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Third Triennial EHS Management Symposium:
Celebrating Innovation in Individual and Organizational  Performance Excellence

Sponsored by the AIHA Management Committee

Saturday and Sunday, May 21–22
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
 2.0 CM point/1.6 CEU/1.6 COC

Dramatic forces continue to define our organizations and conduct. In this era, organizations have been moving from command-and-control hierarchies to interconnected webs of alliances and partnerships, and there is a demand on EHS professionals to think and operate from building sustainable organizations versus merely surviving.

The third triennial EHS management symposium focuses on celebrating innovation in individual and organizational performance excellence in the face of tremendous challenges. Twenty-one speakers over two days will address a wide range of provocative topics in leadership, management systems, metrics, and emerging issues. With an eye toward providing practical, take-home information, participants are sure to gain insights that will impact them as well as their organizations.

 

Saturday, May 21

7:30 a.m.–8:00 a.m.
Registration and continental breakfast

 

8:00 a.m.–8:05 a.m.
Welcome and introduction
Charles F. Redinger, Ph.D., MPA, CIH, Redinger & Associates Inc., San Rafael, CA

John Howard, MD, JD, MPH

8:05 a.m.–8:45 a.m.
 Keynote Address
John Howard, MD, JD, MPH, NIOSH, Washington, DC Managing a High-Performance Organization: The People Asset, John Howard, MD, JD, MPH, NIOSH, Washington, DC

 

 

  • Is there a relationship between workforce health and business productivity?

  • Can any management system positively affect health so that higher levels of productivity are achieved?

  • Integrating the management of heal protection and health promotion.

 

LEADERSHIP

Arrangers: James Boiano, CIH, NIOSH, Cincinnati, OH and Buck Cameron, CPWR, Silver Spring, MD


Moderator: James Boiano

Many believe that leadership in occupational safety and health is the single most important factor in achieving organizational excellence. In this session there will be presentations addressing: EHS leadership from a corporate and military perspective, impact of leadership on performance; and case studies evaluating the role of safety climate on safety performance and the effectiveness of safety incentives in a high hazard industry.

8:45 a.m.–8:50 a.m.
Introduction

8:50 a.m.–9:20 a.m.
Offership: Army Leadership Based on Timeless Principles, LTC Shawn P. Buck, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

9:20 a.m.–9:50 a.m.
SH&E Leadership in a Diverse, Global Company, Aldo A. Morell, DuPont Company, Wilmington, DE

  • Leadership Paradoxes
  • Systems Thinking
  • Regional, Business, and Functional Structure
  • Electronic Tools

9:50 a.m.–10:20 a.m.
Increasing Performance Through Leadership Engagement, Jim Spigener, Behavioral Science Technology Inc. Ojai, CA

  • Improved results when safety processes are coupled with leadership involvement

  • The role of the leader in examining and implementing safety initiatives

  • Increased sustainability with leadership involvement

  • How leaders can maximize performance

10:20 a.m.–10:35 a.m.
BREAK

10:35 a.m.–11:05 a.m.
Making Workplaces Safer: Understanding and Safety Climate, David M. DeJoy, Ph.D., Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

  • Safety climate and safety performance

  • Determinants of safety climate

  • Tactics for improving your safety climate

  • Assessing safety climate

11:05 a.m.–11:35 a.m.
Examining the Effectiveness and Long-term Impact of Safety Incentive Programs in Construction, Paul M. Goodrum, Ph.D., PE, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

  • Using primary survey data from construction firms and craft workers, this paper examines the impact of incentives on the safety performance of this population

  • The differences in the perception of their effectiveness between managers and craft workers

  • The long term effectiveness of safety incentives in construction is examined

11:35 a.m.–Noon
Roundtable discussion

Noon–1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)

 

MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Arranger and Moderator: Rebecca L. Brown, Lt. Col., USAF, BSC, Washington DC

Management systems have been in place for sometime and there familiarity continues to gain strength. There are numerous management system approaches at the international, national, and organizational levels. This session presents an overview of the management system universe and then dives into specific timely topics that include the legal pitfalls of implementing management systems, case studies from the private sector and a federal agency, and a look into the future of management systems.

1:30 p.m.–1:35 p.m.
Introduction

1:35 p.m.–2:05 p.m.
State of the Management System World, Alan Leibowitz, CIH, CSP, ITT Defense & Electronics, Mc Lean, VA

  • What’s out there?

  • How is it being used?

  • Has it an impact?

  • What’s happening with ANSI Z10?

  • Where do we go from here?

2:05 p.m.–2:40 p.m.
Legal Issues, Thea Dummire, CIH, ENLAR Compliance Services Inc. Largo, Florida

2:40 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Private Sector Implementation, Ann W. Phillips, Quality Techniques Inc., Huntsville, AL.

  • Two case studies on management system integration

  • Benefits of the integrated system

  • Challenges experienced by these organizations

  • Lessons learned in the implementation

3:15 p.m.–3:35 p.m.
BREAK

3:35 p.m.–4:15 p.m.
Federal Agency Implementation, Col. Richard A. Ashworth, Ph.D., PE, U.S. Air Force, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health, Washington, DC

4:15 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Where Are Management Systems Going? Brian Krause, BA, BAI, MBA, ERM Certification & Verification Services, London, United Kingdom

5:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Roundtable discussion

 

Sunday, May 22

7:30 a.m.–8:00 a.m.
Continental breakfast

 

8:00 a.m.–8:05 a.m.
Introduction, Charles F. Redinger, Ph.D., MPA, CIH, Redinger & Associates Inc., San Rafael, CA

Kenneth H. Meashey

8:05 a.m.–8:45 a.m.
 Keynote Speaker
Kenneth H. Meashey, Energy, Environment, Safety and Health, Lockheed-Martin, Bethesda, MD.

 

 

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT/METRICS

Arranger: Robert E. Brown, Jr., CIH, CSP, CHMM, EHS Compliance & Training Programs, Specialty Technical Consultants, Concord, CA 

Professional and organizational interest in performance measurement and metrics continues grow. As we struggle with finding new and better ways to define and measure performance excellence, the search for valid and reliable measures becomes paramount. This session will consider work being done in the area of metrics and performance measurement development and use. Perspectives from industry groups, actual large businesses, and consultants will be considered, as will the introduction of tools less traditionally used in EHS metrics consideration.

8:45a.m.–8:50 a.m.
Introduction

8:50 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
Metrics Work by the ORC, Steve Newell, Organization Resources Counsel, Washington, DC

9:30 a.m.–10:10 a.m.
A Corporate Perspective: Progress on Metrics Initiatives, Robert J. Seguy, CIH, CSP, Sobha Renaissance North America, Libertyville, IL.

  • The importance of metrics

  • Careful balance of lagging and future oriented metrics

  • Collaborating key metrics

    • Making key members accountable

    • Getting everyone on the same page

    • Defining/allocating resources

  • Collecting of information

    • Responsibility

    • Mechanism

  • Lessons Learned

10:10 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
BREAK

10:30 a.m.–11:10 a.m.
Emerging Trends in Performance Metrics, Becky L. Randolph, CIH, BMS Solutions USA Inc., Houston, TX

11:10 a.m.–11:40 a.m.
Approaches—Integrating Lean Six Sigma, Randy Roig, Ph.D., STC Inc., Oakland, CA

  • What is Lean Six Sigma?

  • How does it apply to health and safety programs?

  • How can it be used to measure and drive H&S performance?

11:40 a.m.–Noon
Roundtable discussion

Noon–1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)

 

EMERGING ISSUES

Arrangers: Charles Redinger and Kate Neufeld, CHPPM, APG, MD
Moderator: Charles Redinger

With an eye toward emerging issues in the OEHS field, a range of timely topics will be discussed in this closing session. These include issues of integration of such things as corporate responsibility/ethics, productivity management, GenX training issues, and evolving/new perspectives on risk assessment when view from a management systems foundation.

1:30 p.m.–1:35 p.m.
Introduction

1:35 p.m.–2:05 p.m.
Melding Corporate Responsibility, Values, and Manufacturing Excellence: “Sometimes it Pays to Be the Tortoise” Nancy Orr, MPH, CIH, CSP, Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ

  • How do strong corporate values and an active ethics function have a positive financial impact on how a corporation functions?

  • How does the way we relate to our communities impact the way we manage?

  • What does our approach to manufacturing say about the company we are and expect to be?

2:05 p.m.–2:35 p.m.
Innovative Risk Assessment by Control Banding, Keith Tait, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY

2:35 p.m.–3:05 p.m.
Workplace Health and Productivity, Sean Sullivan, Institute for Health and Productivity Management, Gainey Ranch Center, Scottsdale, AZ

3:05 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
BREAK

3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Communication and Training for Generational Synergy, Cindy Lewis, Creative Safety Solutions, MSPH, Houston, TX

  • What is "generational synergy"? Why is it important to know and understand the topic?

  • Comparison of the 5 current working generations

  • Future implications to the workforce and how we communicate information to each generation.

4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Roundtable discussion

4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Putting It All Together, Symposium Synopsis, Kyle Dotson, CIH, CSP, Calpine Corporation, San Jose, CA

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