Scott DeBow, Director, Health, Safety & Environmental (NORAM – LATAM – APAC), Avetta
2025 marks a pivotal year for transformative health and safety performance amid today’s evolving workplace. Serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs) persist as a major concern in workplace safety, even in organizations with strong compliance practices and decreased frequency rates of minor/moderate injuries.
This has revealed fundamental gaps in leadership engagement, resource allocation, and system design. The traditional focus on lagging indicators and low-consequence incidents leaves critical gaps in 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, as the stakes grow higher.
This session will explore cutting-edge methodologies designed to move beyond compliance and embed safety excellence into the fabric of an organization.
Attendees will gain practical tools to drive safety transformation through:
- Safety 1 & 2 Frameworks: Moving from reactive incident management to proactive risk anticipation and systemic resilience Is there a common framework through ESG to better promote EHS goals and objectives, and vice versa?
- Human and Organizational Performance (HOP): Integrating human factors and organizational context into safety strategy through an integrated systems approach tailored to today’s workforce
- The Alternative Metrics Discussion: Exploring the evolution of global safety standards, such as ASTM E-2920, to develop evidence-based metrics for measuring and improving safety performance.
This session intends to blend an expert-led presentation with interactive engagement, equipping participants with actionable insights to drive safety innovation within their organizations.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the limitations of traditional safety compliance models and identify innovative frameworks for Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention.
- Develop a systems-based approach to safety leadership that integrates perspectives from legal, operational, procurement, and HSE departments.
- Apply emerging methodologies including Safety 1 & 2, Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), and ASTM E-2920 standards to enhance workplace safety strategies.
