Pam Walaski
President
ASSP
Your Culture Is Safe: But Is It Sustainable?
Co-presented with Dr. Megan Tranter
What if protecting people isn’t the same as developing them? This session challenges the assumption that a strong health and safety culture is the finish line. Instead, it introduces human sustainability – a leadership paradigm where work must leave people better off: more capable, more connected, and more employable.
Dr. Megan Tranter and Pam Walaski reveal how the lens of human sustainability can elevate safety culture, ESG strategy, and leadership development. Drawing on systems thinking and real case examples, they present practical tools for assessing and improving how your organization contributes to people’s wellbeing, capability, and purpose.
Join Megan and Pam to unpack what happens when organizations stop extracting value from people and start creating it with them. Participants will explore hands-on methodologies to assess their current systems and reimagine them with human outcomes at the center.
In a world of disruption, survival is no longer the goal. Progress is. We will inspire you to be the bold leader who is ready to move beyond programs and toward futures where purpose, belonging, and leadership legacy drive culture forward.
President Pam Walaski, CSP, FASSP, is owner of RiverLure OSH Services and has 30 years of workplace safety and health experience. She became ASSP’s 110th president on July 1, 2024, serving a one-year term. She also serves as chair of the ASSP Foundation, the Society’s charitable arm, in her dual leadership role. She is an ASSP Fellow and an adjunct faculty member for Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Maryland’s Global Campus.
Walaski is the author of “Risk and Crisis Communications: Methods and Messages” published in 2011. She was an editor of the “Consultants Business Development Guide” that ASSP published in 2015, a section coordinator for the second and third editions of “The Safety Professionals Handbook,” and a contributing author of “The Wiley Guide to Strategies, Ideas and Applications for Implementing a Total Worker Health® Program” published in 2024.
Walaski is a notionally known conference speaker and seminar presenter focusing on topic such as management systems, risk management, measuring OSH performance and evolving approaches to OSH practice. She also facilitates leadership group for women in OSH along with private coaching.