Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for being here tonight. My name is Mike and failing. I'm a program assistant at the University of Delaware division of Professional and Continuing Studies. And I'd like to welcome you all to the Occupational Safety information session. For this evening. We're going to keep the microphones muted and videos off until we get to the question and answer portion. But we do have the top box open throughout, so feel free to use that at any time. I'll provide a brief overview of UDP EECS and the financial discounts and opportunities. I'll then hand over the presentation to 3D Nichols to provide more information and answer any questions you may have. Here at the University of Delaware division of Professional and Continuing Studies. We offer opportunities for anyone looking to enhance their skills, enrich their lives, or finish a degree program. We offer non-credit certificate courses, as well as other short courses. Our Access Center, we offer credit guidance, career counseling, and student advisement. We also offer a variety of conferences, test prep, and customized training opportunities. And for those of you over 50 or have family members over the age of 50, we offer programs through our Ollie Institute. So this graphic shows an overview of UDP CSAs, community impact. You'll notice that in 20-20 alone, we had over 25 thousand Program enrollments, comprising of credit, non-credit, and Ali courses. After you complete this course, you'll receive applicable knowledge, skills, and abilities, the prestige and recognition of a Safety Council certificate, continuing education units. And you'll be able to network and engage through pgs alumni events. Also upon completion, you are considered a UT graduate, which means you get to take advantage that take advantage of that alumni discount, which is 15% off. So x p CS programs. In light of Coven 19 and the related hardships we've all faced this past year. We have PCF are working to offer a number of discounts, payment plans, and scholarships. We want you to be able to prioritize your professional development in order to get back to where UDP CS is here for you. And we're all in this together. Just for attending tonight's session, you'll receive 10% off your registration if you register within a week of tonight's session. And this only applies to our virtual programs. Other discounts include 15% offer, UD grads, military discount, group discounts, and those membership discounts. Just say, you know, it is only one pre-registration, but we are happy to walk through any of these options are talk about which May 1 be best for you. So before I turn over the presentation, I just like to share my contact information. Again, I'm Meghan. Fail in the program is the stand. If you have any questions, you can contact me, the program manager, or a member of the Safety Council team. But at this point I'll turn over the presentation to 3D nickels. She can tell you more about the program content and answer any questions you may have. Thank you and welcome. Rainy. Thanks, Megan. I appreciated. Mixture. I can share my screen here. Megan, you let me know. You know, with my luck, something will go wrong here. Can you see the presentation? Yes, that looks Guy. Okay. Hello everyone. My name is rainy Nichols and I in the business development executive with the aligned Safety Council, we are partners with Delaware Valley Safety Council. Basically, what I do is I help clients navigate through all the sate your credentials that are out there, all the options that are available to them and help them move up, basically the career ladder. What I'd like to do is talk a little bit about sake you credentials in general and what you can expect when you start looking for the credentials itself. So you might be asking yourself, can certifications really boost your career? According to an article published by Queen, Queen careers, they asked career masters institute suggests the highs fields preserve occasion, those in which a certification can truly be a career boost. And a couple of top ones are HR, real estate, IT, fitness trainers, and safety. So you might ask yourself, why should I obtain a safety credential? Well, here's a couple things. It recognizes commitment and dedication to your profession. Acknowledges national industry standard of skill competency in the fields of safety, health, environmental risk management. It can also help you with promotion in your current job or help you with finding a new job. And also, it can help you to create a safer work environment for you and your coworkers. So what should you look for when you're looking at different credentials here? Couple of things you could ask herself, certification, not all safety programs recertified. What are the requirements or their professional developments are continuing ed required, consistent messaging. If you were a bad dating training throughout the company, you want to make sure that everyone is on the same page and receive the same training across the board. Especially if you're a company that has it's located in a couple different states and you have workers go across state line. So when you send John Snow from Atlanta to Florida, you want to make sure that he has the same training as the people in Florida. Testing credentials are just the tests, no required training in order to get the designation. There are some that have a lot of training but not a test, and then there are some that have training and testing more than a compliance. I have a quote from the Assistant Secretary of Labor. It says, if all the employer is doing is running to the standards to see what they had to do. He does not have a Safety and Health Program, the osha standards or minimum standards. So here's a here's something you want to say. You want to ask yourself, Are all programs are same. Now, of course not. You want to see if there's any prerequisites, some safety programs. What a number of years of experience in the job of safety, a college degree that you had to take one course in order to take the next course. A poll by the National Association of safety professionals found that 93% of workers responsible for workplace safety to not have a college degree and safety. You want to find out if they want general industry, if you need general industry or construction live, you probably heard of OCI 1030 hour. Oh, I took it and construction industry I took in general. You want to find out which industry they that you need to take the program in. Also the length. There are classes that can take anywhere from a 24-hour class to 300 hours. That's usually a two-year college degree and in safety field or something through a Safety Council that you want to look at the costs as well. I've seen programs from $600 or $10 thousand. Whereas a recognized is it locally, regionally, nationally, or globally? It's not going to do you any good if a potential employer hasn't ever heard of the program? And does it offer college credit? Maybe you get credit towards safety degree are something. When you go to Delaware Valley, maybe the university there, you take a course and it gives you credit towards what you're going for. So not all programs do training and testing. This is the difference. So how do you choose which one's right for you? Just say, you know, I heard from the board of certified safety professionals that they are over 300 different safety programs. There's a here right on the screen. Here are a few, the popular, most popular ones I know of. The one with Asterix only have testing. Basically what you're doing is you're studying on your own to go take a test. I could tell you that AS PI and CSP, you had to have a college degree also? Css T it's a 100 hour course. I don't believe we have to have a college degree, CHS TO HST. That's another one that you don't have to take the prep course, you just study for it. Advanced safety certificate hash, that's like a year program. I think the National Safety Council offers that one. Cia. Hi, I'm sorry. Industrial hygienist. Looks like it's because it has an asterisk that looks like that's one of the ones that you just study for the test. And then cos, that's one that I'm going to be talking about next. So what is cos? Certified occupational safety specialists? Maybe you've heard about it, maybe you haven't. So causes a 40 hour classroom-based course that was conceived by safety professionals and is recognized nationwide for its rigorous standards, an outstanding curriculum. The costs exam and safety theory and the application of these principles to safety related knowledge, skills and proficiencies. Cost per promises, hands on in-class, instructor-led curriculum base training costs is one of the only safety programs that covers general and constructions for each member. Before I said, I could tell you were the only ones member force it. Safety programs either go over general or construction industry. We cover both. In cause has established establishes a mandatory course for students for the construction management program at Ellis you it also meets the standards for ISTE, standards established by the American Council for construction education. And one other thing, it's also accepted as three college credit towards your bachelor's degree at Columbia Southern University as well. So one of the things that cost is based on a four, four-step model here. And what is it? So the first step, you see right there it says recognize an identified hazards. Basically, like I said, you're going to recognize what the hazard is. The second one is you can instruct the employees of the hazards through warning signs, through employee meetings. And then the third is, you're going to apply one of the followings. You're going to either gonna eliminate it, just get rid of it, or you're going to have a control measure on how to control the hazard itself. Through doing that, you're going to do it by administration, by creating a policy on how to control the hazard. Engineering. You're going to design aspect to make the equipment safer by changing it. And then also personal protective equipment. What equipment you need to work remedy hazard besides, you know, hardhat and safety, goggles, maybe special gloves you need or whatever it is. So this is, is what is known as a hierarchy and this is what the cost model is based on. So with cos, you learn so much the psychology of safety. So a lot of times what you want to do with, with your, your workers as you want to try and change the mindset of them, the safety behavior. So not only are they being safe and acting safely at work, but also at home as well. You also learn how to You will learn osha requirements, inspection citations, how to read and understand oh, she's federal regulations and much more than that. So another thing is that Most employees don't really know what goes into a cause of an accident. And one of the things we do on costs as we go into the osha website and we'd look up an actual accident or incident. And we look at all the costs of good behind it. You know, if an employee got hurt and there's medical expenses, so that's indirect and direct causes costs that the medical expenses then your workers comp is gonna go up the insurance. If the person's out of work for a while, what are you going to do? You're going to have to get one or two people to cover that. And that causes over time as well that people really, the employees really don't understand that. And then also when we go on the costs, the osha website, you'll learn how much sales it takes a one year just to cover that one incident or accident. So students will also learn how to put together a Safety and Health Program and also learn how to fill out to say as well. So cos offer something for everyone, causes for anyone from 0 to 30 years experience at all levels. So right there you see the aspiring safety professional, someone maybe it's just starting out, work in the back of the house and wants to become a safety director. One day, we had the new safety professionals baby, the boss came up to you and said, hey, guess what? You're going to be the safety coordinator now, you're gonna wear two hats or also you're probably saying 3D. Why would a cease and safety professional want to get a designation? Well, as I said before, it's for anybody from 0 to 30 years experience. And one of the good things about costs is that there's no college degree. So remember I said that 93% of safety workers had never gone to college. Well, I'm one of them. And some people have to work your way through the company. They started to back the house, they became a crew leader, they became a project manager and they became safety director. And they want a designation next to their name. So this is what costs can offer you. So what you get with cos for anyone who takes costs here, some of the things that they receive after completing the course they learn just doesn't stop there. We'll just say, OK, you're done. We kept in touch with the cost students by passing along important industry updates through email, Facebook and LinkedIn. And just give you an example. I'm a cost graduate as well. And I saw once on the cos LinkedIn page that somebody from Texas had went on and said, hey, Cos. grads, does anybody have any information on bicycle safety? I have to run a seminar on this. And then someone from I think it was New Jersey and mature said, yeah, I have that information. So they had a little sidebar. And a lot of discussions happen as well. Cos graduates must recertified every three years through years of experience continue edX courses, safety conferences, conference speaking and other appropriate means. They also get four CPUs and safety and health. So that can help you with othered Greece that you have and safety. And also cost grads often use our staff, our instructors or fellow classmates as a resource. And the need, if the need arises and if future sometimes will have Cos graduates like two or three years later, get ahold of the instructor they took it with. Or the call cost departments say, you know, I remember I learned this in class. Can you help me out with that? And we'll get one of the instructors on the phone with them and talk to you about what is it there? Whatever the trials and tribulations of whatever they need help with. So what you can expect, this is a five-day course. There's going to be studying every day. And there's going to be quizzes every day and what the quizzes you're doing. You're going to get you ready for the final exam, the last day of the course. This is causes and just the instructor talking at you or out of a book. There's a lot of classroom activity, cohesiveness. The instructor gets everybody to share trials and tribulations and things that they're going through and what they're considering further, their own job site. And a lot of discussion happens. And a lot of study groups happened that way. And with that, let's say that you take a quiz one day in. You know, you're struggling a little bit on one of the topics. You can talk to the instructor. And the instructor can maybe make themselves available before, after class or maybe do a video later on or whatever. Because we want you to succeed. Along with the final exam the last day of the course, you had to do a ten minute safety presentation. I had the time when I took cos, I was a on CPR first aid instructor. So I I did a first aid and just put some pictures up there and talked about different kind of scenarios and stuff like that. And luckily I was able to pass, would've been pretty embarrassing working for the cost apartment if I didn't pass. So here's some fun facts for you. Year-to-date costs has over 13 thousand students trained worldwide. Okay. We have approved training providers just like Delaware Valley say to counsels, a prove trading provider, we are partners with them and they run a course for us. We even have to approve training providers outside the United States. And we have people from 48 states and three different countries representing cos. And cos is actually globally recognized. So, you know, we, costs really does make a difference and we get a lot of testimonials, people writing things, we get do videos, people walking around the class, and we put it on the course website as well. But we consist, we constantly received testimonials from students and to see how much courses really helped the company. And one of the One of the one company that reached out to us. It was a student and his company. He wanted to share a story with us. And he said From a, it was this from a contractor. And he told us about how much his company benefited from the cost per gram. In 2018, his company had 15 accidents in the first half of the year. Okay. And just to put this in perspective, their total reportable incident rate was 6.2 to the average industry rate was 3.2. Oh, okay. That was just the first half of the year. That's what's crazy about that. So they took immediate corrective action. One of the things they did was they sent a lot of their workers to cos and say frontline courses. And they recently reported back to us that in 2020, they're recordable even with Kobe, you know, people are still working out there on the job sites. There. Recordable accidents told just to just to remember was 152019 just to in 20-20 producing a total reportable incident rate of less than 1. Remember the industry right was 3.22. So this just goes to show that the company and their employees are committed to providing a safe accident work free place. So make sure my I'm going the right way yet. So in the story I just told you, you've heard me talk about costs and safe frontline is one of the programs along with certified occupational safety management that was built on the request of cos grads. Just to tell you a little bit about the other two programs that seek to counsel. Delaware say to counsel, does offer safe front. Wim is a shorter class. It's like 2.5 days and it's more for the Pru later, the frontline supervisor. He's never really going to become a safety director, but you want to empower the employees around you to recognize the hazards. Make sure that everyone is being safe on the job site. And you want them to be able to recognize that Joe HMO next to them is take a shortcut and put and everybody else's lies at, at risk. So that's what it is, doesn't come with a certificate. But it's a really good program for your front-line people. And then we have certified occupational safety management. And I recently just took this class two months ago. And it's, it's more like a high level managerial class and it doesn't go over like osha regs written like that, like cos. Some of the topics are strategic planning, budgeting, injury management, managing risk and incentive, the discipline programs. And just so you know, cus him has ranked in the top ten list of the top 25 best value occupational safety and health certificates for 2021. What do you think about that? I was very happy to see that today. So one more thing I want to talk to you about with coded. You know, we're not really running a lot of classroom-based courses. I don't think that Delaware Valley make is that correct? You guys are running classroom-based courses that much right now or virtual training, virtual. So what we did in, we started in June of last year because causes. It was just so well-known and so many companies want it for their, their workers. We may cost a virtual class. This is real time. It's not the kind of go at your own pace. It's five straight days. It's usually eight to five Monday through Friday. It's central time. And it's not just you sit and they're falling asleep. Once again, it's very interactive. We have breakout sessions. We still have people talking back and forth and they do compliance moments and things like that collectively. And you still have to take the test at the last day of the class. And you still have ten minutes AT presentation. And I have to tell you that it was so well received that we ran a class every month for the rest of the year and had to add two more classes at the end of the year because it was filling up so quickly. And we offer it every month, once a month. And it fills up very quickly like I think or the January class is already filled up for next week. And then the one for February's probably three quarters of the way. Then we started in September offering cus em certified occupational safety management. The next step, virtually. And that has been received very well. And then we two months after that started CE front might because we want everybody to get trained. People start to be safe, even know Cove it. People are going to the office. We still have workers that have to go to the job site. Work still has to be done and you still have to work to factories, oil or gas, all that stuff. It's still happening. So we still have to everybody trained. And with that, these are the people we contact. If you'd like to contact me directly, you good. Contact Megan Leonard or Jerry and they will give me my information or I can call you. It doesn't matter. But I really appreciate everyone sitting with me and I would love to take any questions if anybody has any. Anyone. I'm gonna stop sharing screen so I could see if there's anything in the chat. Thanks Srini. And even if people don't want to don't have a burning question yet, if they'd like to share maybe what drew them to this info session or what, what they were hoping to gain from it where we're happy to discuss any, any of that with you here this evening. Crickets. Alright, well, and I will, so I appreciate you presenting 3D. I will share the slides that I presented and I will also share some of our program dates as well as pricing. If people have questions about that. I can answer that via email. If, if nobody's comfortable speaking here in this platform, I can reach out via email. But I do appreciate everyone's time tonight. And for being here and for registering, I will reach out via email. And again, we are here. For any questions you may have. Our contact info I will share that. Tomorrow. Will be say thought there we want. Clicker. Thank you. Have a payback.
Occupational Safety Virtual Information Session--1/21
From Meghan Abel January 22, 2021
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