Join us in at the Wellsworth Hotel in Southbridge, MA
May 6-8, 2025
Conference Planning is underway for the 2025 VPPPA (Voluntary Protection Program Participant’s Association) Region 1 (New England) Conference and Exposition. The annual conference is the premier Safety and Health conference in New England focusing on OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program and VPP Excellence. We expect approximately 120 attendees for this conference at the Wellsworth Hotel, in Southbridge, Massachusetts.
Reserve your hotel stay with special pricing at the following link:
https://reservations.travelclick.com/13066?groupID=4143645
Group Code: VR1376
Best Practice Sharing, Benchmarking, and Networking for all.
Registration is completed via the National VPPPA Website. There is special pricing for those who are active VPPPA members, exhibitors, and presenters. We also offer one-day passes and meals only passes for guests.
Questions? Contact Melissa Renouf (renoufm@cintas.com)
We welcome opening Keynote Speaker:
Matthew J. Twerdy, CSP, CHMM Environment, Health, Safety, & Sustainability | Human and Organizational Performance Thought Leader Collins Aerospace (An RTX Business)
Leveraging the Human & Organizational Performance philosophy to create an active learning culture.
We want to take a more holistic understanding of the many conditions in everyday work. And we do this by using the Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) philosophy to grow and care for our safety culture creating an active learning culture. There are five principles within HOP that shape and influence the way organizations think, act, view success and respond to failure. These principles work together to change the way we think about work and how to improve it.
We welcome closing Keynote Speaker:
Stephen Jenkins, Vice President Health & Safety Cintas Corporation
VPP Success: Cultural alignment and personal leadership
Cintas has over 130 VPP sites. To achieve this level of VPP engagement, we have aligned our H&S strategy with our Cintas culture – the shared assumptions, values, and beliefs, which govern how people behave in Cintas. Deeply understanding our culture and how H&S fits with it, is critical to our success. Refining our personal leadership styles to best leverage this culture, accelerates our H&S success. During this session, Stephen will ask you to join him in reflecting on organizational culture, leadership approaches and how we can all look in the mirror to achieve next-level leadership and drive H&S and VPP success in our organizations.
Sponsors
Contribute to our conference by donation!
- There are opportunities available to support the Region 1 Chapter through Sponsorship at the 2025 New England VPPPA Conference. Sponsoring a conference event or donating of a giveaway presents an excellent opportunity to reach the 120 participants expected to attend.
- Attendee gifts.
- Refreshment break.
- Prizes for raffle or games.
Exhibitors
Become an exhibitor and connect with business and H&S professionals.
- Showcase how your organization can help others be successful in their businesses.
- Advertise your services and opportunities.
- Special pricing for attendance.
- Includes table for booth and 1 attendee.
- If interested, please submit the information packet by March 15, 2025, for review by the Region 1 Conference Planning Committee.
Presenters
Share Learnings and best practices at a breakout session!
- There are openings for speakers interested in sharing best practices at the 2025 Region 1 VPPPA Conference and Exposition. Breakout sessions will be held on the afternoon of May 6th, throughout the day on May 7th, and on the morning of May 8th. There are a total of 15 breakout sessions.
- If interested, please submit the application below by March 01, 2025, for review by the Region 1 Conference Planning Committee.