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Bridging the Safety Gap: Transformative Insights for Safer Workplaces
When
1/18/24 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm CST
Event Description
Sponsored by Avetta
Join us for a thought-provoking look at the critical issues surrounding workplace incidents, injuries and diseases.
According to the International Labor Organization, a staggering 2.3 million individuals succumb to work-related injuries and diseases each year, resulting in a startling 6,000 deaths every day worldwide.
Despite technological advances and the implementation of various strategies, the dilemma persists: How can organizations bridge the gap between intention and practical implementation in ensuring workplace safety?
A fresh, comprehensive approach to occupational health and safety is needed.Our expert panel will explore proactive strategies, emphasizing the anticipation of errors, risk management and the critical role of thorough incident investigations. You’ll learn how improvements in training, incident analysis and safety audits can significantly prevent future occurrences – fostering safer and sustainable workplaces.
Highlights include a look at:- Bias mitigation and system enhancement
- Strategic incident investigations
- Proactive safety measures
- Balancing productivity and safety
- Global impact and best practices
By attending this webinar, you may be eligible to earn recertification points. Contact the Board of Certified Safety Professionals for more information.
Speaker
Scott DeBow, Principal of Health/Safety & Environmental
Avetta
Scott DeBow, CSP, ARM serves as Principal of Health/Safety & Environmental for Avetta. He’s a highly collaborative, strategic thinker with 19 years of progressive leadership in the realm of risk/occupational safety. With an “inside-out” perspective as a safety professional in nontraditional employment settings, he sees tremendous opportunity for systems improvements that can work together to reliably create and maintain safer work environments. Working to align people, teams and industry resources for safety within the joint-employer community, he devotes much of his time developing safety leadership across organizations with a targeted emphasis on systems improvements to address serious injuries and fatalities.
The views of webinar speakers and organizations are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Safety Council or Safety+Health magazine. Any mention of a commercial enterprise, product or publication does not mean the council or magazine endorses those items.
Moderator
Kevin Druley, Associate Editor, Safety+Health magazine
Kevin covers worker safety for Safety+Health and serves as co-host of the magazine’s “On the Safe Side” podcast.