California Forum for Workplace Health and Safety - February 8 -9, 2001

AGENDA .pdf document size 22kb

l.  Welcome & introductions

ll.  California in the new millenium

• Changing Nature of Work and The Labor Force
  "Transformation of Work and Employment in the New Economy"
  "Negotiating Work in the NEW ECONOMY" .pdf document size = 75kb
  Chris Benner, PhD, Instutite of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley

• "Cost of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, 1992" .pdf document size = 260kb
  J. Paul Leigh, PhD, School of Medicine, UC Davis

• Community Comments
  Employers
  Mary E. Garry, Hewlett-Packard
  
  Labor
  Maggie Robbins, Consultant, California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO

lll.  Effective workplace health and safety program

• "Effective Workplace Health & Safety Program"
  Robin Baker, Director, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley

• "Defining Safety As Culture Determinant of Safety and Health"
  Knut Ringen, Dr.PH, Consultant, Stoneturn Consultants

• "Achieving Safety Excellence Through Joint Labor & Management Cooperation"
  Hal D. Lindsey, JD, Executive Director, Corporate Health and Safety
  Department of Water and Power/International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18

• "Efforts in Occupational Health and Safety, Targeting Hazardous Employers"
  Frank Neuhauser, Project Director, Survey Research Center, UC Berkeley

• Trends in Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
  John F. Burton, Jr., PhD, Dean, School of Management & Labor Relations, Rutgers University

IV.  Best practices from the field: 
       Developing new strategies

• Group Facilitators
  Michael C. Alvarez, Area Manager, Cal Osha Consultation Services, DIR
  Elaine El-Askari, Program Coordinator, LOHP, UC Berkeley
  Marianne P. Brown, Director, LOSH, UC Los Angeles
  Quintin Robinson, Program Coordinator, LOSH, UC Los Angeles
  Richard Da Rosa, Sr. Industrial Hygienist, CalOSHA Consutation, DIR
  Robin Baker, Director, LOHP, UC Berkeley
  Kelly Howard, Area Manager, CalOSHA Consultation, DIR
  Diane Bush, Program Coordinator, LOHP, UC Berkeley
  Irina Nemirovsky, Research Specialist, CHSWC
  Betty Szudy, Program Coordinator, LOHP, UC Berkeley
  Laura Stock, Program Coordinator, LOHP, UC Berkeley
  Suzanne P. Teran, Program Coordinator, LOHP, UC Berkeley

V.  New solutions:
     Addressing special populations - panel discussion

• "Young Workers at Risk"
  Diane Bush, Project Coordinator, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley

• "Addressing Special Populations:   Immigrant Workers in California"
  Suzanne Teran, Program Coordinator, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley

• "California Small Business:   Investing In Prevention"
  Julianne Broyles, Director, Insurance & Employee Relations, California Chamber of Commerce

• California Small Businesses:  Investing In Prevention
  Lori C. Kammerer, Managing Director, California Coalition on Workers' Compensation

VI.  Disability management and return to work

• "Timely Return to Work:  Recent Findings"
  Leslie I. Boden, PhD, Professor, Boston University
  Robert T. Reville, PhD, Director of Research, RAND

• Medical Management
  Jay Himmelstein, MD, MPH, Program Director
  Workers' Compensation Health Iniative, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical Center

• "The Team Approach to Disability Management"
  Gideon Letz, MD, MPH, Medical Director, State Compensation Insurance Fund

• "Case Management Perspectives"
  Linda Stutzman, Legal Nurse Consultant, Disability Management Insights

• Injured Worker Needs
  Joan Lichterman, Injured Worker and Vice President, CTD Resouece Network, Inc.

• Educational Intervention
  Juliann Sum, Esq., MPH, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley

VII.  Future directions and new initiatives

• Panel discussion
  
  John Howard, MD, Chief, Division of Occupational Safety and Health
  
  Robert J. Harrison, MD, Public Health Medical Officer, Dept. of Health Services
  
  Christine Baker, Executive Officer, Commission on Health & Safety & Workers' Compensation