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ASSE/OSHA Safety Day 2010 Call for Speakers

Thursday, June 10, 2010 - Waukesha County Technical College

The Safety Day committee is asking for ASSE members to once again present at this year’s ASSE/OSHA Safety Day 2010 on Thursday, June 10, 2010 to be held at WCTC, Pewaukee campus. We need to fill 10 topics/presenters to cover the field of Safety and Risk Management. Some of the topics we have done in the past included: Workers’ Compensation 101, Safety Committee Best Practices, Injury Repeaters, Accident Investigation, Fleet Safety Programming, Safety for Profit, and Selling Safety to Management, to name a few.

If you have a topic in mind, please state below with a brief description on its contents. I need replies back by March 8, 2010.

• Call for Speakers Form (doc)

OSHA Makes Injury/Illness Data Available in Searchable Database

From Reliable Plant.

Every year since 1996 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has collected work-related injury and illness data from more than 80,000 employers. For the first time, the agency has made the data from 1996 to 2007 available in a searchable online database, allowing the public to look at establishment or industry-specific injury and illness data. The workplace injury and illness data is available at http://www.osha.gov/pls/odi/establishment_search.html as well as http://www.data.gov.

President’s Corner - November 2009

Greetings Wisconsin ASSE Chapter Members,

I trust everyone has a had a busy and productive Fall. Our new 2009_10 year is off to a good start as evidenced by the turn out for the September 19th ASSE Family Day at the Milwaukee County Zoo outing. Fifty plus members and family attended the event with great weather for viewing the various exhibits.

Recent past ASSE events:

Metal-Era Robotics Safeguarding Technical Meeting – September 15, 2009

Twenty-five plus members attended our 2009-10 kick off meeting on Robotics safeguarding, hosted by Metal-Era, Waukesha, WI. Two representatives from CNC Solutions, Watertown, WI, presented the group with ideas and methods for safeguarding working robotic work cells, including a technical question and answer session, leading up to a tour of several recent robotic workstation installations. Metal-Era has had success in using robotics to safely feed various press brake fabrication applications utilizing parts ranging from inches to over 20 feet.

Ron Roehl, President, CNC Solutions, addressed the attendees at the recent Metal-Era Robotics Safeguarding Technical Meeting.		6-12" parts are formed with the aid of a small ABB robot in a Metal-Era robotic work cell. Parts enter and exit the robotic cell via the conveyor in the foreground.
Sheet metal parts up to 22' in length being formed at multi-station work stations with the aid of a large ABB robot in a new Metal-Era robotic work cell.

Fall 2009 ROC Meeting - UL Labs – Northbrook, IL, and ASSE Des Plaines Headquarters – 9/17 & 18, 2009

The day long Fall 2009 ASSE Regional Operating Committee (ROC) meeting was held at the ASSE Des Plaines, IL headquarters on September 18th, 2009. ROC Chapter officer representatives from the sixteen Midwest, Region V Chapters gathered to share ideas on how to move the safety profession forward and to improve each Chapter’s daily activities and functions through best practices and coaching. One of the ROC’s goals is to help show how ASSE provides value to it’s members and their employers.

A highlight of the meeting was a joint teleconference meeting with our newest Region V chapter member – Egypt, who’s membership application was approved during the September 18th meeting. Yes, that’s Egypt, as in the Middle East. The Egypt chapter currently has 130 members, with 4 Board members.

Another highlight of the ROC meeting was preliminary discussions of the Society’s upcoming 100th anniversary plans, schedule to culminate in the 2011 ASSE PDC, June 12-15, 20011, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. A year long run up to the 100th anniversary is being planned, with the local chapters encouraged to submit historical photos, articles, etc. regarding how their local chapter has evolved over the years, citing it’s growth, accomplishments, etc. The theme of the 100th anniversary is “Your Safety is Our Business…Your Future Our Mission.”

Prior to the all day meeting on the 18th the host Greater Chicago Area ASSE Chapter hosted a tour of the UL Laboratories fire safety research facilities at Northbrook, IL the afternoon of the 17th.

UL Laboratories, Northbrook, IL		Converging laser beams are used to measure sprinkler head water droplet densities in a UL test cell.
A gas fired furnace is readied for a burn test of a vendor's safes' seeking UL certification.		WI ASSE President Dave Leix poses in front of a dry wall panel assembly being readied for a UL burn test. If successful, the dry wall manufacturer's product will receive its fire rating certification.

As we conclude Fall and move in to the upcoming Winter months updates to our Chapter’s 2009-10 meetings and events are shaping up as follows:

Date	Topic	Speaker	Location
Sep. 15, 2009	Robotics Safety & Machine Safeguarding	CNC Solutions & Metal Era	Metal-Era
Oct. 15, 2009	OSHA Update	Various	Alverno College
Nov. 10, 2009	Pandemic Flu & Contingency Planning	Veolia Water HR & Sheila Collins	Veolia Water
Dec. 2009	Potential Membership Social Outing	TBA	TBA
Jan. 13, 2010	Ask the Judge (Joint Meeting with Waukesha Area Safety Council)	Judge Edward Faulker, ALJ	Thunder Bay
Feb. 2010	OSHA's New Crane Standard for Construction	OSHA	TBA
Mar. 2, 2010	OSHA Compliance Update	Various	Alverno College
Apr. 15, 2010	Field Ergonomics (Joint Meeting with UW-Whitewater Student Chapter)	Andy Hempkin	Whitewater, WI
May 2010	Harley Davidson Plant Tour & Museum (Joint Meeting with Engineers & Scientists of Milwaukee)	TBA	Harley Davidson
Jun. 10, 2010	OSHA-ASSE Safety Day	Various OSHA & ASSE Reps	WCTC
Jun. 21, 2010	Annual Planning Meeting, Golf Outing & Awards Dinner	Various	Broadlands Golf Club

Periodically check our web site for the latest upcoming meeting information - http://wisconsin.asse.org.

Board Meetings: The WI Chapter’s Executive Board meets every 4-6 weeks throughout the 2009-10 year. Our next Board meeting will be in mid November and will include review of our chapter’s By-Laws (required by Des Plaines headquarters at least every two years. Our review and any updates to the By-laws are due in Des Plaines by 2/01/2010.) Anyone wishing to participate in this review meting or a future board meeting should contact Dave Leix at (262) 227-8427 or David2L@accidentfund.com.

Call for Safety Articles and Case Studies: Again, we encourage all members to submit safety articles and/or case studies for the Newsletter, which is published on our website monthly. A $50 prize will be given to members who submit a case study success story which gets published in the Newsletter. Check out the current Newsletter for a recent associate and customer case study success story involving access at a local shopping mall.

In order to streamline the process we are looking for a good case study template that can be shared and used to submit your case study. We will post the generic template to the web site for member use and consideration. Case study template examples should be sent to Dave Leix at (262) 227-8427 or David2L@accidentfund.com. Again, published Newsletter case studies or safety articles are eligible for a $50 prize.

Chapter Website: Our Chapter website is continually being updated. Please check it out regarding upcoming technical, board and social meetings, new members, job listings, the newsletter and other industry details. Anyone wishing to contribute an article or case study for inclusion on the web site should contact Dave Leix at (262) 227-8427 or David2L@accidentfund.com.

Take care and enjoy the Winter season.

Yours in Safety,

Dave Leix, CSP
ASSE 2009-10 Wisconsin Chapter President

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