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Tuesday, September 18, 2018 (1:30 pm - 2:45 pm)

Concurrent Session - 5A

Session
5A

Date
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Time
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Classification
All Audiences

Title of Presentation
Safety Metrics - Are They Measuring Up?

Session Description
Measurement in safety is fairly standard, but rarely questioned. This presentation will look more closely at metrics. Why do we measure? What types of metrics are used? How can they influence behavior change? Are they useful? These and other questions interrogating metrics will be addressed, using differing lenses to see the power of metrics from different perspectives. Drawing from literature from a variety of industries, this presentation will highlight the concerns with traditional metrics, and suggest some innovative alternatives.

Learning Objectives
Recognize properties of traditional safety metrics.
Identify problems with traditional safety metrics.
List alternatives to traditional safety metrics.


Speakers

  Ms. Tanya Hewitt
Human and Organizational Performance Specialist

Company
Human and Organizational Performance Division of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Bio
Tanya Hewitt recently received her PhD in Population Health from the University of Ottawa. She has a BSc in Physics from the University of Guelph, an MSc in Medical Physics from Carleton University, and a Graduate Certificate from the University of Ottawa in Risk Assessment and Management in Population Health. She has written peer reviewed articles and has given many presentations. She now works as a Human and Organizational Specialist in the Human and Organizational Performance Division of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.


Concurrent Session - 5B

Session
5B

Date
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Time
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Classification
All Audiences

Title of Presentation
Enhance Your Hazard (Risk) Assessment Program!

Session Description
This presentation will address some common pitfalls that are associated with the safety risk (hazard) assessment program and provide some valuable insight for implementing a stronger Risk assessment program, in an organization.

Learning Objectives
Identify the common pitfalls that undermine a risk assessment program.
Understand some key measures for implementing a successful risk assessment in an organization.
Case study examples that can be applicable in most workplaces.


Speakers

  Mr. Gladstone Isaac
Environment, Health and Safety Manager

Company
Indalco Alloys, Lincoln Electric Company of Canada

Bio
Gladstone is the EHS Manager for Indalco Alloys- a Lincoln Electric company manufacturing of processed aluminum welding wires and products. he holds a MSc in safety and risk management from Strathclyde university, UK and a CRSP designation. His 30+ years of industrial experience comes from wide spectrum of industries; Aluminum smelter, Power generation, Construction and manufacturing.


Concurrent Session - 5C

Session
5C

Date
Monday, September 17, 2018

Time
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Classification
All Audiences

Title of Presentation
Learning from Multiple Incidents in a Structured Manner Using Scenario-based Incident Registration

Session Description
Many high hazard industries use bowties to analyze and assess risks. In the bowtie risk analysis model, barriers are identified which aim to prevent, control or mitigate unwanted scenarios and that may have health and safety, as well as production and quality impacts.

However, despite best effort risks assessments, incidents and close calls may still occur. When they do, organizations typically conduct investigations to come up with recommendations to avoid similar situations in the future. Unfortunately, in many cases these investigation reports end up as a collection of largely unstructured documents. They are often treated as single events, making it difficult to clearly identify trends over multiple events.

Scenario-based Incident Registration (SIR) aims to provide a more structured process. A user selects a specific scenario from a set of bowties (from threat to consequence) and assesses the effectiveness of the barriers identified on the original bowtie. Specific questions are asked per barrier about the reasons of the failure. These findings are stored on a barrier level. If this process is repeated, then the bowtie will accumulate barrier failure data of multiple incidents in a single diagram. This information helps the organization to identify the strength of their barriers which in turn facilitates risk-based decision-making.

The Dutch National Institute for Health and Environment has used a similar process to map over 23,000 incidents on standardized bowties. The aggregated data gave them unique insight into which scenarios are most likely to lead to incidents and which barriers fail most commonly for which reasons. This has helped them to provide the overall Dutch industries with guidance on where to focus their efforts to improve health and safety performance.

Learning Objectives
Understand barrier based risk management and bowtie methodolog.
Recognize the benefit of structured incident registration using the bowtie method.
Learn from multiple incidents and how to improve barrier performance.


Speaker

  Ms. Emma Verschoor
Product Manager 

Company
CGE Risk Management Solutions

Bio
Emma has her bachelors’ degree in Aviation Logistics and before she started working for CGE Risk Management Solutions she was involved in a project about learning from multiple incidents using the bowtie methodology. She currently is a product manager and provides training and services in barrier-based risk management for industries from oil and gas to healthcare.