Occupational Medicine and Wellness provides summer lunch n learn programs free of charge to area business leaders. Please join us for a healthy lunch, chance to network with other leaders in the community, and an opportunity to learn from a variety of experts on topics related to occupational medicine and wellness.

SUMMER SAFETY LUNCH N LEARNS
Monday, June 28th, 2010  and
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

11:30am-1:00pm

Covenant Medical Center
3421 West Ninth Street
Waterloo, Iowa 

Gary A. Higbee, EMBA CSP - Presenter
Higbee and Associates, Inc

docs/Summer 2010 lunch n learns.pdf

Monday, June 28, 2010
Breaking the Cycle of At-Risk Behavior 
The Solution - Breaking the Cycle of Risky behavior starts with a discussion of accident causation and how different types of safety program try to address those accident causation issues. Have you ever wondered why people do the things they do? Now is your chance to find out as Gary addresses not only why people do what they do but why they think what they do make sense. This changing of poor safety behavior to good safety behavior is very difficult to do given poor behavior makes sense to the people doing it and most of the time they actually get away with it. Discover how you can change and influence behavior through significant events, risks and consequences. Gary pulls it all together with an explanation of the five stages and how they fit together to promote world class safety performance. As a bonus the last part of this session will cover the four states and four critical errors that cause "all" accidents and how awareness can be raised to level that prevents injuries even when compliance issues have not been resolved. You and your employees will experience a significant change in safety awareness that will result in fewer injuries.

Thursday, July 22, 2010
Audits, Inspections and Observation
Audits, Inspections and Observations are all completely different activities.  Often they are bunched together creating confusion and inefficiencies.  This session will explain the purpose of each one and how they should be conducted.  After the session sample documents will be provided by e-mail to those who request them.

About Gary A. Higbee, EMBA CSP

http://www.higbeeandassociates.com/index.htm 

In 1986 Gary founded Higbee & Associates (Then called Industrial Safety Consultants) a full service safety training and consulting firm. He managed the consulting firm even though he had full time management positions with John Deere and Maytag until his early retirement in 1998. The firm was incorporated in Michigan in 2002 and is now headquartered in (Johnston) Des Moines, Iowa. Higbee and Associates, Inc. serves companies in the United States, Canada and South America. Gary is also the Senior U.S. Safety Consultant for SafeStart and SafeTrack North America.

Gary has an MBA from the University of Iowa and is a board certified safety professional. Gary is a past recipient of the Safety Professional of the Year award for region IV of the American Society of Safety Engineers. He is considered an expert in Traditional and Behavior Based Safety Technologies as well as Organizational Change.

In addition to his consulting Gary has published many articles. His 2004 releases include "Guaranteeing the Success of Safety Committees", "Nine Steps for Changing your Safety Culture", "Breaking the Cycles of Risky Behavior" and "Frustrations in Safety". His 2005 releases include "Five Stages to World Class Safety", "Visionary Leadership" and "Managing Complex Change". In 2006 he published four articles on safety committees, two on "Breaking the Cycle of Risky Behavior and 3 Attributes to World Class Safety.