• Todd Conklin

    Human Performance Expert , Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Todd Conklin is a Senior Advisor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the world's foremost research and development laboratories, in the human performance and safety integration program. Dr. Conklin has been working on the human performance program at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the last dozen years of his 25-year career. It is in the fortunate position where he enjoys the best of both the academic world and the world of safety in practice.   Conklin holds a Ph.D. in organizational behaviour and communication from the University of New Mexico. He speaks all over the world to executives, groups and work teams who are interested in better understanding the relationships between the workers in the field and the organization's systems, processes and programs. He has brought these systems to major corporations around the world. Conklin practices these ideas not only in his own workplace, but also in event investigations at other workplaces around the world. Conklin defines safety at his workplace like this: "Safety is the ability for workers to be able to do work in a varying and unpredictable world." Conklin lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and thinks that human performance is the most meaningful work he has ever had the opportunity to live and teach.

    • 14:45 - 15:30 Redefining Safety for a Rapidly Changing Business
      We have been measuring safety success wrong for far too long, we have measured our safety success by understanding safety at the individual level of our organizations.  We think the only thing we can fix is the individual worker - even safety culture has become a rather fancy code word for the collective individual behaviors we see at out worksites and on our platforms.  The problem is that measuring safety success means we have to change the way we think about doing our business.  Safety must move from an outcome to be managed to a capacity that is constantly present in our work.  
       
      This presentation tackles our re-definition of safety...but not in a boring way.  In fact this presentation discusses the very idea that everything we have done this far on our performance excellence journey is important to moving us to the next place.   Safety differently is additive.   There is good news. 
      16:15 - 16:30 Interview session
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