Our Webinars

Exposure Reduction at Every Level: Lessons Learned from Safety Experts at the Frontline

DEKRA consultants are global experts with decades of experience working with organizations to mitigate life-threatening risks in the workplace. Join Senior Vice President Rebecca Timmins and Vice President of Client Engagement Angelica Grindle for a conversation about the critical activities needed to control exposure at every level, from top management to frontline employee.

The DEKRA Exposure Reduction Model: What Can You Learn About Your Organization When it Comes to Safety?

This webinar describes how to move beyond just reacting to the incident or injury rate “symptom” with “flavor of the month” safety solutions to performing a deeper diagnosis that enables a true understanding of why injuries and one-off events continue to occur at your organization. The DEKRA Exposure Reduction™ Model seeks out the “why” behind the metrics so that thoughtful, sustainable, and systemic solutions tailored to the underlying need can be developed, implemented, and sustained within your business.

Speak Up! Cementing “See Something, Say Something” to Drive Safety

Many organizations promote "see something, say something" to encourage their people to intervene and make work safe. But most don't go far enough to equip teams with the skills to actually do this. And they don't address the barriers that stand in their way, like archaic or "dinosaur" thinking about safety, lack of reinforcement from leaders, and a culture that doesn't walk the talk. This webinar examines ways to remedy these shortfalls by operationalizing HOP (human and organizational performance) and leveraging it to grow your organization's speak-up culture. It specifically concentrates on the factors that support and enable team members to speak up to keep work safe and people protected.

Who Owns Human & Organizational Performance?

DEKRA Vice Presidents, Rajni Walia & David Musgrave shared insights on a commonly asked question in this webinar– “Who Really Owns Human and Organizational Performance (HOP)?”. Is it the safety organization? Human Resources? Operational Excellence? Or should Human Performance be a separate part of the organization?

Decision Science & Safe Teams: The Fast & Slow Brain in Action

Ever wonder how individuals or teams have arrived at a given decision? More importantly, do you want to learn more about how you can positively influence decisions for yourself, your teams, and your colleagues for a safe, quality, and in control result? DEKRA OSR’s Brain-Centric Reliability™ experts, Rajni Walia and David Musgrave, discuss practical ways to arrive at correct decisions when it really counts in this webinar.

Creating Safe Decisions: A Case Study on Human Performance Reliability

This webinar is designed to help safety leaders better understand how the brain plays an important role in exposing workers to vulnerabilities and the specific techniques for overcoming them. DEKRA OSR thought leaders, Michael Mangan and David Musgrave lead participants in a discussion on how the human brain can help or hinder actions, and also what can be done to optimize real-time high-performance reliability to avoid unplanned events.

Beyond the Myths: What Really Drives Transportation Safety

When we ask transportation leaders what keeps them up at night, their answers sometimes surprise us—for all the wrong reasons. It turns out, myths about transportation safety persist. And they can keep organizations in trucking, rail, and aviation from achieving the consistently optimized safety performance they strive for. This webinar examines three common myths that continue to influence how transportation companies approach safety. Discover why they persist and how companies can move beyond them to see real and lasting progress.

Safety in Sync: Tapping the Transformative Power of Frontline Supervisors

Today’s challenging, high-turnover environment has made it harder than ever for front-line leaders to engage their teams around a common purpose while providing guidance and support. This webinar gives both experienced and new safety and operations supervisors and managers practical insights and tools they can use to become stronger leaders who are in sync with the workforce and create a safe workplace. Led by DEKRA safety and behavioral specialists Angelica Grindle, Ph.D., and Sylvester Mayo, participants will develop new understanding and skills to transform their abilities as leaders and champions of safety.

Your Secret Weapon in Achieving Exposure Control? Supervisors

Supervisors are the connective tissue between the executive layer and your front line, and equipping them with the skills to control exposure is critical to achieving your safety goals. Too often, supervisors are unprepared for the transition from high performing team member to team leader. In this webinar, DEKRA’s Mike Mangan and Susan Murphy will share their experience and insights on how training and mentorship can support supervisors and set them up for success, and how strengthening your supervisor ranks can improve worker well-being and reduce turnover. We’ll also discuss the importance of procedural justice and how it contributes to employee engagement.

A Day in the Life: Looking at Worker Well-Being Through the Lens of Three Roles in the Workplace

Feeling stressors in the workplace, from operational challenges to aches and pains, is unfortunately common. The extent to how we allow those stressors to affect worker well-being depends on the choices we make. Join DEKRA North America Vice Presidents Mike Mangan and Jack Balsamo as they explore topics like transformational leadership, personal resilience, and building capacity.

Building the Blocks to a Culture of Safety: Establish & Sustain a Culture of Excellence

In a Culture of Safety, the value an organization has for safety is omnipresent. Most importantly, a Culture of Safety is about identifying and controlling exposure and creating an environment that is focused on total worker wellbeing. In this webinar, DEKRA Senior Vice President Rebecca Timmins and DEKRA Vice President and Executive Consultant Luis Sanchez discussed the three strategic blocks that must be present to create and maintain safety excellence.

The Nightmare of 2020: How to Lead with Safety During Chaos

The year 2020 will be in the history books for the challenges it presented to safety leaders all over the world. The DEKRA panel discussion “The Nightmare of 2020: How to Lead with Safety During Chaos” featured two safety leaders who helped innovate new ways to exceed in safety despite the challenges facing their organization during this troubling year.

Unmasking Injury Prevention’s Fatal Flaw

Organizational measures to mitigate injuries have not yielded similar results in preventing fatal incidents. That’s because the factors contributing to potentially life-threatening events differ significantly from those causing less severe incidents. This webinar explores those differences, connecting the concepts of preventing Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) incidents with human performance. We’ll look at the underlying motivations behind people's actions and the most prevalent factors contributing to SIFs.

What Don’t You See? Reveal & Resolve Blind Spots Hampering High Reliability

Catastrophic incidents that have the ability to cause serious injuries or fatalities aren’t the norm, making it easy for leaders to feel overly confident instead of vulnerable, ultimately creating organizational blind spots. It takes a different kind of organization to develop leaders who, instead of asking, “Can it happen here?” ask, “How can it happen here?”

Risky Business: How to Protect People in High-Risk Work Environments

This webinar examines real-life issues leaders in high-risk industries face and the most effective ways to reduce risks and empower leaders and teams to overcome or offset safety threats. All levels of personnel in Safety, EHS, Operations, and HR will take away knowledge and tools to help create not only a safer workplace but also an underlying culture that supports and enables safety and organizational performance.

Why Organizational Process Safety is a Firewall Against Catastrophe

Catastrophic toxic fires and explosions usually occur after early warning signals, however subtle, are overlooked. Some organizations are very successful in avoiding catastrophic events, even in environments with high risk factors and complex operations. Known as Highly Reliable Organizations, these operations have developed cultures that embrace the understanding of hazards and risk, drive proper management of risk, and value learning from experience.

How Brain Centered Hazards Impact Serious Injury & Fatality Potential

Recent studies show that while the overall efforts to reduce injuries has progressed steadily over the past few decades, the trend for fatalities has plateaued according to the latest data from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics. This trend illustrates that whatever organizations have been doing to reduce injuries has not had the same effect on fatalities. As a result, organizations are starting to recognize that the causes for potentially life-threatening events are very different from the causes of other events with lower severity potential. Instead, there is a new shift emphasizing a focus on high exposure events. In addition to a concentrated focus on the high exposure events, there is a need to understand why people do what they do, especially during situations that may lead to serious injuries and fatalities.

Preventing Catastrophe: The Five Disciplines of High Reliability Organizations

Catastrophic incidents like fires, explosions, derailments, spills, releases, food contamination, etc. not only have a devastating impact on the workforce, but they also have detrimental effects on the surrounding community and the environment. In this webinar, DEKRA VP of Solution Development Mike Mangan and Sr. Process Safety Development Engineer Sarah Eck discussed how you can turn your organization into a high-reliability organization that can anticipate catastrophic exposure by implementing high-quality decision making and controls.

The Power of Knowledge in Preventing Soft Tissue Injuries

This webinar is designed to help you recognize and control the exposures that lead to soft tissue injuries in your workplace. Soft tissue injuries represent a hidden danger for workers. According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Department of Labor in November 2018, sprains, strains and tears represent the number one cause of non-fatal workplace injuries.

Safe & Well Organizations: How Leaders Can Build a Thriving Workforce

Well-being is more than a buzz word. It’s a critical component of the modern workplace. A focus on well-being helps organizations retain employees, maintain safe operations, and adapt to changing market conditions. It also equips employees with the skills they need to not only face today’s challenges, but to thrive. Join DEKRA's David Musgrave, Rajni Walia, and Mei-Li Lin for an interactive conversation.