OPEX25 | EHS Operational Excellence Conference
April 1-2, 2025 ยท Orlando, Florida
OPEX25 Agenda
Strengthen your EHS Compliance Systems
Are you looking for new ideas to ensure that your EHS program is aligned with your company's business objectives? Join NAEM for our annual showcase of the leading practices your peers are using to reduce risk and embed EHS programs into business culture. Get advice from your peers and participate in thoughtful discussions about what you should be doing to build a strong EHS program today, for tomorrow.
EHS as a Business Core
Aligning EHS programs with business objectives leads to strong compliance, improved safety performance and competitive advantage.
Come meet environmental, health and safety managers from across industries to benchmark your program and learn from their hard-won lessons.
NAEM's peer-developed agenda is designed to ensure that you'll walk away with actionable strategies you can use to strengthen your EHS programs immediately.
Are you looking for new ideas to ensure that your EHS program is aligned with your company's business objectives? Join NAEM for our annual showcase of the leading practices your peers are using to reduce risk and embed EHS programs into business culture. Get advice from your peers and participate in thoughtful discussions about what you should be doing to build a strong EHS program today, for tomorrow.
EHS as a Business Core
Aligning EHS programs with business objectives leads to strong compliance, improved safety performance and competitive advantage.
Come meet environmental, health and safety managers from across industries to benchmark your program and learn from their hard-won lessons.
NAEM's peer-developed agenda is designed to ensure that you'll walk away with actionable strategies you can use to strengthen your EHS programs immediately.
PREVIOUS TRACKS AND TOPICS
- Stakeholder Management
- Regulatory Updates
- Business Response to Societal Changes
- Risk Management Strategies
- Internal & External Communication Tactics
- Impactful EHS Metrics
- EHS Leadership & Continuous Improvement
- EHS Management Essentials
- Strategies to maintain EHS excellence in a lean business environment
- Regulatory and enforcement updates
- Best practices to maximize the value of Audits
- Leveraging technology to enhance EHS management
- Tools & Strategies for Leading in the New Normal
- Benchmarking Reducing EHS Risk
- Communicating the Business Value of EHS
- integrating compliance into the fabric of organizational culture and operations
- use of metrics to drive risk management and create business value. This year's agenda will focus on risk management, auditing trends and how insights from key metrics can impact overall business strategy.
- Auditing structures
- Regulatory updates
- Identifying and prioritizing EHS risk
- Lagging and leading metrics
- Management Systems for Enterprise Compliance
- Data Management Strategies
- Staffing and knowledge retention
- International EHS Compliance: Learn how corporations are ensuring global regulations are met in multiple locations.
- Regulatory Updates: Discover the most current emerging issues on the international and federal.
- Training Staff for Compliance: See how companies are taking unique approaches in training their staff in order to guarantee compliance.
- Auditing: Join discussions on how companies are approaching EHS audits.
- Plan for Risk: Find out how companies are assessing, mitigating and strategizing how to handle risk in EHS.
- Global EHS Management: See how different companies are ensuring compliance around the world.
- Auditing: Join the discussion on staffing, structure, scope and depth.
- Understanding Risk: Learn how to engage with the people that have an impact on your risk so that they feel ownership for it.
- Regulatory Updates: Stay current on emerging international issues, as well as the latest federal and state initiatives.
- Staffing Challenges: Find out how your peers are handling a multigenerational workforce, finding good people around the globe, and keeping an eye on succession planning
- Hiring Consultants AND Contractors: Hear how others are utilizing outside help effectively.
- Data Management Strategies: Tools and techniques are advancing rapidly. Get an update on latest trends.
- Auditing structures: See how different companies manage their auditing program and the advantages of each system
- Regulatory updates: Hear the latest on GHS, federal/state enforcement priorities, and emerging international issues
- Identifying and prioritizing EHS risk: Focus your efforts on the issues with the biggest potential impact to your business
- Lagging and leading metrics: See how you compare to other companies in your use of metrics based on an NAEM conference benchmarking survey
- Management Systems for Enterprise Compliance: Get an overview of management systems used to minimize risk and ensure compliance
- Data Management Strategies: Augment your knowledge of data management and reporting strategy with the experiences of your peer companies
- Staffing and knowledge retention: Find out how to hire and retain good people, and if they do leave, how to transfer their knowledge
- An update on constantly evolving domestic and international regulations
- New best practices in auditing
- Insight on managing global operations
- Blueprints for succession planning, talent development, and maintaining organizational knowledge
- Tips on evaluating, selecting, and managing outside consultants