Jean Ndana, CSP, PMP, SSBB, CQE has been an OHS Practitioner for over 25 years. His experience spans across multiple continents and industries. Currently he works as a Sr Corporate EHS Director for a global company. Jean has published a myriad of peer-reviewed articles and is a frequent speaker at safety conferences in the US and around the world. Jean was named the 2017 J.J. Keller Safety Professional of the Year and was one of the 3 winners during the 2018 ASSP Safety Management Innovation Award. Member of ASSP, Jean is also a consultant, a soccer coach and referee
• Distinguish between activity metrics and impactful leading indicators
• Apply the SMMART™ framework to design effective safety indicators
• Align safety metrics with organizational risks and operational realities
• Avoid common pitfalls that lead to “busy safety”
What sets top performing safety culture apart? Mastery of leading and lagging indicators.
But here is the challenge: Not all leading indicators improve safety performance. Some generate activities, reports or dashboard. But they do not necessarily reduce risk
To address this challenge, I developed the SMMART™ Safety Performance Model — a practical framework designed to help OHS professionals define leading indicators that prevent “busy safety”, are aligned with the organization’s risks and operational realities, and truly drive safety performance.
Join us to learn how the use of the SMMART™ Safety Performance Model transformed the safety performance at one unionized manufacturing. Discuss how the facility went from an underperforming site that's on OSHA's severe violators list to a one considered a bastion of safety and ultimately a profit machine
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