SAFETY LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE
Leading Safety, Risk and Sustainability
07-08 April 2021
8am CET
Overview
Ensuring the safety of employees remains an elusive challenge for many companies. Leadership executives and boards set the vision and culture for an organisation, and their decisions have a direct bearing on major hazard safety outcomes. The imperative to operate safely, efficiently and profitably can often create competing objectives for senior leaders and requires constant focus and commitment from every level of the organisation.
This two-day masterclass will address the safety leadership of directors and senior executives who are often removed from day to day operations of an organisation yet remain vitally important in the safety decisions and safety outcomes of a company. It provides a deeper understanding of key aspect of good governance, integration of safety into general business operations and wider OSH context that significantly determines the success of safety commitment.
Event Themes
- Safety & Operational Risk
- Compliance
- Supply Chain
- ROI of Safety
MASTERCLASS LEADER

Thomas F. Cecich CSP, CIH
President, TFC & Associates
Strategic Board advisor, Avetta LLC
Mr. Cecich is president of TFC & Associates a safety, health and environmental management consulting firm. He serves as a strategic board advisor for Avetta, LLC., a global provider of technology-based supply chain risk management solutions. He is also a member of the ORCHSE Strategies Consulting Group in Washington, DC. He has presented hundreds of courses, seminars, webinars and presented at conferences on five continents.
He was previously vice president of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Global Business Support at the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline where he had global EHS responsibility for 100 global manufacturing sites with 100,000 staff. He has also held safety management positions at IBM and Allied Chemical Corporations and is widely recognized for his extensive experience in safety, health, and environmental management.
On June 28, 2016 he was installed as the 102nd president of the American Society of Safety Engineers. He is an ASSE Fellow, the Society’s highest honor. He has also served on the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) and is a past President of BCSP. He was previously the Chairman of the Board for the Manufacturing and Chemical Industry Council of North Carolina that represented 70 companies with 70,000 employees.
Mr. Cecich was instrumental in launching the Center for Safety and Health Sustainability, a global nonprofit organization representing over 100,000 OSH professionals worldwide, and served as the Center’s first Board chairman. The Center is dedicated to advancing awareness of occupational safety and health as a vital aspect of a company’s sustainability profile. He has become known in the OSH community for his efforts to advance awareness that worker fatalities, serious injuries and high-risk worker health exposures have material impacts on business performance and shareholder value.
Mr. Cecich earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami and his master’s degree from North Carolina State University, both in Industrial Engineering. He is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH). He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He was recognized by Industrial Safety and Hygiene News (ISHN) as one of the Safety Power 101 – the 101 individuals who most influence the field of occupational safety and health in the United States.
Benefits of Attending
Transform
Discover how to implement transformational safety leadership within your own company
Comply
Acquire OSHA compliance guidance
Mitigate Risk
Minimise worker injuries, illnesses, business losses and supply chain interruptions
Sustain
Understand key element of organisation sustainability and its significance to a variety of stakeholders
Understand
Improve your knowledge on the different risks of advanced technology and automation that requires management focus
CPD
Understand the key elements of a world-class safety program & Obtain BSCP credential
Objectives
- This program will provide business leaders with the knowledge and tools to achieve the sustainable world class safety outcomes that stakeholders expect of leading organizations. The masterclass will focus on the opportunities and benefits that can result in superior safety performance in company operations and throughout the supply chain. Attendees will achieve an awareness that worker fatalities, serious injuries and high-risk worker health exposures have material impacts on business performance and shareholder value. Strategies will be presented that minimize the risk of such adverse events that impact business performance.
Who Should Attend
Board chairs, Board members, Chief executives and members of the Executive Team Corporate HSE Directors, Managers and Advisors Risk Managers, Job Training & Safety Management, Loss Control Management, Project Compliance Management, Specialists in Oil & Gas Finance, due diligence, Mergers & Acquisition, Business Owners, Corporate HSE Audit, Purchasers of HSE Support Services.