Safety Excellence Workshop

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Safety Excellence at Milliken & Company is a half-day workshop and plant tour that illustrates, through numerous real-world Milliken examples, the fundamental beliefs and strategies behind a successful world-class safety operation.

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Safety Excellence at Milliken & Company Half-Day Workshop

Participants in the workshop will learn how:

• To create a bottom-up approach that facilitates associate empowerment, ownership and engagement.
• Leadership and team development play an integral role in the safety journey and in creating a culture.
• To obtain leadership commitment and how safety should be the core value of the organizations.

In addition this workshop will teach you:

• How to create, train and educate sub-committees based on your particular environment and needs.
• How to avoid reaching a safety plateau and how to keep driving continuous improvement.

Plant Tour of Milliken’s New Holland Plant

Gain an insider’s view of Milliken’s Lean processes when you tour this 110-year-old plant in Gainsville, GA. During the tour, you will discover that while this 750,000 square foot plant operates a highly diversified product platform on five floor levels, it does so safely and efficiently. New Holland has realized a loss on yield of less than 2.6 percent and inventory turns have increased 23 percent in the past 12 months. Raw material days are down 25 percent to just 3 days. Discover how Milliken’s Performance System allows New Holland and all Milliken plants to operate lean with safety as the foundation. New Holland has operated more than 1,239 days without a recordable incident. You will see firsthand that New Holland’s safety and Lean processes are made possible through its 220 highly engaged associates, eight safety committees and five Lean teams.

Agenda:

7:00am-8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:00am Opening Remarks
8:15am- 11:30am Safety Excellence Workshop at Omni CNN Center
11:45am Participants load into motor coaches at the Omni CNN Center
12:00pm Depart for Milliken & Company New Holland Plant in Gainesville, GA
1:00pm Arrive at plant
1:15pm-1:45pm Overview of facility and break into smaller tour groups
1:45pm-3:45pm Tour Milliken & Company New Holland Plant
3:45pm-4:15pm Q&A Session
4:30pm Depart plant
5:30pm Arrive at Omni CNN Center

Cost:
$249.00 per person Special Registration Offer (valid through March 11, 2011)
$299.00 per person Regular Rate
$199.00 per person for Groups of 5 or more


CLICK HERE to register for this workshop

For questions on the Milliken & Company Safety Excellence Workshop please contact Erika Bailey at (216) 931-9512 or erika.bailey@penton.com

Hotel Accommodations:

EHS Today has arranged a discounted rate at the Omni CNN Center for Safety Excellence Workshop attendees requiring overnight accommodations.

Special Rate: $149.00 per night
**This reservation rate is valid through 5:00pm on March 4, 2011.

Reservations can be made online or by phone

To make hotel reservations by phone, please call:
1-800-THE-OMNI (1-800-843-6664)

Please reference the following group code to receive the discounted rate:
EHS Today Safety Excellence Workshop

To make reservations online CLICK HERE or visit:
http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AtlantaCNNCenter/MeetingFacilities/IWBestPlants4.aspx

For additional hotel details, please visit:
www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AtlantaCNNCenter.aspx

Omni CNN Center
100 CNN Center
Atlanta, GA 30303

Speakers:

Craig Long Vice President, Milliken Performance Solutions
Milliken & Company

Craig Long
Vice President, Milliken Performance Solutions
Milliken & Company

Craig has been with Milliken & Company for more than 36 years. Craig led two study missions to Japan which resulted in Milliken receiving the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. His career has included leadership positions in Industrial Engineering, Product Development, Business Management, Corporate Education, and Recruiting. Craig has served on Milliken’s Policy Committee and served as a Corporate Officer for the past 13 years and has been a member, and past chair, of the U.S. Quality Council of the Conference Board.


Phil McIntyre, MBA
Director of Business Development, Milliken Performance Solutions 
Milliken & Company

Phil McIntyre, MBA
Director of Business Development, Milliken Performance Solutions
Milliken & Company

Phil’s career with Milliken & Company spans 22 years and started with a co-op position while he attended Clemson University and earned his Industrial Engineering degree. Phil has served the company as Market Manager for a number of the company’s consumer products. Phil directed several Milliken divisions’ efforts in process improvement and cost improvement.


Chris Glover
Director and Practitioner, Milliken Performance Solutions
Milliken & Company

Chris Glover
Director and Practitioner, Milliken Performance Solutions
Milliken & Company

Chris has more than 25 years of manufacturing experience at Milliken. A Georgia Institute of Technology Chemical Engineering graduate, Chris has led Lean enterprise facilitation, project management and leadership development and is an expert at design, development and delivery of training which supports the Milliken Performance System. Chris has served many roles—from Production Manager and Process Improvement Leader to Quality Assurance Leader and Plant Leader.


PRECLUSION STATEMENT: EHS Today may be required to preclude attendees from taking part in the Milliken & Company plant tour. This step will be taken solely by EHS Today at the request of our host plant based upon the proprietary nature of information that is to be presented. The host plant's decisions are final and will be communicated to attendees in advance. Some participants on the tour may be asked to complete a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA).

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