Harnessing the Hidden Power
of Empathy
Effective Leadership and Greater Compassion for OEHS Professionals
CONTENTS
HARNESSING THE HIDDEN POWER OF EMPATHY
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP AND GREATER COMPASSION FOR OEHS
PROFESSIONALS
Many OEHS professionals focus extensively on regulatory compliance and other metric-based outcomes. But most workers do not care about injury and illness statistics and will not remember what OEHS professionals do or why. What they will remember is how an OEHS professional’s words and actions made them feel.
BY TIM PAZ AND AMY MCCAE
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RIGHTSIZING AN EHS WORKFORCE
HOW MANY PROFESSIONALS ARE NEEDED IN YOUR ORGANIZATION?
As EHS professionals, few of us have felt adequately staffed, let alone overstaffed. With many of us feeling understaffed at some point in our careers, how can it be that we haven’t managed to find a solution? How do we not know the appropriate level of resources for EHS within an
organization?
BY SAMANTHA CONNELL, TODD HOGUE, AND LAURENCE PEARLMAN
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BANDING TOGETHER
MAKING THE CASE FOR OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE BANDS
Setting occupational exposure limits can be resource intensive, and the number of chemical substances in use vastly exceeds the number of chemicals with OELs. So, OEHS professionals have begun searching for additional strategies for chemical risk assessment and management. One strategy gaining stronger acceptance and increasing utility is occupational exposure banding. BY T.J. LENTZ AND MELISSA EDMONDSON
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CONTRIBUTORS
TIM PAZ, FEATURE AUTHOR
SAMANTHA CONNELL, FEATURE AUTHOR
Samantha Connell, CIH, is the global health programs director at Indorama Ventures PCL.
T.J. LENTZ, FEATURE AUTHOR
T.J. Lentz, PhD, is the chief of the Science Applications Branch of the Division of Science Integration, CDC/NIOSH in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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