PDC 901: Advancing Focus for Four Health Through Multiemployer OEHS Communications – NEW!

Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Convention Center 

CM Credit Hours: 3.5 

*Please note: PDCs are at an additional cost, and preregistration is required*
To register, please visit: https://aihaconnect.org/register

Activate multiemployer occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) communications to advance the "Focus Four for Health". This course explores risk communication strategies and actions, multiemployer workplace obligations, and the management of exposure to common hazards in construction environments—including manual material handling, noise, air contaminants and high temperatures.

Controlling health hazards in multiemployer workplaces requires strategic communication that goes beyond contractor qualification and compliance checkboxes. Attendees will gain tools and takeaways for integrating the "Focus Four for Health" into daily OEHS management.

Interactive activities will merge available guidance and best practices for managing major construction health hazards with next-level communications that promote partnerships. Participants will conduct rapid hazard identification by compiling precursors, risk factors and subtle indicators of illness and injury.

The course includes a review of organizational contractor safety management programs to identify opportunities for advancing the "Focus Four for Health" within contractual obligations. Attendees will also develop a communications tool to put ideas into action—incorporating stakeholder identification, feedback loops, effectiveness measures and continuous improvement processes that adapt to changing workplace conditions and emerging health challenges.

*Please note: Only participants registering for two (2) half-day PDCs on the same day will receive a box lunch. **Please note: power strips will not be provided at each attendee's seat; however, charging stations for laptops will be provided in each course room.

• Focus Four for Health in Construction
• Communication for Leadership and Ownership
• Risk Communication
o Strategies for the Focus Four
o Actions for the Focus Four
• Complexities and Opportunities – Multi-Employer Workplaces
o Contract terms and conditions
o Means and methods
o Compliance obligations for the Focus Four
o Partnership and commitment to the Focus Four
• Activity 1: Rapid hazard identification
o Three pictures: What can we see? What can't we see? What could be going right? What could go wrong?
• Activity 1: Debrief
• Activity 2: Review your organization's contractor safety management and multi-employer workplace program
o Guided checklist on Focus Four hazards and discussion
• Activity 2: Debrief
• "Next level" contractor partnerships – examples and stories
• Activity 3: Communications tool development
o Select from: multi-stakeholder Plan-Do-Check-Act, conversation planner, mind map
• Activity 3: Debrief and effectiveness check
• Connecting communication for leadership and ownership to risk communication on the Focus Four for Health in day-to-day operations
o Questions for reflection, Q&A, stories from the field
• Resource sharing and recommendations – from presenters and peer to peer
 

Upon completion, the participant will be able to:

• Cite and share guidance for OEHS professionals and trade groups on "Focus Four for Health" hazards across multiemployer worksites.
• Implement the communication tool developed during the activity session to support management, control and monitoring of "Focus Four for Health" hazards.
• Recommend strategies for incorporating "Focus Four for Health" focal points into contractor safety management and multiemployer workplace programs.
• Distinguish between leadership and ownership communication on "Focus Four for Health" hazards and hazard-specific messaging within the initiative.
 

Attendees will receive a completed review of their organization's contractor safety management program, a PDF copy of AIHA's "Focus Four for Health" guidance document, and reference materials on risk communication. 

Attendees will be able to distinguish between communication for leadership and ownership on "Focus Four for Health" hazards and risk communication that supports the case for interventions to reduce or eliminate adverse exposures. 

Laptop or Tablet/iPad

Intermediate

Hazard Communication

IH/OH Program Management

Risk Communication

Aerosol and airborne particulate monitoring

Exposure Assessment

Hearing conservation and noise reduction

Risk assessment and management

Thermal stress protection and monitoring

In-person

Practitioner

Group activities

Hands-on demonstrations and practicum

Practical Application

Problem Solving /Practice Exercises

Small Group Discussion