Providing high-quality safety and health education since 1991

Since 1991, the Southern Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Conference has been providing high-quality OSH education for our region. SOSAFETY Conference is a joint venture between ASSP - Southern Oregon Chapter and Oregon OSHA.
​You can learn more on our websites at:
www.soassp.org/conference
osha.oregon.gov/conferences/southern/Pages/index.aspx
​Join us for this exciting in-person event as we bring some of the top experts in the field.
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Southern Oregon Occupational Safety and
​Health Conference October 17-19, 2023

Welcome to the 2023 Southern Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Conference page! We are thrilled to announce our lineup of amazing presenters for our October In-Person Safety Conference. Our team has worked hard to find top-notch presenters, some regional rock stars, as well as some nationally and internationally recognized speakers. We are dedicated to making this event fun and interactive and we believe this will be one of our best conferences ever!

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2023 Keynote Speakers

Bob Edwards

Bob Edwards is a Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) practitioner and this is his third appearance at the Southern Oregon Safety & Health Conference.  Bob will share with you what he knows and what he does to help organizations gain a deeper understanding of their operations and the complex nature of work.  He will also show how, through collaboration and mutual respect, organizations are becoming more reliable and resilient.  Bob has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University and MS degree in Advanced Safety Engineering Management from the University of Alabama Birmingham.  His work experience includes time as a maintenance man, soldier in the U.S. Army, a design engineer, maintenance and technical support leader, safety leader and assistant plant manager.

Libby Gill

Executive coach, leadership expert, and award-winning author Libby Gill guides emerging and established leaders to inspire purpose and drive performance. She is the former head of communications for Sony, Universal, and Turner Broadcasting, and her clients include American Society of Safety Professionals (national), Disney, Ernst & Young, Honda, Intel, Microsoft, Rogue Credit Union, The Human Bean, United Healthcare, and many more.
 
She has been featured on the CBS Early Show, CNN, NPR the Today Show and in the New York Times, Time Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. The author of six books including the award-winning You Unstuck, The Hope-Driven Leader, and Leadership Reckoning. 
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Professional Development
Workshop:
​Operational Learning and the Practical Application of HOP Principles

Bob Edwards - The HOP Coach
​October 17, 2023 Full Day Workshop

Bob takes his life work experiences and combines them with the Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) philosophies to help organizations learn how to better respond to failure and how to use HOP Learning Teams to gain better operational intelligence and to develop more effective, thorough and sustainable solutions to tough operational problems. Bob has led well over 200 Learning Teams for safety, quality, legal and operational events and has worked closely with Todd Conklin to develop a process to help facilitate Learning Teams.
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View a 1-minute video about the organizational learning concept by clicking the image below

Opening Keynote Presentation
How to think like a HOP Coach

Presented by Bob Edwards, The HOP Coach

Bob will kick off the Wednesday events by sharing with you what he knows and what he does to help organizations gain a deeper understanding of their operations and the complex nature of work. He will also show how, through collaboration and mutual respect, organizations are becoming more reliable and resiliant. HOP is foundationally a combination of three key bodies of knowledge: complexity science, system design, and behavioral psychology. HOP uses these three to better understand the human-system interactions. This in turn can help us design more resilient systems that can better handle the human condition.
Humans fail (make errors and break rules) with a known frequency that is affected by known influencing factors. When we understand this, we can design better systems.  After this presentation, you will be able to evaluate your organizations challenges from the perspective of a HOP Coach.

2023 Conference Registration
Our SOSAFETY 2023 Conference Registration will open in August 2023. Check back for updates and save the dates now!
2023 Conference Schedule
October 17 - Professional Development & Pre-Conference Workshops
October 18 - Conference Day 1
October 19 - Conference Day 2
Full Conference 3-Days of Learning and Networking
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