Safety Summit Conference Agenda
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
7:30 am – 8:15 am Registration and Coffee
8:15 am – 8:30 am
Welcome – TBD
Safety Briefing – Jason Marshburn, Director, EHS&EM, Appalachian State University
Kickoff – Dr. Timothy Ludwig & Dr. Shawn Bergman
8:30 am – 9:30 am ?
First Things First: Foundations for Protective and Positive Workplaces
Dr. Ryan Olsen, Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
One of the first lessons in behavioral science is that behavior is a function of its consequences. If we want to change behavior, we must change its consequences. Perhaps a second lesson is that antecedents, or the things that happen before behavior, are weaker or less effective for creating change. However, in workplace safety certain types of antecedents are paradoxically more important to address and more powerful than behavioral consequences. An example is removing or reducing hazards. In this talk I’ll describe this prevention paradox and share several strategies for putting “first things first” in your injury prevention processes.
9:30 am – 10:15 am
What an Aussie Has Learnt About Safety from the Queen and Koalas
Dr. John Culvenor, Engineering Consultant
Australians only have basic things to give us inspiration.?AC/DC took their name from the back of a sewing machine.?AC/DC could have just as easily been called the “Singer Sewing Machine Band”; or perhaps just “Singer” which would have made sense but not been as intriguing.?I have taken a couple of ideas not from sewing machines but from the Queen and koalas. Apparently thanks to Independence Day, Americans don’t need much inspiration from royalty.?But Aussies have not seen that movie yet.?From the Queen I noticed an interesting lesson.?Boss people around and take their money??No, surprisingly that is not what I learned.?Similarly, Americans would never have many encounters with koalas.?Looks like a bear, walks like a bear.?No, it’s not a bear!? Not much in Australia makes sense.?But I will try to convey something I learnt from koalas.
10:15 am – 10:45 am Break
10:45 am – Noon ???????????
Emotional Intelligence: A Crucial Human Dynamic for Safety, Health, and Human Welfare
Dr. Scott Geller, Center for Applied Behavior Systems in the Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech
This dynamic research-based presentation will elucidate emotional emotional intelligence (EI) as a critical human dynamic that safety leaders need to nurture within themselves as intrapersonal EI and among others as interpersonal EI, in order to optimize occupational health and safety. More specifically, EI determines whether a person’s motivating arousal leads to productive stress or debilitating distress, and whether certain personality dispositions are healthy or unhealthy. The achievement of an injury-free workplace requires empathic and persuasive communication skills (interpersonal EI), as well as self-determinism, personal commitment, self-esteem, and optimism (intrapersonal EI). Attend this keynote address to learn practical ways to promote, support, and maintain a psychologically safe work culture wherein intrapersonal and interpersonal EI can be cultivated for the successful prevention of unintentional injuries and for the continual enhancement of human welfare and life satisfaction.
BOOK SIGNING to follow.
Noon – 1:00 pm Lunch (Included in Registration)
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm?
SLAM Session 1
Bill Drake, FUELS BBS Coordinator (IRD), Marathon Petroleum Company LP
The In’s and Out’s of Creating and Sustaining a BBS Process
Creating a BBS process that can stand the test of time can be a difficult task. In this presentation, our speaker will discuss some of the victories and stumbles of their BBS process of 28 years. He’ll cover some of their best practices and lessons learned along the way. He will also talk about some crucial components that have helped them to keep their process going strong throughout the years.
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
SLAM Session 2
Dr. Walter Fluharty, Senior Vice President EH&S, Simon Roofing
C.A.A.R.E. for Safety?
Come to this lively and interactive workshop and learn how one of the largest privately owned commercial roofing companies created an engaging safety culture ranking them among the best safety performers in the industry.? Learn how to develop an outline that will help your employees C.A.A.R.E. for Safety.
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm?
SLAM Session 3
APPSTATE RESEARCHERS
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
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The Bridge to ‘True’ Culture?
John Simmons, Vice President EH&S, DRA Americas
We will discuss personal experiences, that when applied to the workplace, represent the cross-functional and cross-level bridges that must consistently stay open to traffic to build trust and encourage open communication without negative consequence. We will stress the importance of giving opportunity for and actively listening to feedback not only from our workers and leadership, but from our supporting business functions and stakeholders. We will conclude with an emphasis on taking advantage of the current opportunities, or bridges, presently available to you or your Company, regardless of what road you may presently be lost on, or the traffic experienced in your past journeys.
3:45 – 5:00 pm
Words that Don’t Mean Anything
Dr. Timothy Ludwig, Appalachian State University & Safety-Doc.com
I hear you out there, I’ve heard you and, especially your leadership, use big words (that don’t mean anything) to try to explain your workers behaviors: Why can workers get so complacent? Why do workers not buy-in to our safety program? How do we get them to care?
And ultimately: We should build a?safety culture where everyone looks out for each other! We should get our workers to take ownership over their safety! We should get workers engaged!
I applaud your attempt to define what you want in your safety culture.?However, face it, you don’t understand what any of this means. If you did, you would have done something about them.? When we construct our vision of safety culture based on words that don’t mean anything, we end up with a house of cards, ready to be knocked down by the next round of cost-cutting, leadership changes, production challenge or just the passing of time.?But when we get it right, our ‘construction’ is based on solid foundations, such as science, leading to function that we can build solid safety systems around.
Fear not!?We can define the words that don’t mean anything.?We can define them behaviorally to be ‘operational’ Let’s operationally define the behaviors that vex you (complacency) as well as the aspirational behaviors (engagement) to build into your safety culture. Then we can, well, operate on them, and build your safety culture… instead of just hope and wish that the big words that don’t mean anything have an impact.
BOOK SIGNING to follow.
5:00 Adjourn
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
8:00 am – 8:15 am Coffee
8:15 am – 9:00 am
The Safety Professional as Mini-Ethnographer (do you even know you did this big word?)
Dr. Michael Behm, East Carolina University
Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the worker.?In the context of workplace safety and health it involves examining the behavior of groups in work situations and understanding workers’ own interpretation of their behavior.?Ethnographic methods have the potential to deepen the understanding of safety-related group phenomena and to help safety practitioners focus on work, its context, and how behavior in understood in a unique and deep manner. However, ethnography is rarely, if ever, mentioned as a tool for the OHS professional. This session will introduce the ethnographic process, provide examples of recent mini-ethnographies done to study work, risk, and safety, and offer practical tools and a methodology for the safety professional to engage as a mini-ethnographer within their own organization.
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Launching and Leading a Culture of Superheroes: What We See When People Summon Their Superpowers
Dr. Marta Wilson, Transformation Systems Inc.
What happens when people summon their superpowers to drive and enable new behaviors, culture change, and workplace transformation? Satisfaction and performance soar to new heights. Discover what best-selling leadership author, Dr. Marta Wilson, has seen firsthand when individuals engage with tools, techniques, and experiences that lift them to new heights of personal, interpersonal, organizational, and motivational mastery. During Marta’s keynote, you’ll learn about LEAP (Leadership Effectiveness and Potential), a talent development framework and accelerator based on findings from 30 years of action research and numerous large-scale interventions. LEAP has helped thousands of people expand their individual results, leverage their professional relationships, integrate their working environments, and inspire their co-workers to reach for the stars while achieving their boldest goals. Come prepared to have fun, unleash your inner superhero, and help others do the same!
BOOK SIGNING to follow.
10:00 am – 10:30 pm Break
10:30 am – 11:00 am
Enhancing Near-Miss Reporting: Strategies and Solutions
Dr. Tim Matis, Moneta & Texas Tech University
Near-miss reports provide crucial insights into an organization's safety landscape, allowing safety managers to proactively steer the system away from minor, major, and catastrophic accidents. Despite their importance, many safety professionals face challenges with underreporting, resulting in an incomplete safety picture that can lead to unnecessary complexity and potential harm. To address this issue, we conducted a comprehensive study, funded by the National Science Foundation, involving interviews with over 150 employees and managers across healthcare and industry sectors. In this presentation, we will share our findings and propose effective measures designed to significantly increase near-miss reporting within organizations.
11:00 am – 12:00 pm?????????????
Learning from the Fire: An Executive Perspective on Reclaiming our Focus on Safety in Naval Aviation
Rear Admiral (Retired) John Meier, Naval Air Forces
On New Year’s Eve 1990, my crew and I ejected from our EA6B Prowler while landing on the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT.?While that event impacted me greatly, it was a fire onboard USS OSCAR AUSTIN in 2018 that lit a fire inside me. Did we learn from this fire?? No, we had the same event happen 18 months later, an event that destroyed a $3 billion dollar warship.? In the Navy safety had taken a backseat to the accomplishment of operational requirements and training.? In the naval aviation community, the safety culture had waned and the progress in this regard had flat-lined. Naval aviation has had a great run but had gotten complacent.? As I rose through the ranks, I began to realize the highest level of leaders didn’t prioritize safety like it should be, and too frequently the people that made mistakes were punished without looking at the process that led to those mistakes. We were catching airmen taking risks and didn’t look for the reasons.? Instead of blaming the airmen we needed to focus on safety systems to get ahead of the inevitable human errors.? We needed more engineering controls but first had to understand what is needed from the naval aviation front line. This talk will brief you on what we did in Naval Aviation to get our leaders to eat, sleep and breath safety and have the knowledge base to make a difference.
Noon Adjourn until 2025!
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This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with safety professionals and learn from industry experts. Best of luck with the summit!