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The Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Summit is designed to share best leadership and safety practices with industry professionals hoping to achieve world-class safety within their companies. This one-of-a-kind learning and networking conference will focus on uniting manufacturing executives from across the United States. Attendees will focus on best practices in environment, health and safety along with becoming a better leader. This Summit promises to provide high-level safety professionals with implementable ideas they can take back to their facilities to improve their operations and achieve world-class safety.

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AGENDA: 

(Subject to change. Please note - all times are listed in Eastern.)

The event links will be made available to registrants before the event.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

11:00 AM - Introduction and Welcome

11:15 AM - Keynote: Safety Insights from a Naval Aviation Perspective

Christian Buhlmann

Former ARPM Board President and US Navy Captain-Retired, Christian Buhlmann, will kick off the 2022 EHS Summit with safety insights from a naval aviation perspective. Built on the foundation of what he learned while serving in the US Navy, Buhlmann will share insights on what the manufacturing industry can do to further their own safety preparedness and exercise those plans to test your organizations readiness for any disasters that it may face. This keynote presentation will set the stage for the 2022 EHS Summit through a deep dive into why everyone is here - to keep your people alive and safe.

12:15 PM  - Disaster Planning Panel 

Moderator: Jon Medo, Federated Insurance

Panelists: Marel Riley-Ryman, Southern Michigan Rubber; Scott Titzer, Infinity Molding & Assembly; and Rick Walters, DeKalb Molded Plastics

No one expects a disaster will happen to their organization, and that is what makes them so devastating. They are unplanned, unexpected, and can be catastrophic to the organization and it's employees. To protect your organization, planning for disasters and disaster recovery is an essential practice, and during this panel attendees will hear stories from industry peers who have experienced disasters. Led by Jon Medo of Federated Insurance, the panelists will share what happened at their organization, what it impacted, and how their business practices have changed because of it.

1:15 PM - Peer Networking

This session is back by popular demand! Growing peer-to-peer networks is a primary component EHS Summit. Attendees will have the chance to interact with peer groups during this session on topics that are unique to their job functions in their specific groups. Driven by past attendee feedback, these focused sessions have been highly requested and are expected to be one of the biggest hits of this year's event. They are a perfect way for professionals to find new ideas, expand their professional networks, and explore new methods of improvement.

2:00 PM – Six Years Later … What Does TSCA Reform Mean for the Rubber Industry

Michelle Baker, Zeon Chemicals

In 2016, President Obama signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act into law. The Lautenberg Act, also know as TSCA Reform, was intended to boost confidence in chemical safety in the US by strengthening regulations. The updated law gave the US Environmental Protection Agency sweeping new authority to ensure that the tens of thousands pf chemicals in everyday products do not pose unreasonable risks to human health and the environment. This presentation will explain some of the new requirements and give practical advice to ensure compliance.

3:00 PM - OSHA Hot Topics

Daniel Cianchetta, Benesch Law

4:00 PM – Day 1 Ends

Thursday April 28, 2022

11:00 AM - Humanizing Safety - A Roadmap for Organizational Safety Through Individual Empowerment

Patrick Nelson, Loyalty Point Leadership

Leveraging a battle-tested Safety Leadership strategy that has resulted in a 57% reduction in the TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate) for Fortune 500 organizations, Patrick will give your safety and operational leaders a playbook to make safety personal and a driver of workplace excellence. The audience will leave with: a playbook on how to leverage storytelling to create deeper safety engagement, a non-traditional approach to maximizing positive safety outcomes through Servant Leadership and Forward-Looking Accountability, and an inspired growth-oriented mindset to help propel them to start making proactive shifts in their safety culuture that will motivate and engage others. 

12:00 PM - Your View, Your Attitude, Your Life

Chad Dunlap, UpShift with Chad

Rising above his own struggles in life, Chad decided to turn his experience into something positive in hopes of inspiring others. As an experienced and esteemed public speaker since 2019, Chad aims to deliver education, inspiration and entertainment to his audience. Conquering many hurdles in his own life, Chad drives home a powerful message to those who are battling heavy topics such as depression or suicide. He strives to make every event a memorable experience, placing a large emphasis on delivering motivating content. Get ready to be inspired in an authentic way that leaves you ready to upshift your view, your attitude, and your life.

1:00 PM – Revolutionizing Worker Safety Using Connected Worker Technology

Darrell Graham, Aware 360

In 2019, the number of preventable work deaths increased by 2%, totaling 4,572 and work-related serious injuries totaled 4.64 million in the United States. We are committed to the NSC’s Work to Zero initiative to end workplace fatalities by 2050 using technology. Ultimately, safety programs are developed to ensure every worker makes it home at the end of the day. Technology-based connected worker solutions have the power to help businesses achieve their safety goals and save lives.

2:00 PM - Marketing Safety to Improve Your Safety Culture

David Thurwanger, Yaskawa America

The days of dusty safety policy binders and motivational posters are long past us—or at least they should be. To get to the next level of organizational safety, you need to develop a safety culture in which each employee is fully committed to the safety effort. In this session, you will learn several strategies and tactics to engage all your employees in the process of hazard identification, risk mitigation and safety improvement in formats that resonate with today's diverse workforce.

2:00 PM – Power Your KPIs with BI

Lori Carson, Zeon Chemicals

This May, I mark my 30th year as an Environmental Safety & Health professional. Much like my peers, spreadsheets were my loyal friend throughout the years. To be honest, I still use them (make new friends but keep the old, one is silver but the other is gold), but my new best friend is Microsoft Power BI. I am going to talk about my experience learning how to use it. More importantly, I want to tell you how it has positively impacted our safety programs and ultimately why it has made my job as Director of Safety Health & Environment a little easier. Power BI is very user friendly after you stop thinking of it as Excel. It is easy to visualize large sets of data and create professional reports that can be shared throughout my company. In my team, we now spend more time analyzing trends than manipulating data into charts. This analysis has transformed our KPIs that used to be one boring Report Card. Now we have dozens of charts to help us share insights and make data-driven decisions that drive strategic action. By removing the human manipulating the data, reports are more accurate and update in seconds.

3:00 PM - EHS Awards and Closing 

The 2022 Safety Awards recognize companies in the manufacturing industry that have achieved excellent safety techniques that go beyond the average regulations. The awards will be given out based on OSHA 300's Log of work-Related Injuries and Illness statistics and Safety Best Practices. 

3:15 – Adjourn Event

SPEAKERS

	Michelle Baker has more than 25 years experience in product stewardship and regulatory compliance. She has a BS in Occupational Safety and Health and an MS in Public Health. She is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager and Certified Dangerous Goods Professional by Institute of Hazardous Materials Management. She is a Registered SDS and Label Author by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Registry Program. She is currently employed at Zeon Chemicals L.P. in Louisville, KY as the Senior Product Stewardship Manager. She is considered an expert in the field of hazard communication, hazardous materials management, chemical control regulation and dangerous goods transportation. Her responsibilities cover a wide range of regulatory requirements including REACH, global chemical control legislation such as TSCA, SDS authoring, RoHS, FDA and product safety packaging and labeling regulations. Michelle is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Chemical Hazard Communication, SCHC, from whom she recently received an award for completion of more than 200 hours of continuing education in the field of hazard communication and regulatory compliance.
	Christian Buhlmann, a former ARPM board President, was an executive with the Gates Corporation prior to starting his own business enterprise. His business experience has been across multiple industries. He served Gates as the Vice President - Global Product Line for Industrial Power Transmission. Prior to his time at Gates, Christian was a Global General Manager and Vice President for Tektronix Communications (a Danaher company) and a Global Vice President of Sales for the Test and Optimization business unit of Tektronix Communications. Across 17 years with both Tektronix Instruments and Tektronix Communications he has led regional and international sales organizations, as well as driven global strategic initiatives in the Defense and Government markets. Prior to joining Tektronix in 1996, Chris served as a US Naval Flight Officer on the aircraft carrier based S-3B Viking from 1986-1995 with deployments to the Western Pacific and Persian Gulf and remained in aviation centric reserve assignments until 2010. He retired from 24 years of combined active and reserve duty service as a US Navy Captain (O-6).
	Chad Dunlap is an experienced and esteemed public speaker who aims to deliver education, inspiration and entertainment to his audience. Conquering many hurdles in his own life, Chad drives home a powerful message to those who are battling heavy topics such as depression or suicide. He strives to make every event a memorable experience, placing a large emphasis on delivering motivating content. Get ready to be inspired in an authentic way that leaves you ready to upshift your view, your attitude, and your life.
	Darrell Graham is the SVP of Sales & Marketing with Aware360, with over 20 years of experience in telecom and technology. In his role at Aware360, Mr. Graham leads the strategic planning and execution his areas of responsibility, while supporting key accounts and partner relationships. Mr. Graham earned a Business Degree in Marketing from the University of Calgary and held the position of Chairman of the Board with the Kids Cancer Foundation of Alberta for nine years.
	Jon Medo joined Federated Insurance in March of 1992 as a marketing development trainee. A true testament to Federated's philosophy of developing leaders from within the organization, Jon has held the positions of Marketing Representative (Minneapolis, MN), Account Executive-Association Risk Management Services (Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska), District Marketing Manager (St. Louis, MO), and Regional MArketing Manager (Indianapolis, IN). In November 2009, Jon was promoted to Field Manager-Association Risk Management Services, and currently oversees Federated's relationships with local, state and regional assocations for the eatern half of the United States. Jon also handles five national associations, Energy Marketers Association, Spirit, North American Vermeer Dealers Association, American Mold Builders Association and Manufacturers Association for Plastic Processors. Jon and his wife Sara have been married for 27 years have have two children (Nicholas, 25, and Abby, 18) and live in Owatonna, MN.
	Patrick Nelson is the CEO of Loyalty Point Leadership. As he works with organizations throughout the country, he consistently sees the front-line employees who don't feel inspired by their work. As a result, employees often end up doing the bare minimum regarding safety and don't take full ownership of their tasks. Often, safety meetings are uninspiring and people are not engaged. One company Patrick worked for experienced a 57% decrease in incidence, which saved them money, but the biggest joy was when a manager told him, "you've saved lives here." The 'how' lies in using stories to connect with your frontline and help them draft their own personal safety mission statement for their job. After the meetings, they not only know how to work safer, they become advocates of a safer workplace. Patrick dropped out of college two days after 9/11 and joined the Army as a paratrooper. He served for nearly 7 years with 3 combat depoloyments and his military awards include the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart Medal. During one of his deployments, Patrick's failure as a leader led to one of his soldiers being killed in combat, while he was only peppered in the back from schrapnel. This life-changing expeirence set him on a path to help others not repeat his same mistake. Today his mission is to inspire others and influence the future. Patrick's expeirences have shaped how he lives and instantly connects with diverse audiences on topics ranging from leadership to overcoming adversity and effective communication. Today, Patrick helps leaders and their frontlines in Fortune 500 and other organizations radically decrease their on-the-job incidents. And in this calling, Patrick also helps you build a culture of safety ownership and an inspired workforce that distinguishes your company.
	David Thurwanger is the EHS Risk Mitigation Manager for Yaskawa America, Inc. He started working for Yaskawa America in 1998 as a trainer in human resources and has since held management roles in quality, production and manufacturing engineering. In 2015, David assumed his current position as EHS Risk Mitigation Manager where he used his knowledge of production methods, training, and quality to reimagine Yaskawa's traditional safety management system. The result was Yaskawa America being named an EHS Today's America’s Safest Companies award in 2017, multiple risk management awards from Yaskawa's WC captive insurance company, workers compensation reductions of nearly 50% and a more engaged safety-mindset workforce. Previously, David served as a Hospital Corpsman in the U.S. Navy and as an EMT.

AWARDS

The Manufacturers Association for Plastics Processors (MAPP) invites you to participate in the 2022 Safety Achievement Awards and the 2022 Safety Best Practices Awards. Awards will be presented at the 2022 Enviornmental, Health and Safety Summit.

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