AZASSP January Technical Meeting

Speaker: Mike Kleinpeter

Topic Title:  The Right Way – Providing a common definition, setting expectations, and establishing roles and responsibilities for safety in your organization

Abstract: The responsibility for safety in any organization includes more than just safety personnel. Executive management, operations management, and the worker all have roles to play in establishing and maintaining a safe working environment. However, specific roles and responsibilities for each group has not always been understood, and they may not have ever been introduced. This means there may be employees in an organization who do not realize how vital their influence can be towards worker safety. Four groups comprise what can be called the company’s Safety Team. Each component has a specific role and responsibility for safety in their workplace, along with some common responsibilities shared within the Safety Team. It is important for each group of the Safety Team to understand their role and responsibility, as well as the impact they can have on safety. 1. Executive Management 2. Operations Management 3. Worker 4. Safety Personnel Each group must understand and embrace their roles and responsibilities, work synergistically, and consider themselves a safety leader, for the benefit of safety overall. The Right Way provides a common definition, sets expectations, and establishes roles and responsibilities for safety in your organization. Every organization has a moral, if not governmental, obligation to provide a safe and healthy work environment for its workers. The Right Way is a basic, simple foundational definition that can be used with any safety program or process to meet that obligation.

Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcome #1 – Learn the importance of having a common safety language within your organization

Learning Outcome #2 – Establish an organizational expectation for safety that everyone can readily understand and follow

Learning Outcome #3 – Discover the role and responsibility for each component of your organization’s safety team, and the impact it has on safety overall

Bio:

Current Position: Safety Director, Linbeck Group, which just won the AGC Construction Safety Excellence Award, including the Grand Award as the best safety program in the country for 2020

Education: Master of Engineering, University of Alabama – Birmingham, Advanced Safety and Engineering Management

Certifications: Construction Health & Safety Technician (CHST), Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP); Certified Utility Safety Professional (CUSP), Utility Safety & Ops Leadership Network (USOLN)

After a 4 ½ year career in the Army, Michael stumbled upon a safety job after being asked by a friend to join his construction company as a safety manager. Along the way that job became a career, then a passion. After finding joy and success in mentoring future safety leaders and discovering there was little safety education given to operations leaders, Michael created a safety philosophy that turned in to The Right Way, which teaches both safety and operations leaders their roles and responsibilities for safety. Currently a safety director for a general contractor Michael also speaks to organizations and at conferences on The Right Way.

Michael resides in the Dallas area with his wife and two sports-loving boys.

***THIS MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR AN IN-PERSON EVENT BUT MAY CHANGE DUE TO PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS***

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I understand that travel and gathering involves risk of sickness, including sickness from COVID-19.  Attending this event in person, attendees waive and release Arizona Chapter of ASSP, ASSP, and their representatives from and against claims, liabilities and expenses arising from injury, sickness or death from contraction or spread of COVID-19 or other communicable disease due to travel to or attendance at an event sponsored by the Chapter.  This waiver and release is binding on me and my heirs and successors.