Explore the Agenda
8:00 am Check In, Coffee & Light Breakfast
8:55 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Novel Technologies & AI: How Much Can it Help in EHS & Biopharma?
9:00 am Roundtable: From Prediction to Prevention: AI, Automation & Risk Modelling in the Biopharma Supply Chain: What does AI-augmented risk management really look like in the supply chain?
More practical and highly interactive breakout roundtables where attendees can crowdsource solutions and share opinions around pre-assigned topic areas:
- Predictive safety: How companies are using near miss data, CCTV analytics, and learning systems to anticipate incidents before they happen
- Automation – how are new systems changing roles?
- How data is being used to forecast delivery, disruption and downstream quality risk and can AI reduce the time spent on admin-heavy assessments?
Moderator Feedback & Audience Debate
Moderators will be assigned to each roundtable to facilitate discussion and collate the findings. Following the roundtable discussions, they will present back to the entire delegation and open wider audience debate.
9:45 am Balancing Documentation & Compliance with Engaging, Effective Learning
In regulated industries like pharma and biopharma, training is often built to meet audit standards, not human memory but is a “read-and-sign” policy truly effective when 10% retention is the best-case scenario? This session explores how to balance regulatory compliance with human-centred, high-retention training that actually helps prevent injuries and improve safety.
- How can we redesign training for impact, not just records?
- Are your highest-risk tasks getting the most effective training?
- Evaluating “read-and-sign” necessary or obsolete?
- Discussing real examples of digital, blended, and peer-based training formats that work under compliance pressure
10:15 am Morning Break & Refreshments
Design Safer, Smarter Workplaces: How Modern Occupational Health Boosts Performance in Biopharma
11:15 am Embedding Human Organisational Performance in Occupational Health to Foster a Culture of Trust & Collaboration
Traditional occupational health systems often emphasise compliance, reporting, and error prevention. HOP (Human and Organisational Performance) helps organisations move away from what went wrong. In this presentation, EHS, occupational health, and operations leaders explore how HOP is reshaping workplace safety and health across labs, manufacturing, and corporate offices.
- How “right the first time” messaging conflicts with human performance principles
- Practical examples of moving from blame to learning in pharma environments
- Integrating HOP into incident investigations, near miss reporting, and occupational health programs
- How HOP can reduce stress and improve trust among multi-generational workforces
11:45 am Roundtable: Labs, Offices & Generations: Evolving Models to Deal with the Ever-Changing Landscape
Occupational health needs aren’t one-size-fits-all. Lab workers face chemical exposure and repetitive strain, while office-based staff report increasing rates of stress, burnout, and ergonomic issues. Add to that the generational divide where younger employees expect psychological safety and flexibility, while older cohorts may prioritise privacy or legacy support systems.
More practical and highly interactive breakout roundtables where attendees can crowdsource solutions and share opinions around pre-assigned topic areas:
- Designing programs that appeal to Gen Z and Millennials, Gen X and Boomers
- Ergonomic strategies for both lab and hybrid office workers and “standardisation” of OH services incorporating site-specific needs
- Mental health and psychosocial support in high-pressure lab settings vs. office settings
Moderator Feedback & Audience Debate
Moderators will be assigned to each roundtable to facilitate discussion and collate the findings. Following the roundtable discussions, they will present back to the entire delegation and open wider audience debate.
12:30 pm Panel Discussion: Partnering with HR: Rethinking Occupational Health for a New workforce
As occupational health expands beyond physical safety to include mental well-being, inclusion, and work-life balance, cross-functional collaboration with Human Resources (HR) is becoming essential but these partnerships are not always easy or common:
- Why are traditional EHS-led occupational health models no longer enough?
- Shared ownership: who drives change: EHS, OH, or HR?
- Discussions regarding tools for data sharing and mutual accountability
1:00 pm Lunch & Networking Break
EHS Infrastructure & Good Practise: Upscaling & Management
2:00 pm Panel Discussion: Process Safety in the Age of Large-Scale Biopharma
Once viewed as low risk compared to small molecule production, bio sites are now operating 15K+ bioreactors, vast solvent systems, and steam infrastructure once unthinkable in biologics. And yet, many sites still fall outside of formal process safety rigor.
This panel tackles the growing disconnect between perceived and actual risk in modern biopharma, and how organisations are responding by applying process safety standards, KPIs, and culture to these “new old risks”.
- When is a biologics site no longer a “low risk” facility? Learn how to close the gap between infrastructure scale and safety oversight
- Applying PSM selectively: hazard-based vs blanket standards and how do different companies approach biopharma site PSM adoption?
- How KPIs mislead: lagging vs leading, and what’s actually useful, are we measuring the wrong things? Explore how other firms are redefining KPIs that reflect current realities, not just historical assumptions
- Identify which process safety elements are essential to modern biologics sites, even if you are not Seveso
2:30 pm Roundtable: Scaling Up EHS & Manufacturing Operations: Embedding EHS Excellence into Rapid Biopharma Growth
Presentation (10/15 mins) followed by roundtable: As CDMOs and manufacturing operations rapidly scale, many sites face the pressures of operating high-mix, high-volume facilities while building an EHS organisation to match.
More practical and highly interactive breakout roundtables where attendees can crowdsource solutions and share opinions around pre-assigned topic areas:
- The EHS role is becoming more complex and diverse: how to man for the new normal?
- How do we maintain compliance and culture with general-purpose equipment and shifting products?
- Ensuring safe operations during scale-up and change
Moderator Feedback & Audience Debate
Moderators will be assigned to each roundtable to facilitate discussion and collate the findings. Following the roundtable discussions, they will present back to the entire delegation and open wider audience debate.
3:15 pm Afternoon Break & Refreshments
Building Smarter Training to Protect Teams, Pass Audits & Power Safer Science
3:45 pm Embedding Safety into Business DNA: How to Assess and Strengthen a “Non-Measurable” Safety Culture to Enable Real Transformation
Major industrial incidents repeatedly demonstrate that the prevailing safety culture is often the decisive success – or risk – factor. At the same time, studies show that organisations with a strong, mature safety culture are not only safer but also more profitable and resilient.
This presentation offers a practical approach to systematically assess the current state of your unique safety culture – even though culture is inherently “hard to measure” – and to translate this assessment into concrete strategies for sustainable cultural transformation.
Key Takeaways:
- A special feature: During the session, participants will actively experience how safety culture can be “measured” in real time, just like in a live workshop
- Theory & Concepts: Understand the foundations and key principles of an effective safety culture
- Safety Culture State Review (SCSR): Learn how to apply the SCSR concept to evaluate and strengthen your safety culture using internal resources
4:30 pm Major industrial incidents repeatedly demonstrate that the prevailing safety culture is often the decisive success – or risk – factor. At the same time, studies show that organisations with a strong, mature safety culture are not only safer but also more
Join us for an interactive roundtable with three focused discussion tables exploring how to maintain momentum and impact in Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention programs over the long term. Many organisations launch successful initiatives, but sustaining engagement beyond the initial phase remains the biggest challenge. This session will dig into practical strategies for keeping programs fresh, credible, and deeply embedded in your culture.
- Recognising and Overcoming Program Fatigue: common signs, strategies to reignite and discovering why most SIF prevention programs lose momentum after 12–24 months
- Building Fatality Prevention into Your Culture: proactive approaches, making prevention part of your organisational DNA and leveraging evidence-based methods to sustain credibility and impact
- Leadership Visibility and Everyday Integration: Maintaining ongoing leadership focus, embedding SIF prevention into daily operations and avoiding the trap of limiting focus to safety events or audits