Conferences

Joseph A. Holmes Association National Meeting

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Mine safety professionals are meeting this week in Virginia Beach for the annual Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association National Meeting and Training Seminar.  After greetings from secretary Patrick Hurley, president Judy Tate, and others presentations were made by Dave Weaver on the MSHA Rules to Live By initiative and by Mary Sue Taylor on the new materials to soon be available on the Rights and Responsibilities of Miners. Check out what’s already on MSHA’s site here.  I’ll put a permanent link on the Compliance Tab (above) on my MSHA EZ Compliance list.

Tomorrow there is an impressive slate of topics scheduled.

2008 TRAM My Workshop and Eduwhere

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The winning team design their noise barrier in my Hearing Conservation Challenge workshop where I shared a hands-on activity to motivate workers to protect their hearing. In spite of the various technical issues at the start we had a good time.

John gets a much needed break from exhibiting at the Eduwhere booth after shaking hands with the Governor of West Virginia. There were more exhibitors than ever this year. Eduwhere provides the MSHA on-line training that I wrote, plus many other subjects on hazardous materials, osha, and more.

2008 TRAM at the Mine Safety Academy

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Greetings from the Mine Safety Academy. I arrived here yesterdayand settled in. I’ll try to post a report on what’s going on. I just returned from the breakfast at the cafeteria and registration hasn’t yet opened. I’ll check in later to get a schedule and see what slots I got for my presentation on Wednesday and Thursday. At 11 I have to attend a session on the new smartboards that have been placed in all the rooms. I’ll post more later.