Master Class Safety Series | Designing A Safety Operating Model

How Leaders Build Strategies for Reliable Safety Performance

Fill the form to watch the session on-demand and learn how leadership decisions shape safety performance, enterprise risk, and organizational resilience. Discover how Structure, Environment, and Capability work together as a unified Safety Operating Model, why safety initiatives often fail when pillars are improved in isolation, how governance and strategy align teams around a shared definition of success, where data, digitization, and emerging technologies fit within a true operating model.

Understand how leadership decisions shape safety performance, enterprise risk, and organizational resilience.

What You'll Learn:

How Structure, Environment, and Capability function as a single Safety Operating Model.
Why safety performance breaks down when pillars are improved in isolation rather than governed as a system.
How strategy and governance shape culture by aligning people around a shared definition of success.
Where data, digitization, and emerging technologies belong within an operating model, not as standalone solutions.
How to assess safety maturity through an operating-system lens and identify where leadership intervention is required.

Ellis Jones
Executive Director, Safety Innovation, Rhythm Innovations

Ellis Jones is an executive safety and business leader with extensive experience across manufacturing operations, sustainability, environmental health and safety, and business continuity. Formerly Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Ellis led enterprise safety governance, serious injury prevention, and sustainability integration, including the development of Goodyear’s first sustainable material tire. He has held senior leadership roles across operations and finance, driving measurable performance improvement and organizational resilience, and holds degrees in Accounting and Operational Excellence.

Designing a Safety Operating Model

Understand how leadership decisions shape safety performance, enterprise risk, and organizational resilience.

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