With the steady increase of Hispanic's in  the  US  workforce, employers  face increasing challenges of integrating this workforce into existing Company Safety Health &  Environmental programs. Strategies to incorporate Hispanics into the Company's culture, has been is trying at best. Recently, it becomes increasingly clear that language is just one of the barriers which must be overcome in order to fully incorporate Hispanic employees.

This seminar, was developed for people who manage, supervise or interact with Hispanic employees on a regular basis. It offers insight into many of the most common issues that create problems in the workplace, and provides proven solutions and advice on how to address these issues.

The following are some of the issues addressed in this seminar:

• Why Hispanic employees may not look you in the eyes and the significance of that.
• What are they Cultural Differences between Hispanics and Americans?
• How do Hispanics see the “Boss / employee” relationship?
• How your work / Safety rules may be costing you some of your best workers
• How to retain and recruit more loyal, long term Hispanic employees
• Where does a Hispanic employees place his loyalty. How to increase loyalty.
• How most Hispanics view, and carry out, works instructions
• How a Hispanic worker's family can affect job performance and Safety.
• Why Hispanics agree or say they understand, when they really don't.
• Why some Hispanics may appear to show little concern for workplace safety.
• Potential problems when using a “bilingual employee” to translate for your Hispanic employees.
• Why females may have a difficulty managing Hispanic males
• How to clearly communicate expectations to your Hispanic teams
• Simple and inexpensive ways of motivating Hispanics

Seminar Speaker

Bob Ramirez is the principal Consultant at Ramirez Associates. Bob has over 30 years experience in a wide variety of environmental health and safety management, engineering, engineering management, and operations management  in the U.S. and in Latin America. His professional roles have spanned defense, high-tech electronics, medium-tech electro-mechanical industries Mining, Petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products.

Bob is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. He has spoken and delivered papers at conferences sponsored by these organizations. He has also been a regular speaker for the Costa Rica Government, Department of Insurance, The Association of Environmental Health and Safety Professionals, Republican Dominicana, The Chilean Mining school, Ecuadorian Health and Safety Engineers organization, Georgia General Contractors Association and the Michigan Road Builders Association.