Tom Krause, BST Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board

With an emphasis on candid conversation and actionable solutions, this roundtable discussion, facilitated by Tom Krause, is a rare opportunity to address the issues senior leaders face within a group of peers and seasoned veterans.

Jim Spigener, BST Vice President and Executive Consultant

Today’s safety leaders are facing an apparent paradox. Although injury numbers in general have been improving across industries, the number of fatalities over the last four years has not trended downward in the same way. In fact, in some industries, it has risen. Are leaders led into a false sense of security about fatalities by seeing injury rates improve? How is it possible that overall safety numbers can improve and, at the same time, fatality numbers plateau or even increase? This session examines these questions and offers a method for assessing the biases and barriers that exist in all levels of your organization.

Don Groover, BST Vice President and Executive Relationship Manager

When we consider in totality the components that influence safety risk in the workplace, the big picture may seem overwhelming or too complex. Given this, how would an organization set out to measure safety in a way that could influence upstream activities with greater confidence, predictability, and success? This session answers this question and discusses upstream measures for each organizational level, how they relate to each other, and their affect on safety outcomes.

Ted Apking, BST Vice President

Keeping supplemental and short-term employees safe is a priority in many industries. It also brings with it special challenges. Work assignments can be as short as a day, many short-term employees lack exposure to safety programs, and work assignments are frequently in remote locations with limited training and safety resources. This session examines how leading organizations have successfully implemented site-specific intervention processes that are tailored to the special requirements and challenges of working with supplemental and short-term employee groups.

Colin Duncan, BST Vice President of Marketing and International Operations

With an ever growing number of leading companies having a presence across diverse regions and continents, issues of local culture, trends in global safety, and building alignment across the organization have become critical issues. This session presents data on global trends and describes the practical solutions multinational organizations have implemented to keep their safety values and outcomes consistent.

Jim Huggett, BST Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness Consulting

Most of us have known great safety leaders — people whose commitment to safety, combined with excellence in leadership, has produced enormous positive influence in making the organization safe. Too often, however, these leaders are the exception rather than the rule; many leaders, particularly at the C-level, simply don’t understand what role they have to play in safety or whether they should play any role at all. This session presents examples of executives who have established themselves as safety leaders, explains why safety is a critical business focus of senior leaders, and presents practical ways these individuals involve themselves within safety initiatives.

Rebecca Timmins, BST Principal Consultant and Executive Coach

Though coaching senior leaders in a variety of industries and regions, several key issues repeatedly present themselves. These challenges range in scope and difficulty, but all present opportunities to build alignment, leverage, and engagement. This facilitated, informal discussion describes these issues and the solutions leaders have successfully implemented to address them.

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