The “hub” of the Best-in-Class Safety Management virtual symposium is its social network. Designed from the ground up to be easy-to-use, the Virtual Symposium network allows you to do such things as:
Attend scheduled live webcasts the week of April 20th
Pull up and print out session materials
Dialog with symposium speakers and other attendees
Watch “reruns” of the live sessions you missed along with other select past ASSE webinars
Dr. John Howard, former Director of NIOSH
Dr. Howard will give session attendees an understanding of the historical
context and origins of safety and health management programs. From this
historical perspective, he will bring us up-to-date on the more recent
national and international versions of safety and health management programs
and assess their value to the enterprise--both large and small.
Dr. Tom Krause, Chairman of the Board, BST
Knowledge about safety best practices is only as good as the organization’s
ability to execute them successfully. The same set of safety best practices
produce different results in different organizations. What are the primary
factors that differentiate successful from struggling safety initiatives?
And how are they related to leadership and culture? What about executing
best practices developed in North America in other countries? These and other
related issues will be discussed and relevant research findings reviewed.
Julius Rhodes
This session provides attendees with the skills needed to accomplish tasks
using technology to interact with geographically dispersed volunteers.
Attendees will examine their individual actions and learn to build authentic
relationships by understanding the difference between leadership and management
in addition to developing skills in influence and collaboration.
Frank
White, Sr. VP, ORC
Details coming soon.
Dr. Roger Brauer, Executive Director, Board of Certified Safety Professionals
There are many similarities and differences in professional safety practice
in various countries. There is a growing interest in professionalism. This
session will discuss what safety professionals do based on studies of practice
in several countries. There will be a discussion of trends in practice
and factors that influence similarities and differences. The session will
also discuss some activities focused on improving transportability of qualifications
and credentials across borders.
Antoine Carrillo, World Engineering and SH&E
Director, L'Oréal R&D
L'Oréal has a strong commitment to safety and "Zero accidents
at work" is one of our goals. To achieve this, all work equipment must
be supplied and installed to ensure that they do not present any uncontrolled
hazard. To achieve this, L'Oréal has developed the concept of SH&E
equipment validation. Since L'Oréal is an international company, this
process needs to be effective and applicable all over the world where L'Oréal
operates. This concept will be explained in this presentation.
Ashok Garlapati,
CSP,QEP, G-IOSH, HSE Specialist, Exploration and Production Development Directorate
of Kuwait Oil Company in the State of Kuwait
Kuwait Oil Company is the premier oil & gas Company in the Gulf region
involved in exploration and production of oil & gas reserves. The company
engages a number of contractors, who in turn employ a Workforce from more
than 65 countries around the world. The workforce is highly diverse in nature
and workers have many different backgrounds, languages and skill sets which
provide a big challenge for the company to achieve HSE (Health Safety & Environment)
targets. The company adopts variety of methods in implementing the HSE Management
process by involving this diverse workforce. The speaker is currently involved
in this process and played a key role in the past. As part of the best practices
sharing among the global HSE community, the presentation will provide one
Company’s experience in achieving HSE targets working with a diverse
workforce.
Dr. Andrew Hale, Professor of Safety Science, Delft, Netherlands
Do we know if the programs we introduce to improve safety really work? Not
much scientific evaluation occurs, if we contrast that with the research
we do on medical interventions. From a study of 17 organizational interventions
in the Netherlands it is possible to draw some conclusions about what works
in the companies there who took part in the program. The emphasis lies
there on energizing workforce dialogue with line management, and providing
incentives for those line managers to solve problems arising from that
dialogue. Question is - would those interventions work elsewhere?
Mark Hansen, Vice President, Environmental & Safety
for Range Resources Corporation
As a result of the improprieties that have occurred over the last few years,
many companies today have instituted compliance and ethics departments. These
departments are usually represented at the Board of Directors level. Many
companies also struggle where to place Safety, Health & Environmental
(SHE) within the company organization. Should it be under … Operations? … reporting
to the CEO? … Legal? … Human Resources? Just where does SHE
belong without being a step child and how well can it function there? Because
we deal with compliance, many companies are bringing the two together … ethics
and compliance … and … SHE. It seems that after all these years
struggling where we fit into the corporate cosmos, we have finally found
a home that fits like a glove.
John J. (Jack) Fearing, CPEA, Senior Consultant, Aon Global Risk Consulting
Managing a well-designed Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) audit program is critical to the success of multinational companies in all business sectors. This has become more important as senior management seeks a greater response in “real time” information on the compliance of all operations. This session will outline a three step Health and Safety Audit Process which adds value over traditional audit processes.
James “Skipper” Kendrick, Director, EHS
Training, Textron Inc.
Learn how one business enterprise built and used their EHS Management System
to build a safety culture and reduce recordable injuries by as much as
75%. You will hear of their accomplishments, pitfalls, roadblocks and what
is currently being done to ensure continual improvement.
Gary Lopez, President Risky Biz Services Inc. and James D. Smith, M.S., CSP, Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services
This session will cover how the Z10 Health and Safety Management Systems Standard is being used as the benchmark standard for developing state of the art safety programs and approaches to managing safety, health and risk management issues in businesses across the country.
The presentation will discuss the content of Z10, how the Plan, Do, Check, Act approach of the standard fits into other sectors of the business and how the standard introduces the concept of managing the overall risk to an organization as opposed to just focusing on standards compliance.
Zack Mansdorf, SVP, SH&E, L'Oreal North America & Worldwide
This session will focus on our approach to global implementation of OHSAS 18001 in all of our factories within a three year time period. We will review why we decided to use this management system, how we decided to implement it, where we had problems and the results of our efforts.
Robert Pater, Managing Director, Strategic Safety Associates. and Anil Mathur,
CEO, Alaska Tanker Company
This webcast will focus on strategies for next stepping up to the next level
of Safety performance and culture. Safety culture encompasses what everyone
in your company really believes about Safety - and how they act, even when
no one is watching. During the session, we will talk about proven methods
for catalyzing significant improvements in Safety performance and culture,
through improving safety leadership on all levels, baseline behaviors and "surround
system" at work and at home.
Steven Prevette, Flour Handford Environment, Safety, Health & Quality
Fluor has undertaken a “Human Performance Initiative” at its large nuclear projects in order to improve communications, worker safety and operational reliability. The goal was to foster a highly reliable organization that focused on preventing and mitigating events. This session will focus on the HPI concepts and go into a case study of the our experiences implementing it.
Tom Rancour, CSP, CIH, President, Rancour & Associates,
LLC
Safety professionals must have the skills to effectively influence and coach
business leaders in order to attain world class safety. This session covers
practical methods for communicating and effecting positive changes in safety
performance and process, leadership team behaviors and safety business integration.
Steven Schoolcraft, Examination Director, Board of Certified Safety Professionals
The purpose of this session is to (1) identify a few of the more frequently-cited
safety-related certifications that are in use globally, (2) understand
how third-party certification accreditation organization help ensure the
quality of credentialing organizations and (3) consider the implications
of transporting safety credentials across national boundaries.
Kathy A. Seabrook, CSP (US), CMIOSH (UK), President Global Solutions, Inc. and Global Solutions International (UK) Limited
How effective is your company’s global safety and health management process? This session will provide session attendees with best practice global safety and health management strategies used by successful global companies. Learn what they know about how to manage the “business of safety” within their organizations.
Henry Smahlik, CSP, CIH, Manager, Consulting and Training Services, Hagemeyer
North America
Through 54 dynasties and 5000 years, China has endured. Many international
companies now operate in China, bringing with them their own set of occupational
safety and industrial hygiene rules & regulations. While this is
a boon for China, many learning pains have resulted from this clash of cultures. This
symposium will review the clashes and offer solutions to the problems.
David Smith, Chair OHSAS 18001/2 Working Party
The session will cover the application of the revised document OHSAS 18001:
2007, now adopted as a standard in a number of countries with some 35,000
organizations certified to it. The presentation will cover what is required
of an organization seeking to become certified to this standard through the
formal certification process and how OHSAS 18002 will help in this respect.
The UK have produced a further document on good practice, BS 18004 (previously BS 8800), which goes further than the new standard helping organizations become the “Best-in-Class” in managing occupational health and safety proactively.
Moniqua Suits, Safety Through Engineering
This session defines sustainable safety and identifies its elements, requirements
and future in the built environment. Engineers and CSPs will discuss the
role of sustainable safety in protecting a company's people, guests and
environment. This presentation will give you the tools to incorporate safety
practices which will contribute to sustainable safety in your workplace.
Joel N. Tietjens, CSP, CSHM, President, T-JENS & T-JENS, INC.
The system, it’s all about the system in which we function that drives safety and health performance. The system is created. What will be discussed is what creates the system and how that system can be calibrated to support safety and health. Various formal safety and health management systems will be briefly discussed and whether such a system can benefit your organization.
Edwin Yap
Setting out to create a good Safety & Health that is characterized
by fewer risks will lead to better Safety & Health outcomes. This will
reduce disruptions to production and service capacities, as well as enhance
business profitability in Asia Pacific. In this session, we will discuss
the strategies for managing Workplace Safety & Health, particularly in
these three areas: chemical, machinery and ergonomics.
Moderated by James “Skipper” Kendrick,
Director, EHS Training, Textron Inc.
Benchmarking the old fashion way was expensive and time consuming. It involved
airplanes and hotel rooms. Join us for a real-time benchmarking session utilizing
the latest in virtual technologies. Also learn how to continue the dialog
and information sharing utilizing our “Ning” site.