The pandemic has shown us that risks are inevitable, but how you respond to them can greatly impact your business and the world. Join Avetta’s Supply Chain Insights as they lead a group of sessions centered around risk management, safety, and supply chains. Speakers include industry experts such as past Presidents of American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), CEOs from industry-leading companies, top safety professionals, published speakers and many more.
Registration to this FREE event will give you access to all of the featured sessions listed below. In addition to open Q&As with these industry experts, we’ll be giving away more than $500 worth prizes over the course of the event. Attend to be entered to win prizes every hour—with a $200 Amazon gift card grand prize at the end of each day.
This is a special two-day event you won’t want to miss. You’ll learn more about reducing risks in your workplace and have the opportunity to take home prizes—it’s a win-win!
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr. is a partner in the Atlanta office of Fisher & Phillips LLP. Ed also serves as President of Fisher Phillips Safety Solutions LLC. Prior to joining Fisher & Phillips, Ed was the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health. Named by President George W. Bush to head OSHA, Ed served in that capacity from April 2006 to November 2008. During his tenure at OSHA, workplace injury, illness, and fatality rates dropped to their lowest levels in recorded history. For more than 30 years, Ed has worked in the labor and employment area, focusing on occupational safety and health issues. He also served on the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission in Washington, DC, chairing the Commission from March 1990 to February 1994. Ed has been named one of the “50 Most Influential EHS Leaders” by EHS Today magazine for several years and named one of the “50 Most Influential EHS Leaders” in the United States by Occupational Hazards magazine. He is recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on occupational safety and health issues.
Peter Sturm, is a senior Safety, Health and Risk Management Executive with STURM Consulting Inc. He works with companies to assist them in strategically managing their safety and health risks while at the same time effectively capitalizing on their human capital assets. This includes integrating their safety and health management systems into their business strategies, sustainability and human capital initiatives.
His leadership roles include:
• Past President, Canadian Society of Safety Engineering,
• Board Member, Centre for Safety & Health Sustainability,
• Chair CSA Z1005 Investigation Standard,
• Vice President/Director Minerva Canada,
• Governor with BCRSP.
He is a CRSP since 1996, Professional Member (CSSE) and CHSC since 2006. He completed his EMBA in Global Leadership.
He attained the CSSE Safety Professional of the Year in 2015, & Outstanding Service to CSSE/Volunteer of the Year in 2019.
Tim’s career in safety began 30 years ago as a marine in Operation Desert Storm, helping put out oil fires and liberating Kuwait. After leaving the Marine Corps, Tim became a full-time safety professional. He has received the prestigious Safety Professional of the Year award from the American Society of Safety Professionals. In 2018, Tim received the National Safety Council’s Distinguished Service to Safety Award (DSSA) to become the first Safety Professional to receive both awards. Tim has been on the global stage delivering keynotes for the National Safety Council, American Society of Safety Professionals and many other conferences.
Tim is the author of, the “Core of Four”, a motivational book to improve safety performance, self-discipline and personal accountability.\
Tim is considered to be a thought leader in the industry and his opinions and counsel are always sought after.
Pam Walaski has been a dedicated occupational safety and health professional for more than 25 years. She is currently a Senior Program Director with Specialty Technical Consultants, Inc., and an adjunct faculty member for the Safety Sciences Program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Pam is a Professional Member of ASSP and is currently serving a 3-year term as a Director At Large. She recently joined the Avetta Supply Chain Fellows group.
Pam is a regular contributor to ASSP’s Professional Safety and her article of the same title as this presentation was published by ASSP in August 2020. She is the coordinator for the Occupational Safety & Health Management Systems Section for the 3rd edition of The Safety Professionals Handbook scheduled for publication in 2021. Her own book Risk and Crisis Communications; Methods and Messages was published by John Wiley & Sons in September 2011 and was also an editor on the Consultants Business Development Guide, published by ASSP in April 2015.
Pam has been a general session presenter at the ASSP Professional Development Conference every year since 2005. She also regularly presents at other ASSE-related events, State Safety Conferences (Alaska, Indiana, Ohio, and Oregon) and company safety meetings (Dominion Contractor’s Safety Summit, FirstEnergy Safety Peer Group Meeting). Pam was part of the development team and is one of the instructors for the ASSP Risk Assessment Certificate program. She also provides 1-day workshops on Risk Assessment as well as Creating and Developing a Risk Assessment Team.
Since 1997, Mr. Esposito has been President of STAR Consultants, Inc. With almost 40 years of technical experience, he has a Master’s in Health and Safety from Johns Hopkins University, is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, a Certified Safety Professional and certified as a Management Systems auditor.
Based in Annapolis, MD, Mr. Esposito assists STAR customers worldwide in the implementation, delivery and assessment (audit) capabilities of EHS programs and management systems. Some of his specialty areas include:
· Risk assessment and management,
· Auditing and audit program development
· Leading metrics (to include risk-based metrics utilizing a balanced scorecard approach)
· Management systems development
· Voluntary Protection Program surveys and inspections.
· Expert Witness services.
He has also started an on-line training company: Cirrus Safety Training Online, providing standing and customized training for H&S professionals.
Cory Worden, Ph.D. ABD, M.S., CSHM, CSP, CHSP, ARM, REM, CESCO has over 16 years’ experience in safety. He is currently the Safety Advisor for the City of Houston Health Department and has published nine books; his work has been published by ASSP AOHP, ISHN, EHS Today, ISHM and more. Cory was the 2014 ISHM Safety Professional of the Year, a 2015 National Safety Council Rising Star of Safety, the 2016 ASSP Healthcare Practice Specialty Safety Professional of the Year, the 2017 AOHP National Extraordinary Member, the 2018 AOHP Extraordinary Services Award recipient and a 2020 Houston Health Department Excellence in Community Service Recipient along with numerous military medals and awards. Worden has presented for ASSP, the National Safety Council, AOHP, the College of the Mainland’s Gulf Coast Safety Institute and many more.
Alan works with clients to strengthen and enable efficient decision-making in safety & risk management by providing new knowledge and techniques linked directly to an organization’s current tools and systems. Alan is passionate about people being an organization’s most essential resources in managing safety and risk. With over twenty years of experience across multiple sectors, the last 7 years collaborating with executive teams worldwide, Alan specialises in providing advisory services to organizations in leadership commitment, engagement, program design, capacity growth and sustainment in Safety and Risk Management.
Brett Armstrong has been involved with contractor prequalification and management for more than a decade. During which, he assisted the world’s leading organizations in successfully implementing and managing their supply chain qualification programs. That experience has provided him with the foundation and understanding necessary to support the communications needs of companies in a variety of industries and the suppliers they work with.
Scott is 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 non-traditional 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 (SIF: Serious Injury/Fatality).
Scott currently serves as the Practice Leader: Risk/Safety for Randstad, the global leader in the HR Services Industry. In addition to workforce solutions in areas of engineering, IT, legal, life sciences, healthcare and manufacturing/logistics, Randstad operates with the belief that how we operate as a company should move society forward.
Most important to him are his roles of husband and father, which he sees as integral to his growth as a leader, both personally and professionally.
Brett Armstrong has been involved with contractor prequalification and management for more than a decade. During which, he assisted the world’s leading organizations in successfully implementing and managing their supply chain qualification programs. That experience has provided him with the foundation and understanding necessary to support the communications needs of companies in a variety of industries and the suppliers they work with.
As a Principal owner of Colden, Dr. Magari serves as the Vice President of Health Sciences and co-chair of the litigation support practice. She aids clients in determining the origin and nature of workplace health concerns and provides litigation support in suspected cases of occupationally or environmentally induced illnesses. Over the course of 20+ years, Dr. Magari has evaluated myriad industrial and nonindustrial settings and a wide range of occupational and environmental clusters involving reproductive, cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory illness. Over the past year Dr. Magari and her team have helped develop COVID 19 safety plans and conducted workplace audits to protect those working in industrial and nonindustrial settings such as energy production and distribution, hospitality, higher education, retail, healthcare, food, pharmaceutical and television production.
Dr. Magari holds a Doctor of Science in Environmental Health from Harvard University with a concentration in Occupational Epidemiology. She also holds a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Boston University, a Master of Science in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College, and a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from Syracuse University. Dr. Magari continues to perform air quality research and teaches and advises students through an academic appointment at the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health. She currently serves as the President of the Northeast Biological Safety Association.
Susan Reynolds provides health and safety consulting services focusing on regulatory compliance, program development, auditing, workplace exposure assessments, and indoor environmental quality assessments. Her 25-year career began as a health and safety professional in the semiconductor industry and has continued in the consulting field. She also develops and presents training programs on a wide variety of environmental health and safety (EHS) topics, both regulatory and client-specified. Her clients include heavy and light manufacturers, R&D facilities, real estate/property management companies, universities, hospitals, municipalities, and commercial properties.
Ms. Reynolds holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry/Biology from Springfield College, and a Master of Science degree in Public Health – Industrial Hygiene from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Ms. Reynolds is an American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH) Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH). Currently, she is a member of the national section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and is a past board member of both the New England Local AIHA Section and the Health and Safety Council of Northern New England.
Ms. Reynolds previously held positions with IBM, Allegro MicroSystems, and other environmental health and safety consulting firms. She is currently the Vice-Chair of the Concord Trust, an organization that provides funding for technologically innovative pilot projects in the Concord, New Hampshire public school system.
Corey Briggs, a Senior Consultant in Colden’s Boston area office, has been involved in the field of environmental health and safety (EHS) for more than 38 years. He focuses on assisting clients with technical and management problems related to industrial hygiene/workplace exposures, employee, facility, and process safety, loss prevention and emergency response, and training and education. He has extensive experience auditing, evaluating, and developing a wide variety of EHS program elements and developing and presenting employee training seminars. He has provided consulting services around the world to pulp and paper, aerospace, specialty chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, electric utility, manufacturing, food, financial institutions, insurance companies, real estate/property management companies, as well as federal, provincial, state, and local government agencies.
Corey has a MSPH in Environmental Health Science from the University of South Carolina and a BS in Zoology from the University of Rhode Island. He is an ABIH Certified Industrial Hygienist, a NESHTA Certified Environmental Trainer, and an AIHA Fellow. Mr. Briggs is a Past-President and board member of the New England Section of AIHA and is a regular presenter of professional development seminars for national and local sections of AIHA, ASSE, and other health and safety organizations.
Mr. Briggs is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geosciences, in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences at the University of Rhode Island, and an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and is a guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Mr. Briggs previously held various positions with other major consulting firms, IT Corporation, and the South Carolina Public Service Authority/Santee Cooper.
Senior Consultant Catherine has a Master of Science degree, toxicology option, from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, AIHA Fellow, an Authorized GreenScreen Practitioner®, a Certified Safety Professional, and a LEED BD+C Accredited Professional. Catherine has consulted for a broad range of clients including; property owners/developers, architects, manufacturers, scrap metal/electronics recyclers, wastewater treatment operators, researchers and creative artists.
The U.S. Green Building Council recognizes her as a subject matter expert for indoor air quality testing and material emissions. She is engaged in problem solving, offering user-friendly explanations of chemistry for architects. She has consulted on LEED, Living Building Challenge, and WELL projects, integrating sustainability, chemical restrictions, certifications and test protocols, for informed selection of lower impact building products.
Catherine is a guest lecturer in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Public Health and has contributed to the Health Product Declaration Collaborative’s Technical Committee and ASTM International, E60 Committee on Sustainability.
Dennis Robinson has been in the supply chain industry for more than 15 years. Before his current role, Dennis managed the assessment specialist team responsible for the validation of all contractor documentation. His experience provides him with firsthand knowledge of the details and documentation organizations rely on to ensure they are working with safe, responsible contractors.
Danny Shields is a Quality, Health, Safety, Sustainability, and Environmental Professional who partners with executives to limit their organizations enterprise risk. Danny spent almost two decades working in multiple industry verticals, including O&G, Mining, Manufacturing, and Construction, with some the world’s most successful organizations.
Danny has led teams to achieve year over year QHSSE performance records in high risk environments, saving companies millions in direct and indirect costs. Danny is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) with over fifteen years of both field and management level experience.
Danny holds a degree in Bioenvironmental Sciences from Texas A&M University.
