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Presenter: Christie Pelletier, MSc., Kinesiology, CRSP
Director, Corporate Safety and Healthy Services, City of Edmonton
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 21st, 1:00PM EST
Christie Pelletier, MSc. Kinesiology, CRSP.
Christie Pelletier is a Canadian Registered Safety Professional, a born and raised Newfoundlander, and has a Master of Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland. After heading west in 2011 Christie built her professional safety practice working with the many lines of business at the City of Edmonton and has had the privilege of being the Director of Corporate Safety and Health Services for the past 3 years. Christie is a passionate safety professional and believes that truly safe workplace cultures start with leadership commitment and must be reinforced daily in the practices and decisions that affect workers.
Organizations often set out to change their culture in order to improve workplace safety and health, become an employer of choice, and improve overall employee engagement. The relationship between workplace culture, engagement, and safety are related and thought to be difficult to untangle.
The City of Edmonton believes that employee engagement is the key to workplace safety, and that achieving a high degree of employee engagement is directly related to how the organization and its resources are managed. Aligning the safety and health management system with business processes is imperative to establishing and sustaining safety performance that will allow the workplace to be as safe and healthy as it can be.
To accomplish this, the Workforce Safety and Health Branch at the City of Edmonton launched a safety and health culture transformation project built on the principles of employee engagement designed to ensure everyone knows what’s expected of them, and has the tools, resources, and opportunity to do their best. It’s believed that intentional integration of these principles with business planning and prioritization methods and day to day operations will optimize employee engagement and will transform organizational culture. These organizational practices will manifest in specific employee behaviours that contribute to a culture of safety. As a result, safety is top-of-mind for every employee, they are empowered to make their workplace and healthy, and it is something they deeply care about.