3M Personal Safety at ASSE Safety 2016

David Stein is a certified industrial hygienist with 33 years of experience in the health and safety profession.  He is currently a Technical Service Specialist with 3M’s Personal Safety Products Division.  His focus is on supporting the development and use of technologies to enhance the health and safety work environment.  Dave’s previous experience includes providing field services in the hazardous waste industry, general manufacturing facilities and electronics assembly operations.  He has also worked as an OSHA compliance officer and in corporate governance.  Dave holds a B.A. degree in biology from Southwest Baptist University and a Masters in industrial hygiene from Central Missouri State University. 

Don Garvey, CIH, CSP is the construction industrial hygienist with the 3M Personal Safety Division in St. Paul, MN. Prior to 3M, he was the construction industrial hygienist for The St. Paul Companies working with ENR 400 contractors nationwide.  He is a founding member and past chair of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Construction Committee and is a Fellow of the Association.  He has published several articles in ASSE’s Professional Safety Journal on construction safety and health issues and is the author of the industrial hygiene chapter in the ASSE’s recently published Construction Safety Management and Engineering 2nd Ed.

Don will be presenting Monday, 27 June at 1:00PM, session 534: Fire and Ice – Heat Strain and Cold Stress in the Work Environment.  The presentation is sponsored by Grainger and the ASSE Construction Practice Specialty.

Don will also be on site attending the following Committee meetings:

The Construction Practice Specialty (CPS) focuses on all aspects of construction safety and is intended to provide industry-specific information and focused networking opportunities to ASSE members. Some popular topics include jobsite safety, LEED, crane safety, communicating to a diverse workforce and contractor relations

The Oil & Gas Practice Specialty (OGPS) addresses topics such as oil and gas drilling, gathering, fracking, production, operations, processing, refining, equipment, storage, transportation and distribution, upstream, downstream and offshore operations.

Simple, connected components are designed to get your Active Safety program up and running quickly. Using 3M™ Active Safety, you can now identify trends and spot risks. Reduce paperwork. Be audit ready. Help keep people healthy and safe.

We are dedicated to improving the future of the workforce through innovative technology and human centered design. Our company believes that the workers who perform physical tasks for their jobs deserve to have performance gear that will protect their bodies from the strains that they may endure during their career.

The first full-body safety harness designed and tested with data-driven, third party research featuring a first-of-its kind LIFTech™ Load Distribution System takes the weight off workers’ shoulders resulting in a harness that is more comfortable and is cooler and lighter to wear.

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Easily connects to your current safety harness, providing a fast, effective method of escape from suspension while putting fewer rescuers at risk. Features a patent-pending WZ-Link™ d-ring to simplify connection, a secondary rescue ring for assisted rescue, and a sealed, padded package to protect the descent device from damage during use.

Offers greater control of the weld puddle with a view that appears lighter, brighter, and more realistic, as well as fast switching between welding and grinding with the touch of a button, and quick access to one of your two preset welding modes.

Features removable temples, soft nose bridge, optional elastic strap, and more! Now with Scotchgard anti-fog coatings, helping to increase eyewear performance in wet and steamy environments.

Can provide a simple, visual tool that can help users determine when to change their cartridges and provide confidence in protection. It’s designed to indicate service life based on individual exposure and respiratory use patterns, allowing the user to optimize cartridge use for their specific needs.

The 3M™ Versaflo™ TR-600 Series Powered Air Purifying Respirators provide durable protection, even in harsh environments. Designed to e compatible with multiple configurations of head tops, breathing tubes, batteries, filters, cartridges and more. With a user-friendly design with intuitive, colored interactive touch points and visual, vibratory and audible low-flow and low-battery indicators.

Get results you can trust. The E-A-Rfit Dual-Ear Validation System measures the effectiveness of the hearing protection from inside the employee’s ear, providing accurate, quantitative results. And because you can simultaneously test both ears, you’ll have more time to educate employees on the importance of fit and compliance.

Conveniently provide hearing protection where employees need it. The 3M™ Pro Earplug Dispenser dispenses one earplug at a time with a simple twist. No more expense and waste of individually wrapped plugs. Made from ABS plastic with a powder-coated steel-back plate, it’s designed for challenging environments – indoors and outdoors.