• Seminar Survey

    TACA strives to provide the best speakers at this Seminar. The Safety/Transportation Committee & the Environmental/Sustainability Committee use your feedback to plan the next Seminar. Please take the short survey below to provide feedback.
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  • Safety & Transportation Track-Rate the Speaker Sessions

  • People First: Strengthening Safety Culture and Mental Health Across the Aggregate Industry-Emily Hargrove, Director, Occupational Health & Safety, National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association*
  • Safety Leadership Roundtable-Moderated by Melissa Peace, TCS USA; Panelists:Robbie Dison, Gulf Coast Limestone; Jason Evans, BURNCO Texas; Paul Stalter, Cemex*
  • Ready Mix Plant Maintenance: Preventive Practices That Improve Safety, Reliability, and Uptime-Jason Rounsaville, Ready Mix Operations Manager, Knife River Corporation South Region*
  • Dangers of Drum Chipping Operations: Recognizing and Controlling Hazards in the Workplace-Miguel Salazar, Texas Branch Manager, Express Chipping*
  • Weathering the Storm: Flood Prevention and Emergency Preparedness-Sergeant Joshua Ruby and Officer Jacob Hernandez, San Antonio Police Department*
  • Drug and Alcohol Testing-Margaret Gilbert, Director of Screening, Drug & Alcohol, Health and Safety Council*
  • TLR Efforts-Past, Present, Future-Lee Parsley, President and General Counsel, Texans for Lawsuit Reform*
  • Same-Level Falls: Proactive Strategies to Reduce Risk, Cost, and Liability-Kerri Todd, CDS, Loss Control Consultant, Risk Mitigation Services, The Baldwin Group*
  • Securing Aggregate & Concrete Operations: Cyber Risks and Best Practices-Jesse Walls, MBA, CIC, Agency Partner, Commercial Insurance Advisor and Cyber Risk Strategist, Acrisure*
  • AI-How it’s impacting everyday life-Lonnie Holder, Director – Loss Control; Todd Lykke, Agency and Risk Development Manager; Shaun Provence, Assistant Director—Operations, McGowan Transportation*

  • Environmental & Sustainability Track-Rate the Speaker Sessions

  • TACA Hot Topics: How Texas is Built and 90th Legislative Session-Andrew Pinkerton, President & CEO and Clinton Harned, Vice President Governmental Affairs, TACA*
  • Ambient Air Monitoring of Particulates and Crystalline Silica Near APOs in Central Texas-Tracie Phillips, PhD, Distinguished Toxicologist, Toxicology, Risk Assessment & Research Division, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality*
  • Practical TRRP Approaches for Managing Oil, Fuel, and Metals Impacts at Aggregate, Cement, and Ready-Mix Facilities-Richard Record, PG, Sr. Env. Geologist and Sr. Project Director, Ensafe*
  • Meeting Owner Carbon Goals with Low-Carbon Mix Design-Drew Schlegel, Regional Sales Account Manager, Climate Earth*
  • Sustainability Panel: EPD Perspectives-Moderated by Dorian Krausz, PE, LEED AP, PATHWAYS; Producer Perspective-Rich Szecsy, PhD, PE, CEO, Big Town Concrete; Engineer Perspective-Dirk Kestner, PE, SE, LEED AP BD+C, ENV SP, Director of Sustainable Design, Walter P Moore*
  • What's Going on With Silica? A Discussion on the Status of the MSHA Respirable Crystaline Silica Rule-Emily Hargrove, Director, Occupational Health & Safety, National Stone, Sand, & Gravel Association*
  • Meeting Owner Carbon Goals with Low-Carbon Mix Design-Drew Schlegel, Regional Sales Account Manager, Climate Earth*
  • Navigating the Next Wave: Updates to Texas Stormwater Permits-Matt Bellos, REM, CESSWI, Vice President, Westward*
  • Texas Mining & Reclamation: Lessons from Experience-Chesley (Ches) Blevins, Retired, Executive Director and General Counsel, Texas Mining and Reclamation Association (TMRA) (Now Texas Mining Association)*
  • TCEQ- TERP 101 Grant Opportunities-Brandon Greulich, Section Manager – TERP Task Force Section, Air Grants Division, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality*
  • What’s in a TCEQ permit?-Bill Moody, P.E., Technical Specialist, New Source Review Mechanical/Coatings Section, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality*

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  • COMMITTEE DESCRIPTIONS

  • The purpose of the Regional Working Groups is to keep the association members informed of regional issues and to foster communication among TACA members in their local communities. Also, we hope this encourages collaboration on industry matters. Group reports back at committee meetings.

    Each group meets quarterly via Teams calls a week or two before committee meetings.

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  • You will be added to the committee(s) or group(s) you join in Asana. Asana is the project management application TACA uses for all committees and boards.

    Please watch for an invite from Asana, accept the invite, and create your account. You'll receive an invite for the committee, regional working group, and another one for the TACA Calendar in Asana.

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