Interim HSE Leader

Foreign assignment in the USA to set up a global HSE strategy

Experienced leader across multiple locations

Proven track record of reducing incident rate significantly

Co-develop global HSE strategy & systems for standardized implementation: policies, SOPs, leading metrics to monitor safety engagement, audits, best practices, regional/global safety committees, etc.

Interim Lead of safety activities in 9 plants and 2 technical centres towards injury reduction (71 % in 3 years)

Culture change agent: in close cooperation with business leaders developing and implementing regional/global safety culture enhancement programs towards zero incidents: e.g. Safety Leadership Engagement, Leadership Training, Cultural Assessments, Safety Leading Metrics, Audits

Develop and implement Behaviour Based Safety Programs incl. human error reduction programs

Set direction and provide coaching to 12 plants, 9 distribution centers, 1 technical center to improve safety results: regional OSHA incident rate = 0.5 (85% sites are > 12 months injury free)

Interim Lead of European EHS compliance improvement plans in the areas of Process Safety, Flammable Liquids, Machine Safety, Materials Handling, Environment and Loss Prevention

In close cooperation with business leaders develop and implement regional/global cultural change programs towards zero incidents

Manage 5 HSE engineers as direct reports in 2 different locations

Set direction, provide coaching to plant HSE Leaders in 14 sites to achieve world class safety results

Incident rate on average 0.35 - compared to industry average 3.5

Interim Lead of level audits, gap analysis, and regional improvement plans

Interim Lead of European HSE compliance improvement plans in areas of Process Safety, Machine Safety, Materials Handling, Environment and Loss Prevention

Voice of HSE for initiatives and capacity expansion projects

As member of Global Health and Safety Committee: Develop corporate standards for global company wide implementation: e.g. fall protection, machine safety, behaviour management

Enable regional sustainability program: 15% environmental footprint reduction

Provide HSE technical guidance to ensure the HSE requirements (legal and company) are met during capacity increases, new initiatives for the plants

Training, coaching capability building for ~95 HSE Leaders in 12 plants

Develop and implement benchmark HSE management systems: e.g. behavioural safety programs, Safety culture improvement, training, reporting, chemical management, machine safety, etc.

Reach substantial reduction of OSHA incident rate from 3.4 down to 0.8

Interim Lead of site HSE Team (5 reports) in High Performance Work System -organizational excellence

Health and Safety Council - collaborate effectively with the works council for new safety programs

Projects: machine safety, chemicals, water protection, waste management, compliance etc.

Planning and consultation of environmental issues

Risk management

Planning of GAP-Audits for in- and external standards

Creation of an HSE-manual (SOP)

Development and support of HSE-relevant documents

Preparation of plant- & activity-related documents

Advice and support the implementation of new processes in occupational health and safety management

REACH regulations

Safety-related construction supervision and acceptance of technical facilities in new buildings