FY24 March Technical Meeting

This month’s technical meeting will be Confined Spaces given by Dan Morton, CIH, CSP.

Join us for a technical discussion on confined spaces starting with defining confined spaces and why they need to be addressed, the ABC’s of such spaces, and how to plan entry and rescue. Dan will help us understand roles and responsibilities for owners, contractors and workers and how to write a proper plan. Attendees should leave with a better understanding of applicable regulations, proper planning procedures, and hazards associated with numerous confined space scenarios.

Bio: Dan Morton, CIH, CSP, NREMT, is a Global Application Engineer and Industrial Hygienist for 3M.  He started his career as a corporate Industrial Hygienist in heavy industry (adhesive manufacturing) and then came to 3M back in the late 1990s as an SCBA and chem/bio warfare specialist for the Occupational Health and Environment Safety Health Division. In the early 2000s he left to work as a corporate Industrial Hygienist again in downstream (Texas) and then upstream (Alaska) oil. Dan returned to 3M in 2018 right after 3M purchased Scott Fire & Safety to again be an SCBA specialist.

He is currently a Global Application Engineer for the 3M Scott SCBA and SAR/ESCBA line of products.  In this role he has the responsibility for supporting customers and sales teams in providing 3M PSD solutions for protecting workers in the most dangerous and challenging respiratory protection applications and planning complex facility jobs that involve emergency escape and rescue. Dan holds BSc degrees from the University of Minnesota in Chemistry and Statistics, Board certifications in Industrial Hygiene and Safety and is a licensed Advanced EMT and Wildland Firefighter in the State of Colorado where he currently lives.