BNHRA

Buffalo Niagara Human Resources Association
Annual Health, Wellness & Safety Conference and Exposition

In Celebration of: National Employee Health and Fitness Day
In Cooperation with: Buffalo WellFest

Produced by:
Harmony Expositions
Where:
Buffalo Convention Center (Ballroom)
When:
May 15, 2008 Conference & Exposition

Registration

(Member is considered any member of the following: BNHRA; Other SHRM Chapters; BNP; BNPA)

Registration (May 1 - May 12)

$35.00
Member - 1/2 day (am or pm) AM )
$55.00
Non-Member - 1/2 day (am or pm)

(AM = Panel Discussion/Breakfast, AM Workshops & Keynote Lunch)
(PM = Keynote Lunch, PM Workshops & Cocktail Networking Reception)

$50.00
Member full day
$70.00
Non-Member full day

Register to Attend

May 15th

Registration 8:00am - 9:00am

Continental Breakfast
Exposition Open

Breakfast Panel 9:00am - 10:00am

Sponsored by:

Our Moderator


Dr. Kevin Hardwick

Department of
Political Science

Canisius College


Breakfast Panel Overview


Come join us for this interactive panel discussion that will provide the opportunity for conference participants to learn valuable information from local professionals on health, wellness and safety issues facing WNY employers and providers.

Topics are chosen from subjects of current interest with the goal of encouraging critical thought about the difficult and complex issues that health, wellness and safety professionals are all dealing with today as human resource professionals and the impact it has on WNY businesses in the global marketplace and how they affect competitiveness and the bottom line.


Our Panelists


  • Tom Haney

    Wellness Administrator

    Independent Health

  • Gord Cumming

    Vice President
    Human Resources
    and Organizational
    Development

    Independent Health

  • Brian M. Murphy

    Consulting Partner

    Lawley Benefits Group

Exposition Open 10:00am - 10:30am
 
Workshops 10:30am - 11:30am

Workshops A & B


Workshop A - Health & Wellness


Sponsored By:


Dr. Catherine Ansuini

Director of Community
Health Promotion
Masters Degree Initiative

Buffalo State College

Jonathan Lindner

Health Educator and
Research Analyst
Center For Health
& Social Research

Buffalo State College

Health Promotion Solutions

In-Sourcing Health Promotion at Your Company


American employers are actively seeking creative, pragmatic, cost effective solutions to the unchecked and meteoric rise in health-related benefit costs. With private corporations responsible for approximately half of the United States annual medical budget of approximately $2.1 Trillion (16.2% GDP in 2006), a groundswell of momentum for providing optimal health care/disease prevention programs rather than focus exclusively on disease treatment has emerged. Successful health improvement programs for your company require a comprehensive, coordinated, evidence based approach, orchestrated by your "team" of credentialed individuals who are knowledgeable and outcome oriented; let Health Promotion Solutions help craft your program and train your team.

Health Promotion Solutions will provide participants with an overview on strategies for promoting healthy lifestyles among employees by addressing risk resulting from poor nutrition, lack of physical activity, excessive stress, tobacco use, inadequate sleep, as well as assessing factors that are work-style unique. Health Promotion Solutions will briefly explain how these factors can lead to expensive, chronic diseases and health issues that also impact workforce productivity, absenteeism, presenteeism, safety, and morale.

The tri-level certificate programs from Health Promotion Solutions including:

  • Level I Advocacy & Organization in Health Promotion Solutions
  • Level II Coordination & Management in Health Promotion Solutions
  • Level III Facilitator & Navigator in Health Promotion Solutions

- will be outlined and take away materials on program flyers, incentives, wellness tips and a listing of reputable national health information resources will be provided.

Workshop B - Safety


Sponsored By:

Dale Lesinski

Vice President - Sales

DiVal Safety Equipment

Judy Trent

Training Division
Coordinator

DiVal Safety Equipment

Incorporating Safety into the Workplace

The impact to Your Company's bottom line

How do you get employees to incorporate safe work practices and value their own safety and the safety of coworkers? This session takes a common sense approach to breaking down natural human behavior and offers ideas and solutions to improving the safety culture of your company.

Dale Lesinski, a featured presenter at The National Safety Congress   OSHA VPPPA National conferences, utilizes his energetic, humorous and creative style to engage the audience and deliver his message.

This session will cover why safety is equally important to employers   employees, why accidents happen, why employees take short cuts, how to avoid accidents, understanding basic human behavior towards safety and techniques to improve your safety culture.

With the challenges companies face to stay viable - your employee safety performance may be the difference of profitability. Safety delivers a significant impact to the bottom line, positive or negative - we will address the importance of the effects of your company's safety performance and how your employees can make the difference.

  • How managing the expense of your company's safety equipment, training and related expenses can also impact the bottom line. DiVal Safety has a proven track record in all of these areas.
  • How safety performance DOES make a difference in your company's bottom line.
  • What's the big deal about Automated External Defibrillators (AED's)? Should my company invest in them?
  • How to be compliant in the safety field without it crippling productivity or getting the job done.
  • How does your safety record affect how and why other businesses choose to do (or not do) business with your company.
  • How can my company go from seeing required safety training as a "to do" to experiencing the positive impact of effective training

Exposition Open 11:30am - 12:30pm
 
Luncheon & Keynote Speaker 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Sponsored by:

Richard Tarrant

Chairman and Founder

Marathon Health

Logistical Lunacy

Our National Healthcare Crisis


Our national healthcare crisis is complicated and multi-faceted encompassing many inter-related parts: insurance coverage, cost and quality challenges, technology, regulatory issues, and access to care. Mr. Tarrant will provide a framework for understanding our healthcare system and will identify how employers can influence change and reduce the burden of exploding healthcare costs. The solution for employers begins with leadership and commitment to three areas:

  • Alignment of the health benefits structure
  • Cultural emphasis on health
  • Providing the methods, tools, and support systems needed to help employees become active participants in their own health and healthcare.

An entrepreneur and respected healthcare technology innovator, Mr. Tarrant will provide insights from his 30-year history of running one of the largest healthcare software companies in the United States

Exposition Open 2:00pm - 3:00pm
 
Workshop 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Sponsored By:

Anwar El-Homsi

PRESIDENT/CEO

Transformation Partners
Company

Using TPS Lean Six Sigma

to Improve the Health Wellness & Safety in your Company

Lack of employee engagement is endemic, and is causing large and small organizations all over the world to incur excess costs, under-perform on critical tasks, and create widespread customer dissatisfaction. According to Gallup (Gallup Poll, 2005) there are 22 million actively disengaged employees in America. Their dissatisfaction is manifested in employee absence, illness, and a variety of other big and small problems that occur when people are unhappy at work. This disengagement costs the American business economy up to $350 billion annually in lost productivity.

Our business management concept is unique in that it combines Human Capital development with Lean Six Sigma. The presentation will provide a working knowledge of the following tools and methods that are used in the concept including:

In order to overcome the lack of engagement concern, we are introducing a new business management concept called TPS-Lean Six Sigma. TPS-Lean Six Sigma is a systematic process of continuous, gradual, and routine improvement, development and learning, focused on a sustainable increase of personal, organizational and project performances. It creates a highly engaged and happy work force, whereby personal and organizational performance and learning mutually reinforce each other on a sustainable basis.

  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Personal Balanced Scorecard
  • Organizational Balanced Scorecard
  • Project Balanced Scorecard
  • Talent Management
  • Organization Life Cycle Scan

Exposition Open 4:00pm - 5:30pm
 
Networking Reception 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Sponsored By:

THE ADULT EDUCATIONAL SERVICES COMMITTEE (AESC)

Is an association of Western New York colleges and universities committed to assisting adult learners return to the classroom. AESC member institutions recognize the unique challenges individuals face and are addressing their educational questions and concerns. The workshops and open houses will assist adult learners in preparing to return to school, take courses or complete an undergraduate or graduate degree.

Western Division

Western Division Federal Credit Union is Western New York's Largest employer based credit union, proudly serving over 300+ Employer Groups. Those who have selected to offer out NO COST benefit enjoy a competitive choice of financial products and services that encourage employees to save regularly, borrow funds at a fair rate of interest and make smart financial choices.

About BNHRA

The Buffalo Niagara Human Resource Association (BNHRA) represents the interests of more than 650 professional members from 450 companies around the Western New York area.

BNHRA serves as the affiliate Buffalo-Niagara chapter of SHRM. BNHRA's mission is to provide opportunities for conferences, cooperative research and exchange of information among members, and to raise the standards of performance in all phases of human resource management and labor relations.

The BNHRA Annual Health & Wellness Conference and Exposition welcomes non-members from among the 1,100 businesses in the Downtown Buffalo Business corridor to attend and to join BNHRA.

The Rochester (350 members) and Jamestown (150 members) Chapters will also be invited to the Annual Health & Wellness Conference and Exposition.

Whether you are an HR executive, director, generalist or a manager involved in benefits or working in any form of the HR capacity…BNHRA's Health & Wellness Conference will give you practical advice and solutions you can immediately put to use to serve your organization and employees.

To Exhibit

Exhibitor Booths - $500 (10' x 5')

  • Standard draped backwall and siderail
  • Exhibitor badges
  • Pre-show promotion material
  • 24 hour security
  • Show Guide Listing
  • Website listing
  • Direct exposure to 450 BNHRA member companies and 650 members and membership prospects in Downtown Buffalo's business corridor
  • Multiple booth configurations available
  • List of meeting attendees
  • BNHRA Network Newsletter - Listing (May issue)
  • BNHRA tab of Buffalo WellFest website - Listing
  • 2 All Day Admissions

BNHRA Exposition is a table show.
Move in begins at 6:00am
Break Down Starts after at 6 pm
Move out ends at 9:30pm
Be Early and Be Prepared

Register To Exhibit


Show Guide Advertising

Breakfast Roundtable Sponsor - $1,500

  • Breakfast Roundtable Sponsor - $1,500 (4 available)
  • Introduction by BNHRA President
  • Company Representatice participation in Roundtable
    CV in BNHRA Network Newsletter
    3 minute presentation
    1 hour program Q&A participarion
  • Premier vendor booth
  • BNHRA website - 30 day logo recognition on home page (May)
  • BNHRA Network Newsletter - Quarter page ad (May issue)
  • Logo Recognition on Chapter Chatter (Email announcement)
  • List of meeting attendees
  • Chapter mailing labels
  • Logo placement on BNHRA tab of Buffalo WellFest website
  • Premier Breakout Room placement of Corporate Image Banner (company supplied)
  • Logo placement Front Cover - Show Guide
  • Quarter page ad in Show Guide
  • 4 full day admissions

Conference Luncheon Sponsor - $5,000

  • Introduction by BNHRA President
  • 10 minute presentation (pre keynote speaker)
  • Keynote Speaker selection from SHRM accredited or company accredited presentation (1 hour)
  • Premier vendor booth
  • BNHRA website - 30 day logo recognition on home page (May)
  • BNHRA Network Newsletter - Full page ad (May issue)
  • Premier Logo Recognition on meeting announcement & registration desk
  • Premier Logo Recognition on Chapter Chatter (Email Announcement)
  • List of meeting attendees
  • Chapter mailing labels
  • Premier logo placement on BNHRA tab of Buffalo WellFest website
  • Premier logo placement on Convention Center Event Banner
  • Premier Blalroom/Dais placement of Corporate Image Banner (company supplier)
  • Premier logo placement on Front Cover - Show Guide
  • Full page ad in Show Guide
  • 6 full day admissions

Networking Reception Sponsor - $2,500

  • Introduction by BNHRA President
  • 5 minute presentation
  • Premier vendor booth
  • BNHRA website - 30 day logo recognition on home page (May)
  • BNHRA Network Newsletter - quarter page ad (May issue)
  • Logo Recognition on meeting announcement & registration desk
  • Logo Recognition on Chapter Chatter (Email Announcement)
  • List of meeting attendees
  • Chapter mailing labels
  • Logo placement on BNHRA tab of Buffalo WellFest website
  • Premier logo placement on Convention Center Event Banner
  • Logo placement on Front Cover - Show Guide
  • Half page ad in Show Guide
  • 4 full day admissions

Workshop Sponsor - $2,500

  • Introduction by BNHRA President
  • 5 minute presentation and introduction of Workshop Speaker
  • Premier vendor booth
  • BNHRA website - 30 day logo recognition on home page (May)
  • BNHRA Network Newsletter - quarter page ad (May issue)
  • Logo Recognition on meeting announcement & registration desk
  • Logo Recognition on Chapter Chatter (Email Announcement)
  • List of meeting attendees
  • Chapter mailing labels
  • Logo placement on BNHRA tab of Buffalo WellFest website
  • Premier Breakout Room placement of Corporate Image Banner (company supplied)
  • Logo placement on Front Cover - Show Guide
  • Half page ad in Show Guide
  • 4 full day admissions

Register to Sponsor


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