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The Central Valley Chemical Safety Day is planned and organized by representatives of the following

companies and agencies:

Air Treatment Corporation Alon Bakersfield American Inc.

APCCO Bolthouse Farms

California Controlled Atmosphere California Dairies

Constellation Brands Dole Packaged Foods

E&J Gallo Winery Grimmway Farms

Kagome Kern County Environmental Health

Leprino Foods Mechanic Refrigeration

Nestle - Dreyers PSIG Inc.

Ratto Bros., Inc. Risk Management Professionals

Stan Tech Engineering The Wine Group

Tulare County Environmental Health

If you are interested in volunteering or participating as a sponsor or exhibitor; please contact our offices at the lo-cations found within this brochure! We welcome the in-

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Rabobank Convention Center

1001 Truxtun Ave.

Bakersfield, CA 93301

February 23, 2017

Central Valley Chemical Safety Day

SCHEDULE RABOBANK CONVENTION CENTER

1001 TRUXTUN AVE.

BAKERSFIELD, CA 93301

Registration Form DEADLINE February 17, 2017

Fill out and fax copy to: Registrar, (916) 647-9761 OR register online at www.cvcsd.org.

For more information call 559-676-9789. Use additional sheet to add more attendees,

PLEASE provide breakout session (s) from the panels at the left.

Workshops - You are welcome to attend more than one workshop; for

planning purposes please indicate your preferences.

Free Admission for Registered Attendees (Includes continental breakfast & complete lunch at no charge to attendees.)

Company: _______________________________________________________________

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City:_____________________________________Zip:___________________________

Phone:_________________________________Fax:_____________________________

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Miles to Bakersfield:

Fresno - 112 miles

Los Angeles - 110 miles

Modesto - 205 miles

San Francisco - 284 miles

DIRECTIONS Traveling North on I-5, keep Left to take CA-99 North towards

Bakersfield/Fresno. Take California Avenue exit, head East.

Turn Left onto Chester Avenue, turn Right onto Truxtun Avenue.

Traveling South on Highway 99, Exit Golden State Avenue,

Turn Right onto Chester Avenue, and turn Left onto Truxtun Avenue.

Thursday, February 23, 2017

MORNING SESSIONS

7:00 - 7:50 Check In - Continental Breakfast

7:50 - 8:00 Welcome and Overview Lori Dedmon - Event Co-Chair,

Kagome & Luis Berrocales - Event Co-Chair, Mechanic Refriger-

ation

8:00 - 8:50 Health & Physiology of Hazardous Chemicals -

Peter Thomas, Resource Compliance What happens

when ammonia, chlorine and other common chemicals come into

contact with the human body. How to prevent exposure and treat

when necessary.

8:50 - 9:40 Explosive Awareness - Sheldon Fung, FBI - Chemicals

and why it’s important to keep your facility secure and ensure they

don’t fall into the wrong hands and end up becoming explosives.

9:40 - 10:10 Break - Visit the vendor and raffle tables and enjoy

coffee and other refreshments.

Main Auditorium

10:10 - 10:55 EPA Updates - Bill Jones, EPA - EPA’s proposed changes to

RMP and Emergency Response Program and how it will affect

your facility.

11:00 - 11:45 Proposed Refinery Emergency Preparedness & Response Reg-

ulations, A future Best Practices for Everyone - Paul Penn,

Cal EPA - Safety Updates - This session will cover the current

status of activities and initiatives of the California Interagency

Refinery Task Force including safety and prevention regulations.

Workshop A Focus on Management

10:10 - 10:55 DHS - CFATS - Paul Fields, Department of Homeland

Security - Chemical security is a shared responsibility amongst

government and private stakeholders. Learn more about chemical

security regulations and the resources available to help keep your

chemicals secure.

11:00 - 11:45 Seismic Assessment - Sam Swan, P. E. - Ear thquake Risk and

levels of shaking intensity. Discussion of threat to facilities,

common failure points during an event and possible mitigation

options.

Workshop B Focus on Operators - Classroom

10:10 - 10:55 Ammonia Refrigeration Lubrication - Rick Chabot, Isel Inc. -

Facts and myths about the many interactions between different

kinds of lubrication and the active chemicals in a refrigeration

process.

11:00 - 11:45 Vibration Analysis - Kevin Koster, APCCO - This process is

used to determine where a given piece of equipment is in its

lifespan and how long before it will need maintenance or replace-

ment. Keeping it Simple

Workshop C Focus on Operators - Hand’s On

10:10 -11:45

& 12:45 -1:30

Various “hands-on” activities will take place building upon previ-

ous lessons offered during our safety days. Oil draining, valve

servicing and adjustment, replacement of pressure relief valves,

electrical circuit building along with some new hands-on modules

that have been developed since the last event.

Workshop D Focus on Spanish Speaking Operators

10:10 - 10:55 Preventing Accidents - Rick Casas, PSIG & Lucy Valdovinos,

Ratto Bros. - System Operations & Maintenance, Routine In-

spections & Worker Protection.

11:00 - 11:45 Prevencion de Accidentes - Rick Casas, PSIG & Lucy Val-

dovinos, Ratto Bros. - Sistemas de Operacion y Manten-

imoiento, Inspecciones de Rutinay Proteccion del Trabajador

11:45 - 12:40 Lunch - Catered by Hodel’s

12:45 - 1:30 Active Shooter Training -Patrick Hayes, Vallum Consulting

Group, LLC - Active shooter situations are often over within 10

to 15 minutes, before law enforcement arrives on the scene, indi-

viduals must be prepared both mentally and physically to deal

with an active shooter situation.

1:30 - 2:00 Break - Visit the vendor and raffle tables

Final Presentation in the Main Auditorium

2:05 - 3:30 A recap of the live ammonia release training and demonstration

that took place on Wednesday will be presented. Key roles in the

incident response will be described and discussed, to allow at-

tendees to better understand the relationship between industry,

fire and regulatory response when an incident takes place.

3:35 FINAL RAFFLE and Grand Prize - Certificates will

be handed out in exchange for evaluation forms as you

exit the venue at the front of the building.

AFTERNOON SESSIONS