Breakout Session – Resilience & Mental Discipline: Strengthening Workforce Well-Being

Juan Abdel Aziz, Corporate Director of Safety Health and Environmental, USA & Canada, SICE

Strategies to enhance mental resilience, reduce fatigue and stress, and integrate well-being as a core component of safety performance.

In today’s high-demand work environments, mental resilience and discipline are as critical as technical skills for ensuring safety and performance. This interactive breakout session explores how leaders can strengthen workforce well-being by reducing stress and fatigue, fostering focus, and embedding resilience as a key driver of operational safety.

Through practical tools and real-world insights from managing complex infrastructure and transportation projects, the session also offers an exploration of emotional resilience in everyday life, helping attendees understand how self-care and mental focus translate into safer, more engaged teams.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Safety-Well-Being Connection: Understand how mental resilience directly impacts safety performance and operational outcomes.
  • Practical Mental Discipline Tools: Learn methods to reduce fatigue, manage stress, and maintain focus under pressure.
  • Leadership Through Ownership: Foster team accountability for mental well-being and safety culture.
  • From Compliance to Commitment: Shift your workforce from reactive safety behaviors to proactive, engaged performance.
  • Sustainable Workforce Strategies: Implement practices that build long-term resilience and a mentally strong, high-performing team.