Thursday, November 19

Know Your Numbers

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Resiliency – Managing Stress to Strengthen Home and Work Relationships

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Lieutenant Raymond N. Foxwell
The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission,
Park Police, Prince George’s County Division,Greenbelt, Maryland

The world and the work place are slowly becoming more and more dangerous, with students bringing guns to school and shooting fellow students, co-workers reporting to work and shooting fellow workers and supervisors, strangers entering churches and shooting members of the congregation. Lock down procedures may be able to help prevent some of these types of events from occurring, and knowing what to do may save your life as well as the life of others. Knowing what to do and not to do when the police arrive may help to neutralize the immediate threat and provide emergency medical services in a timely manner.

Understanding the Cost of Workers Injuries and How to Control Accidents

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Joseph Gillian, Director of Loss Control and Risk Manager
Injured Worker’s Insurance Fund, Towson, Maryland

In this session participants will engage in a discussion that reviews the workplace injuries with the highest frequency and cost of accidents. Participants will also review the methods that can be utilized to prevent, control and manage injuries.

Health and Fitness

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Rhonda Ulmer, Community Health Advocate
Priority Partners / John Hopkins Health Care
Glen Burnie, Maryland

This presentation will provide information on the differences between colds, flu, and pneumonia and the latest update on the H1N1 Virus (Swine Flu). Information will also be presented on preventing these common health problems.

Playground Maintenance: Providing Safer Environments for Play!

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Tom Norquist, Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing
& Product Development, GameTime, Fort Payne, Alabama

For a playground to thrive, good maintenance is essential. This presentation will highlight how to maximize your agency’s playground maintenance efforts by properly identifying and correcting potentially hazardous conditions on the playground. This interactive session will help you define your maintenance plan as a key to protecting your investment, managing risk, improving children’s play experiences, promoting community values, and controlling expenses. Group activities allow participants to identify procedures for correcting hazardous conditions and to develop inspections protocols and procedures for a sustainable playground maintenance program.

An Ounce of Prevention: Mentoring Youth to Make Safe Life Choices

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Kimberly A. Booker, Founder-Executive Director
ALB Child Safety Foundation
Ft. Washington, Maryland

This session will serve to define “New Millennium Mentoring”. It will inform attendees of the significance of mentoring youth along with its demonstrative ability to foster positive behaviors and safety-focused lifestyles in today’s youth. Discussion will focus on youth mentoring as a conduit to advance our communities, reduce preventable deaths and injury in children, change negative behaviors and improve the quality of life for younger generations; and will also cover new congressional safety legislation designed to protect children at school, home or in the community.

Bridging the New Generation Gap: Impacts on Park Safety & Management

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Loretta Marino Sanford, Principal Consultant
7 Generations, Inc., Pepperell, Massachusetts

Nathan Harker, Training Specialist
7 Generations, Inc., Pepperell, Massachusetts

For the first times in history, today’s work force contains four different generations. Communication between generations is at the largest generation gap since the 1960s. From the World War II Generation (70s) to Generation Y (20s), our day to day interactions and work mentality can lead to frustration and unnecessary rifts in the workplace. These challenges can often cause significant gaps in communicating instructions, safety, priorities, and customer service standards. If you recently said “Why don’t they take initiative” or “Why don’t they just relax?” then you might find some answers here. This workshop offers a genuine look at understanding behaviors and identifying techniques for effectively managing multiple generations. Our presenters, who have trained hundreds of park and recreation
professionals, offer their experiences and insights to this ever-increasing challenge.

Trenching Safety

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Edward Hobbs, Lecturer/Program Coordinator

Steve Maceiko, Lecturer/Program Coordinator
Lecturer/Program Coordinator, University of Maryland
Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, College Park, Maryland

This workshop is designed to address the continuing threat of trench collapses. It is important that contractors and public workers fully understand the dangers and the required procedures to ensure safety at the ever changing worksites. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about causes for trench collapses, protective systems, soil classifications and other safety and health issues.

Internet and Mobile Device Safety

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Joseph Queen, Division Chief
The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, Information Technology and Communications
Division, Riverdale, Maryland

This interactive presentation will focus on a brief history of the internet, tips for protecting children online, ways to avoid identity theft and everyday tools that you can utilize to make your overall internet experience safe and secure.