OSHA 30-Hour General Industry Course (Hanover)
2025-11-04 08:00 - 2025-11-07 17:00 (America/New_York) | United States
This is a four-day class. When you register for this class, you will be registered for all four days – November 4, 5, 6 & 7. Class begins at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. each day.
This nationally recognized OSHA 30-Hour General Industry Course is designed to promote workplace safety and health. VRSA offers Authorized Outreach Instructors to facilitate this course.
This four-day course focuses on recognizing and fixing hazards in the workplace. Topics will include an overview of OSHA and VOSH, walking-working surfaces, fall protection, electrical, scaffolding, trenching/excavation, struck by/caught in, and other common hazards.
All attendees must arrive between 7:30 and 7:45 a.m. to allow time to present their license or photo ID and sign into class. The class will begin promptly at 8:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 pm. each day.
Upon completion of all four days, students will receive an OSHA 30 Completion Card at no cost to the member.

Strategic Communications Planning
2025-11-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Altavista_1
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Strategic communications planning is crucial to ensuring that messages designed to increase awareness, action, and engagement are shared in a targeted and timely way with key stakeholders.
This virtual training will explore the key steps in establishing a strategic communications plan.

HR's Increasingly Important Role in Cybersecurity
2025-11-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Altavista_1
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The HR function has become integral to organizational cyber risk management in recent years.
Along with information security/information technology, HR is increasingly called upon to help determine and enforce employee data permissions, train and enforce cybersecurity policies and procedures, and help respond to cyber events involving employees.

Training Trifecta (Warrenton)
2025-12-03 07:00 - 15:00 | United States
Sending staff away for training takes time and resources, which is why we created the Training Trifecta! This program is designed to address your top three training needs in one eight-hour session. This training class is a combination of in-class and hands-on instruction.
This Training Trifecta includes:

Permit-Required Confined Space
Fall Protection
Trenching & Excavation

Lunch will be provided, and please park behind the gate.

Cyber Overview and Recent Incidents
2025-12-03 10:00 - 11:00 | Altavista_1
In today’s digital age, cyber threats are growing in frequency, sophistication, and impact. This virtual presentation provides a comprehensive overview of the current cybersecurity landscape, highlighting key trends, threat actors, and evolving attack methods. Attendees will gain insights into recent cyber incidents, including data breaches, ransomware attacks, and nation-state threats, with a focus on lessons learned and mitigation strategies.

Are You Prepared for Winter Weather? Get Out and Look!
2025-12-10 10:00 - 10:30
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Winter is quickly approaching; with winter weather conditions come an increased risk of vehicle accidents and injuries. Get ahead of the exposure by evaluating current policies, reviewing procedures and supplies, conducting training, and practicing tasks that put employees and properties at risk.
Join us for this virtual presentation discussing actions to consider.

Protecting Communities: A Law Enforcement Perspective on Emergency Substantial Risk Orders
2025-12-11 10:00 - 11:00
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This virtual presentation will cover the following topics:
• What is a Risk order and circumstances/persons the tool is meant to help;
• Review of the law;
• Case studies from the field;
• Court process and forms;
• How to serve; and
• Review of circumstances, behaviors, and calls for service that might warrant an ESRO.

OSHA 10-Hour Construction Course (Warrenton)
2026-01-13 07:00 - 2026-01-14 11:00 | Fauquier County Water & Sanitation Authority, 7172 Kennedy Road, Warrenton, VA, 20187, United States
This is a two-day class. When you register for this class, you will be registered for both days – January 13 & 14.
This two-day nationally recognized OSHA 10-hour construction course is designed to promote workplace safety and health. The course focuses on recognizing and fixing hazards in the workplace.
VRSA facilitators are OSHA-Authorized Outreach Instructors. Upon completion, all attendees will receive their OSHA 10-Hour Construction Card.
January 13 – Class starts at 7:00 a.m. and ends at 3:00 p.m.
January 14 – Class starts at 7:00 a.m. and ends at 11:00 a.m.

Virtual OSHA 10-Hour Construction Course
2026-01-21 08:15 - 2026-01-22 11:30
This is a two-day class. When you register for this class, you will be registered for both days – January 21 & 22.
This two-day session is a virtual OSHA 10-Hour Course in Construction. Topics will include understanding VOSH, Chemical Safety, Electrical Hazards, Fall Protection, Trenching, PPE, Confined Space, and much more.
January 21 – Class starts at 8:15 a.m. and ends at 4:00 p.m.
January 22 – Class starts at 8:15 a.m. and ends at 11:30 a.m.
Because of the virtual nature of this course, there are requirements all attendees must adhere to:

Each attendee must be on a computer (not a cell phone) with a camera, which must remain on for the entire course. The computer must also have a working microphone and speakers (or headset). Only one attendee per computer.
Attendees must be in a location where they are not driving, distracted, or doing other work.
Attendees must attend both days to receive credit.

If your workplace does not provide a distraction-free environment, please consider working from home, utilizing another facility, or using other means to eliminate distractions for the course.
All attendees will be given an OSHA 10-Hour card following the course. Failure to attend any portion of the course will result in not receiving the card.
All presenters are OSHA Authorized Outreach Instructors.

GOAL - At Your HR Processes
2026-01-21 13:00 - 14:00
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As part of our GOAL program – Get Out And Look at your HR processes from A to Z!

Before You Use It, Inspect It: Applying GOAL to Tools and Equipment
2026-01-27 10:00 - 10:30
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Employees work with a wide range of hand tools, power tools, and equipment every day, from maintenance crews, utilities, water/wastewater, to parks and public works. While these tools are essential to getting the job done, they also present serious risks when not inspected or used correctly.
This virtual session will teach employees how to apply the simple yet powerful safety practice of GOAL — Get Out and Look — to tool and equipment use. By integrating GOAL into daily habits, workers reduce the likelihood of accidents that result in Workers’ Compensation claims and employer liability, which can be costly for both employees and public entities.

Water & Wastewater Roundtable Discussion (Loudoun)
2026-02-10 09:00 - 12:00 | Loudoun Water Administrative Building, 44865 Loudoun Water Way, Ashburn, 20147, United States
For nearly a decade, VRSA has coordinated this roundtable meeting as a cornerstone event bringing together dedicated, like-minded professionals united by a shared commitment to employee and community safety.
Each year, this group exchanges ideas, addresses challenges, and shares best practices that strengthen our collective and individual ability to protect their employees as well as those they serve. Every organization represented here works tirelessly to safeguard their employees and citizens, reflecting a common purpose: to grow, uphold, and continually improve a strong culture of safety and health in their communities.

Understanding Workers' Compensation Pharmacy Programs
2026-02-11 10:00 - 11:00
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This virtual session provides an in-depth exploration of Workers’ Compensation Pharmacy Programs, designed to help participants understand how medication management and pharmacy services are integrated into workers’ compensation claims.
Attendees will learn about the roles pharmacies play in managing prescriptions for injured workers, the regulatory and legal aspects involved, and how pharmacy programs are structured to ensure cost efficiency and patient safety.

OSHA 10-Hour Construction Course (Fauquier/Warrenton)
2026-02-17 07:00 - 2026-02-18 11:00 | Fauquier County Water & Sanitation Authority, 7172 Kennedy Road, Warrenton, VA, 20187, United States
This is a two-day class. When you register for this class, you will be registered for both days – February 17 & 18.
This two-day nationally recognized OSHA 10-hour construction course is designed to promote workplace safety and health. The course focuses on recognizing and fixing hazards in the workplace.
VRSA facilitators are OSHA-Authorized Outreach Instructors. Upon completion, all attendees will receive their OSHA 10-Hour Construction Card.
February 17 – Class starts at 7:00 a.m. and ends at 3:00 p.m.
February 18 – Class starts at 7:00 a.m. and ends at 11:00 a.m.

Playground Safety and Maintenance Training (Glen Allen)
2026-02-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Virginia Risk Sharing Association (VRSA), 11243 Nuckols Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23059, United States
Every year, more than 200,000 children are seen at emergency rooms for injuries associated with playground equipment. While the only legal requirements placed on playgrounds involve the Americans with Disabilities Act, there are recommended actions to establish an organization’s “Standard of Care,” established by the Consumer Product Safety Commission as well as various American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards.
This training will provide information on these requirements, so you can ensure your entity’s playgrounds are properly audited, maintained, and inspected. Proper management can help in preventing accidental injury.

Getting Covered for FY27
2026-02-24 10:00 - 11:00
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Join us for this interactive virtual session as we review available coverages.
Commonly asked questions and information on scheduled items will be addressed, and a live Q&A session will allow members to engage with staff throughout the session.

Transitioning Into a Supervisory Role
2026-02-25 13:00 - 14:00
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Transitioning from a staff position to a supervisory role is a critical and challenging phase in your career. To effectively manage people and processes requires a significant change in responsibilities, new skills, and a change in mindset.
Join us to learn practical techniques for effective leadership to drive organizational success.

OSHA 30-Hour Construction Course (Winchester)
2026-03-10 08:00 - 2026-03-13 17:00 | Winchester Public Services Building, 301 E. Cork Street, Winchester, VA, 22601
This is a four-day class. When you register for this class, you will be registered for all four days – March 10 – 13. Class begins at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. each day.
This nationally recognized OSHA 30-Hour Construction Course is designed to promote workplace safety and health.
This four-day course focuses on recognizing and fixing hazards in the workplace. VRSA offers Authorized Outreach Instructors to facilitate this course.
All attendees must arrive between 7:30 and 7:45 a.m. to allow time to present their license or photo ID and sign into class. The class will begin promptly at 8:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 pm. each day.
Upon completion of all four days, students will receive an OSHA 30 Completion Card at no cost to the member.

Virginia Workers' Compensation Benefits (Medical and Lost Wages)
2026-03-18 10:00 - 11:00
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This virtual training session provides a clear and practical overview of workers’ compensation benefits, with a focus on medical benefits and wage replacement (lost wages).
Participants will gain an understanding of how these benefits support injured employees, the employer’s responsibilities, and how benefits are administered throughout the life of a claim.

Crisis Communications
2026-03-18 13:00 - 14:00
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Local government communicators must be prepared to react to any number of crises on a day-to-day basis. From data breaches to natural or manmade disasters, mismanagement, allegations of discrimination or sexual harassment, protests, use of force allegations, global pandemics, and more – preparing now is key to responding tomorrow.
This virtual presentation provides an overview of developing crisis communications, in addition to steps you can take to better prepare yourself and your team to go on the record with your audiences.

FLSA & Child Labor Laws
2026-03-25 13:00 - 14:00
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This virtual presentation will help you comply with the basic requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): know how to determine whether a position is exempt or nonexempt; understand overtime requirements; apply FLSA requirements to part-time workers and independent contractors; and identify and observe child labor restrictions.

The Advantages of Offering Light/Modified Duty in Workers' Compensation
2026-04-01 10:00 - 11:00
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This virtual training session explores the value of light and modified duty programs within workers’ compensation and how they benefit injured employees, employers, and claim outcomes.
Participants will learn how transitional work supports recovery, reduces claim costs, and promotes a safe and timely return to work while maintaining compliance with workers’ compensation requirements.

Going Green: Analyzing Marijuana Legalization
2026-04-20 10:00 - 11:00
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Cannabis (marijuana) has been legal in Virginia for five years now, and there are still questions about how this impacts the workplace.
During this virtual session, we will take a look at the legalization timeline, medical cards, and the future of recreational use in Virginia.

2026 VRSA Annual Meeting (Glen Allen)
2026-05-08 08:30 - 12:15 | The Place at Innsbrook, 4036-C Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060, United States
The Annual Meeting will be held at The Place at Innsbrook, and topics this year include:
– The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): Overview Including Updates from the 2026 General Assembly
– From Headlines to Home: Recent Cyber Incidents and Bringing Awareness to Protect Your Entity and Yourself
– Are you Secure?: Strategies to Ensure the Safety of your Facilities, Employees, and Visitors

HRCI credits will be available for two of the topics presented.
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2026 Annual Meeting Agenda

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., and the meeting will adjourn by 12:15 p.m. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
For those members interested, Director of Education and Training Thomas Bullock will be facilitating a Risk Manager Forum after lunch, leading a discussion about common challenges and questions from members. If you would like to register for the Risk Manager Forum click here.

2026 Risk Manager Forum (Glen Allen)
2026-05-08 12:30 - 15:00 | The Place at Innsbrook, 4036-C Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060, United States
VRSA is here to listen. After the 2026 Annual Meeting, the Director of Education and Training Thomas Bullock will be facilitating an interactive discussion about common challenges. Questions and sharing experiences are encouraged.
Attendance at the 2026 VRSA Annual Meeting is not necessary to attend this forum, but if you would like to register for the 2026 VRSA Annual Meeting, please click here.

Playground Safety and Maintenance Training (Manassas)
2026-05-12 09:00 - 11:00 | Manassas City Hall – Council Chambers, 9027 Center Street, Manassas, 20110, United States
Every year, more than 200,000 children are seen at emergency rooms for injuries associated with playground equipment. While the only legal requirements placed on playgrounds involve the Americans with Disabilities Act, there are recommended actions to establish an organization’s “Standard of Care,” established by the Consumer Product Safety Commission as well as various American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards.
This training class will provide information on these requirements, so you can ensure your entity’s playgrounds are properly audited, maintained, and inspected. Proper management can help in preventing accidental injury.

Foundations of Digital Communications
2026-05-12 13:00 - 14:00
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Maintaining communications with your various stakeholders is a crucial component of effective reputation management.
This virtual presentation will address foundations in digital communications, providing an overview of best practices in social media and digital content creation and management. Tips and tricks for creating graphics, images, and video will be provided. Participants will also receive instruction on leveraging social media platforms to enhance stakeholder relationships, as well as information on gathering and understanding media metrics.

HR Hot Topics Roundtable
2026-05-13 10:00 - 11:00
What keeps you up at night or stresses you during the day? Bring your topics to this session to discuss with fellow HR practitioners.
Since this virtual event will have limited seating, registration will open on April 20.

Virginia Workers' Compensation Law and Compensability
2026-05-20 10:00 - 11:00
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This virtual training session provides a foundational understanding of workers’ compensation law with a focus on compensability—how and when an injury or illness qualifies for workers’ compensation benefits.
Participants will learn the legal principles that govern workers’ compensation claims, key decision points in determining compensability, and how these laws are applied in real-world claim scenarios.

Understanding the Workers' Compensation Litigation and Appeal Processes
2026-06-17 10:00 - 11:00
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This virtual engagement provides a clear and practical overview of the workers’ compensation litigation and appeal processes.
Participants will gain insight into how disputed claims progress through the legal system, the roles of the various parties involved, and what to expect at each stage—from initial dispute through resolution. The session emphasizes effective claim handling, compliance, and strategies to manage risk and control costs during litigation.
