2020 Speakers
Erik Hollnagel
Senior Professor of Patient Safety at Jönköping University
Sidney Dekker
Professor at Griffith University
Andrew Sharman
Chairman, CEO at RMS Switzerland
Dianne Parker
Director at Safety Culture Associates Limited
Martin Coyd
Head of HSE at Mace
Rhona Flin
Professor of Industrial Psychology
Marc Massaar Schaik
Senior Vice President QHSE at GDF SUEZ
Alastair Mccubbin
VP EHS at Outokumpu Stainless ltd
Tony Brock
Head of Safety and Operational Risk BP Exploration
Frank Poggenpohl
Head of Global EHSQ - Construction Chemicals
Bruno Vercken
Health, Safety and Working Conditions Director at Danone
Luiz Montenegro
VP Group Health & Safety at Carlsberg Group
Alastair Davey
Global VP HSE at Sodexo
Peter McLellan
Director EHS at Johnson Controls
Davide Scotti
Corporate Head of HSE Culture at Saipem
Anna Keen
Founding Director at Acre Frameworks
Claire Turner
Partner Safety Services at ERM
Francesco Raveggi
EHS Director at Amazon
Leroux Olivier
VP Health and Safety at Perrier Consulting
Mario Lenz
Chief Product Officer at Quentic
Mikael Welinder
Head of Safety & Health at Scania
Natalia Gills
EHS Senior Director at PepsiCo
Olindo Lazzaro
Director, Global EHS Technical Operations at AbbVie
Werbeck Knut
Head of Health, Safety & Environment at Procter & Gamble
Michael Parker
Head of Group Safety, Operational Risk & Assurance at Anglo American
Nancy De Prest
Corporate Health, Safety & Quality Director at Yara International
Paul Difford
Principal Investigator and Author of Redressing the Balance
Gisle Bråstein
Head of Product management and Strategy at DNV GLSign up for the first info and Join #EHSC 2021
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High level panel discussion
''Serioulsy high level panel discussion @ EHS Congress 2018 in Berlin. This is #ErikHollnagel #JohnGreen #RhonaFlin & #AlistairGibb discussing “new thinking vs traditional safety methods. “ What an excellent panel. You can almost become smarter just by being in the vicinity.''
Inspiring
''I got touched by Martin Coyd during the presentation “No cows on the ice”. During his keynote, it became shockingly clear that there are more committed suicides than real accidents. His call for attention on mental health/first aid seems logic, but there’s still less presence for it in the field... an inspiring day full of interesting conversations, instructive keynotes and connections!''
Food for Thought
''#ESHC. Just attended the EHS Congress in Berlin. I had 2 great days to mingle and network with more than 250 Safety professionals. Thanks to the organizers for 2 days packed of great speakers and discussions and quiet some food for thought for the coming weeks.''
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‘’Had an excellent first day at the 2018 EHS Congress in Berlin, really enjoyed my session as a panelist tackling the thorny issue of Zero Harm and whether it's possible. Those who know me may have been surprised by my views! Bring on tomorrow.’’
LEADERSHIP AND AUTHENTICITY!
‘’LEADERSHIP AND AUTHENTICITY! I so enjoyed soaking up learnings at the EHS Berlin conference, great to be part of the H&S international Community. I promise us speakers didn’t consult each other, but it’s telling that these were the two themes that ran throughout our sessions.’’
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Safety Leadership
‘’Enjoyed participating in a safety leadership engagement panel discussion during international EHS congress along with Safety leaders of L’Oreal Malcolm Staves, Arkema Paul Leonard, Basf ... Great interaction, networking and sharing for the same pursuit of Zero injury. Thanks again to our chairman Andrew Sharman who energized an audience of 200+ participants’’
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2020 Final Program
Registration & Coffee
Delegates are welcomed with award-winning “Brain Food”: specifically designed to increase efficiency, concentration, and mental performance and reduce stress – all by using the right foods in the right quantities and at the right time. All the while registration for EHSC’ 2020 commences, pick up your name badge and goodie bag with the gift-book already included!
Registration
08:10 – 8:20
Welcome Address by the Chair
Professor Andrew Sharman will be welcoming all attendees to the 2020 EHS Congress by a short opening speech, introducing the guidelines to the event, specific venue HSE information and of course the upcoming speakers.
Andrew Sharman
08:20 – 08:40
Speednetworking Session
During this 15 minutes all delegates will have the chance to join in a speedy card changing session. Whenever Andrew rings the bell it’s time to move on and find a new peer!
Speednetworking
8:40 – 9:10
Keynote: Causation
- a new view to clarify certain misconceptions regarding Heinrich
- a look at how the prevailing paradigm came to be
Paul Difford
07:45 – 08:00
Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
08:00 – 8:05
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Andrew Sharman
08:20 – 08:50
Keynote: Mental Health 2.0
It is critical that we reduce stigma and discrimination, increase and improve literacy, recognize MH issues and provide support. But that’s not enough. Of course we must support those in need, but that is a tough sell and easy to achieve an acceptable, low bar. If we can identify a need for, create, develop, sustain mental fitness, individually and organizationally, we improve every single thing we do. We reduce the likelihood an incidence of work related stress and other MH issues, we increase productivity and quality, reduce absence, quicker returns to the workplace, reduce labor and staff churn, attract high performing staff, improve safety performance. Win, win, win. That is how to get the attention of the controlling minds. Beginning the conversation, whilst difficult, becomes easier. What comes next is really hard.
Martin Coyd
14:00 – 18:00
Professor Sidney Dekker – Workshop
‘Safety differently’ is about relying on people’s expertise, insights and the dignity of work as actually done to improve safety and efficiency. It is about halting or pushing back on the ever-expanding bureaucratization and compliance of work. The cost of compliance and bureaucracy can be mind-boggling—up to 10% of GDP, with every person working some 8 weeks per year just to cover the cost of compliance, paperwork and bureaucratic accountability demands. This is non-productive time. It has also stopped progressing safety. Over the last two decades, safety improvements have flatlined (as measured in fatalities and serious injury rates, for instance) despite a vast expansion of compliance and bureaucracy.
Sidney Dekker
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2020 Keynote Speaker - Professor Sidney Dekker
The EHS Congress boasts only the highest profile of Health & Safety speakers with the Keynote Speakers of the event taking the podium to an all new level. Sidney is Professor at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, founder of Safety Science Innovation Lab, Honorary Professor of Psychology at The University of Queensland and Former Professor of human factors and system safety at Lund University in Sweden.
Sidney Dekker (PhD Ohio State University, USA, 1996) is Professor and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and Professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University in the Netherlands. Sidney has won worldwide acclaim for his groundbreaking work in human factors and safety. He coined the term ‘Safety Differently’ in 2012, which has since become a movement. An avid pilot, he has been flying the Boeing 737 as airline pilot on the side. Sidney is bestselling author of, most recently: Foundations of Safety Science; The Safety Anarchist; The End of Heaven; Just Culture; Safety Differently; The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’; Second Victim; Drift into Failure; and Patient Safety. He is also a documentary maker (‘Safety Differently,’ 2017; ‘Just Culture,’ 2018, ’The Complexity of Failure,’ 2018). More at sidneydekker.com
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As our previous delegates are now used to it, the EHS Congress selects only the best venues and the 2020 one is no exception.
The 2020 EHS Congress will be held in the Ballroom of Pullman Berlin Schweizerhof offering 686 sq m of floor space with the latest event technology, an innovative break concept stimulating creative energy and natural light sweeping through the conference room.
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250 delegates gathered in Berlin to hear what 40+ inspirational speakers had to share.
Over the two days of the congress we came to realise that the world of work has changed, and so too our approach as practitioners must change. EHS is so much more than the acronym suggests, and our program included topics as diverse as Operational Excellence, Mental Health, Wellbeing, Leadership, and Culture.
