
| 7:30 am | Registration |
Amber Duke |
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| 8:30 am | Welcome & Introduction |
Kip Landwehr EHS Manager Winfield Solutions, LLC |
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| 8:40 am | Keynote Speaker |
William Nelson President Cenex Harvest States Foundation |
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| 9:10 am | Current Insights from the Hill | |||
Nurse Tank Inspections |
Pam Guffain Vice President of Member Services The Fertilizer Institute |
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NPDES Permits |
Allan Noe Vice President of Development CropLife America |
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Spray Drift Employee Free Choice Act |
Richard Gupton Vice President of Legislative Policy Agricultural Retailers Association |
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| 10:15 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am | Spotlight: OSHA's Top 25 |
Brian Bothast Team Leader, Peoria Office Illinois OSHA |
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| 11:10 am | Pesticide Application & the Clean
Water Act: Is a Permit Needed? |
Gary Baise Principal Attorney Olsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman, Bode, Matz PC Law Firm |
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch (Provided) | |||
| 1:00 pm | Securing the Load |
Fred Whitford, PhD Coordinator, Purdue Pesticide Programs Purdue University |
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| 1:45 pm | Raising the Bar... Employee Background Checks |
Dave Furey Technical Operations Manager Validex |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm | Future of Ammonia on Rail |
Pat Brady Assistant Director, Hazardous Materials BNSF Railroad Company |
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| 3:45 pm | How to Survive a WPS Audit |
Jerry Kirbach Manager, Permits & Downstate Field Operations Illinois Department of Agriculture |
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| 4:15 pm | Wrap Up | |||
| 7:30 am | Welcome |
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| 7:40 am | Nitrogen Manufacturing:
Out of Thin Air... Almost |
Jim Schellhorn Director, EHS Terra International |
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| 8:15 am | Seed Treatment Safety |
Chip Witcher Staff Industrial Hygienist Syngenta |
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| 8:45 am | Properly Securing Ammonium Nitrate |
Dan Walters Manager, Security & Environmental Risk Terra Industries |
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| 9:15 am | Break | |||
| 9:30 am |
CSB Reports: Large Tank Failures
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Mary Nikityn Chemical Incident Investigator Chemical Safety Board |
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| 10:15 am |
Refillable Container Inspections
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Nancy Fitz Office of Pesticide Programs US Environmental Protection Agency Marty Fitzpatrick Manager, Product Stewardship BASF Agricultural Products Group |
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| 11:45 am | Critique Sheets & Wrap Up | |||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch (Provided) | |||