Title : Migration: A major challenge to health and safety at work
Abstract:
Migration creates a lot of diversity. Key words are language, culture, value systems, skills, work and lifeexperience. Zero Harm to People, the vision of health and safety at work, on the other hand requires a lot of conformity: conform understanding of hazards, full compliance of standard operating procedures, shared values. Workers need to go through four steps to keep safe at work. They need to know, to understand, to accept and to do. In the area of Safety at Work approaches have been developed for managers to teach workers, to coach, motivate and to mentor them. Health at Work, however, presents still a huge challenge, since hazards are seldom visible, harm harms slowly and cohabits with harm for outside activities. Migration adds more challenges: when migrants workers start work there is no health baseline and the migrant workforce is apt to change very frequently. Management must establish an initial health check, must monitor frequently and also detect outside influences – which might be clashing with privacy laws.
Biography:
Mark Fullemann has an extensive background in management and academia, characterized by a blend of hands-on experience and scholarly expertise. He began his career with Holcim Corporate, where he contributed significantly from 1986 to 2011. During this period, he honed his skills in business planning, management reporting, and training management boards of subsidiaries. His expertise in health, safety, and environment was further developed during his tenure as Head of Health, Safety and Environment at OC Oerlikon Management Ltd from 2012 to 2015. Since 2012, Fullemann has been actively involved in consulting through his own firm, On-going Practice & Experience Ltd. In addition to his professional work, Fullemann has made substantial contributions to academia. He has served as a lecturer in Change Management and related subjects at various institutions, including the University of Applied Science in Northwestern Switzerland, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, and for Executive MBA programs. His academic qualifications are impressive, with a Master of Science in Physics from ETH Zurich in 1974, followed by advanced leadership programs at Harvard Business School, IMD, and ETH Zurich. Fullemann’s global experience includes managing decentralized teams and working with diverse teams across different world regions.
