- Use a more conversational and less technical approach
- Explain why we all suffer under the curse of knowledge
- Defend the advantages of discussing and admitting our risk perceptions and cognitive biases
- Use more effective persuasion techniques
- Describe why and how storytelling helps in these and many other ways
- Gain the workers’ attention
- Make training fun and relevant
- Make sure trainings are accessible
- Post reminders
- Check in with the workers
- Create a feeling of ownership
- Recognize the value of utilizing a lab safety consultant to proactively prevent employee incidents and regulatory fines and citations.
- Learn how to maximize the benefits of using a lab safety consultant based on your laboratory's needs.
- Use the consultant resources and provisions to improve and maintain your lab safety culture.
SAFETY DIGITAL SUMMIT
Strategies for Safer Labs
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Lab Safety Training without Hitting the Deck
Effective lab safety training can solve many problems, including incidents and injuries. Training is much more than putting information on a slide and reading it to your audience—it can be formal and informal and isn't limited to a classroom. Most often when people hear “effective training,” they think of assessments—however, effective training starts with course design and learner engagement. Attendees will learn about learner engagement, effective training, and why it’s important. This webinar will also discuss why relying on slides and traditional methods isn’t always effective. Attendees will also learn about non-traditional approaches and methods for lab safety training including debates, discussions, and drills with real-world applications for lab safety training.
Presenter: Ashley Augspurger
Corteva Agrisciences
11:00 am-12:00 pm EDT
Biosafety and Biosecurity in a Changing World
Biosafety and biosecurity came to the forefront for everyone running a laboratory with the outbreak of COVID-19, and concerns about biosafety and biosecurity have been growing even more since then. The governance of biosafety and biosecurity has become an essential collaboration between safety professionals and laboratory management and staff. Discussions of biosafety should not be reactive measures taken in the face of incidents, nor can they focus entirely on the listed biosafety levels of agents and experimental outcomes. Biosafety needs to be a conversation that starts at the beginning of an individual’s career in a lab and be woven into every decision that is made in the development of projects and research.
This presentation will offer laboratory managers and leaders the vital information they need to embrace these rapidly changing scientific and safety expectations in order to create a robust secure program in their individual facilities. The presenter will discuss actions that can be taken at the laboratory level to make everyone included in, and responsible for, biosafety. This webinar will enable lab managers to work with their safety staff to provide biosafety education for everyone.
Presenter: Amanda Haley
AmplifyBio
12:30-1:30 pm EDT
The Hell of Communicating Hazards and Risks
Whether hazard communication or lab safety, talking with your scientists, researchers, and staff about risks and hazards is challenging. It seems the deeper you get into the technical aspects the worse the conversations get.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Using the right communicating tools and techniques, plus knowing our cognitive biases and risk perceptions, can make it much easier on you and them.
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Presenter: Jonathan Klane
Lab Manager
2:00-3:00 pm EDT
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Panel Discussion: Lab Safety Challenges and Solutions
Lab safety managers often find themselves faced with difficult decisions and situations related to physical hazards, maintaining their equipment, and safeguarding their employees’ mental health. Where can a safety manager find guidance? What are the most effective ways to avoid hazards before they occur? How can one successfully transition into a safety leadership role after working at the bench? Why is it so important to lead by example in order to encourage compliance? It is important for safety officers, regardless of their level of experience, to receive the guidance, critical information, and practical advice they need to lead their teams to higher levels of engagement and commitment.
During this panel discussion, leaders in lab safety will share their experiences and advice for those looking to improve their skills, motivate their staff to follow safety guidelines, and protect their people, equipment, and product. Discover how these stories can help you in your own lab, and learn valuable action items you can take back to the workplace to increase your lab’s efficiency, output, and ROI while maintaining a safe environment. Panelists will take questions from the audience and offer help to those looking to overcome challenges related to lab safety.
Panelists: Jonathan Klane, Ashley Augspurger, Imke Schroeder, Josanne Hollingsworth-Maida, Veronia Thron
11:00-12:00 pm EDT
Encouraging Compliance in the Workplace
Most laboratory managers work hard to ensure that employees in their laboratory have everything they need to help them comply with safety in the workplace. But sometimes it can be hard to make sure no one slips through the crack of feeling that they aren’t part of the team and therefore feel that they don’t always need to comply. An effective team is critical to everyone’s health and safety.
Our efforts benefit from looking at the team as a community relying on each other for their collective health and safety. Those group norms and behaviors are its culture, including around safety and risk. How do we facilitate their effectiveness with compliance? Often it’s through team relatability, group learning, psychological safety, and true culture. This webinar is beneficial to anyone looking for a way to encourage compliance at work. All workplaces aren’t the same, but all workplaces are striving to encourage compliance from their workers. Compliance takes a team of people from all different parts of an organization to promote and grow.
It is important that everyone in an organization knows and understands their part in compliance and that compliance is an ever-changing cycle. This is not always easy, but it is something that all lab managers should work with their organization to help encourage. It takes a team and its culture of safety to encourage compliance in the workplace.
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Presenter: Tammy Spruill
Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center
12:30-1:30 pm EDT
The Synergy of Lab Safety Consulting
Lab managers today have plenty on their plates, and often they play multiple roles—point-of-care testing, specimen collection, lab quality and safety. With tight staffing, tight budgeting, and a score of regulations that must be followed, many managers become unable to maintain their important lab safety program, and employee injuries, laboratory accidents, and regulatory fines ensue.
Utilizing laboratory safety consultants can benefit the entire lab, but how does one begin that process? What are the challenges of finding and hiring a consultant? What can a lab safety consultant do, and what are the benefits of hiring one? Find out how to work with a safety consultant and work as a team to strengthen and maintain your lab safety culture, policies, and your overall safety program.
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Presenter: Dan Scungio
Dan The Lab Safety Man, Inc.
2:00-3:00 pm EDT
Contact Us
Labx Media Conferences LLC
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Wilmington, Delaware
19801
1 888 781 0328
summit@labmanager.com