Health and Safety—Views From the Top: An Interview With Ben Hume

This series of executive action briefings, produced by the Conference Board’s Senior Executive Health and Safety Leadership Charter Initiative, is intended to promote health and safety in Canadian organizations and build senior leadership engagement.

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Health and Safety: Views From the Top is a series of executive action briefings produced by the Conference Board’s Senior Executive Health and Safety Leadership Charter (HSLC), whose objective is to promote health and safety in Canadian organizations and build senior leadership engagement. This issue focuses on the realization by B.C.’s Alco Ventures that, while it had successfully met numerous market challenges, it had unexpectedly become a workplace where people got hurt. Company president Ben Hume talks about the turnaround at Alco, about the health and safety challenges and rewards at a small company, about the determination required to change the culture, and about effecting such a change at the height of the 2008–2009 economic downturn.