Event Details

HR and Safey Tract at Southern Oregon Safety Conference

Please join the Rogue Valley SHRM Chapter and the Southern Oregon Chapter of ASSE for our first joint Safety Seminar featuring a full HR Tract on the second day of the safety conference, following SHRM’s morning session: Employee Involvement in Safety.  Joint workshops include: Fitness for Duty and Oregon Injured Workers Rights & Responsibilities.  Full day seminar includes lunch. If you are going to register and attend this full day seminar, that will include morning class. If you plan to only attend the morning class (SHRM's normally planned workshop), that will end at 10:00am.

Date:                           Thursday, October 16, 2014

Workshop Time:           8:00am to 4:45pm

Meeting Location:        Smullin Health Education Center    2825 E. Barnett Road     Medford, OR 97501

HRCI Credit:                 5.25 HR(General) Total HRCI Credits. You'll recive two certificates. The first will be 1.5 HR (General) HRCI credits for first class of the day-- Employee Involvement and the second 3.75 HR (General) HRCI Credits for HR Tract classes. To receive your HRCI Program Completion Credit Certificate for the HR Tract, please send your registration confromation from OR-OSHA to thaakinson@sierrapine.com. You'll receive your certificate via email.

To Register:                 http://www.cbs.state.or.us/osha/conferences/OSHA_conference/sthrn_or_occ_sfty_hl.html

Cost:                           $90.00 Full Day /Including Lunch

Presentation Agenda:  

10:00am- 11:30am      Fitness For Duty –An Occupational Health approach to establishing a worker’s capacity to safely perform their essential job functions                                                                   Presenters: Dr. Timothy Wilson, M.D. and Jared Hill, MOT, OTR/L, CEES

Does perception always match reality? How often do we feel that we are capable of more than we can physically demonstrate? Does our perception of our own capabilities far outweigh what we think and can do? For employers and safety experts, this can result in finding, hiring, and employing the right person for the job or may result in a loss of productivity, an accident or even a death on the job. This session will introduce and outline the fundamentals of Fit For Duty Evaluation. Whether it be medical or functional limitations, at times safety experts and HR professionals must be able to identify an employee’s capacity to work. Be it for pre-employment evaluation, return to work evaluation, or to identify if a current employee is capable of preforming the essential functions of the job in their current capacity. This session will review how to utilize medical and functional capacity services offered though occupational health clinics to help employers and safety experts make critical decisions concerning the worker’s success and abilities in the workplace and match perception to reality. Come join us in this enlightening discussion.

11:30am – 1:30pm BREAK (Lunch/exhibits and award ceremony)

1:30pm – 3:00pm    Oregon Injured Worker Rights & Responsibilities                                                  Presenters:  Mary Hoskins, MA, CPM, Stan Potocki, MA, CRC, CDMS, Jackie Malzan, Senior Claims Adjuster-SAIF, Lyndell Smothers, MBA, SPHR, GPHR , Jennifer Flood, Oregon Ombudsman

Oregon’s workers’ compensation system is the “exclusive remedy” for workers hurt on the job. For employers, workers and others who encounter the system, it can be complex and confusing. What’s a compensable claim? What are the benefits for injured workers? What can workers expect from their employers and insurers? What must workers and employers do to comply with the law? How does workers’ compensation intersect with employment law, OFLA/FMLA and ADA? What happens when workers are unable to return to their jobs, either temporarily or permanently? All these critical workers compensation questions will be answered in detail by a panel of talented HR, Safety and Workers Compensation specialists. Please join us for an informative and lively employee/employer centric workshop.

3:00pm – 3:15pm BREAK

3:15pm – 4:45pm    Oregon Injured Worker Rights & Responsibilities- Part II                                   Presenters:  Mary Hoskins, MA, CPM, Stan Potocki, MA, CRC, CDMS, Jackie Malzan, Senior Claims Adjuster-SAIF, Lyndell Smothers, MBA, SPHR, GPHR,  Jennifer Flood, Oregon Ombudsman

Part II: Oregon’s workers’ compensation system is the “exclusive remedy” for workers hurt on the job. For employers, workers and others who encounter the system, it can be complex and confusing. What’s a compensable claim? What are the benefits for injured workers? What can workers expect from their employers and insurers? What must workers and employers do to comply with the law? How does workers’ compensation intersect with employment law, OFLA/FMLA and ADA? What happens when workers are unable to return to their jobs, either temporarily or permanently? All these critical workers compensation questions will be answered in detail by a panel of talented HR, Safety and Workers Compensation specialists. Please join us for an informative and lively employee/employer centric workshop.