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8:30 am Registration & Networking
9:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Implementing Sophisticated Safety Systems to Ensure a Safety Excellence Environment
9:15 am Utilizing Predictive Safety Models and Leveraging Scheduled Risk Review to Directly Implement Safety Planning into Projects
- Moving beyond traditional metrics to focus on process-based indicators, such as completion rate of scheduled risk review
- Creating actionable processes to tag safety-critical procedures on the project schedule, enabling real-time visibility and response
- Leveraging the scheduled risk review in the creation of detailed work plans and control standards, ensuring the prioritization of the Hierarchy of Controls prior to project onset
- Focusing on elimination and substitution as best practices, and ensuring engineering controls and isolation are the mandatory minimum for all high-risk work
9:45 am Case Study: Examining the Impact of Human and Organizational Performance
- Understanding that behavior is systematically driven, and analyzing the influence of organizational design, procedures, and conditions
- Utilizing HOPs to understand the interdependence of safety and production
- 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
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, questioning whether these metrics are frequently inaccurate, and if they fail to truly reflect safety compliance
- Identifying the key questions asked by executives and understanding the leading indicators needed 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 continuous improvement
11:45 am Panel 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 without risking inaccurate guidance or compliance gaps
- Equipping safety leaders with a practical framework to validate AI outputs and ensure programs, manuals and training materials reflect company policy state-specific requirements
- Establishing a decision framework that assists teams in identifying the true operational value of AI versus traditional expertise in aligning with safety goals and practical site application
12:15 pm Networking Lunch
1:15 pm Audience Discussion: Creating a Communication Strategy that is Applicable Across all Organizational Levels
- Developing and implementing training for safety professionals on effective communication, ensuring delivery focuses on the real life application
- Discussing modern strategies for converting complex page safety manual documentation into accessible and engaging formats for seamless adoption
- Implementing structured processes e.g. ‘Start Strong, Finish Strong’, where project teams use peer based review, actively 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
- Understanding challenges faced by workers 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 positive impact of the implementation of mental health and wellness initiatives on financial and safety related outcomes
2:45 pm Afternoon Refreshments
3:15 pm Developing a Cost-Effective, Company-Wide Wellbeing Program that Provides Essential Services and Improves Workforce Welfare
- Providing a step-by-step roadmap for organizations that need to build a successful, comprehensive wellness program
- Leveraging safety and HR expertise to prioritize low-cost, high-reach educational campaigns as a primary component of a holistic wellness strategy
- Identifying essential services that must be outsourced, and developing strategic partnerships to secure these specialized services
3:55 pm Examining the Impact of Mental Health Project, Team, and Industry Outcomes
- Highlighting the urgent need to address mental health and substance abuse permeating the industry
- Implementing innovative outreach strategies, such as the integration of mental health specialists in active project sites for constant support and accessibility
- Examining how external pressures on the workforce compound existing mental health risks and decrease overall safety on projects