The 2024 DiVal Safety Summit!

Educational Workshops: Enhance your workplace compliance through a comprehensive day of training, featuring knowledgeable safety speakers.

World Class Speakers: Gain insights on safety, growth, and success from renowned national speakers and presenters. Elevate your leadership skills and safety excellence to new heights, fostering a positive impact on your safety culture.

Latest Products: Explore thousands of the latest safety products and innovations through hands-on demonstrations presented by your preferred vendors. Engage with our sales professionals to seamlessly integrate these exceptional products into your workplace.

Certified Utilities Safety Profession (CUSP) The Summit has been prequalified for CUSP points Monday paid Workshops (Click Here) are worth 1 point an hour, Tuesday Sessions 0.4 points an hour. Upon request DiVal will provide proof of attendance and materials for you to submit.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) A lthough there is no prior approval of content, DiVal Safety's content has always qualified for CEUs. Upon request DiVal will provide proof of attendance and materials for you to submit.

Jason Kunz - Seven Habits of Highly Effective Safety and Health Professionals

According to researchers at Duke University, habits account for at least 40 percent of our behaviors. Understanding how to build new habits (and refine your current ones) is essential for making progress in your health, relationships, levels of overall fulfillment, and life in general. As an emerging, established, or executive safety and health professional, the quality of your habits are in direct proportion to the quality of your leadership and the quality of your life. Our research shows the highest performing safety and health professionals have intentionally established habits that support their ability to lead, learn and grow, and create loyalty with the people around them. They've instilled and installed habits that enhance their leadership and their life. Join us for this engaging, informative session as we work to hand-deliver to your desktop or device, the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Safety and Health Professionals: following more than 230 interviews with some of the top-performing professionals and practitioners in our space.

With over a decade of experience with the 3M company in a variety of technical and leadership roles, Jason Kunz demonstrates his passion for the safety and health profession across multiple platforms. A forward-thinker, with the objective to elevate the safety, health and well-being of all workers, Jason uses his voice to amplify the profession and the professional. His life journey, blessings, and struggles have inspired a commitment to building professional communities that ensure an empowerment of their people. Jason is a husband, co-founder of Best Christmas Ever, speaker, coach, and community advocate. He's a CIH and CSP, but mostly grateful to have a J-O-B and work with some of the most passionate and compassionate people on the planet. Married since 2019, Jason and his wife Malia recently welcomed their first child (Revel Malosi) and call Minneapolis-Saint Paul home.

Brandon Schroeder - Believe In Safety

In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, ensuring safety has become an utmost priority for individuals, organizations, and communities alike. Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking presentation by Brandon Schroeder, where he will shed light on the crucial concept of "Believe in Safety" and its transformative power in our lives.

Brandon Schroeder, a renowned safety speaker and career tradesman, will delve into an arc flash accident that should have ended his life in 2011. Brandon will guide you through his terrifying arc flash explosion and agonizing recovery process, he will navigate the audience through his mindset and journey as well as offer practical strategies to foster a culture of safety in any environment.

This enlightening presentation will explore key themes such as:

1. The Human Element: Understanding the psychological and emotional factors that influence safety attitudes and behaviors.

2. Empowering Individuals: Equipping individuals with the knowledge and skills to make safer choices in their everyday lives.

3. Cultivating Organizational Safety: Building a strong safety culture within organizations to protect employees, customers, and stakeholders.

4. Resilience in Crisis: Navigating unexpected challenges and enhancing resilience through proactive safety measures.

5. Trust and Reputation: Examining the critical role of safety in establishing trust, credibility, and long-term success.

Brandon Schroeder's captivating speaking style, combined with his deep expertise in safety awareness, will leave the audience inspired and empowered to make safety a core value in their personal and professional lives. Join us for an engaging and transformative journey as we explore the power of belief in safety to protect lives, build trust, and create thriving communities.

David McPeak - Frontline Leadership – The Hurdle

It’s hard to jump over a hurdle from a standing position. And leadership has its share of hurdles. Like a track athlete needs to focus on their run up, which includes preparation and training, to jump over hurdles, leaders must have an effective run up to overcome their hurdles.

Topics covered include sources of leadership and how it is measured; creating alignment and culture; leadership styles; emotional intelligence and decision making;

effective communication; coaching and feedback; developing relationships; leading change; and teaching and training.

Participants will be exposed to powerful lessons on balancing influence and authority and taking full ownership and responsibility for their team. They will learn how to favor positives and proacting over negatives and reaction and focus more on asking than telling. They will also learn to avoid the pitfalls of basing consequences on results alone and decisions made based on comfort and convenience.

Doctors practice medicine and leaders must practice leadership. This entertaining, insightful, and inspiration presentation identifies leadership as a skill and explains how it can be learned, practiced, and improved

Bruce Bolger - Critical Strategies In Your Journey Of Safety Excellence

Well intentioned companies and safety professionals create dysfunctional alignment in the implementation of their safety culture improvement initiatives. This program will provide participants with the knowledge of those potential “Traps” and required “Strategies” in the engagement of your company’s leadership and workforce.

Breakout Sessions

Safe 4 the Right Reasons

Safe 4 the Right Reasons: A simple yet sophisticated safety message that eliminates accidents and injuries by getting employees to practice safe behaviors because they WANT to, not because they HAVE to. This presentation delivers what Safety Professionals and Companies have been trying to instill in their employees forever – valuing their own safety and willingly watch out for each other.

Fall Protection – Recent Updates, ABC’s & Solutions

Easily overlooked and sometimes undervalued because of its simplicity, understating the ABC’S of fall protection and how it applies to your working environment can save lives! The best way for workers to protect themselves is to remember the basics or “ABC’s” of fall protection systems – Anchorage, Body Support and Connectors. Also known as Personal Fall Arrest Systems (PFAS), we will review the ABC’s, equipment and the OSHA requirements governing working conditions necessitating their use.

MEWP – Mobile Elevated Working Platforms

Is your company meeting the most up-to date Mobile Elevated Work Platform (MEPW) training requirements? Effective June 1, 2020, your company is required to train to the updated A92 standard. MEWP’s include Aerial Work platforms, Scissor lifts and “Boom” lifts. In this session we will review how these changes affect training as well as which employees are required to be trained.

OSHA Update

National and Regional Agency focus areas/points of emphasis including local trends, as well as fatality investigations and the causes. Other topics of discussion consist of the list of the top ten most frequently cited standards.

Lone Worker

If you have employees working alone…or apart from others, do you have a plan on how to assist them if they are in trouble? From occupational accidents to health emergencies, these employees can be in harms way and have no means of assistance. Working remote no longer only applies to those off site or miles away – they can be on site, across the campus or across the country.

Accident Investigation

Accident Investigations are incident-prevention tools and should be part of an occupational safety and health management program in your workplace. Such programs are a structured way to identify and control the hazards in a workplace so let’s look at the steps we should go through.

Active Shooter

This industry-leading program is designed to prepare organizations, security teams, employees and management for the unfortunate but real possibility of an Active Incident.

Ergonomics

Do you have an Ergonomics Program? Ergonomics includes a process for identifying, analyzing, and controlling workplace risk factors, often for reducing musculoskeletal disorders In this session we will explore determining the needfor Ergonomic Programming and if so, that are the options including Cost vs benefit.

Trends and Concerns in Managing a Hearing Conservation Program

This presentation provides an overview of the 7-elements of a hearing conservation program and addresses some common reasons that historically, HCPs have been ineffective. This presentation is designed for all persons who play a role in delivering hearing loss prevention services in the workplace, especially the safety professional. By the end of this seminar, the attendee will be able to Identify 3 common reasons for HCP ineffectiveness, discuss a best practice in hearing loss prevention known to improve hearing protection use & describe one activity the manager of a HCP can do to help gain control of the HCP.

Emotional Intelligence Role in Safety

This session explains the importance of EQ, how it works, and demonstrates what it looks like as a component of an effective safety program. The best part is the message is delivered in a fun, interactive, and easy-to-understand format that allows for takeaways you can implement immediately.

Trauma – Are you prepared to respond

An essential session on trauma preparedness, focusing on cardiac arrest response. This session will cover the nuances of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) versus heart attacks,
emphasize the importance of high-quality CPR, and explore the evolution of AHA guidelines. Learn about the most effective treatments for SCA, considerations for implementing AED programs, and essential components of trauma kits, equipping you to confidently handle cardiac emergencies in your workplace.

Keys to a World Class Safety Culture

This session delves into crucial aspects such as safety perceptions versus compliance, utilizing the Bradley Curve model, effective communication tools, the importance of felt leadership, and leading by example.

Protecting the Skin for the OUTDOOR WORKER

Protecting outdoor workers from a range of skin-related hazards. We'll delve into effective prevention and treatment options for skin cancer, vector-borne diseases, poison ivy exposure, and maintaining general hand hygiene. Learn to implement proactive safety measures, educate your team, and foster a culture of health and safety that extends beyond traditional boundaries. This breakout is a must-attend for those committed to safeguarding their team's health in outdoor environments.”

Lithium Ion Batteries – the Hazards and what you need to know

Lithium Ion Batteries are ever present in all aspects of our lives – lap tops, bikes, skateboards and of course Vehicles. There is no question to the value these batteries bring to our world but they also bring significant safety concerns that must not be ignored. This session will address identifying hazards, mitigating risks, dynamics of a fire and fire fighter best practices.

More To Be Announced!

Safety Peers Networking Reception

Network with fellow attendees, safety industry leaders, vendors, & DiVal Safety professionals!

Stay at the Summit

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The Sheraton Niagara Falls is across the Street from the The Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino is adjacent to the Conference & Event Center Niagara Falls.

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More Information on the Summit will be coming soon!

*Limited to 5 attendees per company.

*This is a free event, but you must pre register to attend.

* Attendance is limited to DiVal Customers & Prospective Customers.

0n June 17th (the day before the DiVal Safety Summit), The DiVal Training Team in collaboration with the Incident Prevention Institute will be hosting a day of Certified Workshops on a wide range of topics. Each of these workshops will each earn you Certification or CUSP points.

• The Art of Safety – Assessing and Mitigating Risk *CUSP (4 Hour)
• Critical Skills for Individual and Team Success (4 Hour)
• Fall Protection Competent Inspector (4 Hour )
• PIT Powered Industrial Truck Train the Trainer (4 Hour)
• 1st Aid, CPR, AED Certified Training (8 Hours)

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