Safety Officer Corporate Manager

JERRY M. GLOTZER, MS, CHEC

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A nationally recognized subject matter expert, with more than 25 years of tactical and leadership experience in healthcare, clinical/research, laboratory and manufacturing industries. Demonstration of successful implementation of enterprise wide Environmental Health and Safety, Risk Mitigation and Compliance Programming in large, multi-state, complex organizations. Portfolio includes Workers Compensation, Lean approaches to injury reduction and emergency preparedness, integrated with business continuity programming. As a servant leader with a collaborative and mentoring style, I have successfully led teams of facility, safety, environmental engineers, industrial hygienists, physicians, nurses, ergonomists, manufacturing department heads, security and senior leaders. These teams have created superior regulatory compliance programming related to federal, state, municipal regulatory, licensure and accreditation entities. Moving with agility between critical strategic and tactical thinking I utilize a performance improvement and Lean approach to identifying opportunities, risks and solutions in my scope of work.

Tribune Publishing, Chicago, IL. 2019-Present

Corporate Manager, Environmental Health and Safety, Security, Workers Compensation, Emergency Preparedness and Risk Management

• Incident Commander for Pandemic response across 6 US cities for 3,000 Essential Workers in manufacturing, transportation and media.

• Led loss prevention efforts resulting in a reduction of 10M dollars exposure and 60% decrease in Worker Compensation costs between 2019-2021.

• Achieved $2M reduction in Auto Liability through rigorous Case Management,TPA controls and Return To Work programs.

• Corporate leader for compliance programming, reporting and analysis for OSHA, EPA, DOT, Fire and Life Safety codes, Under/Above ground storage tanks and hazardous materials for State and Local entities of permitting and enforcement. Geography includes Illinois, California, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Florida.

• Led infection prevention, contact tracing actions coupled with acquisition and training on respiratory Personal Protective Equipment.

• Member of Advisory Board,The George Washington University School of Business and Chair of Mentorship Committee Tribune Publishing.

AMITA/Presence Health, Chicago, IL. 2018-2019

Vice President, Public Safety

• Senior leader responsible for Security, Environmental Health and Safety and Emergency Preparedness programming for 16 acute inpatient hospitals.

• Achieved 900K dollar savings in reduced worker compensation claims and a 75% decrease in Lost Work Days from Workplace Violence Prevention initiatives.

• Recognized by the Chicago Healthcare Coalition for implementing a corporate Command Center structure and capability for regional emergency response.

• Led corporate teams on enhancing Cybersecurity resiliency and business continuity for over 500 key clinical and nonclinical departments.

2017-2018

System Director for Environment of Care, Emergency Preparedness and Regulatory Compliance

• System leader with a scope of 10 acute hospitals, 10 Long Term Care and Skilled Nursing sites and 8 Inpatient Behavioral Medicine facilities.

• Led corporate initiatives on Workplace Violence Prevention including: de-escalation training of staff in high risk settings, employee incident reporting/investigations, data collection, risk management and education for 25K employees with acknowledgment by Illinois Hospital Association for reduced worker injuries and associated costs.

• Designed strategy and led the execution of an enterprise wide Ligature Mitigation strategy for over 500 behavioral medicine sites reducing 100% of the evidenced based physical risks to patients.

• Executive champion on the implementation of a water quality management program across 10 acute care hospitals including: sample collection, data analysis, and surveillance of biological and chemical indicators and reporting.

Sutter Healthcare/Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Mountain View, CA. 2015-2017 Regional Director for Regulatory Compliance,Emergency Preparedness, Environmental Health and Safety & Ergonomics

• 3 acute hospitals, 7 Ambulatory Surgical and Urgent Care Centers and 550 multispecialty physician clinics in the San Francisco Bay area and Silicon Valley.10 professionals as direct reports with EHS responsibility for 10K employees.

• Championed an 80% reduction in worker compensation claims and lost workday injuries through a series of engineering and ergonomic enhancements related to material handling, safe patient mobilization and workstation evaluations.

• Corporate co-Incident commander during 2016 & 2017 wildfires and flooding events causing facility closures and evacuations.

• Led the standardization of the Respiratory Protection program resulting in100K dollar cost savings annually.

• Collaborated on the implementation of the CalOSHA Healthcare Workplace Violence Prevention law.

• Coordinated with Homeland Security, San Mateo County Public Health on a Hospital Surge and Evacuation Tool. Results presented at California Hospital Association Emergency Preparedness conference in 2017.

• Designed and executed a series of Active Shooter exercises in collaboration with law Enforcement, SWAT teams & EMS across 3 Northern California counties, as well as in Missouri & Illinois. (2010- 2018)

National Safety Consulting St. Louis, MO.,Chicago, IL. 2013-2015 Director, Healthcare Construction/General Industry Safety Division

• Director, Healthcare Construction division developing and implementing general Construction contractors’ programs on compliance with Life Safety and Infection Control regulations. Surpassed IDPH, Fire Marshal, DNV requirements in 35M dollar acute hospital modernization and bed tower project in northern Illinois.

• Co-coordinated site safety and OCIP elements on multi billion dollar campus renewal projects at both the BJC Healthcare/Washington University Medical Center and Monsanto research site in St. Louis. Barnes-Jewish Hospital, BJC Healthcare, St. Louis, MO. 2003-2013 Director Environmental Health and Safety, Emergency Preparedness, Occupational Health/Worker Compensation

• Director level functions for all areas of regulatory compliance germane to Environmental Health & Safety, Emergency Preparedness/Business Continuity, Occupational Health & Worker Compensation at 1,200 beds, 10K employee, 4M-sq.ft academic medical and basic science research center. Budget responsibility 6M annually and 15 professionals as direct reports.

• Achieved 3M dollar savings from combined injury prevention programs focused on reducing slip, trips and falls; safe patient handling and ergonomic interventions on patient mobilization, pharmacy and material handling production processes.

• Leadership role for public and private multi agency Missouri response to both Hurricane Katrina evacuees and Joplin Tornado hospital evacuation; erection of medical operations and Logistics center at Boeing, Lambert Int’l Airport (2004 & 2010).

• Incident Commander for: evacuation and safe return of 110 inpatients during catastrophic failure of power systems caused by a City of St. Louis municipal water main rupture (2011) & Midwest regional power outages from tornadoes, where hospitals absorbed nursing home patients and community hospital patients (2006).

• Championed conversion by BJC Healthcare to a passive safety engineered needle device based upon 8-month trial in medical surgical and intensive care divisions. Published in the Journal of The Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare, Spring 2014, Vol. 34, No. 2, Reducing Needle stick Injuries from Active Safety Devices: A Passive Safety-Engineered Device Trial.

• Executive leader for Lean Performance Improvement teams and Baldrige Award application process focused on Key Result Areas (KRA): 5S Applied to Decontamination Equipment; N-95 Respirator Fit Testing, medical surveillance; 2P- Process Based Facility Planning, Ergonomic Evaluation and Injury Prevention.

• Chair, Medical Center Sustainability Committee in partnership with Washington University School of Medicine and BJC Healthcare. Waste minimization and recycling programs averaged 5M lbs annually with associated cost savings of 1M.

• Executive leader liaison with Federal and State OSHA, EPA, Department of Homeland Security, State Departments’ of Public Health, Regional Healthcare Coalitions, DOT, Joint Commission, Institute of Medical Quality, AAAHC, College of American Pathology, CDC, CMS, Fire Marshall’s Office, et al.

• Developed enterprise wide data collection and compliance monitoring tool and associated dashboards for measuring regulatory compliance performance. Loyola University of Chicago Health System, Maywood, Illinois. 1986 - 2003 Chief Safety Officer, Department of Safety and Security. 2002 - 2003 Safety Manager, Department of Safety and Security. 1997 - 2002 Safety Investigator, Department of Safety and Security. 1994 - 1997 Research Assistant II, Department of Microbiology/Immunology, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine. 1990 - 1994

Research Assistant I, Department of Biochemistry,

Loyola School of Dentistry. 1986 - 1990

American Dental Association, Dental Research Institute, Chicago, IL. 1983 - 1986 EDUCATION

Masters of Science in Labor and Industrial Relations, Institute of Industrial Relations, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Dean’s Honor List 1995 to1996. Bachelor of Science in Economics, State University of New York at Stonybrook (SUNY), Stonybrook, New York. Minor in Biological Sciences. Recipient of New York State Student Leadership Award 1976 to 1980.

CERTIFICATION AND TRAINING

• Certified Healthcare Emergency Coordinator Georgia Health Sciences University, 2012

• Intermediate and Advanced ICS Command and General Staff-Complex Incidents U.S. Department of Homeland Security, St. Louis Missouri, 2011

• Accelerating Change and Transition, BJC Healthcare, St. Louis, Missouri, 2010

• Six Sigma/Lean Performance Improvement Champion, American Cancer Society, St. Louis, Missouri, 2010

• Healthcare Leadership and Crisis Management, Center for Domestic Preparedness and FEMA, Anniston, Alabama, 2009 & 2016

• Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program, Center for Domestic Preparedness and FEMA, Anniston, Alabama, 2006

• National Incident Management System (NIMS) Certified Instructor (ICS 100, 200, 700), Missouri Department of Health and Human Services, St. Louis, Missouri, 2009

• Construction Safety Coordinator Certification Course, Northern Illinois University, College of Engineering and Construction Safety Council, Hillside, Illinois, 2001

• Accreditation Team Surveyor, College of American Pathology, Northfield, Illinois, 2000

• Certified Fire Inspector Level I, Illinois State Fire Marshall Office, Pleasantview Fire Department, Pleasantview, Illinois, 2000

• Instructor Certificate Managerial Voluntary Compliance for General Industry, United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Training Institute, Des Plaines, Illinois, 1995

• Certificate Indoor Air Quality Assessment, Kemper Insurance Risk Management Services, NATLSCO Industrial Hygiene Division, Long Grove, Illinois, 1995

• Certificate Industrial Hygiene, United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Training Institute, Des Plaines, Illinois, 1995 PUBLICATIONS AND ABSTRACTS

• Reducing Needlestick Injuries from Active Safety Devices: A Passive Safety-Engineered Device Trial, Journal of The Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare, Spring 2014, Vol. 34, No. 2.

• Evacuation and Hospital Preparedness, Interviewed by Modern Healthcare. May 2013 Issue.

• Contributor to Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute: Laboratory Hazardous Waste Guidelines, Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Copyright 2009.

• Complete Guide to Laboratory Safety, Author: Terry Jo Gile, Acknowledged Contributor: Jerry Glotzer; Publisher: HCPro, Incorporated, Marblehead, Massachusetts. Copyright 2004.

• Reducing Formaldehyde Exposures Through Selected Engineering Solutions, Jerry M. Glotzer; submitted as Master’s Thesis to Institute of Industrial Relations, Loyola University, Chicago, 1996.

• Assessment of the Mutagenic Effects of Natural Mixtures Using a Novel Mutagenicity Test Protocol, D. M. Parisis, J. M. Glotzer, Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, 2988, (1) 81, 1988. PRESENTATIONS

• Illinois Nurses Association, Expert Panel on Healthcare Workplace Violence, November 2017.

• California Hospital Association, Emergency Management Conference: Use of Homeland Security Healthcare Evacuation Tool, September 2017.

• Construction Consumer Council, Symposium: Managing Risk on Complex Construction Projects Focus: Monsanto, Express Scripts, Ameren UE and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, September 2014.

• Thompson Publishing Webinar, OSHA Compliance Focus: Walking & Working Surfaces, St. Louis, August 2014.

• The Removal of Exogenous Contaminant: Assessing the First Receiver Hospital Decontamination Team, National Emergency Management Summit, Washington, DC, 2009.

• Applying Six Sigma Approach to Vertical Evacuation, National Emergency Management Summit, Washington, DC, 2008.

• International Quality and Safety Conference, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2008.

• Missouri Occupational Health Nurses Conference, Hospital Emergency Preparedness, Jefferson City, October 2006.

• KMOV TV News, Interview as Hospital Incident Commander during Regional Severe Weather and Power Outages, St. Louis, Summer 2006.

• FOX TV News Feature, “Controlling Operating Room Fires”. St. Louis, Fall 2003

• International Association of Hospital Safety and Security, Faculty Instructor for Safety Curriculum. Chicago, 1995-2002.

AWARDS

• Co-recipient of National Foundation of Trauma Care Award. Top Five Most Highly Prepared Hospitals for Trauma, Blast and Weapons of Mass Destruction, August 2006

• Co-recipient of National Occupational Research Award (NORA), resulting from participation in joint NIOSH and Liberty Mutual Insurance research grant on Reducing Slips, Trips and Falls in Healthcare, May 2006.

• White House Acknowledgement of Service to Medical Services Branch, May 2006

• Awarded Quality and Performance Improvement Team Leader Award, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, 2004 and 2005

• Manager’s Leadership Roundtable Award for Merit and Leadership, Loyola University Medical Center, 2002.

• Co-recipient 1997 Recycling Award, Illinois Business Association. HOSPITAL/SCHOOL OF MEDICINE/REGIONAL COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS

• Training and Exercise Committee, Chicago Healthcare Coalition Preparedness and Response

• Crisis Standards of Care Committee, Illinois Hospital Association

• St. Louis Area Regional Response Hospital Committee

• City of St. Louis Local Emergency Planning Council

• BJC Emergency Preparedness Committee

• Missouri Hospital Association Emergency Planning Committee

• Barnes-Jewish Hospital Environmental Health and Safety Committee

• Barnes-Jewish Hospital Medical Center Sustainability Committee

• Washington University School of Medicine Radiation Safety Committee

• Radiology Radiation Oversight Safety Committee, Barnes-Jewish Hospital REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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