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Marine Section Of NSC

Sets Annual Convention

Oct. 15-17 In Chicago

Richard L. Fox, general chair- man of the Marine Section of the

National Safety Council, recently announced that the annual confer- ence and convention of the mari- time industry group—the 67th since it was formed as part of NSC in 1917—will be held at the Palmer

House Hotel in Chicago on October 15-17, 1984.

He said that more than 20 special- ists in shoreside and vessel safety will address the meeting and include key spokesmen for stevedoring in- dustry management who will deal with the issue of safety in water- front contract collective bargaining between labor and management.

Details of the program, the speakers and topics are as follows.

Monday, October 15 (Barge and Towing/Great Lakes Division—

Joint Session). Barge and Towing will be presided over by Vincent

Wynne, safety director of M/G

Transport Services, Inc. of Cincin- nati. Speaking on "Shipboard Drug

Abuse—What to Look for!" will be

Harold C. Patin, president of

Drug Education Associates, Inc. of

Metairie, La. The session on the

Great Lakes will be headed by Ed- ward Stadnicar, safety supervi- sor of the Columbia Transportation

Division of the Oglebay Norton

Company of Cleveland. The speak- er, Thomas O. Murphy, a partner in the Cleveland law firm of Thomp- son, Hine and Flory, will discuss "Casualty Investigation—Coast

Guard and Mariner."

Monday, October 15 (Dry Car- go and Tank Division—.Joint Ses- sion). Capt. John V. Caffrey, manager of marine safety for Mobil

Oil Corp. of New York, will preside over the tank ship segment. Two speakers will discuss "Fleet Contin- gency Planning for Marine Casual- ties." They are F.M. Belinske, safety manager and group insurance coordinator for Stolt Nielsen of

Greenwich, Conn., and Ann Hay- ward Rooney, scientific support coordinator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at

Virginia Beach, Va. Capt. Law- rence A. Wolff, of Marine Trans- port Lines, Inc. of New York, will lead the Dry Cargo session. The speaker, Dr. Robert F. Russell, professor of ships medicine at the

Maine Maritime Academy in Cas- tine, will discuss "Alcohol Abuse."

Tuesday, October 16 (Steve- doring Session)—This segment will be presided over by William C.

DuComb, corporate safety director for Lavino Shipping Company of

Philadelphia. The speakers are

William Detweiler, president of the Steamship Trade Association of

Baltimore and president of the coastwide collective bargaining group known as the Council of

North Atlantic Shipping Associa- tions, and Don T. Huey, assistant safety director of the West Gulf

Maritime Association of Houston.

Mr. Detweiler will talk on "Em- ployee Relations & Safety—Should

Safety and Health Regulations be

Part of a Collective Bargaining

Agreement?" Mr. Huey will discuss "The Effectiveness of Safety and

Health Regulations in a Collective

Bargaining Agreement."

Tuesday, October 16 (United

States Coast Guard). This session will be led by Capt. Ronald C.

Pickup, Chief in the Office of Mer- chant Marine Safety of the U.S.

Coast Guard Headquarters in

Washington, D.C.

Following opening comments by

Rear Adm. A.M. Denielson, Com- mander of the Ninth Coast Guard

District in Cleveland, the segment will have four speakers. They are

Donald Kerlin of the Marine

Technical & Hazardous Materials

Division of the Coast Guard, who will speak on the "Intergovernmen- tal Maritime Organization—What it is, How it Works, Latest Develop- ments"; Comdr. James R. Town- ley of the Planning Staff of the U.S.

Coast Guard Headquarters, who will disscuss the "Coast Guard Ma- rine Inspector Training Qualifica- tion Program"; Comdr. A.V. Arec- chi of the Office of Command Con- trol and Communications at Coast

Guard Headquarters, who will speak about satellite equipment un- der the subject ;'COSPAS/SAR-

SAT—Demonstration & Evaluation

Results of the First Year in the

U.S."; and Super Chief L.J.

McPolin in the office of the Com- mander of the 11th Coast Guard

District in Long Beach, Calif., who (continued on page 54)

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