May 10-12, 2023
Gander, NL
People First, Safety Always
Agenda
To include President’s Annual Report
Mr. Earl Ludlow is the former Executive Vice President of Fortis and former CEO of Newfoundland Power. Earl is a dynamic and skillful speaker that brings a wealth of knowledge on how navigating the complex challenges employers face on the impacts of the health and wellness of workers. He will use his extensive working background to show “People First, Safety Always”.
Earl Ludlow
Delegates are invited to visit the exhibitors’ booths
Quality Hotel, Salon A
Confined Space Entry’s remain a challenge for employers, workers, and safety professionals. Colin and Jane will demystify some of the jargon, discuss a practical approach to hazard assessments, and identify what you need to know about evacuation. They’ll discuss some of the current pitfalls through practical examples and demonstrate common confined space rescue equipment.
Jane Eustace
Colin LeGrow
How all workplace parties fulfill their role in a Workplace NL claim can make or break an employee’s return to the workplace. Being prepared and involved before, during and after an injury is critical to the return-to-work process. This session will cover managing the return-to-work process, developing, or enhancing your return-to-work program as well as different strategies to support an employee’s return to work.
Kathryn Kehoe
As a single parent, living and working in small town Newfoundland, I never felt at peace with settling for “the way things were”. In 2007, after receiving a diagnosis, I began working on understanding my illness and began my recovery journey. In 2015, that lead me to sign up for Mental Health First Aid Training course, solely to continue finding ways to help myself. Little did I know I would end up using the tools I found would allow me to help a close friend.
Kelly Carew
Rotational work is never easy and being away from family and friends for extended periods of time can be a painful experience. There are stressors and anxieties not just with work, but with personal relationships at home. Steve will take you through his 25-year story of working in the offshore and how communication, listening and finding a work-life balance is imperative to continue doing the job.
Steve Tizzard
Executive Director, Brenda Greenslade, of the Newfoundland & Labrador Fish Harvesting Safety Association (NL-FHSA) Will introduce us to the new Fishing Vessel Safety Designate.
Brenda Greenslade
Hurricane Fiona was one of the worst natural disasters to hit Atlantic Canada, and the Canadian Red Cross was activated to support those in need, and the personnel who provided the support. There were a variety of needs to be met, and the Canadian Red Cross works diligently to help communities prepare, and how we respond can change based on the ask. This presentation will cover how the Canadian Red Cross helps prepare, and overview of our work with Fiona, and how we support our personnel on the ground.
Susan McCarthy
Jeannette Coates
After Dinner Entertainment
Dance to follow
To Be Announced
Compassion Fatigue, also known as secondary traumatic stress (STS) is a condition characterized by a gradual lessening of compassion over time. Compassion fatigue can happen gradually or can occur quite quickly. Compassion stress and compassion fatigue are widely accepted occupational hazards in caring professions such as nursing, firefighting, social work, emergency medical response, policing and a wide variety of health and safety support roles. Compassion fatigue, what is it? What does it look like? How do we recognize the signs? How do we safeguard against it?
Paula Delahunty
Behavior Based Safety is more than just hard hats and safety glasses. It is the person behind those glasses: their thoughts, experiences, bias, training etc., and all play a role in decision-making at work. “You’re Only Human” will take the Behavior Based Safety concept further into the science behind why workers make decisions they make in the workplace and how safety leaders can recognize, support and coach the workforce.
Karen Humby
Main door prize will be drawn at the conference closing on Friday, May 12, 2023. Winner must be a registered delegate and in attendance to claim.
Rooms are available at the Quality Hotel, Gander at a conference rate for delegates, sponsors and exhibitors.
Quality Hotel
1-800-563-2988
Please call the hotel and mention NL Occupational Health and Safety 2023 conference to reserve your room.
For decades, top minds and motivated professionals in the safety industry have come to our conference to network, learn, and advance the industry.
Meet and connect with other industry professionals during sessions and other networking opportunities.
1Learn from and engage with leading voices in the safety industry, and around our province and country.
3Hear from some of the leading voices in the safety industry and connect with other professionals.
2Combine work and play by taking part in our hosted sessions and interacting with other guests.
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