Speaker Spotlight

“Employee well-being and psychological safety is as important as ensuring people are physically safe on the job,” says Lorraine M. Martin, president and CEO of the National Safety Council.

When used the right way, imagination “offers the possibility not only that catastrophic outcomes can be avoided, but creative new solutions to safety challenges can be implemented,” says I. David Daniels, president and CEO of ID2 Solutions LLC.

“It’s critical to recognize that nothing has changed in the need to address risk,” says Christine Clearwater of Drug-Free Solutions Group LLC.

Aligning these three disciplines is “a fresh approach to safety leadership that will take safety to the next level,” say Colin Duncan and Joseph Pitman from SEAM Group.

In addition to wearing facemasks themselves, safety and health leaders need to convince others to wear them, says E. Scott Geller of Safety Performance Solutions Inc.

“It’s the components of your training program that ultimately ensure its success or failure,” says safety professional Daniel J. Snyder, who offers advice on ensuring employees are adequately trained.

“It’s often a lack of trust that keeps employees from reporting safety incidents,” says speaker and author Rodney Grieve, who offers ways leaders can restore balance to their safety culture.

“Adding new activities to our safety regimen that sync well with our existing efforts may make risk more visible and help curb SIF incidents,” says Gary A. Higbee, president and CEO of Higbee & Associates Inc.

“I want to continue discussing a systems approach in all my circles, but I also want to encourage a more equal human approach,” says Tim Page-Bottorff, senior consultant at SafeStart.

“Safety-related feedback is critical to support safe behavior and correct at-risk behavior,” says Krista S. Geller, president of GellerAC4P, who discusses the concept of “actively caring for people.”