NEHS conference program in development

An exciting and informative program is being developed for the 2007 National Environmental, Health & Safety (NEHS) Conference for the graphic communications industries. The event will be held at the Omni Jacksonville Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida on March 12-14, 2007.

NEHS ’07 will have 13 breakout sessions and 12 roundtables, which will incorporate environmental, health and safety (EHS) issues. Conference chair, Doreen M. Monteleone, PhD., FTA director of membership & EHS services, commented, ‘Each year, we try to accommodate the requests of the industry and provide the latest information. For the first time, we’ll be incorporating human resources issues which often overlap safety programs. We’re excited about the expanded program, which offers attendees more information than ever before.’

Paul Jakubski, director, environmental & safety for Dow Jones & Company, will be the conference moderator. Dow Jones & Company is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 1889,it is the world’s leading business publication and has a current circulation of nearly 2.1 million. Mr Jakubski’s department is responsible for developing environmental, safety and energy management guidelines, procedures and policies for the company’s 17 Wall Street Journal/Barron’s printing plants and 15 daily/18 weekly Ottaway community newspapers, along with numerous office locations.

Breakout sessions will include postpress ergonomics, how to respond to investigations, avoiding fatalities, EHS & HR issues when buying and selling companies, air permit, issues, impact of international regulations, and little known facts about hazardous communications.

Building on last years success, the number of information-sharing roundtables will be expanded and include discussions about responding to customer certification, safety training tips, privacy issues in the workplace, spill prevention control & countermeasure, community relations, and selling safety initiatives to management.

Additional training sessions will include an introduction to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), calculating volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions and the OSHA ten-hour general industry standards training.

The NEHS Conference is a collaboration of conference partners: Foundation of Flexographic Technical Association (FFTA), Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA), Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) and National Association of Printing Ink manufacturers (NAPIM); along with sponsoring associations, Gravure Association of America (GAA) and Newspaper Association of America (NAA).