AIHA University Webinar: Confined Space Program Performance Metrics

Earn 1 Contact Hour

Member $99 | Nonmember $130 | Student $25

Are you confident in the performance and effectiveness of your Confined Space Program? Despite having these programs in place, the rate of confined space fatalities has remained stubbornly high over the past 20-25 years. This persistent issue highlights the urgent need for improved methods to accurately measure and enhance the effectiveness of confined space safety initiatives.

This webinar addresses this critical need by introducing participants to crucial metrics designed to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of confined space programs, ultimately aiming to reduce fatalities.

Participants will also be provided with a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow confined space performance metrics evaluation checklist. Developed as part of the 2nd Edition of the AIHA Industrial Hygiene Performance Metrics manual, the checklist can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of their confined space program.

Join us to review these metrics to your own confined space program and make meaningful improvements that can save lives.

Learning Objectives

After this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify key compliance and risk reduction elements of a Confined Space Program.
• Outline key confined space performance metrics and discuss their basis.
• Discuss the best methods to apply confined space metrics and resolutions.
• Utilize a ready-to-use Confined Space Program metrics tool to evaluate and enhance compliance with OSHA, ANSI, NFPA, and CSA standards and guidelines.

Presenters

Michael Palmer, CIH, CSP
Mike is a Principal with EnSafe, Inc. and served as the former Vice President of EnSafe’s Health and Safety Services Group for 13 years. He has 40+ years of experience in the fields of H&S management, industrial hygiene (IH), industrial/construction safety, and process safety management (PSM), with a focus on the areas of risk assessment, accident investigation, confined spaces, machine guarding, employee engagement, and OSHA compliance. Mike specializes in the design and implementation of risk based corporate and site strategies that are purposed to take an employer’s safety management system to the next level. Mike has a BS from Eastern Kentucky University in Industrial Risk Management and an MPH in Industrial Hygiene from the University of Tennessee. He retains professional certifications and registrations as a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), and Certified Safety Professional (CSP). Mike is an active AIHA, ANSI, and NFPA volunteer on confined space standards committees, routinely provides consultation as an expert witness, has been published in several professional safety and health journals and periodicals, and is currently serving on the Tennessee OSHA Review Commission.

Jay D. Gieseke, CIH, CSP
A native of Minnesota, Jay attended the University of Minnesota, Duluth where he received his Bachelor of Applied Science, and Master of Industrial Safety in Industrial Hygiene. He spent 9 years on active duty in the Navy as an Industrial Hygiene Officer supporting Marine units in North Carolina, and Naval units and installations on the island of Guam. For 24 years Jay was Industrial Hygienist at Marathon’s St. Paul Park Refinery in Minnesota overseeing a broad spectrum of Industrial Hygiene programs including writing and approving Initial Confined Space Entry permits. Jay spent 21 years on the refinery’s Emergency Response Team raising to the position of Deputy Chief, qualified for firefighting, HazMat, Confined Space and High Angle Rescue, Jay received his CIH in 1994, and CSP in 1997.

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