FY24 Board Meeting #8

Join us for the monthly board meeting of the Arizona Chapter of ASSP. The purpose of this meeting is for chapter board members and committee members to provide updates about their activities for the chapter and discuss other chapter business. This meeting is open to any and all members of the chapter.

Your registration approval email will include a Zoom link to attend the virtual meeting. Please check your spam filters if you do not receive the registration approval email within a couple of minutes. You can always contact webmaster@az.assp.org if you have any issues.

FY24 April Technical Meeting

Speaker: Dr. Shawn Stasko

Topic: Heat Stress Prevention: The Next Generation

Abstract: We will review current and upcoming OSHA regulations and ANSI standards for heat stress prevention, emphasizing how heat stress and dehydration impacts employee performance. There will be Q&A for attendees to share heat stress issues and concerns from their specific applications.

Dr. Stasko is a hydration subject matter expert for ANSI and sits on the A10.50 definitions committee helping to write the new heat stress standard. He will be discussing the recently released ANSI 10.50-2024 Heat Stress Management in Construction and Demolition Operations. 

Lessons to be learned:

  1. Attendees will learn how to recognize signs and symptoms of heat stress in the workplace
  2. Attendees will learn best practices on how to prevent and treat heat stress
  3. Attendees will be given tools to identify specific heat applications and how to categorize them into work zones

Bio: Dr. Shawn Stasko is an expert in human physiology and heat stress prevention in the workplace. As a founder of Sword Performance, Shawn serves as their Chief Scientific Officer to lead R&D and creates custom heat stress prevention plans for clients and their initiatives. Dr. Stasko is a hydration subject matter expert for ANSI and sits on the A10.50 definitions committee helping to write the new heat stress standard.

FY24 Board Meeting #9

Join us for the monthly board meeting of the Arizona Chapter of ASSP. The purpose of this meeting is for chapter board members and committee members to provide updates about their activities for the chapter and discuss other chapter business. This meeting is open to any and all members of the chapter.

Your registration approval email will include a Zoom link to attend the virtual meeting. Please check your spam filters if you do not receive the registration approval email within a couple of minutes. You can always contact webmaster@az.assp.org if you have any issues.

FY24 May Technical Meeting

Course Description:

The presentation focuses on the application of code requirements in the International Fire Code (IFC) and International Building Code (IBC) pertaining to hazardous material storage and use. The presentation will include the chemical classification process to ensure appropriate requirements are enforced. The IFC and IBC hazard classifications will be compared to the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) classifications. The IFC and IBC Maximum Allowable Quantities (MAQ) will also be discussed along with requirements when the MAQ is exceeded.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Break down the code requirements enforced in the IBC versus the IFC.
  2. Differentiate between IBC/IFC hazard classifications and GHS/DOT.
  3. Develop a systematic approach to the hazard classification process.
  4. Determine code impacts as a result of quantities being stored or used.
  5. Identify Group H occupancy classification requirements and explain conditions that exempt a building from Group H requirements.

Bio: Joe Chacon wears many hats in the world of fire protection. In addition to being a professional fire protection engineer (FPE), he is also a firefighter, HazMat technician for the city of Henderson, NV, and inventor of the TheHazMatApp. As a fire protection engineer, Joe provides building/fire code consulting services, plan review, hazardous materials consulting, hazard analysis and risk assessments, and design and testing of fire protection and life safety systems. As far as his firefighting duties are concerned, Joe has experience conducting pre-plans, school drills, and hazard evaluations.

Joe, in his capacity as a HazMat technician, includes responding to spills or potential releases of hazardous substances. Joe’s expertise in the hazmat arena is renowned, resulting in his teaching building and fire code courses at the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals 2022 National Conference and the 18th Annual Fire Protection & Life Safety Forum. Joe has drawn on his extensive expertise in the hazardous materials arena to create TheHazMatApp, which helps users ensure their storage, use, and handling of hazardous materials, including flammable liquids and combustible dusts, meets all required code standards.

A registered professional fire protection engineer in seven states, Joe is a principal member of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1620 — Standard on Pre-Incident Planning and serves as an alternate on NFPA 420 — Standard on Fire Protection of Cannabis Growing and Processing Facilities. He has a master’s degree in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

FY24 Board Meeting #10

Join us for the monthly board meeting of the Arizona Chapter of ASSP. The purpose of this meeting is for chapter board members and committee members to provide updates about their activities for the chapter and discuss other chapter business. This meeting is open to any and all members of the chapter.

Your registration approval email will include a Zoom link to attend the virtual meeting. Please check your spam filters if you do not receive the registration approval email within a couple of minutes. You can always contact webmaster@az.assp.org if you have any issues.

FY24 June Technical Meeting

This month’s topic is: The Power of Perspective: The Root of Where Organizational Culture Alignment Happens

In this thought-provoking discussion, Brian Owens, VP of Safety & Team Development for Buesing Corporation, will explore the undeniable connection between employees’ humanity and their contributions to the workplace culture. Using a simple yet powerful culture alignment approach, Brian will reveal that the path towards improved safety performance is not achieved through attempts to control employee behavior, but by effectively changing behavioral patterns using the power of perspective.

Bio: Brian Owens’ career in occupational safety & health and corporate learning has spanned more than 16 years, encompassing many industries, including open pit copper mining, industrial construction, aluminum extrusion, oil & gas, pipeline, and heavy civil construction. Additionally, Brian spent 4 years managing the risk control department for a large insurance broker, specializing in captive insurance risk control consultation.

Brian has a B.S. in Occupational Safety & Health, and conceptualized the Perspective-Based learning strategy, as well as the Inversion risk management principles detailed in his book Inversion and the Perspective-Based Safety Culture. Brian now resides in Phoenix, AZ with his family. He enjoys playing the guitar and has published a fiction novel.