Strategic Safety & Health Program Design
Are your programs well founded and strategically designed to achieve a safer and healthier workplace?
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Employee engagement strategies to achieve a positive safety culture
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Getting to the true Root Causes --- How to be a learning organization
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Safety and occupational health policies and guidelines
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Total health and productivity program design
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Safety and health metrics to drive results
Pandemic Preparedness & Threat Management
Is your company prepared to handle the worst? Do you have the structure in place to survive and recover from a business interruption?
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Pandemic preparedness strategies
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All-threats approach to planning
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Internal structures to achieve business resilience; anticipate, react and recover
Training Design & Presentations
Is your current training achieving measurable improvement in safety and health? Are your training systems internally sustainable Root cause analysis for fatalities and serious injuries?
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Effective Manager/Supervisor Safety Leadership Training
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Train-the-trainer approach to put you in charge
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Driving effective root cause analysis
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Increasing hazard identification
You're Looking For...
You Need an Expert With
International experience
Strategic program design expertise
Sustainable deployment systems knowledge
Corporate perspective
A results-oriented approach
Problem solving power
The Kemerer Group Can Help
With extensive experience in strategic corporate program design and management, Sharon Kemerer's skill set includes consulting, business development, project management and training in a wide variety of industries. At Baxter International, Sharon was the global director for the safety and occupational health programs. Baxter is a Fortune 500 healthcare manufacturing company that has approximately 48,000 employees working in over 100 countries.
The Results You Need
In leading global safety & health programs, Sharon has...
Established global company standards, set strategic direction, and provided training to assure global deployment for all safety and health initiatives
Designed and deployed a company-wide total safety engagement strategy, resulting in a 57% reduction in the total recordable incident rate (TRIR) to 0.40. ​
Created and managed a global health and productivity program, owned at the local level, that resulted in a 58% decrease in known hypertension and a 24% decrease in future risk of diabetes among workers
Designed and deployed an interactive training program to enhance manager/supervisor safety leadership effectiveness
Established a global case management strategy for early intervention in worker injuries, resulting in significant cost savings and reduction in lost workdays
​Designed the company’s preparedness program to assure proactive threat management and rapid response to pandemic & other crises
​​Conducted internal audits for compliance with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001
More About Sharon
Sharon joined Baxter's Corporate EHS group in June 2001. Prior to that she was the Executive Director of the American Board for Occupational Health Nurses- ABOHN (the professional certifying body for OHNs in the US). Before managing ABOHN, Sharon worked for consulting firms, providing occupational health and safety services to a variety of large corporations and municipalities. Her start in occupational health came in 1984, when she coordinated the occupational health nursing and outreach programs for a Chicago community hospital, working with over 50 companies including the City of Chicago.
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Sharon retired from her role at Baxter in mid-2018 and is now consulting and leading the ANSI/ASSP committee to develop a national standard for Total Worker Health ®.
Education
MSN -- Loyola University, Chicago, IL; BSN -- University of Illinois, Chicago.
Professional Certification
Certified Occupational Health Nurse - Specialist/Case Manager, Certified Occupational Hearing Conservationist, Certified in NIOSH Spirometry
