7:00 am Registration & Networking
8:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Reviewing Your Internal Strategy for Safety Integration
8:10 am Discovering the Art of Selling Safety to Secure Internal Buy-In from Both Senior Leadership & Field Workers
Synopsis
- Moving away from a safety cop mentality towards building sincere relationships by understanding the role, pain points and impacts of each party
- Reflecting on the variations in language and messaging required based on your target audience
- Exploring the five stages of a traditional sales cycle in order to adapt your pitch and gain long-term buy-in
8:50 am Case Study: Redefining Safety KPIs to Become More Proactive & Preventative
Synopsis
- Understanding that lagging indicators don’t offer an accurate representation of the performance and scalability of the present safety program
- Harnessing root cause analysis to identify the issues you need to get ahead of to become more proactive
- Developing a safety performance evaluation system based on leading indicators of most relevance to your safety incidents and practices
9:30 am Panel: From the Why to the How: Creating a Shared Safety Framework to Integrate Safety into the Fabric of Your Organization
Synopsis
- Understanding the impact of your safety program performance for your overall commercial results
- Understanding how other divisions of your company, such as operations and estimating, can feed knowledge into your safety program
- Formulating clear responsibilities both on an organizational and individual level towards achieving collective safety goals
10:10 am Morning Refreshments & Speed Networking
10:50 am Ensuring Internal Buy-in to Adopting New Technology to Upgrade Your Safety Program & Keep Up with Industry Trends
Synopsis
- Discussing the importance of monitoring industry trends and their alignment with your company’s needs
- Offering an accurate assessment of the costs, efficiencies and benefits created with the adoption new technologies
- Facilitating incremental introduction of new technologies to ease the adoption process and ensure user familiarity
Reviewing Your Internal Strategy for Safety Integration
11:30 am Using Automation to Create a Safety-First Culture on Your Jobsite
Synopsis
- Using integrated safety software & hardware for easy, instantaneous, automated and real-time jobsite safety that keeps your project team safe from the moment they set foot on the jobsite.
- Making safety non-negotiable by using technology that ensures there are no safety gaps on your jobsite.
- Digitizing your entire safety management process from onboarding to work assignments, certifications, tracking and analytics that keeps your project on track, on time and on budget – but most importantly digitizes the processes that keep your team safe.
- Turning your Jobsite into a Safesite by creating a safety-first focus that comes from equipping your jobsite teams with safety-first digital tools.
12:00 pm Networking Lunch
1:00 pm Panel: Rethinking Field Worker Safety Training for Increased Compliance & Quality of Decision-Making
Synopsis
- Developing a training and onboarding strategy that provides comprehensive upskilling, yet accounts for high turnover rates
- How do you get frontline workers to make safer, more proactive choices, especially when unsupervised?
- Revealing more interactive, creative and engaging training approaches in order to achieve high retention levels among workers
1:40 pm Case Study: Leveraging VR Technologies for Improved Accuracy of Field Safety Training & Onboarding
Synopsis
- Discussing how VR technologies increase the level of worker engagement in training practices leading to enhanced compliance
- Exploring the creation of virtual on-site environments to simulate real-life situations to create safety learning opportunities
- Analyzing VR platform data to determine the main pain points of that specific user and inform the additional training needed
Increasing Mental Health & Wellbeing Awareness in the Field
2:20 pm Addressing the Implications of Substance Use to Ensure Accurate Evaluations & Worker Efficiency in the Field
Synopsis
- Reviewing the impact of marijuana legalization on safety requirements and protocols
- Developing a testing approach that accounts for recreational substance use and successfully assesses impairment
- Exploring new technology solutions that can accurately measure impairment sources and substance use
3:00 pm The Construction Wellbeing Initiative: How SkillSignal & Princeton University Launched a Research Initiative that Aspires to Improve Worker Wellbeing within the US Construction Industry
Synopsis
- Finding out how wellbeing is mostly a function of the system we operate in (not an individual trait)
- Understanding what this means and why it should give us all hope for the future
- The way forward: collecting and analyzing solutions and interventions
3:15 pm Afternoon Refreshments
3:50 pm Building Awareness of Mental Health Issues Within the Construction Industry to Inform Prevention Strategies
Synopsis
- Discussing the rising concern for mental health issues in comparison to the fatal four
- What can be done to bring mental health awareness out of the shadows in a field of construction where workers typically don’t share their emotions?
- Optimizing your internal processes to account for mental health concerns and their main drivers
4:30 pm Reflecting on GC & Client Interactions to Ensure Accurate Project Delivery Requirements & Expectations
Synopsis
- Educating clients on the hazards of overworking the field workforce, such as mental health and fatigue implications
- Ensuring that the contractor has an accurate understanding of the capabilities of their workforce before agreeing to unachievable client terms
- Establishing early collaboration in developing a project timeline that aligns with both the requirements of the client and capabilities of the field team