Schedule at a Glance
8:00 am – 10:00 am Valley Fever Certification Training
Speaker: Ralph Morales, Pro-Tec Safety Consultants
10:15 am – 11:15 am What It’s All About, and FDA’s Latest Activities
Speaker: Jon Kimble, Safe Food Alliance
11:45 am – 12:45 pm Safety and Risk Management Rules to Live By
Speakers: Jared Minnick & John Cleveland, J G Parker Insurance
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Workplace Violence Prevention & Response
Speaker: Hector Alvarez, Alvarez Associates
Valley Fever Certification Training
Ralph Morales
Pro-Tec Safety Consultants, Inc.
Time: 8:00 am – 10:00 am
Cost: $50
California Assembly Bill 203 – Valley Fever will require construction employers engaging in specified work activities or vehicle operation in counties where Valley Fever is endemic to provide effective awareness training by May 1st, 2020. This requirement goes beyond the supervisor training and will be required for all employees and annually thereafter. AB 203 also requires safety training be provided before an employee begins work that is reasonably anticipated to cause substantial dust disturbance.
If you perform dirt moving activities where Valley Fever is endemic you will be required to provide effective safety training. The areas are, including, but not limited to, the Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, and Tulare targeted activities are any activity that disturbs the soil, including, but not limited to, digging, grading, or other earth moving operations, or vehicle operation on dirt roads, where the activity or operation can expose employees to spores of the Valley Fever fungus that become airborne.
By taking our course you will receive awareness training on:
• What Valley Fever is and how it is contracted.
• High risk areas and types of work during which the risk of contracting Valley Fever is highest.
• Personal risk factors that may create a higher risk for some individuals.
• Personal and environmental exposure prevention.
• The importance of early detection, diagnosis, and treatment to help prevent the disease from progressing.
• Recognizing common signs and symptoms of Valley Fever.
• The importance of seeking medical attention and reporting symptoms to a physician and surgeon for
appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
• Common treatment and prognosis for Valley Fever.
• Instruction to contact a personal physician and surgeon for more information and for suspected infection.
You’re in luck! PRO-TEC Safety Consultants has been providing valued instruction on Valley Fever for the past four years meeting the requirements of AB 203.
After completion of this course, you will receive Valley Fever certification. Sign up now to reserve your seats. This course will fill up soon, so do not hesitate.
PRO-TEC Safety Consultants, Inc. leadership has provided safety support services in many capacities from small to large business operations ranging from $200K to $5 Billion.
Ralph Morales is a licensed safety instructor, with experience as a Safety Manager, Insurance Loss Control Consultant, Project Owners Representative and hands-on Craftsman. His expertise provides a unique understanding of client safety needs with cost-effective resolutions.
Areas of expertise include Owner Controlled Insurance Programs (OCIP), Contractor Controlled Insurance Programs (CCIP), mega Design-Build projects and Heavy Civil Transportation Projects.
What It’s All About, and FDA’s Latest Activities
Jon Kimble
Safe Food Alliance
Time: 10:15 am – 11:15 am
Cost: FREE
The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is the most sweeping reform of U.S. food safety laws in more than 70 years. It was originally signed into law in 2011, and in subsequent years FDA issued the seven FSMA rules in their final form. The focus of the act is more effective prevention of food safety issues in the U.S. food supply. The rules include preventive measures implemented in growing and harvesting of crops; processing, transportation, and storage of food; importing of food items; and even prevention of tampering in the food supply.
In this session we will explain FDA’s approach and what they expect from the food industry. We’ll also review some of the latest changes FDA is making to enforcement of these regulations.
Jon Kimble is the Senior Food Safety Manager for Safe Food Alliance. In this role, he helps companies achieve their strategic goals through training and consultation, and leads voluntary facility audits in the SQF, HACCP, and Costco food safety standards as well as the Safe Food Alliance FSMA compliance audits. As an organization, Safe Food Alliance hosts both public and on-site training for food processors and growers, providing assistance to companies that are working to build a more robust food safety system.
As a member of the Training and Consulting team, Jon is a FSMA Preventive Controls Lead Trainer, FSMA Produce Safety Lead Trainer, FSMA Foreign Supplier Verification Programs Lead Trainer, an SQF lead auditor, and has 18 years of experience related to quality assurance and food safety. During his career he has played a key role in maintaining certifications to the following internationally recognized certification standards: IFS, BRC, FSSC 22000, ISO 9001, and ISO 17025.
Jon’s strengths include food safety training, food safety system development and implementation, root cause analysis, management of internal audits, and conducting third-party audits.
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Food Safety Law Course$0.00
Safety and Risk Management Rules to Live By
Jared Minnick & John Cleveland
J G Parker Insurance
Time: 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Cost: FREE
When I transitioned from patching up people who were injured when I was a paramedic to teaching
people how to prevent being injured after graduating with a degree in occupational safety and risk
management, I was drinking the “safety” cool aid and couldn’t get enough. I latched on to every safety
philosophy that was the rage that week. Behavioral based safety, Dupont Stop, Human Factors, etc.
safety bingo, raffles, jackets, hats, the list is endless.
Like many business owners and managers responsible for “safety” it was a never ending roller coaster
of trying the next best thing, having it get stale and ineffective, trying to change it up enough to get
employees excited again, and the eventual “buying” of safety performance through incentives,
giveaways, and cash only to eventually have it just become something that was too hard to manage and
maintain results.
After many years of watching and learning and experiencing firsthand success and failure I have
established the following 4 basic rules regarding safety and risk management.
- A business cannot expect peak performance of any task without established and clearly
communicated expectations, policy, and/or procedure. - Employees will generally perform to the level of expectation and performance criteria placed on
them. - Every employee has safety and risk baggage. They will bring it to your business regardless of
how great they are. - Motivation, recognition, and expectations should be communicated from the person who
affects the daily life of the employee while they are at work. (hint, it’s not the safety manger!)
Companies that recognize these truths and use them to expose the myriad safety myths find that safety
and risk management is much easier and success is the default state.
We will discuss these rules and how to apply them. They are scalable to any size organization. When
applied companies can begin to realize the benefits of a solid foundation for managing risk, reap the
benefits of good employee relations and work practices, and the very real cost savings and mitigation of
volatile insurance related expenses.
Jared Minnick has been involved with Safety and Risk Management for almost 35 years, from EMS to
professional risk management for defense, food production, heavy civil construction, transportation and
Insurance. He has an AS in Health Science/Paramedicine from BYU IDAHO and BS from CSU Fresno in
Safety and Risk Management. He currently provides risk management consulting and Insurance
brokerage services to clients of James G. Parker Insurance.
John Cleveland is Vice President at James G Parker Insurance. He has a degree from CSU Fersno has
over 20 years of experience working with business that have specialized needs in risk management and
insurance. Specializing in Loss sensitive and complicated insurance placement.
Details coming soon.
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Risk Prevention Session$0.00
Workplace Violence Prevention and Response
Hector Alvarez
Alvarez Associates, LLC: Workplace Threat Management
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Cost: FREE
The threat of violence in our workplaces and communities is ever present. An estimated two million U.S. workers experienced violence on the job every year, including an average of 16,400 threats and 723 workers being attacked or harassed. Fortunately, there are almost always clear warning signs to indicate when violence may be imminent. Unfortunately, these warning signs are often overlooked
Every employee in an organization has a role in providing a safe and secure workplace. The goal of this course is to increase employees’ awareness of the potential for violence and more importantly how to recognize the warning signs and understanding of what actions can be taken to prevent or minimize violence.
Our programs are Evidence Informed and Experienced Applied. In other words, we incorporate current studies and research balanced with decades of field experience and “lessons learned” from real cases.
Target Audience: This class is suitable for the entire employee population.
Key Content: The core theme of this course is to provide staff with the awareness, tools and resources to help protect themselves and the workplace from the threat of violence.
- The dynamics of workplace violence
- Personal safety strategies
- Strategies and resources for keeping the workplace safe
- Recognizing and responding to the warning signs
- Response protocol for Active Violence
Hector Alvarez, MSPS is a security expert who specializes in workplace violence prevention, and a Certified Threat Manager™ by the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. He has built over 25 years of experience from serving as Security Director protecting one of our nation’s most sensitive critical infrastructures, to working as a city police officer and as a professional consultant. He understands the challenges organizations face when addressing the threats of violence because he has responded to them. He has personally assessed and/or responded to thousands of potentially violent situations, developed numerous violence prevention programs and trained tens of thousands of employees and managers in the areas of crisis intervention, violence prevention, domestic terrorism and emergency management.
