About the Seminar

Gain the Knowledge, Skills and Tools You Need to Effectively Manage Your Team and Projects

As the wind industry evolves, so have the responsibilities of the environmental, health and safety (EHS) professional. From reducing incidents and preventing accidents to ensuring environmental compliance, EHS managers are facing new demands and challenges in an uncertain regulatory and standards environment.

Join us for the AWEA Wind Environmental Health & Safety Seminar to deepen your understanding of the issues facing occupational environmental, health and safety professionals in the wind industry and how others are solving issues to some of the industry's most important challenges. Attend and learn directly from industry experts, interact with other EHS professionals and suppliers, and develop valuable new relationships to help support current and future projects. Come share your experiences and lessons learned with your peers as you discuss current EHS trends in the wind industry; building and improving safety behavior and culture on your work site; emerging issues and safety best practices; and wind energy and the human factor — work smarter not harder.

NEW this year! – Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS)

You are probably familiar with the saying "What gets measured, gets managed." As EHS professionals are asked to collect, analyze, and report data on everything from material safety data sheets (MSDS), to audit results and incident tracking, you need a way to capture and view all these metrics.

Learn what an EMIS is, how it can help you manage and analyze your data to make decisions, and how to start your search for a software provider. Then sign up for user-led software demonstrations.

Attend this Seminar and Learn:

Tools, tips, and strategies for managing your environmental strategy
New and emerging issues in industrial hygiene, ergonomics, electrical safety, and confined spaces
Apply behavioral safety principles to reduce injuries at your site
Employ Lean and Six Sigma concepts to enhance safety, productivity and culture
Results from the wind industry's first incident reporting and safety data survey
Safety best practices – lockout/tagout, confined spaces, managing your safety program, site logistics/security
Creating a culture of safety in the wind industry

New program, more networking, greater opportunities:

New program, more networking, greater opportunities:
Peer-led Educational Programming
Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Over 7 Hours Devoted to Networking!
Interactive session with OSHA representatives
Connect with your peers, meet new people and share your experiences

Who Should Attend?

Safety Professionals
Risk Managers
Engineers
Corporate Executives
Directors
Operators
Human Resource Professionals
Wind Technicians
Project Managers
Managers
Construction Managers
Federal, State or Local Government Officials
Educator and Trainers

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Registration

Registration is now closed. However, you may register on-site at the hotel on Monday, January 9 at 7:30am.

Click here to download a PDF list of companies who's attending the 2012 seminar!

Registration Prices

Registration Type	Early Bird Discount by December 9	Regular by January 6	Onsite After January 6
AWEA Business Member	$495	$550	$600
AWEA Advocate	$595	$650	$700
Non-Member	$595	$650	$700
Government Agency	$300	$350	$400
Full-Time Student or Faculty	$225	$275	$325
Non-Profit*	$225	$275	$325
Seminar Speaker or Moderator	$150	$150	$150

Special Offer! Register for the AWEA Wind Health & Safety Seminar and receive a discount code for 25% off the registration fee for the co-located AWEA Wind Operations, Maintenance & Reliability Seminar taking place January 10 – 11 at the same hotel. (This offer is good for any registrant paying the member or non-member registration fee; government, academic, non-profit, and presenter registrants are not eligible for this discount. The discount code is provided in your registration confirmation email.)

* Non-Profit registrations require pre-approval by AWEA. See below for a description of the type of organizations that meet our non-profit pricing requirement and email conference@awea.org for details.

For registration questions or general event inquiries, contact conference@awea.org or

(202) 383-2512.

If you are unsure of your AWEA membership status, contact membership@awea.org or

(202) 383-2556.

If you are interesting in exhibiting, contact exhibition@awea.org or (202) 383-2514.

Special Attendee Types

Government Agency: A full-time employee of a U.S. or international government agency (federal, state, local or tribal). Government-supported universities or colleges, government contractors, and government consultants do not qualify. Economic development organizations should register under the Government category.

Full-Time Student or Faculty: To qualify for the Student/Faculty registration rate you must be a current full-time student or faculty member at an educational institution. You must bring your institution ID to registration to verify your status.

Speaker: Registration for confirmed speakers and moderators in the seminar (limit 1 per presentation). Speaker/Moderator status will be verified.

Non-Profit Wind Power / Clean Energy Advocacy Groups: Discounted registrations are available to certain non-profit wind power / clean energy organizations that receive pre-approval by AWEA. This category is intended for specific wind power / clean energy advocacy groups as well as qualified environmental or energy related non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Energy Foundation or World Wildlife Fund among others. All 501c3 organizations will not necessarily qualify for the non-profit registration rate. Economic development organizations do not qualify for the non-profit registration rate and instead should register under the government registration category. Email conference@awea.org with your full contact information and a brief description of your non-profit organization including a link to your organization website to request non-profit approval.

Media / Press: Complimentary press registrations are available to those that meet AWEA's media accreditation guidelines. To request a complimentary press pass contact presspass@awea.org.

Registration Policies

Seminar registration includes: a networking reception, continental breakfasts, lunches, access to the speaker presentations, plus invaluable education from experts in the wind energy community and critical networking opportunities.

Confirmation & Changes: Registration confirmations are emailed automatically upon registering on-line or upon manual entry of registrations sent via mail or fax. If you have changes to your registration including contact information, purchasing additional items to your registration such as a pre-conference seminar that is available to specific events, or if you need to provide a substitution for your registration, email conference@awea.org no later than Friday, January 6, 2012. After this date, any changes or substitutions will need to be made on-site at the event.

Cancellation Policy: All cancellations and requests for refunds must be submitted to AWEA in writing via email to conference@awea.org or fax to (202) 293-2567. Refunds may not be processed until after the completion of the seminar. All refund requests received by January 3, 2012 will be processed less a $100 administrative fee. There will be no refunds made for cancellations after January 3 or for no-shows and registration fees may not be transferred to a different AWEA event. However substitutions are permitted for no charge. Email information on substitutions to conference@awea.org. Any refunds to credit card payments may only be credited back to the original credit card and cannot be refunded to a different card.

Other: AWEA reserves the right to eject any registrant from the event without any prior notice or refund if while at the event your behavior is deemed disruptive, offensive, dangerous, and illegal or if you are found to be distributing unauthorized material.

This event is proceeding as planned unless the event organizer, the venue, and/or local or national authorities deem it to be unsafe to do so at which time we will update this website with more information.