Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Opening Keynote 8:45 – 9:45am
Meg Soper
“The Secret Sauce… Thriving in Times of Change”
Workshop Sessions A 10:15 – 11:30am
A1: Risk Tolerance: Why Workers Take Risks
A2: What is really Wrong with Behaviour Based Safety
A3: A Perfect Match: Incident Investigations + International Standard
A4: The Know-How Workshop: Job Hazard Analysis & Safe Work ‘Pro’cedures Development
A6: Human Rights in the Workplace
Plenary Session 11:30 – 12:00pm
SAFE Work Manitoba: A Journey of Continuous Improvement
Jamie Hall
Workshop Sessions B 1:15 – 2:30pm
B1: Helping Employers Understand Working Alone or Working in Isolation Regulations and Requirements
B2: The Normalization of Deviant Behaviour -Explaining the how and why when things go horribly wrong!!
B3: Fire and Life Safety and the OH&S Committee
B4: Slow and Steady Keeps you Safe: Speed
B5: Anti-Racism in the Workplace: Lessons from the Anti-Racism in Sport Campaign
B6: Fry No More –Resilience Skills for Stress, Uncertainty & Positive Mental Health
Closing Keynote 3:00 – 4:00pm
Joe Tantarelli, Safe Start
7 Things Everyone Can Learn from Near-Death Experiences
Presentation Descriptions and
Speaker Biographies
The Secret Sauce… Thriving in Times of ChangeKeynote Presentation
Meg’s presentation will celebrate the hard work and accomplishments of the SSM team members and the delegates at the conference in rising to all the challenges of the past 2 plus years in their efforts to keep Manitoban’s safe. She will set the stage for what lies ahead with strategies to bolster our resilience so we can continue to perform at the highest levels even when faced with change and uncertainty. This presentation will entertain, inspire, and offer tools to help us realize improvements in health, self-awareness, and in relationships with co-workers, clients and with those in our personal lives – all delivered with Meg’s trademark humor!
Biography
Meg Soper
Professional speaker and comedienne Meg Soper is recognized as one of the premiere motivators in North America. She combines her remarkable sense of humor with her unique perspective of life to captivate her audience and provide a presentation filled with inspiration and entertainment. Meg has appeared as a keynote speaker and feature performer at conferences and corporate functions across North America and internationally. She has shared the stage with such celebrities as Ray Romano and Ellen Degeneres. With over 30 years experience in the health care industry and as a Registered Nurse in the Operating Room, she understands how your attitude affects those around you at home and in the workplace environment. Meg is co-author of the book, “From the Stage to the Page – Life Lessons from Four Funny Ladies”. She has appeared on the CBC Television Network, Women’s Television Network and Prime TV, as well as being featured in many radio programs and comedy festivals. Meg has a tremendous ability to connect with her audience and take every event to a higher level.
A1: Risk Tolerance: Why Workers Take Risks
Workshop Description
It is said that 70% of accidents are caused by human error; that is employees failing to do something they need to do or doing something they are not supposed to do. It is also well known that many of the accidents associated with human error are because workers took a risk and decided to do the work following their own procedure or a modified company procedure. Why do workers take such risks? What is it about the worker’s risk perception, the company’s risk posture or the industry risk posture that drives workers to expose themselves to risk that kills?
In this presentation, the current knowledge and state of understanding or risk tolerance will be explored. The influence of personal, corporate, industry and societal risk posture will be discussed. The major factors influencing these decisions to accept risk will be reviewed. A simple model for understanding risk acceptance will be reviewed and allows participants to review incidents in their workplace and properly consider employee risk tolerance as a cause of the incident. A range of recommendations will be provided for management system improvements that will help protect workers from the variety of risk tolerances employees bring to the workplace.
Biography
Glyn Jones, M.A.Sc., P.Eng, CIH, CRSP
Glyn is a Partner in the firm EHS Partnerships Ltd. He is a consulting occupational health and safety professional and leadership coach. Glyn is a chemical engineer by training and is a Professional Engineer. He completed a Master’s degree specializing in occupational health and safety. He holds numerous professional certifications and is a CIH and a CRSP.
Mr. Jones has over thirty-five years of experience working as a consulting Occupational Health and Safety Professional. He has completed work in all industries and for all levels of government in Canada and overseas. He is a very involved conference speaker and teaches occupational and environmental health and safety at the University of New Brunswick.
Connect with Glyn on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/glyn-jones/) or follow him on Twitter @glynjones_ehsp.
A2: What is REALLY wrong with BBS?
Workshop Description
BBS was supposed to steer us by providing precious leading indicators. So what went wrong? In this session you’ll hear the top reasons why so many have abandoned this valuable tool. Some are clear, but most are subtle. If you want a complete human factors management approach it must include BBS. Joe goes over why most fail, how to revive your process and how to work in human factors into every observation.
Learning outcomes:
- Attendees will learn why BBS/Observation Feedback processes fail.
- Attendees get a game plan for reviving or re-booting their BBS/Observation Feedback process.
- Attendees will find or re-visit the value of BBS/Observation Feedback in H/F management
Biography
Joe Tantarelli, SafeStart
Joe is a passionate presenter who leaves his audiences feeling inspired. His down-to-earth presentation style is a direct result of over 40 years of experience in heavy equipment construction, where he worked his way up from laborer to safety manager. He became a human error management expert after discovering that his near-fatal trench collapse accident could have been prevented. Joe has been a popular speaker at the NSC Congress, the ASSP and VPPPA national conferences and he’s been published in various trade magazines. He has also assisted companies in achieving Star Approval in OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program.
A3: A Perfect Match: Incident Investigations + International Standard
Workshop Description
Canadian companies pay thousands a week for workplace injuries. Manitoba has the highest 5-year lost-time injury rate (2.76 per 100) according to the 2021 Report on Workplace Fatalities and Injuries. So, it’s no wonder why workplace incident investigation is a high priority among safety leaders and executives. However, not adhering to a recognized standard is a recipe for poor investigation results.
Join Peter Sturm, chair of the CSA Incident Investigation Standard CZA Z1005-202, as he walks you through the development of the leading-edge investigation standard.
Created in 2017 and updated in 2021, the standard promotes a systematic, defensible, and effective incident investigation program. This session will introduce attendees to the investigation standard, as well as teach them how to use it to develop and improve their own safety programs.
Attendees will also get an inside look into the third edition of Accident Investigation Techniques, by Peter with the American Society of Safety Professionals in early 2022. This is one event you won’t want to miss.
Biography
Peter Sturm, STURM Consulting Inc.
Peter Sturm, is a senior Safety, Health and Risk Management Executive with STURM Consulting Inc. His career spans decades in health and safety, workers compensation and insurance including incident investigations, prevention and sustainability. Peter is the Chair of the CSA Z1005 Incident Investigation standard.
Peter is the co-author of the ASSP Accident Investigation Techniques – Best Practices for Examining Workplace Incidents, which covers all aspects of incident/ accident investigations from theory to organizing, gatherings and analyzing data, to reporting, recommendations and follow-up. It references the only consensus standard focusing on investigation incident, CSA Z1005-21, Workplace Incident Investigations
He teaches safety and incident investigations at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, University of Fredericton and George Brown College.
He was awarded the CSSE Safety Professional of the Year in 2015, & Outstanding Safety Service in 2019.
A4: The Know-How Workshop: Job Hazard Analysis & Safe Work ‘Pro’cedures Development
Workshop Description
Join us during this Know-How Workshop while we put the ‘Pro’ in Safe Work Procedure development. Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) and Safe Work Procedure (SWP) development is a crucial skill to foster in your safety role and responsibilities within your workplace.
Here’s a scenario for you; you and your fellow safety committee members are doing the quarterly inspection when you notice a new piece of equipment in the shop. The team conclusively determines there is no documentation on how to operate this new equipment safely and properly. Now you are faced with the daunting task of developing a JHA and SWP for the workers. Where do you start? What are you looking for? Who do you speak with? Is there a reference guide? Frankly, this can be overwhelming.
By the end of the workshop you will have the understanding and the ‘ins and outs’ knowledge on becoming an SWP expert in your workplace. We will be covering:
- Manitoba Workplace Safety & Health Act and Regulations and applicable standards,
- Critical Task List,
- Hierarchy of Controls and Risk Assessment,
- ‘Back to the Basics’,
- Job Hazard Analysis development,
- Safe Work Procedure development, and
- Training.
Biography
Miranda Deline, Safety Services Manitoba
Miranda has been working in the safety industry for over seven years and has thorough hands-on experience in the field of health and safety and a strong knowledge of provincial and federal workplaces. Miranda is experienced in developing, maintaining and supporting numerous industry sectors in the development of their safety management systems. Many of these clients work within the construction and manufacturing sectors which Miranda has provided the client with appropriate guidance regarding the interpretation and application of safety legislation, conducting safety audits, inspecting client workplaces for safety and health hazards, facilitating training programs and ensuring effective implementation.
Miranda is a graduate of the Occupational Health and Safety Certificate Program at Red River College Polytechnic. She was on the Deans Honor Roll. She has completed her National Construction Safety Officer (NCSO) designation and the Health and Safety Professional certification (HSP). She is currently in the process of completing the Canadian Registered Safety Technician (CRST) designation.
A5: From Safety to Significance – Leveraging the Power of Purpose‐Driven Culture to Improve Health & Safety.
Workshop Description
In this interactive presentation, participants will be introduced to how the brain maps to a simplified version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and how they can utilize this information to consciously lead themselves and others from the safety frame to the significance frame by utilizing self‐regulation skills.
Participants will experience an exercise that connects them to a higher purpose, understand the power of creative leadership, and walk away with a powerful self regulation tool that they can use to become more conscious leaders to inspire higher safety performance.
*Handouts will be provided.
Biography
Sharon Inkster, Practical Safety, Health & Environmental Solutions
Sharon Inkster serves as an independent health & safety consultant specializing in helping organizations create thriving cultural environments by sharing the neuroscience behind stress, leadership, and sustainable behavioral change. Sharon’s qualifications include being a Canadian Registered Safety Professional and a HeartMath® Certified Trainer.
Throughout the last 20 years, Sharon has led the improvement of health & safety in mining, exploration, and the public sector as an RCMP officer.
The passion that drives Sharon’s work comes from growing up in a family riddled with major depression and her own experiences recovering from burnout and low‐level depression while serving in the roles above. The feedback Sharon receives from her clients is that her passion for the work shines through, and they can tell she practices and lives the work she shares with others to help them be more resilient to life’s challenges.
A6: Human Rights in the Workplace
Workshop Description
Take a proactive approach to human rights in your workplace. Learn about your legal obligations to identify and remove barriers to equality in the workplace under The Human Rights Code. Work through scenarios and discuss how you can identify and address human rights issues and avoid discrimination and harassment complaints.
This seminar covers the basic concepts of differential treatment, reasonable accommodation, harassment and reprisal and is ideal for human resources and labour personnel, management and anyone involved in providing strategic or organizational direction in the workplace.
Biography
Karen Sharma, Manitoba Human Rights Commission
Karen Sharma (she/her) is the A/Executive Director of the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, where she has worked for the past seven years. As the Commission’s Executive Director, Karen’s job to lead promotion and protection of human rights in Manitoba through administration of Manitoba’s human rights complaints system; the development of policy and research; and the delivery of human rights education.
In addition, Karen chairs the Board of Directors of the Women’s Health Clinic and is a co-organizer with Queer People of Colour Winnipeg, a collective that creates programming that centres and celebrates Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous and people of colour.
SAFE Work Manitoba: A Journey of Continuous Improvement
Plenary Session Description
SAFE Work Manitoba, a division of the WCB, is focused on driving safety performance in the right direction and reducing the number of workplace injuries in the province. Jamie Hall, SAFE Work Manitoba’s Vice President, will present on where the organization is headed and what improvements are on the horizon for workplace safety and health in Manitoba.
Biography
Jamie Hall, SAFE Work Manitoba
Jamie Hall is the Vice President of SAFE Work Manitoba, a division of the Workers Compensation Board. Jamie joined SAFE Work Manitoba in 2014 and has led the implementation of strategic initiatives that have changed the landscape of safety and health in the province. These include the SAFE Work Certified Program, the Prevention Rebate and the expansion of the industry-based safety programs. A new training portal will be the next big improvement to the safety and health landscape in Manitoba. Jamie is thrilled to be a part the SAFE Work Manitoba team, as well as part of the community of safety leaders in our province that have collectively driven these improvements and are making Manitoba safer and healthier.
Jamie holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA with a specialty in Human Resources. Jamie brings 26 years of experience from Manitoba Hydro. Presently, Jamie is also a sessional instructor in the University of Manitoba’s Asper MBA program, delivering a course on executive responsibility and ethics. Jamie represents Manitoba on the Council of Governors for the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and also served on the United Way Cabinet for six years. He also serves on the Board of the Better Business Bureau Foundation.
B1: Helping employers understand Working Alone or Working in Isolation regulations and requirements
Workshop Description
Join us for an informative discussion of the Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and related regulations, as it applies to Working Alone or Working in Isolation.
We will examine how this legislation impacts employers in many different industries, the legal consequences if people are not protected, and what employers can do to reduce risk and meet the regulatory requirements.
Note: Electronic handouts / informational content video will be available and can be shared with participants by providing a valid email.
Biography
Randy Pokrant, ProTELEC Security + Safety Ltd. (CheckMate Safety Division)
Randy Pokrant – As a Senior Safety Consultant and Account/Project Manager with ProTELEC CheckMate, Randy is an expert on CheckMate Working Alone. Randy’s experience goes back to his school years working in ProTELEC’s Emergency Monitoring Centre in the late 1980’s. He then spent 30 years supporting clients in the manufacturing and construction industries, focused on the successful implementation of many projects.
Over the years Randy has observed many changes to health and safety practices in Manitoba and beyond. His focus is now helping employers in many different industries ensure their staff and their organization is fully protected through the implementation of CheckMate. His approach is empowering employers to meet regulatory requirements by layering lone worker monitoring onto their existing health and safety management systems.
B2: The Normalization of Deviant Behaviour – Explaining the how and why when things go horribly wrong!!
Workshop Description
We will explore the concept of normalizing deviant behavior through the lens of daily routines and workplace safety actions that can lead to deadly consequences. If you’ve ever said, “That’s the way things get done round here.” or maybe you have witnessed a workplace short cut that may or may not be written in policy, then you may be normalizing behavior that is dangerous.
Explore and learn how NASA paid the ultimate price – twice – and how you can avoid falling into the trap that brought down two space shuttles and has been attributed to many more serious safety events.
We will discuss slime mold research, the biology of why we are so prepositioned to cheat and try to take shortcuts, and the laws of physics that apply to better understand how NASA fell into the normalization of deviant behaviour and paid the ultimate price – twice – and how we can avoid falling into the trap that brought down two space shuttles.
Biography
Jay Shaw, City of Winnipeg Office of Emergency Management
Jay Shaw is the Assistant Chief of Emergency Management and Public Information with the City of Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, leading the City’s Office of Emergency Management. With over 24 years’ experience in emergency services and health care, Jay has served as an operational firefighter and paramedic for the Department of National Defense, and since 2002, as a firefighter paramedic with the City of Winnipeg. He has had a wide array of emergency response and health care experiences, working in hospital emergency rooms and rural Emergency Medical Services.
Jay holds a Master’s degree in Disaster and Emergency Management studies, and has numerous diplomas and certificates related to healthcare, emergency services, and disaster management. He is a 2020 graduate of Harvard University’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative studying Crisis Leadership, an instructor at Dalhousie Universities Fire Leadership program, and is currently enrolled in the Fire Service Executive Development Institute with the International Association of Fire Chiefs. Jay’s current projects include a global view of new hazards such heat and air quality, tornadic frequency, and building high performance teams through crisis leadership processes. Happily married with three children, Jay enjoys time at the family cottage and dreams of one day becoming a champion BBQ aficionado.
B3: Fire and Life Safety and the OH&S Committee
Workshop Description
This workshop is meant to give OH&S Committee Members a working knowledge of Fire and Life Safety responsibilities in the workplace. Safety and Health Committee Members are often called upon to perform routine workplace inspections which may include fire safety inspections. This workshop will give participants a better understanding of Fire Code requirements.
As Director of Safety Services and Training Adam leads the Occupational Safety and Safe Driving teams. Adam holds his Canadian Registered Safety Professional Designation and is a licensed Fire and Life Safety Educator through the NFPA.
Biography
Adam Paoletic, Safety Services Manitoba
Adam plays a key role at SSM within our Leadership Team and leading our trainers and consultants. Adam has been part of SSM’s team since 2009. During his time with SSM, Adam has trained thousands of students and consulted numerous companies throughout Manitoba. Adam’s sincere dedication and communication skills have become his trademark with all companies who have worked with him.
Workshop Description
Driving over the speed limit or driving too fast for conditions won’t get you where you’re going any faster – in fact, you could get into a collision and not arrive at all! Manitoba roads aren’t raceways and speed limits are what they are for a reason. This presentation will cover Speed and how it affects driving abilities, safe driving in construction zones and in all conditions and more.
Biography
Lisa Hunt, Manitoba Public Insurance
Lisa Hunt, Community Relations Specialist, travels the province educating Manitobans on road safety. She coordinates, implements and delivers various road safety programs and activities as well as provides support for the Corporation’s sponsorship activities.
Lisa’s road safety education portfolio includes topics such as cycling, pedestrian, winter driving and new to Manitoba and car seat information. She works with community groups and organizations to deliver this important programming across the province.
B5: Anti-Racism in the Workplace: Lessons from the Anti-Racism in Sport Campaign
Workshop Description
A safe workplace is not only one that is free of physical hazards, but one that is free of racism and discrimination.
Immigration Partnership Winnipeg’s Anti-Racism in Sport Campaign seeks to identify and disrupt all forms of racism in sport experienced by First Nations, Metis Nation, Inuit, Black, Racialized, and Religious Minority communities in sport in Winnipeg. The campaign has included a research project, school presentations, training, public awareness initiatives, events, and an Anti-Racism in Sport Calls to Action with goal setting and tools for sport organizations implement anti-racism practices in their workplace and sector. This presentation will provide background into the campaign, including research findings, and share relevant information and resources from the campaign that can be transferred and used to help make other workspaces safe.
Biography
Craig Brown, Anti-Racism in Sport Campaign Project Consultant:
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Craig began his career in the financial sector where he spent 11 years working in a variety of positions related to customer service and human resources. Although he previously completed degrees in psychology (B.Sc.) and business administration (M.B.A), in 2017, Craig moved with his wife (Kay-Dene) to Winnipeg to pursue an M.A. in Kinesiology and Recreation Management with a focus in Sport Psychology, which he completed in 2020.
Craig’s professional endeavours since moving to Winnipeg include various research projects related to the experiences of newcomers in sport in Manitoba, anti-racism in sport in Winnipeg, and an organizational equity, diversity, and inclusion review. Craig has also worked with the University of Manitoba’s Women’s Soccer team as a Mental Performance Consultant. Craig’s mantra is to be the change that he wishes to see in others, one interaction at a time.
Daria Jorquera Palmer, Anti-Racism in Sport Campaign Project Consultant:
Daria has engaged in sport in multiple ways over the past 20 years, from an athlete on the Canadian National Fencing Team for 12 years, competing in over 25 countries, to transitioning to becoming the head coach of her fencing club and the assistant provincial fencing coach in Manitoba. She graduated with a degree in recreation management and community development from the University of Manitoba and is currently consulting for the Anti-Racism in Sport Campaign as well as the Canadian Fencing Federation on their Gender Equity Project. In her spare time, she volunteers on several boards, as the President of the Provincial Council of Women of Manitoba, Secretary of Trails Manitoba, and as the Chair of the University of Manitoba Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management Advisory Board.
B6: Fry No More – Resilience Skills for Stress, Uncertainty & Positive Mental Health
Workshop Description
Life is full of adjustments and navigating a pandemic has been one of our greatest examples. For many people, this required working while feeling somewhat burnt-out and ending the workday feeling wired and tired. To take care of our mental health going forward, there are skills and strategies that can help us thrive now and into the future. This skill-building workshop is focused on how to gain stability after uncertainty, the importance of closing the stress loop, and will help you to build your personal toolkit for ending the burnout cycle. From the best of neuroscience, learn the practical and portable skills for those that want to better understand resilience and change small habits that have immediate positive impacts on our energy, productivity, and joy.
In this interactive and dynamic workshop, participants will learn:
- Pandemic impacts on mental health – where to from here?
- Bottom-up skills for stress resilience
- Top-down strategies for transforming worry from uncertainty (so that you can sleep better)
- The important shift from work-life balance to work-life boundaries
- The role of mindfulness and compassion in recovery and thriving
- Top actions for positive mental health & resilient teams
Biography
Shannon Gander, Life Work Wellness
Shannon Gander is a Mental Health and Resiliency Strategist. She is a skilled trainer, counselor and mediator who has been consulting with individuals, workplaces and teams for over 25 years. Shannon is the Founder & Director of Life Work Wellness, a company that empowers individuals and workplaces to achieve their goals for better mental health. She has worked with multiple clients over the years whose stress level has impacted their ability to work and has contributed to short and long-term disability. Shannon has a passion for empowering people with skills for mastering stress and preventing burnout. She also demonstrates how everyone can contribute to healthy organizational culture. Shannon’s dynamic background in counselling and workplace interventions help her to bring mental health and wellness topics to life in a way that is authentic and engaging. She teaches participants skills to apply right away and into the future from, the office, the boardroom to the kitchen table.
7 Things Everyone Can Learn from Near-Death Experiences
Keynote Description
Hazards in the construction industry are insurmountable but that doesn’t mean that workers won’t become complacent to them. People’s perception of risk changes the more they’re exposed to it—regardless of the variables in the industry. It often takes a near-death experience to break the It Won’t Happen To Me Syndrome but this session will demonstrate how you don’t need to wait for your own near-death experience to learn how to maintain situational awareness. Hear Joe’s personal account of the day he almost died and learn the personal safety skills he wished he knew back then that could have prevented it. Attendees will also leave the session knowing the critical supervisor skills to adapt safety training to any site, not just the classroom.
Biography
Joe Tantarelli, SafeStart
Joe is a passionate presenter who leaves his audiences feeling inspired. His down-to-earth presentation style is a direct result of over 40 years of experience in heavy equipment construction, where he worked his way up from laborer to safety manager. He became a human error management expert after discovering that his near-fatal trench collapse accident could have been prevented. Joe has been a popular speaker at the NSC Congress, the ASSP and VPPPA national conferences and he’s been published in various trade magazines. He has also assisted companies in achieving Star Approval in OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program.
