The National Safety Council (NSC) has appointed Mark Baker as vice president of workplace, for the non-profit safety organisation, effective 8 September.
Based in its Chicago headquarters, Baker will be responsible for leading membership, thought leadership and workplace product offerings.
For members, he will focus on increasing value and engagement for more than 15,000 of the council’s member organisations.
Baker will oversee the Campbell Institute and Work to Zero programmes, along with workplace research, to drive workplace safety thought leadership.
He also will be responsible for NSC workplace products and services, including the COVID-19-related safe actions for employee returns initiative, as well as drive enhancements to workplace safety products and training services.
Additionally, he will assist with the launch of NSC Marketplace, a new customer portal for safety products and services.
Baker joins NSC from Hyatt, where he serves as global director of workplace safety and vice president of global risk.
At Hyatt, Baker focused on strategically managing workplace safety and risk management impacting Hyatt’s portfolio of hotels and colleagues globally. He also developed and lead its captive insurance business.
Commenting on his new role, Baker said: “I’m thrilled to join NSC, where I can merge my passion for safety and risk management with my strategic business background to help build NSC to be the authority in workplace safety.”
He continued: “Throughout my career, I have demonstrated my passion for keeping workers safe, and I will bring that commitment to NSC as we work to eliminate preventable injuries and deaths in the workplace.”
Lorraine Martin, NSC president and CEO noted: “Mark Baker has more than 30 years’ experience leading and developing successful global, safety-related business organisations. He has a rich depth of experience with a successful track record in workplace safety and risk management, as well as captive insurance business leadership.”