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William S. Marras, Ohio State University
DR. MARRAS: Welcome to the session. I'm Bill Marras from the Ohio State University, and we have a great collection of moderators from some of today's sessions who are going to be giving us a little oversight throughout the day.
Before we start, I'd like to mention that tomorrow we start promptly at 8:30, so please be here ready to go. We have a great schedule tomorrow, it looks like.
I'd like to briefly introduce our speakers today, and I'm just going to tell you who they are and where they're from, and they can tell you a little bit about their background when they give their summaries.
We have representation from several areas.
First, we have representation from manufacturing; we had Brad Joseph from Ford; Jim McCauley from Perdue. From Maritime we have Dan Cimmino, from Newport News Shipbuilding. From Health Care we have Guy Fragala from the University of Massachusetts. From Apparel and Textile we have Eric Frumin from UNITE, and from Construction we have Scott Schneider from the Center to Protect Workers Rights.
The agenda for today is, since we had several breakout sessions and not everyone had an opportunity to attend all of them, obviously, we're going to try and transfer some information here by letting everyone be exposed to exactly what was happening in each session, or at least the highlights of each session.
So I'm going to ask each of the moderators from the sessions I just mentioned to start with about a five-minute overview. First, start with a little introduction of who they are in case people aren't familiar, what their bend on ergonomics is, and then I'd ask for a five-minute summary as to what happened in their session.
After that, then we're going to open it up to questions.
