Events

Tosan works with organizations whose performance and profit is directly affected, if not determined, by safety. Operating power plants, managing transmission and distribution, and quality production on the manufacturing plant floor requires employees to continually exhibit behaviors that keep themselves and others safe. For a baseline, The U.K. Health and Safety Commission developed one of the most commonly used definitions of safety culture: “The product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behaviour that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency of, an organization’s health and safety management” Tosan would focus this a bit by saying that the values, assumptions, and expectations of groups...

At the end of January, Tosan will be presenting and co-chairing a session at this years Energy, Utility and Environment Conference in Arizona. This conference attracts utilities, government energy entities, emissions monitoring organizations and more. At its core, EUEC is an energy community focused on Renewable energy issues; these include technology, regulation, process, and marketing. So why would an organizational effectiveness firm with a majority of our experience in Nuclear, Fossil and T&D be speaking, much less co-chairing? Well, the first connection is the overarching industry of Energy. As our traditional resources are challenged, and regulations progress, all aspects of the Energy industry are evaluating how renewables will fit into their product...

It started with a vague notion and a corresponding question during a team meeting: How do we (as Organizational Effectiveness consultants and practitioners) make ourselves obsolete? Or in a different voice: How could we assist a well-minded leader/client to be more proactive about how to best manage an emerging culture and to better engage the type of desired culture they seek? My question seems to be a straightforward line of thought however, like so many grandiose, underdeveloped ideas, once spoken these thoughts tend to lose their luster. So I set out to do some modest research, attempting to indentify what theoreticians believe when it comes to how best to manage emerging cultures. I consulted Organizational Development (OD) text, numerous online resources,...

Tosan recently presented at both the ANS Annual Meeting and the ANS Utility Working Conference. Both events were held in sunny Hollywood, Florida, but we weren’t just there to work on our tans. At the annual meeting we had the honor of presenting on two topics, “Leveraging Plant Operations to Maximize Internal Communications, Safety, Strategy, and Change.” and , “Enhancing Nuclear Safety While Facilitating Workforce Transition”. More recently at the Utility Working Conference we presented our research into “Knowledge Transfer across Generations for Safety and Accountability.” We were so grateful for both these opportunities to share our experiences and to meet and make new friends, and look forward to seeing everyone at future conferences and...

In the midst of his busy summer tour of the US, Martin, will first be presenting his experiences, theory and research concerning Knowledge Transfer across Generations for Safety and Accountability at the American Nuclear Society (ANS) conference in Hollywood, Florida on Tuesday at 10:30 am.

On Thursday August 8 at 1:30 pm, Martin Marquardt, our CEO will be in Columbus, OH at Coal-Gen presenting our case study about how and why culture acts as the foundation to a sustained high performance of coal plant. This subject has become a specialty to for Tosan and is will promise to have many take-aways for those who attend.