Sponsored by Avetta

The interesting and critical intersection between ROI and culture.

Return on investment (ROI) and safety are often viewed in isolation from the rest of an organization, but for safety to positively impact culture, it needs to be incorporated throughout all levels of an organization. Questions such as, “How much have we spent on safety equipment, claims, safety personnel, technology and certifications?” are often asked alongside the competing question of, “Did we spend less than last year?” as a measure of success.

Although ROI is important as it relates to safety, there are challenges with the concept, starting with being disconnected to actual risk levels in the organization. This, in turn, can misinform future budget and resource discussions as well as serve as an unintended cultural barrier between a workforce that knows the most about work performance and organizational leadership with the resources and authority to enable safer work to happen.

Join us for a compelling discussion of a better approach to the ROI and safety discussion. We’ll aim to elevate and connect organizational thinking around the business necessity to wisely resource and enable the workforce for safe work. This informed approach will enable cultural indicators and organizational learning from the workers’ insights.

The webinar will cover:

• The importance and challenges of the ROI and safety discussion
• The connection between ROI and culture
• Cultural and organizational indicators that connect ROI and culture
• Case studies and examples
• Takeaways and discussion points for your organization

Join us for an encouraging and informative discussion sure to inspire and inform safety leaders. Whether you’re in human resources, facilities, finance or risk/safety management, we trust this session will serve you.

Speakers

Bill Sims, Founder, Beyond Zero Injuries

Bill Sims, founder of Beyond Zero Injuries and president of The Bill Sims Co., is a world-renowned keynote and leadership speaker as well as author of the book, “Green Beans and Ice Cream: The Remarkable Power of Positive Reinforcement.” For more than 40 years, he’s led his namesake company; the organization has helped more than 1,000 companies of varying sizes to inspire greater employee performance and improve profits with behavior-based recognition programs.

Scott DeBow, Principal, Avetta

Scott DeBow, CSP, ARM and serves as principal for Avetta – the leading provider of supply chain risk management software. He’s a highly collaborative, strategic thinker and operator with 19 years of progressive leadership in the realm of risk/occupational safety. With an “inside-out” perspective as a safety professional in nontraditional employment settings, he sees tremendous opportunity for systems improvements that can work together to reliably create and maintain safer work environments. Working to align people, teams and industry resources for safety within the joint-employer community, he devotes much of his time developing safety leadership across organizations with a targeted emphasis on systems improvements to address the most critical type of risk far too easily overlooked: serious injury/fatality, or SIF.

Moderator

Kevin Druley, Associate Editor, Safety+Health magazine

Druley covers worker safety for Safety+Health and serves as co-host of the magazine’s “On the Safe Side” podcast..