LARRY HANSEN is an organizational performance consultant, author, speaker, and facilitator of strategic change, safety excellence and organizational improvement. In this capacity, he engages in organizational assessment, culture change, strategic loss reduction, and safety excellence leadership facilitation.

His past experience in the insurance industry included Regional S&H management and Home Office Practice Leadership in Organizational Performance and Strategic Consulting initiatives.

He is a graduate of the University of New Haven with a bachelor of science degree in Operations Management and has 38 years of experience in safety, organizational, and loss management consulting. Larry is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), holds the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation from the Insurance Institute of America, and is a professional member and past president of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Eastern New York Chapter.

Larry served as vice president and member of the executive committee of the Minerva Education Institute domiciled at Xavier University, an organization dedicated to enhancing safety and health in America’s workplaces through improved curriculum in our nation’s business schools.

He was the 1992 recipient of the Irwin/Procter & Gamble Best Paper Award in safety management and received first prize in the ASSE-Veteran’s of Safety (1993-94) Professional Paper Competition for his work, "Safety Management: A Call for (R)evolution." His biography is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in Business and Finance.

Larry has developed many unique safety management products including The Safety Management Mirror: Management Insights Reflecting Organizational Reality, a survey of organizational safety culture factors; "Rate Your B.O.S.S.: Benchmarking Organizational Safety Strategy," a review of safety strategies and industry best practices; and "The Architecture of Safety Excellence," (Professional Safety May 2000), a review of those strategies critical to achieving world-class safety excellence.
 

His Articles...

• Rebraining Corporate Safety & Health

• Twelve 'Unlegal' Ways to Slash Workers Compensation Costs

• Loss Control Strategies for Downsizing

• What’s Your Organizational Loss Management IQ?

• Signing Up for Trouble

received cover and feature attention in Professional Safety, Risk Management, and Occupational Hazard.

He presents regularly at state, national, and international events and has keynoted numerous national association conferences. He has appeared on GATV’s Safety and Health Lifestyles, a cable television program. He is one of 30 international faculty selected to present at the 24th International Risk and Insurance Management conference in London, England (He has completed a four city lecture tour in Chile sponsored by the Instituto de Seguridad del Trabajo.

His writings on safety management and organizational performance have been published in peer reviewed journals and professional magazines, including the ASSE Professional Safety Journal, Occupational Hazards, Risk Management, NCCI Safe Workplace Magazine, National Safe Workplace Institute Report, Nation’s Business, Industrial Safety & Hygiene News, Global Risk Manager, and Global Reinsurance published in London, England.

Larry Hansen maintains offices in Syracuse, New York and can be reached by telephone at (315) 383-3801 or via e-mail at llhsos@dreamscape.com.