The AFS Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Conference returns for its 36th year as the premier event for foundry industry EHS professionals. This year’s conference takes place October 1-3, 2024. Held at the Amway Grand Plaza in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the conference brings together industry leading experts and your peers to discuss the latest developments, innovations, and best practices in foundry EHS.
From foundry case studies to OSHA & EPA updates from Washington D.C. and networking with other professionals, this event will enhance your knowledge, EHS programs, and performance. New and timely conference session topics include: Virtual reality training for foundry employees, a young professionals panel discussion, PPE, melt deck safety, avoiding musculoskeletal injuries, AI applications, sustainability reporting for your environmental compliance data, managing waste streams with a zero landfill mentality, and technology considerations to combat PM2.5 regulations, and more.
Conference highlights include What Top Gun Pilots Know that EHS Professionals Need to Know presented by Timothy “Hoolie” Reynolds. This session covers the significant challenges in achieving safety excellence while balancing other organizational goals – such as efficiency, quality, and profitability. Attendees will explore four tenets that drive elite success and organizational safety: 1) Complexity requires group success. 2) High-performance teams are built on trust. 3) Move from academic to actionable. 4) Adaptive capacity equals mission success.
Mr. Reynolds brings a lifetime of experience in demonstrated leadership, risk management, process improvement, teamwork, and communications. As a Naval Aviator, Hoolie was decorated numerous times for personal valor in combat. He served as the Commanding Officer of a carrier-based squadron through two deployments in support of operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Additionally, he served on a NATO staff in the United Kingdom as well as the Command Center Director for NORAD/USNORTHCOM in Colorado Springs. Hoolie has spent over a decade as a global performance and leadership consultant to high reliability industries.
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The American Foundry Society is a dynamic technical and advocacy organization that serves and represents the $50 billion metalcasting industry. AFS is the only association serving the entire industry, including all metals and processes, with a three-part focus on advocacy, education, and innovation. AFS also publishes Modern Casting and Casting Source magazines and presents Metalcasting Congress and CastExpo, the largest metalcasting trade events in North America. Founded in 1896, the organization is based in Schaumburg, Illinois, with an advocacy office in Washington, D.C. More information is available at afsinc.org.