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OCTOBER 26-27, 2023

WORLD CLASS HEALTH, SAFETY, & PERFORMANCE

Join us online October 26-27, 2023, for an exploration of worldwide best practice in health, safety and performance.

What can we learn from companies and experts across Canada, across industries, and around the world?
Connect for two days of keynotes and interactive workshops.
Network and learn from industry experts and hundreds of business leaders and executives, safety and HR professionals, and safety committees.

Make It Safe Online is brought to you in partnership with an international network of health and safety organizations. Don't miss this landmark online event.

Keynotes

Safety Culture at NASA — from Top to Bottom
OCTOBER 26, 2023 | 9:00AM-9:45AM PDT

SPEAKERS:

Grant M. Watson

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International Keynote Panel: World-Class Health, Safety and Performance
OCTOBER 27, 2023 | 9:00AM-9:45AM PDT

SPEAKERS:

Panel: Andrea Weimar, Lee-Anne Bartley, Duncan Spencer, and Lisa McGuire

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Why Attend

Make It Safe Online brings worldwide perspectives back to Canada’s health and safety community—hosted by the Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC in partnership with more than 20 international organizations. Save your seats today for this critical virtual health and safety conference and convenient training platform.

We’re all safer together! Join the vibrant Make It Safe community online to learn with more than 1,000 safety and HR professionals, business leaders, and OHS students with a shared commitment to safer workplaces and teams.

Get up to speed on critical topics. Emerging risk and opportunity with AI. Leadership essentials for thriving teams and an industry under fire. Critical skills for your JHSC. New approaches to MSI prevention. Mentorship connections for women in safety and newcomers to the profession—and dozens more topics that matter.

Tune in for insights and converation with local professionals and international experts—online October 29–30 and on demand for a full year.
GATHER WITH PURPOSE
Equip your team and lead the way to a safer future—across Canada and around the world.
LEARN TOGETHER
Lessons learned from industry experts and peers.
GROW TOGETHER
Build community through networking and mentorship.

Conference Program

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October 26th 2023
8:45AM
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Founder and Former CEO
Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC
Premier
Government of Yukon
Audience:
9:00AM
Keynote
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Director, Institutional Safety Management Division
NASA
Audience:
10:00AM
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Director of Manufacturing
RIMEX
Occupational Health and Safety Manager
Safety Associate
Hansen Industries
Training & Development Manager
Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC
Audience:
10:00 - 10:45 AM
Professional Engineer
BG ETEM Energie Textil Elektro Medienerzeugnisse
Audience:
11:00AM
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Partner
Kane Shannon Weiler LLP
Lawyer
Kane Shannon Weiler LLP | KSW Lawyers
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Director of Leadership and Psychological Safety
Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Consulting, Training, Assessments, Coaching
One Stop HR, in partnership with TeksMed
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Senior Safety, Health and Risk Managements Consultant
STURM Consulting Inc.
Audience:
12:45PM
12:45 - 13:30 PM
Safety Advisor, Combustible Dust Specialist
Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC
Audience:
2:15PM
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
CEO
Dapphaus
Founder and Former CEO
Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC
E2E Ops Value Stream Manager
Husky Technologies
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Manager, Risk Analysis Unit
WorkSafeBC
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Illinois Chicago
Audience:
October 27th 2023
8:00AM
9:00AM
Keynote
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Secretary General
International Social Security Association (ISSA) | Machine and System Safety Section
Head of Advice and Practice
IOSH
EVP, Health, Safety, Sustainability, Quality & Community
Dexterra Group
Founder and Former CEO
Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC
Audience:
10:00AM
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Global Leader, Research and Client Insights
TELUS Health
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Vice President, Workplace Strategy
National Safety Council
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Director of Safety
BC Hydro
Manager, Health & Safety
Factors Group of Companies
Program Manager, Worker and Public Safety, Standards
CSA Group
Occupational Health Specialist
Audience:
11:00AM
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Associate Professor
University of Waterloo
Vice President of Supply Chain
BC Tree Fruits
Founder and Former CEO
Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC
West Region Prevention Manager
Agropur Canada
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
EVP, Health, Safety, Sustainability, Quality & Community
Dexterra Group
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
National Lead, Episodic Disabilities
Realize Canada
Audience:
12:45PM
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Associate Professor, University of Regina; Visiting Professor, UBC
Owner, Centre West Consulting
Leader, Speaker, and Mentor Emeritus
Manager, Health & Safety
Factors Group of Companies
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Ergonomist, Risk Analysis Unit, Prevention Division
WorkSafeBC
Audience:
2:15PM
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt & Process Improvement Guru
BE Quality Inc.
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Program Head, Occupational Health and Safety
BCIT
OHS Student
BCIT
Student
MacEwan University
OHS Student
University of Fredericton
Audience:
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
President
Puratos Canada
VP of Sales - Distributors & Artisan
Puratos Canada
President & CEO
Foleys Candies
CEO
Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC
Audience:
3:00PM
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND
Founder and Former CEO
Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC
Audience:
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We are grateful for the sponsorship, participation, and endorsement of these industry and health and safety organizations across Canada and worldwide-our partners whose support helps make Make It Safe possible. Together, we are taking steps to build healthy and safe workplaces.
Allied Partner
Acera Insurance
Marquis Sponsor
HUB International
Gold Sponsor
Safety Meta World
Safety Sponsor
WorkSafeBC
Safety Sponsor
Schoox
Silver Sponsor
University of Fredericton
Bronze Sponsor
Recognition Sponsors
Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals
Disability Management Institute
EyeSafeBC
Business in Vancouver
Black Press Media
Media Sponsors
 
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