Our popular Winter Webinar Series is back for 2024!  Register today!
(FREE for IPIA members)

WEBINAR #1
​GENERATIONS UNITED: CRAFTING A STRATEGIC ROADMAP FOR FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION

Date/Time: February 13, 2024 at 1:00pm Eastern

Cost: FREE for IPIA Members

Description:
Join us as we explore the essential elements of a robust succession plan, navigating the challenges and opportunities unique to family enterprises. Gain relevant insights into building a lasting legacy that effectively passes the torch across generations, ensuring the sustained success and prosperity of your family-owned business. Included with your attendance is the resource,"Every Family's Business: 12 Questions/Agreements", to jumpstart your succession planning.

Speaker Biography:
Byron has over 25 years of professional and executive leadership experience spanning diverse sectors, including business, education, development, and community-based initiatives. He is a Certified Professional Master Business Coach (PBCA) and a GiANT certified leadership coach and facilitator of several leadership and business effectiveness evaluation tools.
Byron's passion for coaching, advising, and training leaders has taken him across North America, the Middle East, the European Union, and the UK. His "industry agnostic" approach allows him to work across disciplines and cross-pollinate ideas from AI and Information Technology to Asphalt Sealcoating, Food & Beverage to Graphic Design, Hospitality to Manufacturing, and Senior Adult Placement and Healthcare Services to the Trades Industry.

He co-founded and serves as Vice President of Infinite Ping, Inc, an international boutique consultancy based in the USA. Additionally, he coaches business owners and provides workshops and training sessions to corporate groups, start-ups, and small and mid-market businesses. As the Vice President of Diversified Professional Coaching, LLC, Byron helps business owners and executives unlock their full potential by linking them with over 50 certified professional business coaches. 

Byron Skaggs Full Biography

webinar #2
most-cited osha violations and how they relate to the ice industry

Date/Time: February 21, 2024 at 1:00pm Eastern

Cost: FREE for IPIA Members

Description:
Join Brandon Gentry, CSP, SMS, Manager of Field Safety, Reddy Ice, for this informative OSHA session. Brandon will discuss the most cited OSHA violations and a wide range of safety information, including:

• Most Cited OSHA Violations:
  • Fall Protection – General and Training Requirements
  • Hazard Communication
  • Ladders
  • Scaffolding
  • Powered Industrial Trucks
  • Lockout Tagout
  • Respiratory Protection
  • Personal Protective Equipment - Eye and Face Protection
  • Machine Guarding
  • Hearing Protection
• Fall Protection
• Hazard Communication (HAZCOM):
• Ladders
• Scaffolding
• Powered Industrial Trucks
• Lockout Tagout
• Respiratory Protection
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Machine Guarding
• Hearing Protection
• Additional Safety Topics of Concern:
  • Electrical Clearances
  • Confined Space
  • Emergency Response
  • Forklift Traffic & Pedestrian Safety

​Remember - if there is a hazard, you must eliminate or protect from the hazard!

Speaker Biography:
Brandon Gentry is a Certified Safety Professional with a Degree in Occupational Safety and Health and nearly twenty years of experience in the OHS Field. Brandon has been with Reddy Ice for five years and is Reddy Ice’s Manager of Field Safety. In addition to Food Manufacturing, Brandon has been in Safety Management for the Steel, Heavy Manufacturing, Construction, Transportation, and Facility Services Industries.

WEBINAR #3
5S QUALITY: A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE!

Date/Time: March 7, 2024 at 1:00pm Eastern

Cost: FREE for IPIA Members

Description:
Join food safety consultant, Chris Dunn (DunnWorks, LLC) for an informative webinar on 5S Quality. Improving the efficiency of your workplace makes food safety easier and audit scores higher! Over the past seven decades, 5S has shown its value and been embraced as part of every significant quality system in existence today. It is cost-saving, efficiency-building, and quality-focused. It lays out a common-sense approach that provides a baseline from which other quality systems can be built from. The term 5S comes from the five steps of the process, each of which starts with the letter "S" - Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain. 5S benefits include increasing safety and morale, improving product quality, and increasing the life of your plant and equipment.

Speaker Biography: ​Chris Dunn, DunnWorks LLC
​Chris Dunn retired from NSF International, where he managed the global Beverage Quality program offering food safety certifications (NSF, SQF, BRC) as well as laboratory testing, food safety audits, consulting and training for bottled water, natural mineral water, flavored beverages and packaged ice. Chris is also qualified as a beverage auditor, food safety trainer as well as “Lead Instructor” for the FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food (PCQI) training program referenced under the FDA’s Preventive Controls regulations. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver and a MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. 

WEBINAR #4
ammonia safety: general duty and process safety management for the ice industry

Date/Time: March 28, 2024 at 1:00pm Eastern

Cost: FREE for IPIA Members

Description:
This training will provide an overview of General Duty Clause and PSM/RM Plan regulations and how they pertain to the Ice Manufacturing Industry in particular. We will also review applicable codes and standards in place for ice manufacturing facilities and common regulatory issues and citations that ice manufacturers face.
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Speaker Biography: Heather Savard, Sr. PSM Consultant, Nexus Refrigeration
Heather has over 10 years of experience in the compliance with PSM and RM Plan regulations and holds a bachelor’s degree in business management. Heather works closely with customers to help ensure compliance with PSM and RMP regulations as well as compliance with the General Duty Clause for those customers that have under 10,000 lbs. of ammonia onsite. This work includes the facilitation of PHA studies and compliance audits, providing training, leading management of change processes, the development of PSM and RMP programs that are site specific on a customer-to-customer basis. Heather has also been involved in EPA and OSHA regulatory inspections. Heather is a member of the IIAR Compliance Committee and serves as the President of the Nor’easter RETA Chapter