Member Appreciation Day is an event CPOW offers annually at no cost to members. Its main goals are education and connection. Typically, we spend most of the day learning from a special and notable guest speaker and trainer while getting to know each other and having fun.
2023 MAD: July 20th
This year’s event will be held in the Monument area. We will begin the day at the Benet Hill Monastery and Sanctuary of Peace with a presentation and walk-through of their unique and interesting wastewater systems. After that, we will head over the Community Center at the Woodmoor Improvement Association for lunch together and two educations sessions. Both sessions will be led by John Thomas, former executive director of WOSSA, the Washington On-Site Sewage Association. John will be teaching two sessions: one on confined space entry and the second on warehousing and forklift safety.
The forklift safety session will be a ”classroom” session on the warehousing, and will participants will earn a certification. As part of the takeaway, there will be a “checklist” for participants to take back for their employer to use to certify them “in house” for the practical portion that allows you to be equipment specific in your role.
Link to registration is below.
Agenda
8:00am to 11:00am
Presentation/walk through of systems at Benet Hill Monastery and Sanctuary of Peace led by Roger Shafer
11:30am to 12:00pm
Lunch (provided)
12:00 to 2:00pm
Confined Space Entry presented by John Thomas (description below)
2:00 to 5:00pm
Warehousing & Forklift Safety presented by John Thomas (description below)
A happy hour at a local brewery will follow and will wrap up the day.
*This event is worth 8 CEU Hours towards any current NAWT Certificate.
Session Descriptions
Confined Space Entry
As an onsite Service Tech or Pumper, when was the last time you went into a septic tank to repair a tank or replace a component or bigger projects like digesters? If you’re an Installer and do sewer utility work in new or live systems, utility vaults or lift stations there are hazards with confined space entry that aren’t simply limited to sewer gasses and the air you’re breathing down there. In this presentation we’ll identify the most common hazards you’re exposed to and maybe some you haven’t thought of. We’ll explain how the rules that govern entry into Confined Spaces are a good guide on how to get the work done and how to do it safely without adding cost or time to your job.
Warehouse Safety and Forklift Certification
Think about the last time you were in a Home Depot or Costco. These folks do a good job of “in-store” warehousing, while protecting their workers and hundreds of people that are wandering up and down the aisles after they open. With heavy stacks of materials on pallets 15 or 20 feet above them, deciding what kind of equipment they use, keeping clutter out of the aisles, clear access to exits and fire extinguishers are things people don’t even think about when their shopping.
In our industry, warehousing is a little different. We have stuff stored inside our shops, in containers out in the yard and stacked up on flat beds or in 40’ vans along with any variety of “used equipment”, metal, old tires and stuff we just haven’t gotten around to dealing with. In this discussion, we’ll look at how we can better manage these inventories, the hazards, running around with forklifts in the yard in the snow, mud, rain and summer along with the OSHA rules for Warehousing that apply to our industry and some case studies of how we do it now and some ideas to how we can improve with basic issues of “housekeeping” to manage some of the risk. As part of this program, we will offer forklift certification and an “in-house” operator checklist for you to use to certify your workers that operate the equipment you have.
Registration is free and can be done by completing the online registration form online.