Making The Business Case for EHS

Bio: Trevor has been coaching firms to improve their safety performance since 1997. He has a MS in Occupational Health and Safety in addition to an MBA. Trevor is also a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), and a Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP).  

Area of Application: Making the business case and project management excellence.

Synopsis: To unlock the secrets of EHS management more regulations, science and enforcement, is not needed. The results all rest on the quality of management. This session is designed to help bridge the gap between “traditional EHS programs” and cutting edge management techniques. This session will discuss how performance metrics and balanced score cards can be used to drive individual and organizational performance.

Using these simple tools participants of this session will be able to obtain unmatched performance and involvement from employees, supervisors and corporate leaders.

The learning objectives for this session include:

• Understand the limitations of traditional EHS management techniques
• Understand the limitations and negative consequences of measuring lagging indicators
• Understand how leading indicators are used to measure and drive performance
• Demonstrate how to set up a performance measurement system
• Demonstrate how to use a score card to measure performance