Pete Batrowny
Senior Safety Consultant, SafeStart
With a lifelong passion for the environment and safety it is no surprise that Pete has built a career as an industry-leading global environmental health, safety, and physical security executive. Pete is driven and has the ability to relate to people on all levels. A major hallmark of Pete’s career is his ability to transform cultures and build networks of communication and teamwork. He is able to connect with employees, understand their needs, and initiate strategic improvements based on those needs.
Pete's sessions
Safety Climate is a Culture Catalyst
Wed, Oct 21, 8:00 AM to 9:15 AM - Salon 3/
A positive organizational culture and a positive safety climate are very closely linked. Both are essential to improve productivity, quality, retention, employee engagement, morale—and reduce injuries. This session will define key leadership skills that can improve your workplace safety climate. Participants will be part of the discussion with a key person from SafeStart about specific ways individual leaders can influence safety and engagement, and how your organization can support the vital actions for safety climate enterprise-wide to improve safety and culture. Pete will share examples that will help participants see how leadership skills influence safety climate. Discover how to distinguish climate from culture and why it matters, and take part in activities that demonstrate how building leadership skills can have positive effects in the workplace. By the end of the session, participants will become the safety climate and culture catalysts, knowing how to drive positive change, improving the workplace safety climate and fostering a stronger safety culture.
Presented by
Pete Batrowny, SafeStart
The Human Side of Change: Integrating Human Factors into Management of Change
Wed, Oct 21, 11:15 AM to 12:30 PM - Salon 1/
When organizations excel at designing new processes, equipment, and systems, they often overlook the human beings who must interact with them. This session explores how integrating human factors into Management of Change (MOC) improves safety, operational reliability, and workforce adoption. Discover why change fatigue and resistance are predictable, not personal, and uncover the gap between technical change and human reality. Participants will learn why communicating not just the change itself, but the process used to identify the change—and the why behind it—is essential for trust, engagement, and safe execution. Through interactive real-world scenarios and roundtable discussions, this session will examine actual examples where human factors were ignored—and the costly consequences that followed. Participants will leave with practical tools for embedding safety by design (planning processes and equipment around human capabilities and limitations), improving communication, and ensuring that every change supports both organizational goals and the people who make operations work.
Presented by
Pete Batrowny, SafeStart