About Scott Gaddis
Scott Gaddis leads thought leadership and is Vice President and Global Practice Leader, Safety and
Scott Gaddis
Vice President, Global Practice
Leader, Health & Safety
Intelex Technologies
Health, for Intelex Technologies in Toronto, Canada. Scott leads in building partnerships with key
clients and other top influencers in EHS. He is responsible for the engagement of EHS professionals
across the globe to provide a platform for sharing information and collectively driving solutions that
mitigate workplace loss. Also, Scott works internally with the product, sales, and marketing teams to
increase EHS capability and knowledge that supports Intelex customers and works externally with
clients with consultation on program management and EHS strategy.
Before joining Intelex, Scott was Vice President, Global Environment, Health, Safety, and
Sustainability for Coveris High-Performance Packaging Company in Chicago, Illinois. Before that, he
spent five years as Executive Director of Global EHS for Bristol-Myers Squibb, eighteen years with
the Kimberly-Clark Corporation in various senior EHS leadership roles ending as the Global Director
of Occupational Safety and Health. Scott started his career with the GE company, where he spent
five years as EHS Director in the Motors Division.
Mr. Gaddis has been published in various EHS trade journals and has lectured at National and
International EHS conferences. He is a Special Government Employee supporting the Department of
Labor and has received numerous awards, including VPPA mentor of the year and others recognizing
his leadership in EHS. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in
Occupational Safety and Health from Murray State University in Murray, Ky.
 What I Hope to Accomplish Today
• Speak as a practitioner and offer
key areas of Safety and Health program
control that make a difference.
• Discuss some of the barriers and
challenges affecting safety culture.
• Explain how gaining participation
leads to employee partnership.
• Convince you to consider using mobile
technologies to engage the frontline to
improve performance and deliver the
culture you desire.
Everchanging Focus - Safety & Health

1980’s 2000’s
Witnessed an evolution Saw us combining or
of human behavior and layering approaches to
resultant programing mitigate risk

1970’s 1990’s 2020’s

Started a focused drive Noted a resurgence of Industry 4.0, IIoT, digital
toward compliance and knowledge and capability native workers and
physical controls training with new generational shifts
methods of transferring
information
Challenging Demographics

Baby Boomers
are leaving the
workforce Millennials
have a deep
understanding
and already
solve
problems with
technology

Gen Z sees
technology as
an extension
of who they
are, how they
act, and what
they expect

World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations

Success is About People First and Foremost

In H&S specifically, The big question – how

do you get everyone
improving employee
owning the challenge
participation is the #1 of improving this?
reported challenge
Challenging Stats or Real Opportunities?

28 % %
of millennials

of employees said
they use social
93
of all employees
%
72 83 %
of younger generation
open a text 90
seconds after
receiving
them.
own a mobile workers text more than
media while they’re
device. ten times daily.
at work.

% 75 %
84
51% 82% of companies
of employees
use their
personal device
have a BYOD at work.
of employees already use
company-mandated apps of employees keep their phone
to do work. within eyesight during their workday.
 Corporate Culture is the moral, social, and behavioral norms of an organization based on
the beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of its employees.

Safety Culture refers to the collective values, attitudes, competencies, perceptions,

and patterns of behavior of individuals and groups within an organization. These
factors can influence an organization's commitment to and proficiency in managing
health and safety, as well as the style in which they approach it.

Phycological Aspects Behavioral Aspects Situational Aspects

“How People Feel” “What People Do” “What the Organization Has”

The “Safety Climate” of the Safety-related actions and Policies, procedures, rules,
organization is concerned with behaviors are visible resources, organizational
individual and group values, structures, and the management
attitudes, and perceptions systems
 Leading a Safety Excellence Culture

• Safety Led as a Value

• Setting Objectives that Matter
What are the • Visible Leadership Commitment
Problems to • Effective Safety Reporting
• Workforce Participation Can
Solve? • High Level of Competency Technology
• Process Transparency - Trust be the
• Active Communication
Bridge?
• Recognition of Efforts
• Safety Management System
Robustness
How Technology is Unlocking the
Barriers to Safety Culture
1. Frontline Access to the Safety Process
Persona-based Design. Mobile First. Seamless Experience between Office and Frontline.

Front Line Safety Practitioner – Senior Leaders

Safe Harbor Statement: Intelex product roadmap is subject to change at Intelex’s sole discretion.
2. Technology-Enabled Learning

Extension of accepted Pertinent to daily

micro media work activity
58 % of Millennials and Gen Z's believe
Desire to learn On- Continuous flow of that updating their skills and knowledge
The-Go information on a frequent basis is necessary and
expect to learn via technology.
It’s Quick and easily Magnifies strengths,
understood pulls up outliers
3. Purposeful Communication and Conversation
Communicate by driving consumption to maximize
Engagement through Bulletins, Articles and Posts. 74% of employees
said they would
welcome safety-
related feedback;
providing an easy
way to do so makes
the workplace safer
for everyone.

Easy to share
lessons,
knowledge, and
information. The
worker can
Purposeful acknowledge
Communication: information and
promote a
Instant conversation
Efficient
Timely
Concise
Personalized
Relevant
4. Workforce Wearables

IOT AI & ML DATA SETS OUTPUT

Wearable devices are A collection of related

worn on the body, Evolving and learning sets of information
clothing, or PPE that algorithm(s) that can that is composed of
use sensors to capture manage and separate elements but
and share advanced understand mass can be manipulated
biotelemetry data and amounts of data by a computer for an
more. action if needed.

Deeper Context
and Leveraging
Action if Needed
5. Process Growth and Scale with Technology

Mobile • Expansive Geographical Reach

Devices • Frontline Expectation
• Rich Data Consumption and Understanding
• Shared Accountability
• Focuses on Relationships and Enquiry
People Technology • Increases Learning
Platform • High Psychological Safety
• Power of Teamwork is Evident
• Safety Matters to All
Data • People Go Home Safe and Healthy Everyday

Understanding
 Process Technology People

In a world of advancing technologies, Intelex believes that PEOPLE

are still the nucleus for better EHSQ performance, and our solutions
help leverage organizations from gaining simple worker participation
to a culture of authentic partnership.
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