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8:30 am Registration & Networking
9:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Implementing Sophisticated Safety Systems to Create a Structure of Safety Excellence
9:15 am Utilizing Predictive Safety Models and Leveraging Scheduled Risk Review to Implement Safety Planning Directly into Project Scheduling and Eliminate Risk Factors
- Moving beyond traditional metrics (recordables, lost-time incidents) to focus on process-based indicators, such as the completion rate of scheduled risk review meetings and work plan development
- Establishing a process to tag and highlight safety-critical activities on the project schedule, enabling real-time response, inspections, and targeted observations
- Using the scheduled risk review to trigger the creation of detailed, high-energy work plans and control standards ensuring the Hierarchy of Controls is embedded before the work is permitted to start
- Focusing on elimination and substitution as best practices, and isolation or engineering controls as the mandatory minimum for all high-risk work identified during the risk review process
9:45 am Case Study: Examining the Impact of Human and Organizational Performance
- Understanding that behaviour is driven by the overall system and analysing how organizational design, procedures, and conditions influence choices made by workers in the field
- Utilizing HOPs to view safety and production as two interdependent outcomes of a single, highly reliable operating system, rather than competing priorities that must be balanced or traded off
- Implementing controls that focus on the organization’s ability to anticipate, absorb, and adapt to system pressures and failures, ensuring that safety is managed through system strength, not individual perfection
10:15 am Morning Refreshments & Networking
Integrating AI and Data to Reduce Burden and Inform Decision-Making
11:15 am Using Data to Accurately Assess and Define Success Within the Safety Context to Improve Accuracy in Decision-Making
- Challenging the industry’s reliance on Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) and similar lagging indicators, demonstrating how these metrics are often inaccurate, irrelevant, and can be easily manipulated, failing to reflect true safety performance
- Identifying the core questions executives ask and measuring leading indicators that provide the data necessary to justify strategic safety investments
- Shifting the definition of success to include the proactive reporting of near misses and high-potential incidents, encouraging honesty and generating crucial data for continuous improvement
11:45 am Audience Discussion: Integrating Appropriate AI Usage Within Your Safety Program to Reduce Burden and Improve Compliance
- Building a clear approach for assessing where AI genuinely supports safety teams by cutting admin load without risking inaccurate guidance or compliance gaps
- Equipping safety leaders with a practical method to validate AI outputs and ensure programs, manuals and training materials reflect company policy, high‑risk realities and state-specific requirements
- Establishing a decision framework that helps teams identify when AI delivers meaningful operational value versus when traditional expertise is needed, so investment aligns with safety goals and real site outcome
12:15 pm Networking Lunch
1:15 pm Audience Discussion: Creating a Communication Strategy that is Applicable and Engaging across all Organizational Levels
- Developing and implementing training for safety professionals on the art of communication, ensuring delivery is empathetic and focuses on the ‘why’
- Discussing modern strategies for converting complex page safety manual documentation into accessible, engaging, and brief formats that field personnel will actively utilize
- Implementing structured processes e.g. ‘Start Strong, Finish Strong’ where project teams present their build plans to a peer review group for wisdom sharing and prework critique, accelerating the learning curve and integrating field personnel into the safety planning process
The Relationship Between Health, Fitness, Wellbeing and Safety
2:15 pm How to Effectively Measure ‘Wellbeing’ and Leverage Information to Inform Programming and Initiatives
- Using the understanding of worker challenges and incident trends to justify and implement targeted wellness resources and programs
- Establishing ethical and non-intrusive methods to gather actionable data on workforce stresses and overall mental health
- Developing metrics to demonstrate the direct financial and safety-related return on investment (ROI) of mental health and wellness initiatives following program implementation
2:45 pm Afternoon Refreshments
3:15 pm Developing a Cost-Effective Company-Wide Wellbeing Program that Provides Essential Services and Improves Workforce Health and Satisfaction
- Providing a step-by-step roadmap for organizations that need to build a successful, comprehensive wellness program internally
- Leveraging safety and HR expertise to prioritize low-cost, high-reach educational campaigns as a primary component of a budget-constrained wellness strategy
- Identifying essential services that cannot be provided internally, and developing costeffective, strategic partnerships to deliver these specialized services
3:55 pm Examining the Impact of Mental Health on Project and Team outcomes and the Construction Industry as a Whole
- Highlighting the urgent need to address mental health and substance abuse industry-wide
- Implementing innovative outreach strategies, such as integrating mental health specialists directly into job site routines and morning meetings, who then rove the site to connect with workers in their familiar “habitat” for comfortable, private conversations
- Examining how external pressures on the workforce compound existing mental health risks and decrease overall safety on projects.