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Batteries have become daily use components for many applications. New growing segments like EV and Grid storage batteries extend the traditional ordinary battery applications. In the race for energy density, we shouldn’t forget safety – as an example, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery safety case. Unfortunately, we face daily safety events with injuries and severe damage. This seminar focuses on portable, stationary, and automotive battery safety along the battery life cycle (acceptance, testing, assembly, use, storage, transportation, and disposal). The training incorporates Shmuel De-Leon and other experts on battery safety, representing over 30 years of work in the field. The motivation behind the training is to provide attendees with the knowledge needed to safely handle and store the batteries in their organization and to support reduction in safety events. Topics to be covered:

• Battery Safety Hazards: Videos and examples
• Battery Safety Guidelines: Recommendations on proper work with batteries (acceptance, testing, battery pack design, use, storage, transportation, disposal)
• Battery Safety Events: Recommendations on how to handle
• Battery Safety Equipment: Checklist for labs and warehouses

Moderator: James Egloff of Americase
Panelists: Chris Egloff of Americase, Mike Pagel of HazMat Safety Consulting, and more

This panel of industry experts will address some of the hottest topics concerning lithium-ion batteries today and in the future. Discussion will include regulatory issues concerning battery storage and transportation, future fire code implications, as well as risk management and insurance considerations. The panel will also address how to prepare for battery recalls and how to best plan for battery end of life and recycling. The panel includes a Q&A session where the panelists will answer your questions, even those tough “elephant in the room” ones – no holds barred! Topics covered include:

• Battery storage and transport regulations
• Future fire code implications
• Insurance/Risk management concerns
• Recalls, end of life, recycling planning

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• This is an unparalleled opportunity for you to meet other industry professionals, make new business contacts, and have in-depth discussions with the presenters.

• See the outcomes of previous day’s demonstrations – batteries and packaging – after they had a chance to cool.

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• Lithium battery thermal runaway events are rare – extremely rare. Still, if you handle and store large volumes of lithium batteries, you’re bound to encounter thermal runaway incidents at some point. A key to mitigating these risks is to have appropriate employee emergency response procedures, fire protection strategies, and battery quarantine methods. During this session, we will discuss steps that will drive organizational preparedness & management of lithium batteries thermal events including readiness evaluations, practical mitigation solutions, and emergency response procedures companies have implemented to enhance safety for those handling, storing, and using lithium batteries on-site.

• Despite great improvements across the battery industry in manufacturing and quality monitoring, the ever-growing public scrutiny on any battery failure, particularly thermal events, has made it almost mandatory for most companies to be able to perform a post-failure investigation.
• In this talk, Dr. Hernan Sanchez leverages Exponent’s real-life experience in dealing with battery fires across the world to replicate various laptop failure modes – such as external heating, puncturing, or crushing – walking the audience through the failure analysis process and highlighting how even small changes if the failure condition can result in drastic differences in the internal and external damage patterns. 

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