In today's business landscape, companies are increasingly required to address (ESG) issues while ensuring the safety and health of their employees through (EHS) measures. This creates a complex intersection that requires a holistic approach. To navigate this intersection, companies must develop a comprehensive ESG strategy that includes EHS considerations, conduct regular risk assessments, engage stakeholders, invest in supportive technologies, and monitor and report on performance. Josh Decktor, Former Chief Sustainability & EHS Officer at Tupperware Brands will be sharing his experience on how companies can create long-term value for their stakeholders while protecting the environment and the safety of their employees.

75% of those who participated in the CIPD’s 2021 Health and Wellbeing at Work Survey said they believe that senior leaders have employee wellbeing on their agenda, up from 61% last year. The survey discovered that most organizations are taking additional measures to support employee health and wellbeing in response to Covid-19, most commonly through an increased focus on mental health, tailoring support to individuals’ needs, and providing additional support for people working from home.

Attention to environmental, social, and organizational governance, or ESG, impacts are a critical moment in history as more capital is shifted toward ESG priorities and a new generation of investors (millennials and Gen Z) is having a direct influence on consumer preferences. In a recent study by pwc, seventy-six percent of consumers say they will stop buying from companies that treat the environment, employees, or the community in which they operate poorly."" Corporate boards and government leaders are facing rising pressure to demonstrate they are adequately equipped to understand and oversee issues, from climate change to human rights to social unrest. The roundtable discussion will explore how to actively shape ESG best practices, and the data visibility needed to move an organization forward.

• How well are you infusing your ESG strategy into your organization’s ecosystem?
• Do you have effective EHS/ESG management reporting systems to meet commitments? What are the roadblocks?
• What kind of relationships does your company have with the people in its ecosystem? Employees, customers, suppliers, partners and communities, employee treatment
• What is on your ESG roadmap, what challenges are you trying to solve, and what is the best next step you can take to get there?

Your work culture, whether it be safety culture or psychological culture, reflects your organization’s values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behavior. Good or bad, it directly impacts your workers. An effective safety culture is critical to ensuring business operations and output continue, and facilities remain incident-free. Overall employee wellbeing, valuing DE&I, and psychological safety, where employees feel safe to be their full selves at work, in addition to voicing opinions, thoughts or ideas in a collaborative atmosphere are equally as important. A diverse workforce can provide a variety of viewpoints and ideas that can lead to better decision-making when it comes to safety and risk management.
Through this round table discussion, we will explore key strategies to shaping an organization's safety culture and making a meaningful impact on the health and wellbeing of employees.

•What specific steps can be taken to ensure that all employees, regardless of their background, feel safe, valued, and included?
•How are you establishing a collaborative environment where employees feel safe to voice opinions or report unsafe situations?
•How are you implementing a positive safety culture in your workplace? What’s working and what’s not?
•How do you incentivize and engage?
•How has the impact of social and workplace change affected health and safety of your workforce?

According to a 2022 report by AFL-CIO workplace hazards kill and disable approximately 125,000 workers each year, 4,764 from traumatic injuries, and an estimated 120,000 from occupational diseases. Advances in nanotechnology, robotics, data analytics, video, and telecommunications are enabling employers to improve workplace safety in a variety of ways, such as better monitoring of employee health. This roundtable discussion will explore AI and tech tools for workflow optimization, wearable tech, AR/VR training and predictive analytics for incident forecasting and prevention.

•What tech tools are you using (or would like to use) to reduce injuries?
•How are you accessing and managing vehicle equipment and driver behavior/worker safety?
•What is your emergency preparedness and response strategy?
•Do you have visibility into predictive analytics for incident forecasting and prevention?
•How are you scaling the best solutions?

Exposure to high levels of industrial noise can have detrimental effects on physical and mental health, leading to hearing loss, stress, and reduced productivity. However, music has long been recognized as a powerful tool for promoting relaxation, reducing stress, and improving mood. In this keynote, we will explore the intersection of industrial noise levels and the healing power of music. Join Michael Munoz, Director of EHS at Broadridge as we discover the potential of music to promote healing, reduce stress, and enhance overall well-being in the face of industrial noise and noise exposure.

Who are your company’s riskiest drivers? How can you predict claim-related incidents before they happen? You don’t need a crystal ball, just better information. Nearly all vehicle crashes — more than 90% — are the result of preventable driver behavior. In this session, SambaSafety will explore which violations are the leading predictors of future crashes, why you should intervene early, and how layering multiple data streams can help organizations become more proactive in their mobility risk solutions.

The past five years have seen massive change and disruption in the world and have forced us to reconsider many of our fundamental assumptions, including those around safety & health. In the midst of pandemics, political upheaval, generational change, and a host of emerging issues and topics, including sustainability & ESG, having risen to the forefront - how exactly DO we position safety & health in a modern context? This presentation provides a look at new research from the National Safety Council that will help leaders map this complex and ever-changing landscape.

As EHS professionals benefit from the range of new tools at their disposal, sharpened by the increased use and innovation of the pandemic years, that improvement could—and should—gather momentum. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques pioneered during the pandemic could help in identifying danger areas. AI could also be used to fully understand the patterns within the increased amount of data now being gathered on overall worker health.

Is it Safe? This seems to be a reasonable question to ask when trying to assess whether or not to undertake a particular action or endeavor. Indeed, in the realm of Human Space Flight (HSF), this is a commonly asked question. However, when you contemplate strapping your best friends into a capsule atop a launch vehicle capable of producing 7 million pounds of thrust for 8 minutes, you rapidly find out that asking that question is nonsensical.

Human spaceflight is inherently risky, and certainly not “safe”. The better standard that is used by NASA and other high risk organizations is to ask the question, “Is it Safe Enough”. There will always be risk in such endeavors. The challenge is to identify and manage that risk so that the remaining, or residual risk is acceptable.

Ideally, the level of risk can be expressed in quantifiable terms of the likelihood of the event happening. We are all familiar with the risk of being struck by lightning being over one in a million (or 1:1,000,000). In human spaceflight, typical residual risks of losing the crew (LOC) are in the 1:200-1:250 range. But when, and how you estimate risk depends on many factors which will be discussed in the presentation.

This presentation will focus on the management of risk in several non-aerospace fields and compare the various methodologies to that used in Human Space Flight.

As we look to the future of health and safety, one thing is certain: attracting and retaining top talent will be more important than ever before. The landscape of the workforce is changing rapidly, and it's essential to adapt in order to stay ahead of the curve.