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Senior Partner
Safety Performance Solutions
Blacksburg VA
United States

E. Scott Geller, Ph.D. is a Senior Partner of Safety Performance Solutions, Inc. – a leading-edge organization specializing in people-based safety training and consulting. Dr. Geller and his partners at Safety Performance Solutions (SPS) have helped companies across the country and around the world address the human dynamics of occupational safety through flexible research-founded principles and industry-proven tools. In addition, for four decades, Professor E. Scott Geller has taught and conducted research as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech. In this capacity, he has authored more than 350 research articles and over 75 books or chapters addressing the development and evaluation of behavior-change interventions to improve quality of life. His recent books in occupational health and safety include: The Psychology of Safety; Working Safe; Understanding Behavior-Based Safety; Building Successful Safety Teams; Beyond Safety Accountability: How to Increase Personal Responsibility; The Psychology of Safety Handbook; Keys to Behavior-Based Safety from Safety Performance Solutions; The Participation Factor; People-Based Safety: The Source; People-Based Patient Safety: Enriching your culture to prevent medical error; coauthored by Dave Johnson, Leading People-Based Safety: Enriching your culture and his is latest book is The Courage Factor, coauthored with Bob Veazie and recently published by Coastal Training Technologies Corporation. Dr. Geller is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the World Academy of Productivity and Quality Sciences. He is past Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (1989-1992), current Associate Editor of Environment and Behavior (since 1982), and current Consulting Editor for Behavior and Social Issues, the Behavior Analyst Digest, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management. Dr. Geller has written more than 100 articles for Industrial Safety and Hygiene News, a trade magazine disseminated to more than 75,000 companies. He has collaborated with Tel-A-Train Inc. and J.J. Keller and Associates in the development of various training series, which include videotapes, workbooks, and facilitators’ guides. For these innovative and creative works, beginning with a 1995 nationally renowned seminar series -- Actively Caring for Safety--the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis honored Dr. Geller with an award for Effective Presentation of Behavior Analysis in the Mass Media.

Session(s):

Cultivating an Actively Caring Culture: Dispelling Myths and Moving Forward
The People Side of Culture Enrichment and Injury Prevention: From Concepts to Practice
Employee-Centered Safety
Motivational Keynote "The Human Side of Injury Prevention"

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