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I. Alliance Background
Overview.

Signed one-year renewal on 11/9/06. Provide PCIAA members, as well as small business community with information, guidance, and access to training resources that will address machine, electrical, and fall hazards, and safety and health management systems for small business.

Implementation Team Members

Barbara Bray, Region 3, OSHA; Keith Lessner, PCI; John Bohn, Guard Insurance Group; Charles Badeau, Peerless Insurance; Scott Patterson, Liberty Mutual; John Orr, Erie Insurance; John Hoffman, Hortica Insurance; Jack Aspen, PMA Group; Zachary Bruce, Hortica Insurance; Bob Carroll, CAS, Pittsburgh OSHA Office.

Evaluation Period

11/9/06 – 11/9/07

Implementation Team Meetings

Conference calls on 5/24/07, 6/29/07 and 8/8/07 to organize 9/13 Small Business Seminar: Safety at Work: Risk Management Techniques for Small Business.

II. Events and Products

Training and Education
  • Safety at Work: Risk Management Techniques for Small Business, Four Points Sheraton, Mars, Pennsylvania, Sept. 13, 2007.

    Presenters: Charles McCreary, Senior Loss Control Consultant, Erie Insurance Group; Jack Maddigan, Regional Manager, PMA Insurance Company; Pat Walsh, Managing Consultant II, Peerless Insurance Company; Laura Sechler, Loss Control Representative II, Hortica Insurance; Frank Librich, Assistant Area Director, Pittsburgh OSHA Area Office; Barbara Bray, Technical Information Specialist, OSHA Region 3 Regional Office.
     
  • Products

    PowerPoint: Safety at Work: Risk Management for Small Business
III. Results
 
Type of Activity (Conference, Training, Print and Electronic Distribution, etc.) Number of Individuals Reached or Trained
½ Day Seminar based on Safety at Work PowerPoint; PCI published seminar training books for attendees; OSHA distributed Quick Start CDs, Small Business Handbooks and other OSHA publications 50
TOTAL 50

PCIAA and OSHA Region 3 are renewing alliance for 2 years to continue small business occupational safety and health seminars.