Sponsored by Avetta, LLC

In 2017, 5,147 workers were killed on the job in the United States. That’s more than 14 people who didn’t return home to their families each day. Despite an increase in awareness and prevention tactics, including behavior-based safety, serious injuries and fatalities continue to occur across the board, seemingly without warning.

A long-accepted safety management principle is that a reduction in minor injuries will result in a corresponding percentage decrease in the number of more serious injuries and fatalities.

However, recent research has identified that the root causes of serious injuries and fatalities differ from those that are associated with less severe outcomes.

This session will examine:

• The high severity/low probability precursors that have been associated with serious injuries and fatalities.
• Approaches to identify the possibility of serious injuries and fatalities.
• How to mitigate these risks in your organization.

Speaker

Tom Cecich, President, TFC & Associates

Tom Cecich is president of TFC & Associates, a safety, health and environmental management consulting firm. He also serves as a strategic advisor for Avetta, LLC.

He previously was vice president of EHS global business support at the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, and held safety management positions at IBM and Allied Chemical Corp.

He served as the 102nd president of the American Society of Safety Engineers (now called the American Society of Safety Professionals) and is an ASSP fellow, the society’s highest honor. He also served as president of the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.

Cecich earned his bachelor’s from the University of Miami and his master’s from North Carolina State University, both in industrial engineering. He is a certified safety professional and a certified industrial hygienist.

Moderator

Alan Ferguson, Associate Editor, Safety+Health magazine.

Ferguson covers worker safety for Safety+Health.