2025 Program Schedule – details coming soon!

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Monday, April 14, 2025: Conference Day One

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Tuesday April 15, 2025 Conference Day Two

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Wednesday April 16, 2025 (Post-conference professional development courses)

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Please Note: All sessions, speakers, events, times and descriptions are subject to change without notice. Pacific Safety Center Ltd reserves the right to limit quantities and to correct errors or omissions. For the latest information and updates please check the home page.

Photography & Film Footage Will Be Taken During This Event
Please be advised that a photographer and videographer will be attending the Western Conference on Safety. By entering the conference your image may be included in some shots. If you do not wish to be included be identify yourself to the photographer/videographer and so indicate your wishes to them. Otherwise your presence here will constitute your consent to being photographed and/or video’ed and your acknowledgement that such photography/film may be used for promotional, archival or media purposes.

Scent Friendly:
Scent Friendly: The Western Conference on Safety is a scent-free environment. In consideration of others, please “scent-sitive” and reduce or avoid your use of perfume or other personal scents. Your fellow conference attendees will appreciate you for it.

Session Descriptions:

Monday April 14, 2025

7:00am:  Registration & Tradeshow Open

8:30 – 9:00am: Welcome and Opening Remarks:  (Regency Ballroom “D”, 3rd Floor)

Master of Ceremonies: Tanya Steele, R(CSO), CSS, CHSC TR Steele Company
Welcoming Remarks by: Conference Chair, Mary Moltman, Conference Chair,

9:00 – 10:00am

Keynote Presentation: TBA by: TBA

(Regency Ballroom “D”, 3rd Floor)

10:00 – 10:30am

Safety Tradeshow and Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:45am

Session 2A: 
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Session 2D: 
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 11:45am – 1:15pm

Safety Tradeshow and Lunch (On Own For Lunch)

1:15 – 2:45pm

Session 3A: 
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2:45 – 3:15pm

Safety Tradeshow and Coffee Break (Tradeshow Closes at 3:30pm)

3:15 – 4:30pm

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Tuesday April 15, 2025

7:00am

Registration and Safety Tradeshow Open

8:30- 9:45am

Session 6A
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Session 6B:
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Session 6C
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Session 6D
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 9:45 – 10:15am Coffee Break and Tradeshow

10:15 – 11:30am

Session 7A: 
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11:30– 12:45pm

Safety Tradeshow and Lunch (On own for Lunch, Tradeshow Closes at 12:45pm)

12:45pm – 1:45pm Super Sessions

Super Session 8A: 
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Super Session 8B: 
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1:45 – 2:00pm Room Change

2:00 – 3:00pm Closing Keynote: TBA

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3:00pm – Conference Concludes

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Post- Conference Courses:

Wednesday April 16, 2025

8:30am – 4:30

Course PC-1
Fundamentals for Joint Health and Safety Committees Course 
This course is ideal for new safety committee members needing to comply with WorkSafeBC’s Safety Committee Member training regulations as well as existing members looking to upgrade their safety knowledge and skills. If your organization is setting up its first safety committee or looking to makes its existing committee more effective, this one day course is just what you need.

Topics include: applying the process of safety inspections and accident investigations, participating in constructive committee meetings, helping your committee work together and much more.

Fees: TBA
Early Bird: 
Regular
GST extra

Course PC-2 (One Day)
Accident/Incident Investigation Course
Great course for safety committee members, supervisors or anyone who is required to conduct and/or review accidents and incidents in the workplace. It will help you to effectively investigate accidents with the objective of reducing or preventing future accidents. This is one of our most popular courses.
Fees:
Early Bird:
Regular
GST extra

Course PC-3 (One Day)
 Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Course
A fundamental concept in managing occupational health and safety (and also in many WorkSafeBC’s regulations) is the recognition, assessment and control of hazards. The process is commonly referred to as Hazard Identification or Risk Assessment. But how do you determine what is a hazard and how do you find hidden hazards before someone gets hurt? This course will assist you in recognizing and rating the severity of workplace hazards and explore common strategies for controlling them. A great course for supervisors, managers and safety committee members.
Fees:
Early Bird: 
Regular
GST extra

Course PC-4
Supervisors Safety Training Course 
Supervisors are arguably the most influential people in preventing workplace incidents and injuries. But only if they understand their key role and have the specific skills needed to follow through on that understanding. If they don’t or worse, have nevere been taught how to supervisor for safety as part of the job, then accidents and injuries nearly always follow. This jam-packed one day course guides new or experienced supervisors through the fundamentals they need to ensure safety on the job.
Fees:
Early Bird: 
Regular
GST Extra