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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration Open

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Risk Management 101 for Construction Safety Professionals

Add-on Course (Click Here to Learn More)

The risk management and safety and health professions share the same goal of identifying potential risks and the appropriate measures to reduce loss. The need to effectively manage risks will continue to grow and become increasingly critical to an organization’s success. This course serves as an introduction for entry-level and experienced safety professionals interested in expanding their knowledge in risk management.

The course will cover construction insurance, workers’ compensation and claims management.

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration Open

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Breakfast

Sponsored By:

Clicksafety

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM

First-Time Attendee Orientation

First-time attendees, welcome! Grab your badge and breakfast and join us to learn more about AGC of America and the Construction Safety & Health Conference, including the history and structure of the conference, how to make the most of it and how to access resources.

8:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Safety for All

Shelley Scalzo Brown, Bergelectric

Safety is at the heart of employee-focused organizations. From achieving compliance with regulations and standards to more advanced methods that include human behavior and performance. Injury and fatality rates have historically declined in the US for decades, but with sweeping changes in our workforce, our approach to keeping employees and the public safe needs an equally significant disruption. This session will explore how our traditional approach to safety falls short, what is working in the area of DE&I and safety, and possibilities for a more equitable and safer future in Construction.

9:15 AM – 9:45 AM

Networking Break & Visit with Exhibitors

Sponsored By:

HCSS

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

State of Play at the Regulatory Agencies: Federal OSHA Update

Stephen B. Boyd, Deputy Regional Administrator, OSHA Region 6, Department of Labor

What does your future to-do list look like? This far-ranging session will provide you with a picture of the regulatory landscape. Find out recent developments you may have missed as well as what is ahead at the federal level.

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Networking Break

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11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Breakout Sessions

Work-at-Height Fundamentals

Charley Rankin, Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians (SPRAT)

Join us to learn how an intuitive approach to fall protection informs training, competence verification, retention, and regulatory compliance.

Injury Response for the Specialty Contractor 

Jeff Montgomery, IWR North America

The steps and procedures for responding when an employee has an injury can vary greatly depending on project location, medical services available, the expectations of the client, insurance requirements, and severity. In this session, we will look into the most common considerations for delivering appropriate care to the injured worker, while navigating the best possible outcome for other considerations including OSHA recordability, workers’ compensation requirements and impacts, and client expectations.

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Networking Luncheon + AGC CSPY/CSCY Awards Ceremony

Construction professionals with excellent leadership skills are critical to the efforts of construction firms across the country to achieve their goals of injury free jobsites. To highlight the successes of these professionals, and to honor their commitment and dedication to ensuring the men and women in the construction industry are afforded a safe and healthy work environment, AGC and Milwaukee Tool have partnered to present the Construction Safety Professional of the Year and Construction Safety Champion of the Year awards.

These awards are presented to a safety and health professional and front-line supervisor/field personnel who has led his or her company to achieving an exceptionally high degree of safety excellence. These individuals have demonstrated technical expertise in the field of safety and health, contributed to the advancement of safety and health with innovative ideas, and shown leadership in establishing, maintaining, and implementing programs at the jobsite and among their direct reports.

Join us to celebrate the recipients of the 2023 CSPY & CSCY Awards!

For more information about these awards, visit agc.org/cspy-cscy.

Sponsored By:

Milwaukee

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Precursors for Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIF)

Mike Dickerson, American Contractors Insurance Group

Precursors are factors that contribute to a higher probability for Serious Injury & Fatality (SIF) exposures/events, if allowed to continue. Precursors are identifiable before a SIF occurs – however many of those contributors to exposures and events are underlying conditions that are “below the water” that must be uncovered.

SIFs live in everyday work activities that employees and management have become accustomed to. When a SIF-risk activity such as work at height, work around mobile/heavy equipment, or work with energy sources is combined with an unmanageable number of risk factors such as fatigue, lack of oversight, inadequate training, and schedule pressure – employees are “set up to screw up”, controls break down, and they inevitably make costly errors that could have been prevented or planned for.

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM

Networking Break & Visit With Exhibitors

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2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Subcommittee Breakout Sessions

Department of Defense Subcommittee

The Department of Defense (DoD) Subcommittee maintains a working relationship with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) and U.S. Air Force (USAF) as it pertains to Construction Occupational Safety and Health issues. The DoD Subcommittee provides DoD entities with a partnership that can be used as a sounding board and one that represents the AGC DoD Contractor members. Services include, but are not limited to, reviewing safety and health proposed regulations, forms, policies and programs that affect the AGC Membership. The DoD Subcommittee also provides subcommittee members with continuing education related to construction occupational safety and health on DoD construction projects. Interpretations, variances, and accident trends are all considered topics of discussion.

Chair: Kevin Moorhead, Safety Director, The Korte Company
Vice Chair: T.J. Emma, Director of Operations, Frost & Keeling
Vice Chair: Tim Stout, Corporate Safety Director, Caddell Construction

Utility Infrastructure and Highway & Transportation Joint Subcommittee

Utility Infrastructure Subcommittee

The Utility Infrastructure Subcommittee actively monitors industry trends and promotes safety and support to contractors engaged in utility construction, including water and wastewater facilities and pipelines, energy generation and transmission, and telecommunications infrastructure. The subcommittee also focuses on safety issues in other underground utility work as well as specialty work such as excavation, tunneling, boring and site preparation.

Chair: Kathy Freeman, Executive Vice President, Safety, MCG Civil
Vice Chair: Kevin Turner, Senior Vice President, Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. (IEA)

Highway & Transportation Subcommittee

The Highway and Transportation Subcommittee actively monitors and promotes work zone safety and safety concerns for contractors involved in building, maintaining, and improving transportation infrastructure.

Chair: Doug Donegan, Group Safety Director, Granite
Vice Chair: Jaime Castillo, Corporate Safety Director at Mountain States Constructors Inc

Open Forum: Peer Review and Discussion (Day 1)

The Open Forum sessions provide an opportunity for open discussion on current issues, trends and practices.

Chair: Tim Kuykendall, Corporate Safety Director, The Beck Group

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM

Networking Break

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Subcommittee Breakout Sessions (continued)

Department of Defense Subcommittee

The Department of Defense (DoD) Subcommittee maintains a working relationship with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) and U.S. Air Force (USAF) as it pertains to Construction Occupational Safety and Health issues. The DoD Subcommittee provides DoD entities with a partnership that can be used as a sounding board and one that represents the AGC DoD Contractor members. Services include, but are not limited to, reviewing safety and health proposed regulations, forms, policies and programs that affect the AGC Membership. The DoD Subcommittee also provides subcommittee members with continuing education related to construction occupational safety and health on DoD construction projects. Interpretations, variances, and accident trends are all considered topics of discussion.

Chair: Kevin Moorhead, Safety Director, The Korte Company
Vice Chair: T.J. Emma, Director of Operations, Frost & Keeling
Vice Chair: Tim Stout, Corporate Safety Director, Caddell Construction

Utility Infrastructure and Highway & Transportation Joint Subcommittee

Utility Infrastructure Subcommittee

The Utility Infrastructure Subcommittee actively monitors industry trends and promotes safety and support to contractors engaged in utility construction, including water and wastewater facilities and pipelines, energy generation and transmission, and telecommunications infrastructure. The subcommittee also focuses on safety issues in other underground utility work as well as specialty work such as excavation, tunneling, boring and site preparation.

Chair: Kathy Freeman, Executive Vice President, Safety, MCG Civil
Vice Chair: Kevin Turner, Senior Vice President, Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. (IEA)

Highway & Transportation Subcommittee

The Highway and Transportation Subcommittee actively monitors and promotes work zone safety and safety concerns for contractors involved in building, maintaining, and improving transportation infrastructure.

Chair: Doug Donegan, Group Safety Director, Granite
Vice Chair: Jaime Castillo, Corporate Safety Director at Mountain States Constructors Inc

Open Forum: Peer Review and Discussion (Day 1)

The Open Forum sessions provide an opportunity for open discussion on current issues, trends and practices.

Chair: Tim Kuykendall, Corporate Safety Director, The Beck Group

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Welcome Reception

Sponsored By:

Milwaukee

Thursday, January 19, 2023

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration Open

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Breakfast

Sponsored By:

United Rentals

8:00 AM – 9:15 AM

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Contractors’ Safety Programs

Kevin Moorhead, The Korte Company
Daniel Snyder, Safety Mentor, LLC
Howard A. Mavity, Fisher & Phillips LLP
Regina McMichael, The Learning Factory, Inc. (Moderator)

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) construction standards and regulations often set the minimum requirements for protecting workers. Contractors, on their journeys to establish world class safety and health programs, create policies and implement best practices that exceed OSHA’s minimum requirements. However, these above-and-beyond policies and best practices can create additional compliance obligations and legal liability for contractors. Compounding the issue is the rising popularity of third-party services, used by clients and owners, to prequalify contractors with respect to their safety and health programs and performance. This regularly results in voluminous safety and health programs that are separate from a contractor’s standard safety and health program, and which are rarely implemented. This session will discuss the legal ramifications of creating such complex programs, research that supports creating and enforcing programs specific to your line of work, and the real-world experience of adopting this approach.

9:15 AM – 9:45 AM

Networking Break & Visit With Exhibitors

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9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

Better Together: Creating Connectivity in a Divided World

Justin Ganschow, Caterpillar Inc.

Humans have evolved to be connected to others who share a common purpose.  Together we can achieve more than any of us can accomplish alone. But being together isn’t always easy. How we interact and work as leaders and employees, members of cross-functional teams, and collections of departments in an organization impacts our ability to create safer and more efficient work cultures. The pandemic changed the way we interacted, lead and managed business, which made it more difficult to connect. And as physical separation increased the division in society between groups with different beliefs, parallels could be found in the workplace.

In this session, you will learn how individual perceptions about the world form beliefs that influence connectedness or separation from others.  Closely held, but rarely examined beliefs bolstered by bias can lead to social or departmental tribalism within an organization. Techniques for rethinking these personal intuitions like a scientist will be explained along with methods to skillfully navigate relationships with those from other tribes with intellectual curiosity and a desire to come to the best mutual outcome. With this knowledge, you will better understand yourself and be equipped to establish psychological safety in your organization, building stronger connections and solving business challenges. This thought-provoking session provides actionable takeaways to help you to work and live better together.

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Networking Break

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11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Breakout Sessions

Health Risks on Construction Sites

Sylvia Fontes, Forensic Analytical Consulting Services (FACS)

This presentation will provide an overall theme of recognizing the hazards related to site contaminants, silica, and noise along with the information needed to anticipate and control those hazards, thereby protecting the health of the workers and reducing risk to the company.

Contaminated Soil:  Construction is often conducted on sites where soil contaminants have been identified. This section will focus on what to do when contamination has been identified, the requirements to protect employee health as well as development of a site-specific health and safety plan, and personal exposure and perimeter monitoring to determine the efficacy of site controls.

Silica:  Crystalline silica is a common mineral found in construction materials such as sand, stone, concrete, brick, and mortar. This section will review the OSHA silica standard and what has been learned in practice beyond the letter of the law. Issues covered include the limits of standard controls in the regulation, challenges with developing and applying negative exposure assessments across multiple projects, the effectiveness of different control strategies, and how to avoid compliance pitfalls. The goal is to emerge with the knowledge and tools to protect the long-term health of on-site personnel.

Noise Hazards:  Construction equipment often generates hazardous noise levels. The basics of noise control will be reviewed, in addition to information regarding choice of hearing protection, how to calculate the effectiveness of the protective devices, and how to properly use them.

Building the Bridge: Attracting, Promoting and Supporting Women in the Construction Industry

Tricia Kagerer, Jordan Foster Construction
Grace Herrera, MindForge LLC
Michelle Gray, DPR Construction
John Tindall, Mayroad

The construction industry continues to face the risk of attracting and retaining talent. The lack of manpower has created the risk of higher prices, missed business opportunities, exposure to subcontractor default, and safety issues. Women continue to gravitate to lower paying care giving roles such as teaching and healthcare. By creating a targeted effort to build a bridge in the construction industry for women to enter the construction field at all levels, we eliminate the limited work force risk and simultaneously create future career paths for women.

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Lunch & Learn: AGC Regulatory, Legislative & Economic Update

Jim Young, AGC of America
Macrina Wilkins, AGC of America

The ever-changing political landscape has implications on labor and employment matters. In addition, the industry continues to be amid a period of exceptionally volatile and sometimes fast-rising costs for a variety of materials, compounded by major supply-chain disruptions. Grab your lunch and learn more about how these issues will impact the construction industry and what other challenges we can anticipate going forward.

Sponsored By:

Medcor

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Unreasonable Expectations ‐ Building, Developing and Managing an Effective Safety Team

Galen Cooter, AECOM
Devon Molitor, AECOM

One of the most difficult parts of safety leadership is building, developing, and managing effective teams. Many leaders struggle with turnover, burnout, and poaching of their teams on top of trying to keep their organizations safe. We will evaluate how leaders build their teams, as modern safety professionals need to be diverse both personally and professionally to succeed.

We will show how leaders can set expectations not only to “get the job done” but to stretch the team to excel beyond the status quo. By teaching you how to push your team to grow both personally and professionally, fighting against stagnation and complacency; this session helps you become a leader who can empower their team and be a champion for everything that they do.

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM

Networking Break & Visit With Exhibitors

Sponsored By:

2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Subcommittee Breakout Sessions

Government Subcommittee

The Government Subcommittee reviews and keeps abreast of the latest regulatory and legislative activity on both the national and local levels. Although there is a specific emphasis on national/federal activities, through member and chapter safety professionals’ involvement, state/local issues will also be discussed. The Government Subcommittee also encompasses the Silica and Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Task Forces which meet to discuss issues respective to each area/topic. 

Chair: Jim Goss, Safety Consultant, HCSS
Vice Chair: John Isham, Senior Director, Safety and Health, UECI
Vice Chair: Adam Stone, Director of HS&E, IEA Constructors

Emerging Safety Professionals Subcommittee

The Emerging Safety Professionals Subcommittee promotes professional development with the primary focus on developing and implementing a mentoring program for new safety and health professionals.

Chair: Matt Clarke, Safety Manager, TDIndustries

Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Forum

The Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Forum provides a safe space where construction industry stakeholders can gather to share success stories, challenges, and seek/share resources and best practices.

Co-Chair: Mandi Kime, Safety Director, AGC of Washington
Co-Chair: Brandon Anderson, VP of Safety, AGC of Missouri

Open Forum: Peer Review and Discussion (Day 2)

The Open Forum sessions provide an opportunity for open discussion on current issues, trends and practices.

Chair: Tim Kuykendall, Corporate Safety Director, The Beck Group

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM

Networking Break

Sponsored By:

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Subcommittee Breakout Sessions (continued)

Government Subcommittee

The Government Subcommittee reviews and keeps abreast of the latest regulatory and legislative activity on both the national and local levels. Although there is a specific emphasis on national/federal activities, through member and chapter safety professionals’ involvement, state/local issues will also be discussed. The Government Subcommittee also encompasses the Silica and Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Task Forces which meet to discuss issues respective to each area/topic. 

Chair: Jim Goss, Safety Consultant, HCSS
Vice Chair: John Isham, Senior Director, Safety and Health, UECI
Vice Chair: Adam Stone, Director of HS&E, IEA Constructors

Emerging Safety Professionals Subcommittee

The Emerging Safety Professionals Subcommittee promotes professional development with the primary focus on developing and implementing a mentoring program for new safety and health professionals.

Chair: Matt Clarke, Safety Manager, TDIndustries

Open Forum: Peer Review and Discussion (Day 2)

The Open Forum sessions provide an opportunity for open discussion on current issues, trends and practices.

Chair: Tim Kuykendall, Corporate Safety Director, The Beck Group

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM

First-Time Attendee Debrief

AGC of America takes the personal and professional development of our attendees seriously. We want to hear about your experiences over the last two days – what worked for you and what didn’t? Please join us for this informal gathering moderated by members of the safety and health steering committees, the group that curates the lineup of educational and networking opportunities available to you at the conference.

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Beer & Wine Social

Sponsored By:

Hammertech

Friday, January 20, 2023

7:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Registration Open

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Breakfast

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8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

The Safety Climate – Safety Management Information System

Linda M. Goldenhar, CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training
Bob Kunz, Dimeo Construction Company

While companies can inform employees about what is expected and rewarded in terms of safety, employee perceptions of the consistency between what they are told and what happens on the job site (i.e., safety climate) may tell a very different story. Companies that proactively take steps to understand this discrepancy are better equipped to develop strategies designed to reduce adverse safety and health outcomes. Unfortunately, many smaller companies don’t have the personnel or financial resources to hire an outside firm to measure job site safety climate or to create safety management policies and procedures to improve identified issues.

To help address this need, CPWR recently developed the web-based Safety Climate-Safety Management Information System (SC-SMIS) that any company can easily use – at no cost – to measure eight leading indicators of safety climate, download evidence-based resources to strengthen them, and develop action plans to help implement selected resources. Since January 1, 2022, over 360 companies have created an account and the safety management resources have been downloaded more than 20,000 times.

In this session, participants will learn how companies of any size can use the SC-SMIS features to engage in continuous safety climate and safety management improvement.

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Networking Break & Visit with Exhibitors

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9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Building a Relentless and Resilient Safety Culture – Life Lessons from the Front Lines

Mike Jackson, PDM Constructors/Durapods
Jeffrey A. Spatz, Graham Company

Values determine outcomes. And life isn’t for the faint-hearted. It’s for the relentless and the resilient. And this needs to describe you and your culture. Want a ground level account of what a resilient and relentless culture looks like?

Mike and Jeff will relate their no-holds-barred journey through the struggles and challenges of building a relentless and resilient culture in a competitive, commercial construction environment. Their discussion will include how construction of The Pavilion, Penn Medicine’s new 1.5-million square foot hospital changed their trajectory and set them firmly on the path of the culture-beats-compliance mindset. They will describe how culture and smart risk management are inextricably linked.

They will discuss the lessons learned and provide attendees with the steps necessary to build a relentless and resilient culture, those that will bring success to construction projects and transform stakeholder cultures.

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Networking Break

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10:45 AM – 11:45 AM

Safety Through the Lens of Technology

Rob McKinney, AGC Georgia

Safety management on construction projects has evolved in parallel with the evolution of software and mobile technology. The traditional workflows of documenting safety meetings, inspections and accident reports continue to move from paper-based forms to real-time, cloud data that enhances accountability and reporting.

In this session, Rob McKinney brings his years of experience managing safety programs and implementing mobile technology on construction projects to discuss how companies can migrate their paper-based safety management over to mobile apps.

Rob will explore the difference between compliance-based versus performance based-safety programs, the management of safety through data, and how technology can reduce risk on construction project sites.

Learn about the best practices leading contractors utilize in their safety management programs on the jobsite through mobile devices and how you can draft a plan to fit your company’s objectives.

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Open Forum Discussion & Meeting Wrap-Up

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