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Safety Awards Breakfast
SAFETY DAY
SAFETY AWARDS BREAKFAST SPONSORED BY
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
8:15 – 9:45 am
Fee: $45 per person
Attend the Safety Awards Breakfast with colleagues and peers to celebrate safety excellence in the construction industry. Special guest, Iowa Labor Commissioner Rod A. Roberts will present the Annual Outstanding Company Safety Achievement Awards to a general contractor and specialty contractor; the Safety Professional and Safety Champion Awards to two deserving individuals. Attendees of the breakfast will also be treated to a special keynote presentation by safety author, trainer, and consultant Rodney Grieve.
KEYNOTE
Identifying Cultural Hazards
When we hear the words “hazard assessment”, we often think of physical and chemical hazards. But what if the biggest hazard in your organization is hidden in your culture? Culture, defined as “the way we do things around here”, is created by your people leaders --- what they say or don’t say, what they do or don’t do. This keynote message will look at some clues that your culture may be contributing to safety failures. In this engaging, informative, and entertaining message, we examine the causes and what leaders, both formal and informal, can do to effectively change your current culture into a culture of success. A culture of success is one that maintains a balance of productivity, quality, and safety. This message looks at how the organizational leaders, from top to bottom, maintain this crucial balance through four elements: experience, knowledge, focus and pace. Being out of balance in any of the elements exposes us to an incident.
Rodney is the founder of BRANTA Worldwide, coauthor of SOAR: A Gate-to-Gate Journey of Leadership Essentials, and author of the best-selling Defend Your Profits: Safety Tools for Bottom Line Improvement. He has over 25 years of industry and consulting experience helping organizations, teams, and individuals create a culture of success. Since 2000, Rodney has delivered keynote programs and facilitated safety leadership sessions with clients ranging from construction to food packaging & heavy equipment manufacturing to mining. As a result, he has developed the delivery style and content to be effective anywhere in the organizational structure. Rodney has worked with thousands of leaders, from front-line supervisors to senior executives, throughout North America as well as with groups in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Rodney possesses a Master Degree in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Sciences Degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
