In an era where a crisis is defined as any disruption to daily operations requiring a media response, the ability to transition from chaotic reaction to organized control is essential for protecting your organization’s reputation and bottom line. This session provides a comprehensive guide to crisis communications planning for professionals across the construction, retail, insurance, and public sectors, focusing on the critical distinction between pre-crisis preparedness and active response.

Attendees will learn to categorize incidents into Green, Yellow, and Red levels to instantly activate the appropriate cross-functional teams and response protocols. We will deep-dive into the “rapid response” actions required within the first hour of an incident, equipping you with strategies to secure the scene, designate trained spokespersons, and utilize pre-approved “packaged answers” to maintain message discipline.

By exploring practical tools like incident journals and media logs, this presentation ensures you leave ready to manage stakeholder communication effectively and protect your brand when it matters most.

This session will equip safety executives, general contractors, commercial construction leaders, and management business professionals with a practical, plain-English playbook for preparing for and managing immigration enforcement at the worksite.

We will cover how to build and enforce a clear company policy, train frontline staff and supervisors on how to respond if agents arrive, establish a communication chain, and designate an on-site point person.

Attendees will learn best practices for distinguishing private from public areas on the jobsite, requesting and reviewing judicial warrants, safeguarding employee rights while avoiding obstruction, and recording enforcement activity.

We will also discuss how strong Form I-9 compliance can reduce enforcement risk, how ICE uses I-9 inspections as a precursor to raids, and why tying these protocols to existing OSHA safety leadership and procedures creates a cohesive culture of preparedness.

This is a practical, real-world session designed to help contractors keep operations compliant, workers protected, and projects moving when enforcement pressure rises..

Active Shooters, Wildfires, COVID-19, Tornados, Civil Disorder—all of it emphasizes that emergency planning for your workplace is subject to many federal, state and local laws, regulations and standards. Most who are tasked with creating and maintaining emergency plans are confused or overwhelmed regarding those standards. Learn what laws, regulations and standards apply to your emergency planning, training and exercises. Learn what a lawsuit will do to you if you don’t create a plan to standard. Learn the 17 gaps that can sabotage your emergency plans today and how to fill them.

Learning Objectives:

• What are the laws, regulations and standards that control emergency plans and training?
• How will lawsuits affect you and your organization?
• What should be the overriding attitude for managers in re-evaluating current planning and training?
• What is the legal definition of training?
• How will your own employees, clients, landlord and fellow tenants hurt your response to a disaster?
• What to expect by way of help from local municipalities?

In this session, we’ll cover the basics of computer vision AI, how it works, and then dive into how leading organizations are not just experimenting with AI, but operationalizing it to drive real safety outcomes. From reducing incidents and uncovering root causes to influencing frontline worker behavior and improving culture, these safety leaders are putting AI to work across their sites.

In this session, you’ll learn:

● How Computer Vision AI works and is being embedded into daily workflows

● Real-world examples of measurable safety improvements using AI

● Lessons learned from scaling AI across multiple sites and teams

● How safety leaders are using AI to shape culture, improve training, and drive broader operational wins.