Join industry thought leaders for our sought after in-person Workshops on 7 May, 2026
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Workshop 1
Embedding HOP - for Real and for Good
Corrie Pitzer & Todd Conklin
Embedding HOP - for Real and for Good
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Workshop 2
The Power of People: Turning Health and Safety for Corporate Success
Kathy Seabrook & Andresa Hernandez
The Power of People: Turning Health and Safety for Corporate Success
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Workshop 3
Optical Illusions: Safety in Words and Pictures
JC Le Coze & James Pomeroy
Optical Illusions: Safety in Words and Pictures
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Workshop 4
Who's Actually in Charge? Risk, AI, and the Quiet Loss of Responsibility
Anthony Aarons
Who's Actually in Charge? Risk, AI, and the Quiet Loss of Responsibility
WORKSHOP 1: Todd Conklin & Corrie Pitzer
Embedding HOP – for Real and for Good
Too often, Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) is introduced as a short-term campaign or rebranded training initiative, an exciting philosophy that fades when the novelty wears off. This powerful workshop, led by two of the world’s most provocative safety thinkers – Todd Conklin and Corrie Pitzer – dives deep into how organizations can move beyond surface-level adoption and truly integrate and sustain HOP principles.
Through a dynamic mix of case studies, live dialogue, and critical challenges to conventional wisdom, Todd and Corrie will confront the barriers that cause HOP to stall: entrenched compliance mindsets, shallow leadership engagement, lack of operational translation, and failure to measure what matters. Participants will explore how to rewire culture, rethink accountability, and redesign and create new systems for an environment where learning, trust, and risk resilience thrive.
This workshop is not for spectators. It is an immersive session for those ready to wrestle with complexity, question sacred cows, and build a roadmap for embedding HOP into the DNA of their organization – from the boardroom to the front line.
If you’re serious about moving HOP from posters to practice, and from events to ecosystems, this is the workshop that will challenge, equip, and inspire you to make it real – and make it last.
WORKSHOP 2: Kathy A Seabrook & Andresa Hernandes
The Power of People: Leveraging the business value of Health and Safety for Corporate Success
‘People are at the core of every thriving business and their ability to contribute is influenced by their health, safety and well-being.’ People, a company’s human capital are foundational and essential to business success.
What are the challenges and barriers you experience when managing workplace safety and health in your company? Typically, it is around finance, company culture, value, contribution and compliance. When the value of workplace safety and health is integrated into the business: financially, culturally and operationally, the value of safety and health of a company’s people are understood and leveraged in the context of the business and better business decisions are made, proactively. Leveraging your company’s culture, stakeholders collaboration opportunities, human capital, balance sheet and profit and loss statement, this workshop will introduce you to impact valuation and value accounting methodologies and principles to influence decision-making to collaboratively identify the true value of safety and health to your company and its stakeholders.
Join Andresa Hernandes, Vice President of Safety for Siemens AG and Kathy Seabrook, CEO Global Solutions Inc as we introduce you to an innovative impact valuation methodology for workplace health and safety and decision making. Business integration is key. Many organizations manage workplace safety and health separately from business. This workshop provides tools, resources and real world, hands-on, interactive opportunities to conduct health and safety impact valuations, ultimately monetizing the true value of safety and health on a balance sheet and in a profit and loss statement with the ultimate goal of influencing decision-making in your company.
WORKSHOP 3: Jean-Christophe Le Coze & James Pomeroy
Optical Illusions: Safety in Words and Pictures
Since the earliest development of occupational safety, we have used models and images to represent safety ideas and theories. From Heinrich’s pyramid, Reason’s Swiss Cheese through to the visualization of contemporary safety ideas, drawings and visual models are central to how we understand safety and explain accidents. But in enabling our understanding and helping us manage safety, do models and metaphors also constrain our thinking and limit us?
During this highly participative and enjoyable workshop, Jean-Christophe Le Coze and James Pomeroy will engage the attendees in exploring the role of visual models in safety theory and practice. The session will help attendees to reflect upon their use of models, explore what makes some more popular than others, and consider their use and meaning changes over time.
The workshop will also explore the words and language that we use in safety and to describe accidents and errors, often attributing blame without even thinking about it. Attendees will gain a different perspective of the role of language and leave with greater awareness.
The workshop will be immersive, and participants will learn by doing. It is also practical, and attendees will leave with richer knowledge and be enabled to consider how the images and words we use construct safety. The words and images we use are the tools by which we construct safety. Join this workshop to learn how to better use your tools.
WORKSHOP 4: Speaker details coming soon!
Anthony Aarons
Director IFEAL and Vice President: AI and Integrative Technologies
Who’s Actually in Charge? Risk, AI, and the Quiet Loss of Responsibility
Artificial intelligence is now embedded in decisions that affect safety, operations, and organisational risk.
Whilst often promoted as improving control and efficiency, AI can quietly shift responsibility away from we human decision-makers; both psychologically and physiologically.
We’ll examine how our group and individual reliance on artificial systems weakens our sense of responsibility, blurs accountability, and creates exposure at all levels of an organisation.
When incidents occur, decisions are frequently attributed to “the system” rather than acknowledged as human choices. Using real-world risk and safety scenarios, the presentation highlights how this dynamic increases organisational vulnerability. It concludes with clear principles for executives to ensure that decision making, responsibility for safety-critical decisions remains firmly human.