Southern Oregon Occupational Safety & Health Conference
October 13-15, 2026

Notice: Our 2026 meetings will continue at Si Casa Flores Restaurant: ​
​202 NE Beacon Dr, Grants Pass, OR

Join us:
July 2nd at noon
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FOCUS Leadership™
for Safety Professionals

Find and focus on what matters most to create monumental safety

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Scott Shumway, principal
​EMIMENT LLC

Program Description:

Safety rarely improves simply because we try harder. In most organizations, effort isn’t the issue — focus is.

In this interactive session, leadership consultant and author Scott Shumway applies the five principles of FOCUS Leadership to the real challenges safety professionals face every day. In operations, the constraint limits throughput; in safety, the constraint limits safe behavior. And that constraint is rarely policy or equipment. It is almost always something human.

Here is the key: Every unsafe act reflects a competing want in the moment — speed, approval, comfort, and production pressure. Until leaders learn to recognize and regulate those competing priorities, safety initiatives sputter.

Using a real scenario from the group, participants will apply the principles of FOCUS Leadership. Specifically, how to identify the true constraint behind recurring safety issues, align teams around what matters most, and create the kind of leadership environment where safety and productivity reinforce each other.
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This session is not about adding more rules. It is about leading in a way that makes monumental safety possible.

Presenter Information:

Scott Shumway has spent his career increasing throughput. From revenue, to gross margin to net margin, Scott will help you find the bottleneck in your organization and turn it into a profit center. An author, leader and teacher, Scott thrives on identifying complexity, then helping others create focus and order. His wide ranging leadership and business experiences have resulted in remarkable success in many industries.
Scott is the principal of EMIMENT LLC and the author of “The Invisible Four-letter Word,” a book about getting what you really want in life. EMIMENT courses are designed to help businesses get the most out of their investment dollars.
When he is not helping leaders improve their businesses, you’ll find Scott exploring the mountains of some remote wilderness. He and his lovely wife Wendy have six children and live in the beautiful Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon.

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Please join us at Si Casa Flores Restaurant in Grants Pass! We look forward to seeing you there!

Si Casa Flores Restaurant is located at 202 NE Beacon Dr, Grants Pass, OR. We look forward to seeing you there!

Future Training Schedule:

Date:
​July 2, 2026
August 6, 2026
September 3, 2026
​October 1, 2026
​November 5, 2026
Planned Topics:
​Focus Leadership for Safety
Incident Analysis Activity
Work Health Employer Services
Hazard Mitigation and Control
​OR-OSHA SHARP and Challenge Programs
Presenter:
Scott Shumway, Emiment
David Hanson, SAIF
Kristie Hendricks & Timothy Wilson
​Mike Hill & Patti McGuire, SAIF
​Mark E. Hurliman, OR-OSHA
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