Keynote Address - Patrick Nelson

  "Demystifying Risk for the Safety and Health Professional"  

"Let Technology Generate Your Leading Indicators" 

This course will show you how to improve your safety outcomes by using technology to generate leading indicators. The course will focus on six leading indicators --- one for each element of OSHA’s Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs (OSHA 3885). 

These six leading indicators include: 

1. Number of employee safety ideas and hazards submitted.
2. Average time between worker report of a safety idea or hazard and management knowledge of the report.
3. Percentage of incidents with root cause investigation completed.
4. Percentage of hazards abated in same day, week or month the hazard was identified.
5. Number of safety audits completed.
6. Training hours provided.

Learning Objectives:

• Primary: Demonstrate how to use technology to generate leading indicators.
• Secondary: Encourage attendees to share their best ideas related to leading indicators (during and after the workshop).
• Tertiary: Learn how to use technology to improve safety outcomes.

"After Action Review of Company COVID-19 Response"

By the date of this conference, most if not all businesses and industries will be open and in full operation after the total shut-don due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducting an after-action review of this event or series of events from the company’s point of view and workers’ point of view will give management the necessary guidance and information to update and improve the Plan for the next situation that may cause a business to have to cease operations due to no fault of their own then start back up after an extended period of time.

This presentation is not based on any specific industry or company however will be very much an open-discussion with questions posed to the audience incorporating their responses into the overall presentation discussion.

Learning Objectives:

The audience will gain an appreciation for an after-action review of the development and implementation of a Plan to continue operations, re-start operations, or ramp up operations after the lockdown due to COVID-19. We will have reviewed what went right, what did not work, and what can be done to improve the Plan for the next pandemic or other situation that may cause a business to have to cease operations due to no fault of their own then start back up after an extended period of time. The audience will understand the need to update the Plan on a regular basis and review it with the management team.