Session Title: An Excellence Framework for Safety
Date: Thursday,
February 15, 2007
Time(s): 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Donald E. Stephans Convention Center
Code(s): P6
In this session we will look at how, High Performance Safety initiatives can and will improve the company’s “bottom line’. We will look at the way safety is usually approached (prevailing wisdom), some of the impediments to achieving safety excellence (standards, procedures, behaviors, culture & leadership), and the critical steps (alignment) that will help achieve safety excellence within an orga-nization. We will also explore effective business and management tools (Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, Lean Processes, and other techniques and their applicability to the management of safety. Attendees will be able to take away an outline of how to achieve a tailored, integrated, multi-strategy initiative that will result in a high performance safety management system, resulting in lower losses and improved profitability.