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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 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
12:30 pm Networking Lunch
The Relationship Between Health, Fitness, Wellbeing and Safety
1:30 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
2:00 pm Afternoon Refreshments & Networking
3:00 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
3:45 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