{"id":4620,"date":"2019-08-21T06:56:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T06:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsleaders.com\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2019-12-04T06:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T06:18:57","slug":"interview-barbara-veith-ohsleaders-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusnetwork.co\/ohsleaders.com\/interview-barbara-veith-ohsleaders-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Barbara Veith from Fruit of the Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4622 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/focusnetwork.co\/ohsleaders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2019\/08\/Headshot-BW-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/barbara-veith-1332006b\/\">Barbara Veith<\/a>, Director Environmental, Health &amp; Safety for Fruit of the Loom, Inc. is responsible for providing expertise and strategic leadership for the global company environmental, health and safety programs and initiatives to ensure proper compliance and optimization within established regulations and guidelines and to maintain our program to communicate critical business information to participating employees in the event of business interruptions, threats or critical events.\u00a0 Barbara is an Authorized 10 and 30-hour General Industry Trainer and an American Red Cross Instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: &#8220;What do you feel are the biggest challenges safety leaders are currently faced with within their business?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara: &#8220;Increasing the engagement process with temporary contract employees that lack experience and understanding of safety and don\u2019t believe it is a value to them or that it is their responsibility.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: &#8220;As a safety leader, what do you feel businesses continue to get wrong when it comes to their marketing strategy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara: &#8220;Unintentionally failing to develop or consider more forward-looking safety process improvements.\u00a0 Just because you haven\u2019t had any injuries, doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t improve the safety process.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: &#8220;What are the latest trends and behaviours you predict will be surfacing on the market over the coming 12 months?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara: &#8220;More programmable self-driven powered industrial trucks used for picking in warehousing and better communication systems for alerting employees of dangerous situations, such as active shooters.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: &#8220;What is the best piece of advice you have received within your job over the years?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara: &#8220;You must care and be passionate about safety, even if the employee forgets.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t just a job.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotlinc.com\/\">Fruit of the Loom<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotlinc.com\/\">Fruit of the Loom, Inc<\/a>., is a global pioneer, specializing in the design, manufacture, and marketing of iconic family apparel, athletic apparel, and sporting equipment brands including Vanity Fair\u00ae, Fruit of the Loom\u00ae, Spalding\u00ae and Russell Athletic\u00ae. 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