PART THREE
There will never be another Ziggy, there will never be another ELITE team of geniuses, eclectic, eccentric and bad arse EHS EDUCATORS. Honored and humbled to have known and worked with you big Ziggy. In the 30 years I have known “FRANKIE” as you called him, I have only seen him cry two times. After his mom passed and now for YOU! He loved you like a father as you know.
Love to all the EHS practitioners out there.  Love to Angie, Vicki and Justin. SEE you on the other side and Rest In Peace. 
With love, RESPECT and best regards!  CMG

PART TWO
My first experience with the OSHA Training Institute was in February 1997, as the Director of National Safety & Health Services for the Associated General Contractors of America. I had requested that the OTI TEAM come out of Chicagoland to teach two groups of AGC contractor-members the OSHA 500 Construction Safety & Health Train the Trainer course at a location at Florida International University. The “boys” were always happy to oblige and were thrilled I could get them all out of Chicagoland for the winter months. I negotiated the first ever in history in the USA- a National Partnering Agreement between the trades, AGC & OSHA during Clinton’s Reinvention and OSHA reform effort which at the time was UNHEARD OF during a DEMOCRAT Administration. Our partnership openEd the door for organized labor, OSHA and AGC contractor members to recognize each other’s part in preventing workplace incidents, share industry’s best engineering principles and technology, working together to assure all workers of socio-economic levels, heritages, gender, go home to their families and communities without an occupational illness, injury or fatality.  Those were the days.
WE will never know or be able to quantify the millions of people in our nation or worldwide thru ZIGG’s Leadership and his teams of educators saved from preventable workplace incidents. WE will never be able to measure the influence or empowerment Zigg had for all PEOPLE. He made females believe in themselves as trainers and leaders….he expected everyone to “walk in like WE own the place”. He was not a micro petty manager. He treated everyone with respect and dignity. His teams were “Performance Based”.  Their jobs were to make the OTI and OSHA look good with the stakeholders, organized labor, military, Presidents, Congress and state & Federal agencies. And that THEY DID.
There will never be another Ziggy, there will never be another ELITE team of geniuses, eclectic, eccentric and bad arse EHS EDUCATORS. Honored

IN MEMORY of Zigmus Sadauskus. The MAN behind the OSHA TRAINING INSTITUTE  responsible for building an ELITE TEAM of Environmental, Occupational Safety, Health and Industrial Hygiene EDUCATORS and OUTREACH PROGRAMS for America’s and the World’s workplaces and construction projects.
The Walsh - Healey Act aka Occupational Safety  and Health Act of 1970 was passed by US Congress and President Richard Nixon on December 29, 1970.  The Act was a result of many preventable deaths and injuries in manufacturing, agriculture, construction, maritime and mining.
As a result of the Act, Ziggy became the DIRECTOR of OSHA’s National Training Institute originally based in Rosemont then Des Plaines and finally Arlington Heights, IL.  Ziggy had a huge job as he had to build an ELITE Multi-disciplinary TEAM to educate all state and federal new OSHA Compliance Officers whom would later inspect America’s worksite and construction projects. In addition, he his elite group of educators trained the Military, organized labor aka AFL-CIO building and construction trades Union and United Steelworkers of America all over the nation.
Ziggy had the knack to build strong, eclectic and eccentric teams of educators. SAFETY and HEALTH is a boring subject for many and to sit for a week 8 hours a day for a week is tough duty for most. His educators and teams had to by dynamic, comedic and stealth to teach a very diverse group of people, workers, companies from around the nation and world.  His instructors worked hard and played hard. 
My first experience with the OSHA Training Institute was in February 1997, as the Director of National Safety & Health Services for the Associated General Contractors of America. I had requested that the OTI TEAM come out of Chicagoland to teach two groups of AGC contractor-members the OSHA 500 Construction Safety & Health Train the Trainer course at a location at Florida International University. The “boys” were always happy to oblige and were thrilled I could get them

Angie and Family, 

Big Zig will be missed. He was very helpful in my career. I will always remember him urging me to apply for an Instructor position. He said it was a shoe- in, and I got the job. Little would we know some years later,  I would become the OTI Director. We had so much fun collaborating about work at the bar. He was a great man.

Tony Towey, Junior

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