Bill Simms, Jr.
Speaker, Author
Looking for Human Error? Then make it human & Lose the “big stick”

The purpose of analyzing the human behavioral component of any event is to understand why those involved did the things they did. Investigations attempt to understand the workplace conditions, worker attitudes, adequacy of staffing levels, and the effectiveness of leadership in order to explain what happened.  This presentation seeks to understand how worker’s decisions and the capacity of the organizational management system to influence of safe and at-risk behaviors make sense at the time, given the environment within which they were working.

https://youtu.be/43u61TQpOxQ

James Fredrick – Invited
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA
Presentation and OSHA Update

Jim Frederick has three decades of experience providing occupational health and safety leadership to North American labor unions as an advocate and a resource to workers, their employers and regulatory agencies. Mr. Frederick spent twenty-five years in the Health, Safety and Environment Department of the United Steelworkers Union (USW), serving as Assistant Director and Principal Investigator until 2019. In that role, he provided technical guidance to the USW and other unions on matters pertaining to occupational health, safety, and the environment. Mr. Frederick worked closely with the USW’s management counterparts and organizations around the world on a wide range of projects to improve workplace health and safety.

Richard McElhaney CSP, CRIS, MS
Safety Professional and Speaker

The Real Cost of Safety

You’re invited to a candid discussion with Mr. Richard McElhaney as he talks about the effects of traumatic injuries not only on the employee but on the family, coworkers, and the company.  Mr. McElhaney will also speak about six accident reduction techniques that had the greatest impact over his 29 years in the health and safety field.  He will also reveal what the real costs are of being safe.  He will revisit the importance of the Job Safety Analysis (JSA) as a preplanning tool.  “JSA’s have been around for many years, but they have become complacent on many projects globally.”  Mr. McElhaney will review in detail an injury that occurred on one of his projects and how the use of JSA’s would have prevented the injury and how the JSA process turned things around.

http://therealcostofsafety.com/

2023 Conference Agenda

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