Program Details
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Keynote: Next Level Executive Safety Leadership: Inspiring Culture and Performance
Robert Pater, Managing Director, Strategic Safety Associates Inc
Learn how, through highest-level safety leadership, executives can energize
employee engagement, reduce losses, boost trust, heighten receptivity, affect
health care costs, and elevate overall performance. Attaining these results
means aligning staff motivation, communications, leadership, and daily actions
toward the desired direction. Safety culture encompasses what your employees
believe about safety within your organization and how they conduct themselves,
even when no one is watching. To achieve and sustain high-level safety performance,
it is critical to send strategic messages, transfer critical skills, and reinforce
these skills consistently. Albert Einstein wrote, "We can't solve problems
by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Doing
more of the same actions is unlikely to lead to breakthrough results, and this
presentation will focus on proven time-leveraged strategies for catalyzing significant
improvements in safety performance and culture. It will address how to identify
the four stages of safety cultural development and how to develop insight into
strategies for moving to a next-level safety culture. Learn “Executive
Do's and Don'ts” for motivating safer actions and personal safety responsibility--even
among minimally-supervised and "difficult to reach" workers.
Robert Pater is Managing Director of Strategic Safety Associates Inc. of Portland,
Ore., and MoveSMART. His company has provided safety culture and best practices
consulting services and training to major corporations in more than 63 countries
worldwide. He is author of Leading from Within: Martial Arts Skill for Dynamic
Business and Management and has written articles published in esteemed journals
such as Nation's Business, Professional Safety, Occupational Health & Safety,
HR Magazine, Training, and more. Mr. Pater has an MA in Industrial Psychology
and presents frequently at conferences and events including the American Society
of Safety Engineers' Annual Professional Development Conference Expo, the National
Safety Congress, and now OH&S’s Executive Safety Summit.
9:40 AM - 10:30 AM
1A: Integrating Health and Safety In the Workplace
Jayme Ambrose, Director, Corporate and Community Healthcare, Scottsdale Healthcare
The workforce continues to age and obesity is the number one disease in America. Employers are caught in a myriad of health conditions that can increase your safety costs. When an employee is not physically fit, they are at higher risk to injury. The length of time and the costs of recovery also increase. Identifying health issues and providing options for wellness are a plus in reducing the overall costs of your work related injuries. Scottsdale Healthcare began integrating wellness into their safety program over the past three years. This seminar will discuss the wins for the employees and the system that this integration has created.
Jayme Ambrose, MSN, RN, COHN, CCM, is the Director of Corporate & Community Health at Scottsdale Healthcare. Jayme has over ten years of experience in the management of occupational health and safety programs. She been with Scottsdale Healthcare since 2003 and has overseen the corporate health program and its expansion. She is a graduate of Arizona State University with Master’s of Science in Nursing, emphasis on Community Health. She was recognized as Community Health Advanced Practice Student of the year in 2007. She is certified as an Occupational Health Nurse (COHN) & as a Certified Case Manager (CCM). She was recognized as Occupational Health Nurse of the Year in 2006 through the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses.
1B: The Safety Director's Role In Emergency Planning
Ellen Clas, CIH, CSP, President, Clas Consulting
When a disaster strikes, emergency responders rush in. As a result, injuries
and health issues may arise. Formalized emergency response programs need to
include a qualified and experienced safety officer to address these issues,
mandated by NIMS and OSHA. This presentation will discuss the roles and responsibilities
of a safety officer, qualifying attributes to hold the position; various training
resources; and after-action critiques.
Ellen Clas is a highly accomplished emergency management, safety and industrial
hygiene consultant with over 20 years of progressive responsibility. She has
an impressive history of participation in numerous high-profile national emergency
response and recovery efforts. This includes command staff experience as the
Disaster Safety Coordinator for federal operations in Mississippi during Hurricane
Katrina and the lead FEMA Safety Officer for the response and recovery efforts
in New York City following 9-11. Prior to forming Clas Consulting in 2000, Ms.
Clas worked for twelve years at Liberty Mutual Insurance, where she served as
both an industrial hygienist and safety consultant at various insured facilities.
She has also held safety and health positions with the University of California
at Irvine and Berkshire Medical Center, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Ms. Clas
was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Industrial Hygiene Association
in 2006. Both the Board of Certified Safety Professionals and the American Board
of Industrial Hygienists have recognized Ms. Clas as a professional in comprehensive
practice. She holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Hygiene from the
University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental
Health and Technology from Springfield College.