Machine guarding is not just for factories. Guarding is an issue in construction, services, kitchens and even in your home. In this session we will discuss why it’s important, basics of machine guarding and how to hone your skills to identify issues and correct them.
Objectives:
- Review the general concepts of machine guarding
- Understand why machine guarding is important to all companies
- Identify resources to recognize and obtain assistance with machine guarding concerns
Dianne Grote Adams is a Board-Certified Industrial Hygienist, Board-Certified Safety Professional and Certified Professional Environmental Auditor in Health and Safety with more than 40 years of experience.
Dianne has comprehensive environmental, safety and industrial hygiene experience. She has conducted audits, trained management and HSE professionals, coached HSE staff and mentored other women business owners. Her recent audit experience includes manufacturers and distribution centers.
During her career, Dianne has conducted or supervised hundreds of industrial hygiene and indoor air quality surveys, written and reviewed compliance programs, and developed and presented hundreds of employee and management training courses, webinars and workshops. Dianne has presented monthly HSE webinars for the Ohio Manufacturer’s Association for the past five years and Safex monthly webinars for the past four years. She has represented ‘industry’ during Ohio Administrative Code reviews, at the request of the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation (BWC). She has spoken at the BWC All Ohio Safety Congress on multiple occasions, as well as at the Capital Area Safety Council and the Greater Columbus Safety Council. She has also been a key instructor for the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s (AIHA) Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene and Beyond Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene since 1999 and is an adjunct for “Introduction to ESH’ and “Toxicology and Industrial Hygiene” at Otterbein University.
Since 1992, Dianne has been the President of Safex. Prior to Safex, Dianne worked with Abbott/Ross Laboratories, ChemLawn Services Corporation, the Ohio OSHA Consultation Program and was an adjunct professor at Columbus State Community College from 2008- 2010.
Dianne received a BA in Life Science from Otterbein University and a MS in Environmental Health/Occupational Safety from the University of Cincinnati.
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