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Greetings,

The Naval Safety and Environmental Training Center presents the 28th Annual Joint Safety and Environmental Professional Development Symposium (PDS) convening April 6-10, 2020. The PDS is a professional development opportunity for Department of Defense uniformed and civilian professionals to share innovative ideas and new trends and information in areas of safety and occupational health, environmental protection, and industrial hygiene. The event is hosted in an online venue using the web conferencing tool Adobe Connect and is provided at no cost to presenters or attendees.

The 27th Annual Joint Safety and Environmental Professional Development Symposium provided 100+ educational sessions to more than 1750 registered participants from 50 states, one United States territory, and 23 countries. Participants backgrounds ranged from safety, industrial hygiene, environmental, occupational health, public health, radiation health, occupational medicine, and energy. Please visit http://jointpds.adobeconnect.com/pdsaar2019/ for highlights from last year’s event.

The conference planning team is looking for claimant meeting sponsors and breakout session presenters. All meetings and sessions will be hosted via Adobe Connect allowing presentations from across the globe. All meetings and sessions will provide users a certificate of attendance documenting continuing education credits earned.

Claimant meeting sponsors and breakout session presenters will be assigned a PDS point of contact to assist before and during the event. Training on how to use the technology to present content and engage a virtual audience will be provided.

Claimant meetings provide up to 25 different organizations the opportunity to host a one-day conference on April 6, 2020. This time will allow organizations the opportunity to host sessions specific to their organization. Topics can range from trending issues, updates, training, etc. The meeting sponsor will be responsible for the agenda and content presented during the meeting. All content must be unclassified and releasable to the public. To submit a claimant meeting request, visit http://jointpds.adobeconnect.com/pds2020presenters/event/speaker_info.html

Breakout Presentations from all government, industry, and academic agencies will be considered. Presenters have the opportunity to reach a large target audience during their virtual session. The 2019 average session attendance was over 80 participants. Presentations may cover anything within the following broad topics:

• Health and Safety for Disaster Response and Recovery
• General Safety
• Operational Safety
• Occupational Safety and Health
• Industrial Hygiene
• Occupational Medicine
• Radiation and Laser Safety
• Environmental Protection

Please consider sharing your knowledge and experience by presenting at the 2020 PDS. If you are interested in presenting, copy and paste the submissions link below into your browser. Follow the screen prompt to submit your presentation proposal by February 22, 2020. Information submitted in your proposal will be provided to registered attendees via the event website. Please ensure the information provided reflects the intent of your presentation.

Proposal submission:

http://jointpds.adobeconnect.com/pds2020presenters/event/registration.html

Thank you for your interest in presenting at the 28th Annual Joint Safety and Environmental PDS. Please contact the PDS committee at NAVSAFENVTRACEN_JOINT_PDS@navy.mil if you have questions regarding this year’s event.

Very respectfully,

Cary J. Isaacson, CIH, CSP

CDR, MSC, USN

Commanding Officer

Naval Safety and Environmental Training Center