Audience: Leadership

Emerging Technologies’ Impact on Supply Chain and Worker Safety

Several emerging technologies are impacting the supply chain. World Economic Forum’s top 10 emerging technologies include Digital Twin, Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, AI, and the Internet of Things. These technologies create both an opportunity to reduce risk and potentially create unanticipated hazards. This session is focused on emerging hazards from Additive Manufacturing and solutions that both manufacturers and users should consider to mitigate occupational safety and health risks. The goal is to enable risk recognition and strengthen risk management of EHS practitioners, thereby creating value for the practitioner and their organizations.

Creating a Breakthrough, Inclusive Performance Culture

By definition, culture is “the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society.”

An inclusive culture is one that embraces and celebrates each contributor’s differences – differences in experiences, backgrounds, and ways of thinking. There’s a lot of research indicating that inclusive businesses have more highly engaged, motivated, and productive workforces.  This session discusses the critical role of leadership in creating a truly inclusive environment through cultural awareness and cultural competency.

Mental Health: A Journey of Influence

Join Global Vice President of HSE, Paul Hendry, as he charts the complexities of implementing a mental health program throughout a workforce of 60,000. Hear how Jacobs went from running a positive mental health workshop for 16 employees in 2016 to running the “World’s Biggest Mental Health Check-In”, using their freely available One Million Lives tool in 2022. Through this powerful and insightful presentation, you will learn how mentally fit people are safer, make better decisions, and ultimately create greater returns on investment.  This journey has not been without its challenges and bumps in the road; however, that return on investment is now measurable, and there is clear evidence of the positive impact investing in a mental health program can bring to both organizations and individuals.

An Integrated Management System Approach to Sustainability

Travis Kruse, PhD, CSP, CHMM, Sr. Director, Safety & Sustainability Solutions Strategy, Grainger — Organizations are tasked with managing and continuing to improve environmental, health, safety, and sustainability. With synergies and select overlap organizations must “do more with less” and approach the management strategy in a lean, efficient, and effective way.  This session will outline those synergies and share a management system approach to addressing the challenge.

Working at Elevated Heights Serious Injuries and Fatalities Detection & Solutions, Grainger

Welcome to our third webinar in a series related to Serious Injuries & Fatalities (SIFs).

In this webinar, we will hear from David (Mac) McCollum CSP, Grainger Safety Specialist and Thomas Kramer, PE, CSP, Managing principal for LJB Inc. on working at elevated heights and how the potential for serious injuries and fatalities is a major concern.  Every organization has unique working at elevated heights risks, circumstances, and options that must be evaluated so that proper controls can be put in place to reduce the potential for serious injuries and fatalities.

At the conclusion of this Webinar, you will have a better understanding of:

  • Governing fall protection standards and consensus standards
  • Personal fall protection system equipment limitations
  • The importance of a risk assessment
  • Critical controls that are needed to reduce serious injury and fatality potential
  • Grainger’s Working at Elevated Heights solution

Credential Holders
After watching the video, submit your information for continuing education credits here.

2021 BCSP R&I Summit Keynote: Dr. Jay R. Harf

Effective OHS professionals must be able to adapt when advising stakeholders and leveraging influence on decisions about matters impacting workplace safety. In this session, Dr. Jay Harf will discuss how L’Oréal is investing in mixed-methods research that informs organizational decision-making about environmental, health, safety, and sustainability (EHSS) initiatives.  Dr. Harf will explore how influential safety leadership research has informed EHSS practice to affect EHSS performance outcomes.

The future safety professional’s role is transforming from a technical and compliance-based manager to an innovative, adaptive servant leader. This Influential Safety leadership initiative is ongoing research conducted by Dr. Harf at L’Oréal NA to create a collaborative learning ecosystem for organizational EHSS professional development, elite management systems, and sustainability

Credential Holders
After watching the video, submit your information for continuing education credits here.

Selling Safety in the Workplace

Getting everyone within an organization to be on the same safety page is often a challenging and seemingly impossible endeavor. This session will empower and show anyone responsible for safety how to transform their company leaders into champions of the cause. J.A. Rodriguez Jr., CSP, ASP travels the world mentoring leaders, labor, and safety professionals on how to convert their organizations from passive safety program participants into active advocates of a safer workplace. J.A. is the Vice President of Strategic Advancement & Learning Solutions at the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP). Be prepared to think differently.