group, We have to improve, or on some future date, Set the bar, when decisions are made. We will Grieve - For the Life of a Friend The rules and procedures don’t count near as much, (Reprinted with permission) As the care, and concern that we’ve paid. Don Merrell [email protected] For the Life of a Friend - are we willing to Look, At each job task, as if it were new? To be sure all the hazards, are known, and controlled, And that everyone knows what to do. 8 9 10 Safety Flash – New Bern Near Miss Wet End Ladder Failed Ladder rung failed at wet end. Ladder is Metso OEM, 3 years installed.