Laura Harting, CSP, Director, EHS&S, Tesla
What truly defines a good safety program? In this session, we’ll challenge traditional EHS metrics and uncover how many of the indicators used to measure safety performance are, in fact, promoting a false sense of security, what we call fake safety.
We’ll debunk long-standing myths within the EHS profession and shine a light on the critical difference between appearing safe and actually being safe.
The session will dive into the concept of real safety — building resilience and capacity into your systems so that when failure happens, it doesn’t result in harm. You’ll explore how Tesla applies Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles to enhance learning and improvement across its operations, all anchored by a powerful belief: “Safeguards Save Lives.”
Join us to rethink safety and take away actionable insights to build a culture that prioritizes real safety over the illusion of it.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand why safety is not the absence of accidents
- Learn how building capacity into systems creates the ability to fail safely
- Learn how to choose company metrics and reporting to help promote real safety vs fake safety
- The importance of moving from OSHA lagging indicators as a global lagging metric, towards ASTM as the global metric for safety success
