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:
2012 - On going Practice & Experience Ltd
2012 – 2015 OC Oerlikon Management LTD
Head of Health, Safety and Environment
1986 – 2011 : Holcim Corporate
- Training of the management boards of subsidiaries
- Development and Roll-out of an integrated Management Reporting
- Development and implementation of a methodology for Business Planning
Teaching : University of Applied Science, Northwestern Switzerland
- 2000 ongoing
Lecturer for Change Management, Management
Reporting and techniques of staff work
(Courses for Executive MBA)
- 2013/14
Lecturer for Change Management and Aspects of
Group Management (Master level)
- Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University
2012 – 2014
Lecturer for Change Management (Bachelor level)
Education : 2012 – 2015 Doctoral studies MTEC ETH Zurich
2006 Senior Leadership Program IMD/Holcim
2004 Senior Management Program IMD/Holcim
1991 Senior Management Program Harvard Business School
1974 Master of Science in Physics, ETH Zurich
1969 Swiss High School Diploma (Baden)
1967 US High School Diploma (Ridgewood NJ)
Special Experience :
- Working with teams in nearly all world regions
- Management of decentralized teams
