Closing Out Wellness Month

As we close out Wellness Month, we wanted to provide our members a list of free resources to them improve the health & wellness of their employees!

Wellness Month Podcasts:

Wellness Resources:

  • Engaging Your Workforce in Wellness: Engaging Your Workforce in Wellness is a 24-page toolkit promoting the benefits of employee health & wellness programs and providing employers with evidence-based strategies. 
  • Healthy Workers are Safer Workers Campaign: This campaign was created to help employers reduce workplace injuries by promoting worker health & wellness!The campaign page contains links to free campaign tools and relevant workplace wellness resources to help your company promote & improve worker health!
  • Workplace Wellness Podcast Library: The Portage County Safety Council has teamed up with other organizations to create several workplace wellness related podcasts. These podcasts are great resources of information and are perfect for company newsletters, team meeting icebreakers or toolbox talks! All of these podcast episodes are available not only through our website but also through your favorite podcast app such as iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Podbean, & Stitcher
  • Health Talks: We teamed up with University Hospitals Portage Medical Center to create several podcast Health Talks to help employers promote worker health! These talks are straight to the point and are only 3-5 minutes – perfect to get health & wellness info on the go! Again, all of these podcast episodes are available not only through our website but also through your favorite podcast app such as iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Podbean, & Stitcher!

FEB 12, 2020 – NE Ohio Trenching and Confined Space Safety Conference

This event is not a PCSC event but may qualify for up to 1 safety council eternal training credit.*

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You and your employees are cordially invited to attend this important and lifesaving training. This is a joint project between The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Youngstown Service Office and the American Society of Safety Professionals – Northern Ohio Chapter

This high impact training will be led by experts in the excavation, trenching and confined space professions.

  • 8:00 am- Introductions
  • 8:10 am – Howland Fire Department – Incident Command
  • 9:00 am – Brian Hitt: Hitt Consulting – Permit Confined Space and Rescue
  • 10:00 am – Dana “Buck” Buchholzer: SCT – Trench Soil Characteristics
  • 11:00 am – Adam Fries: Cleveland OSHA – Trenching Requirements
  • 12:00 pm – Lunch and Networking
  • 1:00 pm – Drew Williams and Anna Bell: Great Lakes Construction- Confined Space in Regards to Excavations
  • 2:00 pm – Travis Bower: Kundel Industries – The Kundel Difference
  • 3:00 pm – Chuck Green: OHIO811 – Trench Safety
  • 3:30 pm – John Nouse: Ericson – Confined space and explosion proof products
  • 4:00 pm – Conclusion

When: Wednesday February 12, 2020:  8:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.

Where: Avalon Inn and Resort 9519 East Market Street, Warren, Ohio 44484

Cost: $35.00 which includes breakfast and lunch

To Register On-Line Visit: https://nohio.assp.org/events/safety-conference-i-2020/

Questions:

*Must be ultimately accepted & approved by the Ohio BWC.