8:00 am Check-In & Networking
8:30 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Creating Future Safety Leaders
8:40 am Creating a Career Development Pathway to Strengthen Your Department, Improve Retention & Enhance Quality in the Profession
Synopsis
- Defining an onboarding strategy to upskill new team members quickly while maintaining quality in execution
- Looking beyond accreditation and defining a career and development plan for your team
- Creating mentor programs to develop rising stars into future leaders
9:20 am Audience Discussion: Raising the Profile of Safety as a Career to Improve Recruitment Success
Synopsis
- Reviewing where the critical gaps in safety positions are throughout the industry
- Working with internal candidates to fill safety roles
- Exploring alternative recruitment sources and strategies to find the right candidate for your team
10:00 am Morning Refreshments & Speed Networking
Enhancing Training in the Field
10:30 am Rethinking Training to Address Workforce Diversity & High Turnover
Synopsis
- Building a robust training process that addresses the realities of high employee turnover rates
- Exploring alternative training strategies to adapt to your workforce capabilities and improve retention
- Reviewing how employees can ‘fail safely’ in a controlled environment but also in thefield
11:10 am Ensuring Safety Strategies Are Easily & Consistently Adopted in the Field
Synopsis
- Understanding common barriers to communication and the effective alternative methods to overcome these
- Ensuring training is delivered in a timely, engaging manner without being perceived as a barrier to productivity
- Ensuring training is not just a ‘tick-box’ exercise and we are actively tracking application of knowledge in the field
11:50 am Networking Lunch
Mental Health & Wellbeing
12:50 pm Audience Discussion: Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health to Combat Construction’s Rising Crisis
Synopsis
- Establishing early education on mental health and the identifying symptoms to be aware of
- Designing a clear mental health support program to ensure supervisors and team members are aware of the support available and how to gain access to it
- Developing wellbeing champions in the field to drop the stigma and encourage others to speak up
1:30 pm Promoting Work-Life Balance to Improve Team Wellbeing
Synopsis
- Exploring the key stressors in the construction industry that can be detrimental to mental health and wellbeing
- How can employers look beyond the workplace to support their teams’ wellbeing?
- Discussing the ROI of investing in a robust wellness program and how to demonstrate this for broader organizational buy-in