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Environment, Safety, and Occupational

Health Training Symposium

TEXTBOOK

3 – 7 March 2008
Reno - Sparks Convention Center
Reno, Nevada

2008 Symposium Planning Team

NOTICE TO READERS : “The views presented here are the personal opinions of the author or speaker, and do not reflect the official opinions or positions of the US Air Force.  Attendees should refer to their service professionals, including base JA, CE/A7, PA, LG/A4, SG and others as appropriate for official AF policy and position.”

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“Enabling Today's Air Warriors”

Success is a total team effort. Our accomplishments have been instrumental in transforming the Air Force to better enable our Air Warriors. We continue to take the fight to the enemy even as we have restructured much of the Air Force, implementing change across your respective functional areas to find needed efficiencies to offset reduced manpower and increased deployments.

Albert Einstein once said: “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Today, Air Force leadership is asking you to question the way we do things and then asking you to take it the next level and provide a better solution. Long gone are the days of “that's the way we've always done it” to asking “why are we doing this” and “what how can we do it better”. This questioning and inventiveness ensures our warriors and families have safe and healthful environments in which to live, work, and play.

ESOH management is everyone's job, everyday, everywhere. From base civil engineers to flight line mechanics or pilots, ESOH in everything we do must become second nature to our airmen, civilians, and contract staff as we enable the Air Warriors to carry out this nation's wartime missions.

Funding reductions and the increased mission demand necessitates more efficient ways to train the Air Warrior. Five Air Force major commands, sharing similar operational missions and challenges, have combined training initiatives and resources to produce this ESOH Training Symposium.

Today, the ESOH Symposium focuses on the multi-level training needs of base civil, environmental, and bioenvironmental engineers, logistics (supply, transportation, and contracting), operations and maintenance, public affairs, occupational safety and health, legal, and many other functional areas. Bringing together this controlled cross-functional team from most installations across the world, the Symposium achieves several key objectives and makes this a vital training source for all Air Force operations:

• Focuses on wing and mission training needs at a fraction of the cost
• Leverage limited resources across all organizations
• Reduce training impact on base missions – combine multiple TDYs into one event
• Concentrate training in a cost-controlled environment

A team of professional educators and subject area experts from national academia, federal and state agencies, and Fortune 100 industries from around the world will conduct roughly 500 class sessions this week. This textbook provides instant access to information on all courses presented and is designed to be the students' reference for ESOH programs and processes and is an invaluable Commander's Desk Reference. With your ingenuity and inventiveness, we are achieving our goals in record time.