Record attendance for the 2nd annual Oryx Risk Management Conference

Oryx welcomed a capacity crowd to their annual Risk Management on June 7, 2011. The conference or "The Main Event" has quickly grown to become one of the largest Risk Management conferences in upstate New York. The conference agenda was split into two sessions providing information specific to Claims and Safety. Attendees were greeted with a wide variety of subjects such as; Developing Effective Safety Programs, OSHA Record Keeping, Idiopathic Injuries and Personal Acts, OSHA Major Hazards/Inspection Process and Dealing with the Aging Workforce. Guest speakers for the event are all industry experts in their field of specialty and have a long-standing working relationships with Oryx. "I am thrilled with the turn-out we received this year", stated Tom Pasquale, President of Oryx Insurance. "The conference is an excellent example of our consistent approach in providing our customers (both agents and insured's) the industry's most comprehensive claims and safety conference – free of charge."

See the links below for Conference information, including preliminary information about the 2012 Oryx Risk Management Conference scheduled for June 11, 2012 at The DoubleTree Hotel, East Syracuse NY.

Agenda

8:00 – 8:30	Registration, Light breakfast
SESSION A/CLAIMS
8:30 – 9:20	Idiopathic injuries and Personal Acts– What is a compensable injury? Speaker: Kenneth Goldman, Esq. Partner, Wolff, Goodrich & Goldman
9:20 – 9:40	Break
9:40 – 10:30	Why injured workers hire attorneys Speaker: Christopher R. Lemire, Esq. Partner, Lemire Johnson LLC
10:30-10:45	Break
SESSION B/SAFETY
8:30 – 9:20	OSHA Part I - Major hazards on construction sites, OSHA's Top Ten List Speaker: Ronald Williams Compliance Assistance Specialist, Syracuse OSHA office
9:20 – 9:40	Break
9:40 – 10:30	OSHA Part II – OSHA Inspection Process Speaker: Ronald Williams Compliance Assistance Specialist, Syracuse OSHA office
10:30-10:45	Break
ALL PARTICIPANTS
10:45 – 11:35	How To Develop and Implement an Effective Safety Program Speaker: Mike Casler Affiliation C & S Companies
11:45-12:45	Lunch
12:45 – 1:35	OSHA Record Keeping Speaker: Michael W. Keefe, CSP, MBA, CWCP Reditus Safety Solutions
1:35 – 1:50	Break
1:50 – 2:40	Managing Equal Employment Opportunity Risks Speaker: Gregg T. Johnson, Esq. Partner, Lemire Johnson LLC
2:40 – 2:55	Break
2:55 – 3:35	Back Injuries and How to Effectively Return the Injured Employee to Work Speaker: Steven Hausmann, MD MES Solutions
3:35 – 4:00	Break
4:00 – 4:40	Dealing with the Aging Workforce Speaker: Lawrence M. Ordway, Esq. and John L. Valentino, Esq. Members, Green & Seifter, LLC
	Door prizes awarded