Services

We provide a wide range of coaching, consulting, and training services across industries and around the world. As leaders in the high-hazard safety community, our associates provide expertise in all facets of safety, leadership, and operations for our clients. Our consultation approach is focused on effective risk management and prevention. Our international experience spans a wide range of services that are results-oriented and blend all aspects of safety and health consulting into a single source. Our consulting strategy and passion involves helping clients ensure that safety and health are core business values that positively affect safe production and operational excellence.

Specific service offerings are outlined in detail below.

Incident and Compliance Management

Occupational Safety & Health Maturity Evaluations

Health and Safety Training Development

Organizational climate and behavior is assessed to provide recommendations for improving worker engagement and enhanced understanding of an organization’s culture leading toward optimal production and safety performance.

Our network of associates bring a combined hundreds of years of experience in safety and health across numerous occupational industries. Examples of general consulting services we are regularly contracted to perform include: safety and health bench marking, risk analysis, and physical safety audits and assessments. Our safety and health training services are broad in scope. Examples of topics include (but are not limited to): emergency response training (including tabletop exercises and drills), incident investigation techniques, hazard identification and risk management procedures, etc.

SomaHive specializes in helping clients develop and enhance elements of a HSMS and in auditing systems for conformance to a number of recognized certification bodies. Senior Safety Associates have operational and consultation expertise and are Lead Auditor trained in certification programs such as OHSAS 18001, ISO 450001, and the National Mining Association’s CORESafety framework.

Dr. Guasta is available for speaking engagements, executive roundtables, case story presentations, etc. Past topics have included, fatigue and impairment in the workplace, behavior-based safety interventions, the importance of courageous leadership, influencing workers’ behavior, and other special topics.

Evaluation and assistance in developing emergency preparedness plans and long-term safety processes and solutions focused on achieving the organization’s health and safety objectives. Tabletop drills and other emergency response development services are available.

Consultation and training services are provided to various levels (one-on-one or small group format) to assist leaders with professional development and targeted skills related to leadership effectiveness. This type of leadership coaching can be useful in general skill development and can help leaders work through specific issues they are faced with due to their position. Former topics have included interpersonal dynamics, personality clashes, role alignment, as well as goal setting and assessment.

Support is provided in incident investigations and analysis of root causes and contributing factors. Assistance is also provided in determining best approaches toward statutory and regulatory compliance.

A remote survey is constructed and administered across operations to determine an organization’s safety and health maturity level. A report of findings, including recommendations is produced. The initial survey can be customized based on the client’s interests; however, standard categories include: leadership commitment, strategic importance of health and safety, safety management system, organizational buy-in, safety staff and resources, training, and technology. The assessment output for the Health and Safety Maturity Model includes four phases ranging from Phase I (Immediate Action Needed) to Phase IV (Maturity Actualized).

A Fatigue Risk Assessment identifies primary risk factors that contribute to overall fatigue risk and involves assessments and surveys with a sample population of employees onsite. Examples of risk factors involve the following:

• Shift patterns and how they impact circadian rhythms
• How breaks are organized
• What countermeasures are offered to employees for fatigue mitigation
• Commute times for employees
• Hydration and nutrition options during shift
• Temperatures in work environments
• Cursory review of employee health issues for risks to “fitness for duty”
• Additional factors related to worker lifestyle

If reasonable suspicion of potential drug or alcohol misuse exists in the workplace, employees must have well-trained supervisors available to recognize and distinguish behaviors related to alcohol or chemical misuse compared to other types of impairments, such as fatigue. SomaHive offers training to provide supervisory skills to accurately recognize these behaviors.

We offer a unique behavioral and safety leadership program that is geared towards improving the safety and productivity of any organization. The program was developed by Dr. Lori Guasta, a recognized researcher and instructor with industry experience who specializes in organizational behavior and safety leadership. The program covers four major topic areas: 1) Behavior Profiling; 2) Leadership Development & Visibility; 3) Organizational Strategies for Safety and Health; and 4) Creating a Positive Safety Culture.