Sponsored by Avetta

In the dynamic landscape of workplace safety, 2025 stands as a pivotal moment for transformative health and safety performance. Serious injuries and fatalities persist as a major concern in workplace safety, even in organizations with strong compliance practices and decreasing frequency rates of minor/moderate injuries. The traditional focus on lagging indicators and low-consequence incidents leaves critical gaps from leadership engagement, targeted resources and intentional system design when it comes to preventing these life-altering events.

As organizations increasingly rely on contractors, subcontractors and temporary labor, managing safety becomes even more complex – and the stakes grow higher. This webinar will navigate the complexity of safety transformation, leveraging emerging methodologies such as:

• Safety I and Safety II frameworks: Shifting from reactive incident management to proactive risk anticipation and systemic understanding
• Human and Organizational Performance: Integrating human factors and organizational context into safety strategy with an integrated systems approach to consider today’s workforce
• The Alternative Metrics Discussion: the updating of global standards such as ASTM E-2920: Establishing comprehensive, evidence-based metrics for measuring and improving safety performance and extending into a performance framework

Speaker

Scott DeBow, CSP, ARM, Director of EHS, Avetta

At Avetta – the leading provider of supply chain risk management software – Scott is a highly collaborative, strategic thinker and operator 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, Scott devotes much of his time to developing safety leadership across organizations, with a targeted emphasis on systems improvements to address the most critical type of risk far too easily overlooked: serious injury or fatality, or SIF.

Scott serves as director at-large for the executive board of the American Society of Safety Professionals and is an active member of the ANSI Z-10 Committee for Safety Management Systems. He passionately believes that helping people and organizations grow in safety leadership benefits and transforms our society.

Moderator

Kevin Druley, Associate Editor, Safety+Health magazine

Kevin is associate editor of Safety+Health and serves as co-host of the magazine’s “On the Safe Side” podcast.