Identifying & Improving Inefficient Safety Processes

To continue operating sustainably, Health & Safety professionals must fundamentally reassess and improve pre-COVID safety processes. How? Through effective, real-world process improvement. [This webinar aired on January 14, 2021]

Panelist Recommended Process Improvement Resources:

Erich FruchnichtA Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business [Book]

Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School [Book]

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days [Book]

Plan-Do-Check-Act: A University Laboratory Equipment Decontamination Case Study [PDF]

Amy HabermanADKAR Model for Change Management

DOWNTIME+A 9 Categories of Waste [PDF]

Karla LoebickIntro to Business Process Improvement [PDF]

Business Process Improvement [Book]

Meet the Panelists:

Erich Fruchtnicht

Assistant Radiological Safety Officer and Senior Health PhysicistTexas A&M Universityfruchnicht@tamu.eduLinkedIn

Erich is Assistant RSO at Texas A&M. He holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering and M.S. in Health Physics from Texas A&M, and is a CHMM. Erich has 19 years of experience in radiation safety, protection and research, and professional training and instruction. Erich has co-authored seven peer-reviewed technical papers (four of which address EHS efficiency) and multiple articles. Erich is a member of CSHEMA, HPS, Sigma XI, and MENSA.

Amy Haberman

Assistant Director, Continuous ImprovementUniversity of Floridaahaberman@ufl.eduPortfolioLinkedIn

After 15 years as an EHS professional (six as the Director of Safety for the college of engineering at the University of Florida) Amy shifted her career to focus on continuous improvement in all administrative areas as the Director for Continuous Improvement in the Office of the Vice President at UF. Her work focuses on empowering staff to identify and solve problems, increase efficiencies and enhance the customer experience. Amy is a member-at-large of the CSHEMA Board of Trustees and an Associate Safety Professional recognized by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.

Karla Loebick

Higher Education Consultantkloebick37@gmail.comLinkedIn

Karla Loebick, Ph.D. is a Higher Education Consultant specializing in process improvement, training and mentoring, and project management. Karla has extensive experience working in higher education, a variety of industries, and international contexts. This lens provides a thorough foundation and contextualized understanding transformational work towards change. Karla integrates knowledge of trends and issues in the higher education and corporate sectors with strategies and solutions for broader issues needing improvement.

Matt Segal

MCSciShieldmatt.segal@bioraft.comLinkedIn

Matt found his way to SciShield after working at Boston Children's Hospital performing translational rare blood disease research. As the safety guy in his lab, he saw firsthand how challenging it was to manage safety in a laboratory environment and wanted to find a way to help. He now spends his time hosting webinars, arguing with his 3D printer, and cooking food in plastic bags at low temperatures.