Safety as Strategy: Innovative Approaches to Workplace Health, Safety, and Performance

EHS professionals face critical challenges: creating programs that protect workers and driving operational excellence while ensuring compliance across diverse, high-risk environments. These challenges are magnified for global companies like Minerals Technologies Inc., with more than 4,000 employees in over 30 countries. In this session, Marcus Fitzgerald shares a roadmap for building a world-class safety culture that redefines traditional risk management. Leveraging advanced tools, technologies and continuous improvement systems, CETCO’s safety approach seamlessly supports global operations. With over 15 years of experience, Marcus reveals strategies to reduce incidents; maintain compliance; and foster a holistic, proactive safety culture. Key takeaways include utilizing EHS technologies, boosting employee engagement and transforming safety from a compliance task to a core business driver delivering lasting results.