8:30 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Improving On-Site Safety
8:40 am Case Study: Optimizing Field Risk Assessments to Account for Underground Utility Strikes
Synopsis
- Addressing the consequences of underground utility strikes for increased awareness among both project decision-makers and field workers
- How do you accurately evaluate the risk associated with an excavation operation and what are the technologies that help?
- Formulating the necessary safeguards to be followed throughout the excavation operation in accordance with the identified risks
9:20 am Audience Discussion: Benchmarking the Most Transformative Tools & Technologies on the Market to Enhance your Safety Program
Synopsis
- Understanding where and how you can create efficiencies in your safety program by adopting new technologies
- Evaluating your technology options for construction safety and develop sensible piloting and roll-out strategies
- Leveraging digital platforms for improved data tracking and ease of safety strategy evaluation and development
10:00 am Morning Refreshments
10:40 am Panel: Discussing Emerging On-Site Challenges to Strengthen Your Safety Approach & Prepare for the Unexpected
Synopsis
- Understanding how the introduction of new jobsite technologies help mitigate the consequences of a retiring field workforce and skilled labor shortages
- Understanding how a proactive leader should assist their project teams to develop the ability to be predictive, and implement controls before they are needed
- Ensuring an effective top-down pre-planning process ahead of a project to gain common understanding on the tasks, tools to be used, and potential hazards
11:20 am Audience Discussion: Optimizing the Rollout of New Wearables to Ensure Awareness & Ease of Adoption Among Field Workers
Synopsis
- Exploring new personal protective equipment solutions to discover the best fit for your company’s needs and capabilities
- Emphasizing the why behind the introduction of new tools in order to secure workforce compliance
- Understanding how to best complement your choice of field technology with healthy data tracking and a well-formulated industrial athletic program
12:00 pm Networking Lunch
12:30 pm
Optimizing Stakeholder Collaboration for Safety Alignment
1:00 pm Optimizing GC Interactions With Insurance Companies to Ensure That Requirements Accurately Reflect the Circumstances in the Field
Synopsis
- Redefining the dynamic, adversarial relationship between GCs and insurance companies by understanding the priorities of each party and formulating collective goals
- Assessing the accuracy of insurance company requirements in accordance with the specific context of your field practices and respective safety benchmarks
- Highlighting the importance of your safety strategy in securing the trust of your insurance company
1:40 pm Improving GC & Subcontractor Collaboration to Improve Safety Standards and Drive Industry Best Practice
Synopsis
- Ensuring early alignment of safety practices between the GC and the subcontractor
- Discovering how early interaction with subcontractors creates a higher level of engagement and accountability to the safety standards of the GC to follow through on goals
- Highlighting how the GC can support subcontractors in developing more sophisticated safety practices