Packaging Digest

Date: 10/14/2008 - 10/15/2008

Location: Greenville, SC

Risk assessment is now required by the ANSI/PMMI B155.1 standard in addition to the requirement for CE certification. PMMI has responded to this requirement by offering hands-on risk assessment training seminars throughout the year.

Program Objective
These sessions have been designed to educate attendees on how to conduct a risk assessment and identify the competitive advantage. The training provides two days of hands-on traning on how to perform a risk assessment on machinery using PackSafe software. Attendees will learn how to use the risk assessment process to identify and evaulate hazards and evaluate and reduce the risk associated with the hazard. Attendees are encouraged to bring some of their own examples to be assessed. The goal is to have the attendee leave with a completed risk assessment and understand how safety relates to productivity.

Part of the second day of training is dedicated to understanding how risk assessment is deployed in an organization in a manner that results in gaining a competitive advantage. How a company deploys risk assessment determines if the risk assessment process is an added cost or added value. The deployment methods used by other PMMI members, along with their challenges and successes are alsoy reviewed.

Who Should Attend?
The program is open to equipment suppliers and end users. Suppliers who have responsibility for conformance to the ANSI/PMMI B155.1-2006 standard include: the manufacturer, manufacturer's agent, representative or distributor and resellers, installers, modifiers, rebuilders or integrators of packaging machinery. When the end user performs these functions they are considered to be a supplier. Attendees may include engineering managers and engineers and personnel responsible for health and safety and management safety responsible for CE compliance, product safety and productivity.

Instructors
On-site seminar instructors will be Bruce Main, President, design safety engineering, inc. and Fred Hayes, Director of Technical Services, PMMI.

Attendees will be required to bring a laptop computer and have administrative rights to install the PackSafe program or have PackSafe installed prior to arriving at the training session.

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