WEBINAR

Safety Leadership: Empowering Supervisors to Drive Change

Wednesday, May 20th | 1-2 PM CST

Join SMSC Safety Consultant Scott Christenson for an interactive webinar that explores the challenges supervisors face when planned processes don’t always align with real-world conditions. Scott will aim to reframe that challenge through the lens of Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), giving supervisors a practical, empowering path to influence safer, more reliable work.

This session explores how HOP’s core elements – such as learning from normal work, understanding error as a system signal, building capacity, and fostering psychological safety – can become everyday leadership tools. Instead of relying on compliance-driven oversight, supervisors learn how to spark meaningful conversations, identify system weaknesses, and champion improvements that actually help people succeed.

May 20, 2026

1:00 PM

VIRTUAL

By attending this webinar, you will be able to...

Recognize the supervisor's role in shaping safety culture and understand how Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) principles apply to everyday leadership decisions

Apply core HOP concepts and tools to real supervisory situations, improving both team learning and operational reliability

Identify system weaknesses and operational drift before they contribute to incidents, using a proactive, systems-based approach to risk

Foster psychological safety and trust within your team, creating an environment where workers feel empowered to surface concerns and learn from experience

Build a practical action plan to integrate HOP-aligned behaviors into your daily leadership — moving from awareness to lasting culture change

Your Host

Scott Christenson

Safety Consultant – Safety Management Services Company

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