We’ve got an all-star lineup of speakers this year. Industry veterans both in the field and in research will present on a wide range of topics in Environmental Safety and Health.
Speaker Presentations
E. Scott Geller, Ph.D.
Emotional Intelligence
A crucial human dynamic for safety, health, and human welfare
This dynamic research-based presentation will elucidate emotional intelligence (EI) as a critical human dynamic that safety leaders need to nurture within themselves as intrapersonal EI and among others as interpersonal EI, in order to optimize occupational health and safety. More specifically, EI determines whether a person’s motivating arousal leads to productive stress or debilitating distress, and whether certain personality dispositions are healthy or unhealthy. The achievement of an injury-free workplace requires empathic and persuasive communication skills (interpersonal EI), as well as self-determinism, personal commitment, self-esteem, and optimism (intrapersonal EI). Attend this keynote address to learn practical ways to promote, support, and maintain a psychologically safe work culture wherein intrapersonal and interpersonal EI can be cultivated for the successful prevention of unintentional injuries and for the continual enhancement of human welfare and life satisfaction.
Ryan Olson, Ph.D.
First Things First: Foundations for Protective and Positive Workplaces
Setting the Stage for Prevention
One of the first lessons in behavioral science is that behavior is a function of its consequences. If we want to change behavior, we must change its consequences. Perhaps a second lesson is that antecedents, or the things that happen before behavior, are weaker or less effective for creating change. However, in workplace safety certain types of antecedents are paradoxically more important to address and more powerful than behavioral consequences. An example is removing or reducing hazards. In this talk I’ll describe this prevention paradox and share several strategies for putting “first things first” in your injury prevention processes.
Marta Wilson, Ph.D.
Launching and Leading a Culture of Superheroes: What We See When People Summon Their Superpowers
What happens when people summon their superpowers to drive and enable new behaviors, culture change, and workplace transformation? Satisfaction and performance soar to new heights. Discover what best-selling leadership author, Dr. Marta Wilson, has seen firsthand when individuals engage with tools, techniques, and experiences that lift them to new heights of personal, interpersonal, organizational, and motivational mastery. During Marta’s keynote, you’ll learn about LEAP (Leadership Effectiveness And Potential), a talent development framework and accelerator based on findings from 30 years of action research and numerous large-scale interventions. LEAP has helped thousands of people expand their individual results, leverage their professional relationships, integrate their working environments, and inspire their co-workers to reach for the stars while achieving their boldest goals. Come prepared to have fun, unleash your inner superhero, and help others do the same!
Michael Behm, Ph.D.
The Safety Professional as Mini-Ethnographer (do you even know you did this big word?)
Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the worker. In the context of workplace safety and health it involves examining the behavior of groups in work situations and understanding workers’ own interpretation of their behavior. Ethnographic methods have the potential to deepen the understanding of safety-related group phenomena and to help safety practitioners focus on work, its context, and how behavior in understood in a unique and deep manner. However, ethnography is rarely, if ever, mentioned as a tool for the OHS professional. This session will introduce the ethnographic process, provide examples of recent mini-ethnographies done to study work, risk, and safety, and offer practical tools and a methodology for the safety professional to engage as a mini-ethnographer within their own organization.
Walter C. Fluharty, Psy.D.
C.A.A.R.E. for Safety™
Come to this lively and interactive workshop and learn how one of the largest privately owned commercial roofing companies created an engaging safety culture ranking them among the best safety performers in the industry. Learn how to develop an outline that will help your employees C.A.A.R.E. for Safety™ by;
Clarifying your company’s safety objectives.
Assessing the barriers to achieving your company’s safety objectives.
Aligning every employee’s personal goals to your companies safety objectives.
Re-enforcing the behaviors that will assure attainment of your company’s safety objectives.
Evaluating and adjusting as needed.
When you leave the session, you will have the blueprint for a new set of tools to take your first steps toward an aligned safety culture.
