OPENING GENERAL SESSION

Challenges, Progress, Innovation: Predicting the Future by Creating It
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Peter H. Diamandis, MD
Chairman and CEO
The X PRIZE Foundation
San Francisco, CA

Dr. Peter Diamandis knows that innovation is created by challenging conventional ways of thinking. Discoveries and radical breakthroughs are achieved through constructive competition. We can’t wait for the government to fund the right things properly or quickly enough.

As chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, Diamandis is changing the way the world thinks about its problems and their solutions. He believes that challenge, properly framed, can inspire and unleash progress toward eradicating the seemingly intractable grand obstacles of our time.

His first prize, the Ansari X PRIZE was a $10M private space flight competition that changed the way the world thinks about space. His current goal is to use this proactive, competitive prize model to energize individuals to innovate technological breakthroughs in other areas including energy, genomics, nanotechnology, medicine, and the social arena. Diamandis’ inspiring message will challenge you and your organization to push beyond the boundaries of creative thinking toward new discoveries of your own.

10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

• CR 301 How to Develop Culturally Appropriate Safety Training
• CR 302 Measuring Safety Performance with Leading Indicators – Building on Success
• CR 303 What Do Greenhouse Gas Emissions Have to Do with Your Business?
• CR 304 Adapting to Climate Change – Use of WBGT as a Community Heat Metric in Canada

10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

• PO 101 Computer Applications
• PO 102 Risk Management in Global Context
• PO 103 Radiation: Ionizing and Nonionizing
• PO 104 Facts and Fixes - Ergonomic Problems and Solutions
• RT 201 Applications of Control Banding Part 1: Hazard Classification
• RT 202 Approaches of Quantitative Exposure Reconstruction: From Biomonitoring to Modeling
• RT 203 Building Assessment Tools: Comparing the USEPA BASE and NIOSH Studies
  
• RT 204 Current Topics in Cranes and Rigging
• RT 205 Discovering Trends in Communication – R U Updated?
  
• RT 206 Emerging Trends in Vapour Intrusion
• RT 207 Life Cycle Assessment – A Review of Business Case Studies
• RT 208 Raising Awareness to the Hazards of Dermal Chemical Exposures: Skin Notations and PPE
• RT 209 The Hazardous Environment of Home Health Care Providers

Noon–1:30 p.m.

• Monday: Unsolved IH Mysteries Workshop

12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.

• Jeffrey S. Lee Lecture

2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

• CR 305 Communicating Risk and Effective Crisis Communications
  
• CR 306 Prevent Fatalities and Catastrophic Events: What Every Leader Needs to Know

2:00 p.m.–4:20 p.m.

• PO 105 Laboratory Health and Safety
  
• PO 106 IH General Practice

2:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

• Science Symposium: Promoting Worker Health Through Traditional and Work-Life Programs
• RT 210 Perspectives on Preparation for the CIH Exam
• RT 211 The Future of the Profession of Occupational Hygiene in Canada

2:00 p.m.–4:40 p.m.

• PO 107 Health Care Industries I: Bioaerosols, Negative Pressure Rooms, and Other Infection Control Topics
• PO 108 Chemical Vapor Sampling and Analysis
• PO 109 Current Topics in Exposure Monitoring

2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

• Breakthrough Thinking, Session 1
• ILO Encyclopedia
  
• PO 110 Aerosols
  
• PO 111 Lead and Healthy Homes
  
• PO 112 Agricultural Health and Safety
  
• RT 212 Exposure Model Validation: Current Approaches, Limitations, and a Path to the Future

2:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

• RT 213 Industrial Hygiene at the Construction Site – Issues, Challenges, Best Practices

2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

• RT 214 Integrating Science and Sustainability – Consumer Product Risk Assessments
  
• RT 215 Workplace Violence is Everyone's Problem

3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

• CR 307 How to Prepare for, Manage, and Survive a DOT Inspection
• CR 308 Industrial Hygienists and the Law: What You Need to Know If/When You Are Subpoenaed