At the NAEM Forum, in a session called “The EHS Manager as a Change Agent,” Don Ritz and Bruce Huber of Barrick Gold argued that EHS professionals can and must view themselves as change agents in organizations, and presented a process similar to the Seven Steps of EHS Integration developed by Redinger EHS.
This process shifts the EHS mindset toward one that is generative and based in vision and alignment, as opposed to a mindset that is reactive and based in compliance. Some of the change agent characteristics that Ritz and Huber identified were: persistence, courage, passion, commitment, ability to leverage, and integrity. Read More