Health & Safety Emergency Exercises: Striving for Failure -- Occupational Health & Safety

Health & Safety Emergency Exercises: Striving for Failure

Date: Thursday June 12, 2025 at 2:00pm ET - 1:00pm CT - 11:00am PT

This webinar explores how to move beyond simply running safety exercises to learning from the moments in them when things don’t go as planned. We’ll discuss how to use these exercises for exposing hidden weaknesses across safety protocols, operations, supply chains, staffing, and compliance systems, including:

Designing scenario-based exercises that go beyond obvious threats
Ensuring after-action reviews capture failure insights, not just successes
Understanding failure types and how this affects planning, training and H&S processes
Correctly communicating that “failure is allowed” to lower participant stress and errors
When to pause the exercise to train or correct, including rapid-response thinking
Recognizing and tracking action stress points that emerge outside the primary exercise scenario
Prioritizing response strategies without losing sight of ultimate safety/risk mitigation goals
How to build better H&S prevention/response systems from your discoveries, incorporating continuous improvement
How to frame negative exercise outcomes in business terms to secure leadership buy-in for changes

Whether you’re preparing for natural hazards like heatwaves, wildfires, earthquakes and droughts, or man-made crises such as workplace violence, equipment malfunctions, or sudden regulation shifts, this session will help you go beyond box-checking and scripted responses and extract actionable insights from every simulation. More importantly, it will help you ask the right questions when things don’t go according to plan.

Who should attend:

Emergency preparedness coordinators
EHS and safety officers, managers and directors
Security, facilities and operations managers
HR and compliance teams
Risk/crisis managers and business continuity professionals

Speakers:

Al Roth CSP, Senior Consultant, EHS Services & Solutions, CSP
Mr. Roth has over 35 years of experience developing and sustaining effective EHS programs, systems, and teams. He has proven expertise in the areas of Lean/Safety/Quality systems and methodologies, along with auditing processes both internal and external. Has supported diverse domestic and global operations of various industries including manufacturing (semi-con, aerospace/defense, heavy equipment) R&D, field service, retail, logistics and construction. He has worked directly for Spectra Physics, The Toro Company and Vons Companies in Director, Manager and Coordination roles. He holds a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) w/BCSP designation and has completed Certification Programs for Occupational Safety & Health, Environmental Health and Workers Compensation Management from the University of California.

David Blacksberg, Senior Consultant, Emergency Management & Business Continuity, MPH, CBCP, LSSBB, NEMAA
Mr. Blacksberg is a Senior Consultant with over 25 years experience specializing in Emergency Management, Business Continuity, Safety, Security, and Workplace Violence Prevention. Mr. Blacksberg has been a leader in creating strategic partnerships and has developed strategies to meet regulatory and accreditation compliances well as authoring, facilitating, and assessing trainings and exercises ranging in scale and scope from a single facility to multi-agency. Previously, he served as the Manager for Emergency Management with Mount Sinai Health System in New York and Emergency Management Coordinator for North Shore University Hospital (Northwell) and is a survivor of the 9/11 attacks where he began his career as an EMT with the Fire Department, City of New York’s Emergency Medical Services. Mr. Blacksberg earned his Masters in Public Health with an emphasis in Emergency Preparedness from New York Medical College and has his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt in process improvement.

Sponsor:

BSI Consulting provides a comprehensive range of strategic, management and technical consulting solutions – assessment, compliance, risk management, reporting, training, communication and more – partnering with clients to achieve their environmental, health, safety and sustainability short-term needs and long-term goals.

Date: Jun 12, 2025

Time: 2:00 PM ET

Duration: 1 Hour

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