Holistic Safety? Behavior-based Safety?
Forget What You Call It, Here's What Works

Are you confused by the academic terms, the latest HR trends, and the pie-in-the-sky claims that assert they can change your workplace culture and establish a behavioral improvement process? Are you left asking yourself questions like, “Which word is right to use? Am I addressing attitudes or behaviors?” How can you make sense out of everything you hear and read?

People argue about the effectiveness of behavior-based safety compared to other methods for preventing accidents and improving safety, health and environment. Is behavior-based safety the most effective path? Many say yes. We say, by itself, NO!

What you call it isn’t important. If the process improves your S, H and E, changes unsafe attitudes and behaviors at all levels—from management to line employees—and addresses workplace hazards and system changes, it works!

We will discuss the merits of using a holistic, integrated approach that uses different methods from different theories to get everyone on board, from staff members to management, to make change happen in your workplace.

This session will explore and discuss what works to achieve breakthroughs in safety, health, and environmental performance, wherever a person may be.

Learning Objectives:

• What are some of the primary issues that make S, H & E improvement so challenging?
• What are the primary causes of accidents, injuries, and health and environmental incidents both on and off the job?
• What is the hidden enemy of S, H & E excellence—and what can anyone about it?
• What are the main the distinctions between prominent methodologies for cultural and behavioral workplace change?
• What makes a holistic, integrated approach so essential for making lasting improvements with the changing workforces of the 21st Century?
• Who should be included in the improvement process?
• What skills do both line and management employees need to support and manage their own and others’ safe practice behavior?
• How can you truly assess your own level of commitment and drive for constructive change?
• How can you start a planning model for S, H & E improvement?
• What are the biggest barriers to change?
• Plan your next action steps for initiating change in your company.

Presented by:

Michael D. Topf
Founder, President and CEO
Topf Initiatives

Michael Topf has extensive experience in consulting, as well as in designing and conducting training courses in Executive Leadership, Management & Line Employee Development and other areas of Organizational Effectiveness.

Since 1983, Michael has pioneered a holistic, integrated methodology to assist all levels of employees in creating an organizational culture committed to safety, health and environmental excellence thru developing safe attitudes and behaviors to prevent errors and resulting accidents, injuries, health and environmental incidents.

Michael has B.S. degrees in Biology and Chemistry, as well as M.A. degrees in Applied Psychology and Theology. He has worked as a medical research assistant, a hospital administrator, a certified counselor in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and an instructor in the graduate program for Health and Safety Administration at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He has published many articles in a variety of safety and health publications. He has been a speaker and presenter at numerous corporate, national and local conferences, including ASSE, NSC and specialty conferences. Over the past 25 years, his topics have covered organizational and personal effectiveness; safety, health and environmental culture change; and attitudinal and behavioral approaches to preventing errors and improving safety, health and environmental performance.

Who would benefit from this program:

• Safety Managers
• Safety Directors
• Safety Executives

Continuing Education:

- This program has been applied for CIH & CSP Continuing Education Credits. Earn .33 CM Points for CIHs and .156 Points for CSP and CSHM.

Product Options:

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Length: 2 hours

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