AIHA Connect University Live Online PDC: Controlling SIF (Serious Incident and Fatality) Risk: Using Systems Framework with ASTM Standards to Identify, Prioritize, and Reduce SIF Risks

Earn 3.5 Contact Hours

Standard Pricing: Member $295 | Nonmember $395 | Student $295

Early Bird Pricing: Member $236 | Nonmember $316 | Student $236 

Serious Incidents and Fatalities (SIFs) continue to occur in organizations with strong compliance programs and low injury rates, revealing critical gaps in how SIF risk is identified, prioritized, and controlled. This four-hour virtual Professional Development Course (PDC) provides a practical, systems-based approach to SIF prevention, grounded in the emerging ASTM SIF Prevention standards and aligned with modern Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles.

The course introduces participants to SIF and potential SIF and pSIF (potential SIF) classification concepts, then places primary emphasis on SIF risk identification, prioritization, and reduction. Participants will learn how to integrate lagging indicators (incident and injury data) with leading methods (SIF risk identification and analysis, safeguard verification, and engagement insights) within a unified SIF Prevention Model. Real-world examples, facilitated discussions, and applied risk-reduction scenarios will demonstrate how organizations can move beyond traditional metrics and focus resources on the exposures most likely to cause life-altering, life-threatening, or fatal outcomes.

The session concludes with an overview of key resources, including the NSC SIF Prevention Model, an AI enabled SIF Risk Assessment tool, a curated set of free, practical resources participants can immediately use to begin or strengthen their SIF prevention efforts across industries.

Learning Objectives

After this online PDC, participants will be able to:

• Explain the limitations of traditional safety metrics in predicting and preventing Serious Incident and Fatalities (SIFs).
• Define and distinguish between SIFs and potential SIFs (pSIFs) using new ASTM severity based SIF Prevention classification methods.
• Apply a systems-based perspective to identify and prioritize SIF risks through understanding high hazard activities, conditions and events for applying critical safeguards to reduce risk.
• Integrate lagging indicators (e.g., traditional incident data) with leading methods (SIF risk reduction metrics including task-based SIF risk analysis, safeguard verification, and workforce engagement to better identify and reduce SIF exposure.
• Prioritize SIF risk by focusing on exposure to high hazard activities and conditions, and strength of safeguards rather than injury frequency alone.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of critical risk controls and safeguards in preventing high-consequence events.
• Use the NSC SIF Prevention Model to align risk identification, learning, and prevention activities within their organization.

Schedule (Eastern Time)

12:00 PM – Course Starts
TBD – 15-minute Break
3:45 PM – Course Concludes

Perry W. Logan, PhD, CIH
Perry is currently Senior Strategic Advisor, Workplace Safety Solutions, National Safety Council, Principle of Health + Safety Leadership Partners LLC and former Global VP for Corporate Safety & Health, Chemical Ops EHS. He holds degrees in chemical engineering (BS), occupational health (MS) and environmental health (PhD). Perry has extensive global EHS experience across many areas including manufacturing, hazardous waste operations, construction, R&D, emergency response and supply chain operations.  Perry enjoys all aspects of EHS and routinely presents technical sessions and workshops on SIF Prevention, AI &EHS Integration, EHS Culture, Leadership and Teamwork, risk assessment and management, professional judgment, Layers of Protection analysis, EHS competency development, EHS auditing, ventilation design, exposure methods for epidemiology, Bayesian and mathematical exposure modeling. Perry has been very active in developing leadership skills for health and safety professionals through the AIHA Future Leaders Institute (FLI), Emerging Leaders Institute (ELI) and “EHS Leadership and Teamwork” workshops presented at conferences around the world. 

Gudmundur Thorsteinsson
Gudmundur is the Human and Organizational Performance Lead at Tesla, where he's instrumental in weaving the principles of HOP and SIF-prevention into the fabric of the organization. With a Master’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety Management from Loughborough University and 15 years of EHS experience in complex organizations, he is driven by a mission to prevent serious incidents and fatalities through proactive operational learning, systems thinking and effective safeguards. At Tesla, Gudmundur spearheads initiatives to integrate HOP methodologies, emphasizing the importance of involving both workers and leaders in the dynamic problem solving process that is safety.

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