IADC Health, Safety, Environment & Training Conference & Exhibition

7:30 am Registration, Coffee Service & Exhibition Red Oak Ballroom AB

7:45 am Speaker Briefing (Speakers, Moderators & Session Chairs only) Magnolia

8:30 am Welcome & Introduction Magnolia

• Brooke Polk, Vice President – Accreditation Operations, IADC

8:40 am IADC Chairman’s Address: Roddie Mackenzie, 2026 IADC Chair; EVP & Chief Commercial Officer, Transocean

9:00 am Heat Stress Mitigation
Experts will discuss the latest cooling technologies and personal protective equipment (PPE), the importance of acclimatization, and regulatory requirements, as well as providing practical advice for employers and safety professionals to protect workers from the dangers of heat-related illnesses in the workplace. 

• Jeff Atteberry, Sr. Policy Advisor-Upstream, API
• Additional panelists to be named.

10:00 am Coffee Service & Exhibit Viewing 

10:30 am Human & Organizational Performance

Learning Teams – A Different Way of Thinking: Andrew Knight, VP Operations, The REACH Group
Adoption of HOP concepts over the past 5-7 years has seen many challenges including the clash of perceived beliefs between it and engrained behavioural based safety views. The presentation will outline the application of the Learning Teams process, through pre-incident investigation thinking. This concept can deliver competence and confidence in HOP skills and empower crew to own their environment as well as gain better HOP adoption across the organisation. The presented views will discuss how normal work may produce an accepted operational outcome although normal work is full of hidden Performance Shaping Factors and Error Traps that impact on decisions. We explain how Human Error can be seen, understood and predicted by crew before an incident happens. Our new generation of workers are ready to take on the HOP challenge so we need to teach them. To be different, we must think different in order to get different results.

Human Organizational Performance to reduce SIF incidents through Hazard Assessment.: Jay Brosseau, Sr. HSE Manager, Precision Drilling
This presentation would be about how our organization has used HOP to reduce SIF incidents through hazard assessment. Reviewing how we use work as done to develop controls to fail safely. Taking the auto industries approach to engineered mitigation to prevent SIF incidents. 

Noble Peak: Redefining Safety Through Frontline-Driven Performance: Kirk Atkinson, Senior Director Global HSE, Mattias Ottosson, Aaron Buckleton, Noble Corporation
Noble Corporation’s Noble Peak initiative is redefining offshore safety by integrating modern safety philosophies into a unified, people centred framework. Focused on proactive learning and frontline empowerment, Noble Peak equips crews with tools to co-create safer, more resilient operations. By transforming safety roles into coaches and modernize our HSE tools, Noble is fostering a culture of ownership, and continuous improvement. Currently being implemented fleet-wide, Noble Peak exemplifies how innovative leadership and bottom-up learning can drive measurable gains in performance, through safety, quality and efficiency, across complex offshore environments.

12:00 pm Luncheon & Exhibit Viewing Red Oak Ballroom AB

1:15 pm Keynote Presentation: Building Mental Resilience: Physical Discipline for Peak Performance Under Pressure: Keeley Bell, 3C Program Manager, Noble Corporation

2:00 pm Occupational Health and Safety 

Safety Behaviors Do Not Occur in a Vacuum: Evolving Behavior-Based Safety with Performance Influencing Factors: Anna Longbottom, HSE&C Advisor (Early Careers), Curt Braun, Senior Advisor, Human Performance, BP
Traditional Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) focuses on what people do and how to reinforce safe actions—but safety behaviors don’t occur in a vacuum. They are shaped by things like fatigue, unclear procedures, or poor supervision. That’s where Performance Influencing Factors (PIFs) come in. By expanding the lens beyond the individual, PIFs help shift the conversation from “who failed?” to “what influenced the behavior?” This session shows how combining BBS with systems thinking leads to improved observations, enhanced incident learning, and supported coaching conversations that address both behavior and context to enable safer systems and more resilient operations. 

Successful Safety Strategies Involve 10 Focus Necessities: Shawn Galloway, CEO, ProAct Safety
To achieve success in safety, there are ten areas in which organizations must focus energy and resources. Few organizations have the bandwidth to excel in each area simultaneously. This session explains these ten focus necessities and provides a guide on gathering perspectives from key stakeholders to prioritize an improvement plan or create a more robust safety improvement strategy.

3:00 pm Coffee Service & Exhibit Viewing    

3:30 pm Revolutionizing Field Leadership Through Daily Planning Conversations and AI Integration: Barry Nelson, Founder & CEO, FactorLab
In today’s high-risk work environments, daily planning serves as a strategic intersection of leadership, safety, and operational excellence. This session explores how artificial intelligence is transforming these everyday moments into catalysts for organizational learning and cultural change. Through real-world examples, including a 45% improvement in identifying high-risk activities at Jordan Foster Construction, attendees will discover how AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) can elevate safety practices beyond compliance. Drawing on leading research in human and organizational performance, this session will highlight how “game tape” analytics and real-time feedback can uncover hidden risks, build trust, and drive engagement. Attendees will gain practical strategies and a clear roadmap for integrating AI into safety leadership, empowering teams to align, adapt, and achieve high performance across their organization.

4:00 pm HSE Performance Metrics

Study to Advance Safety in the Drilling Industry: Atif Mohammed Ashraf, Consultant, Warren Hubler, Executive Consultant, DEKRA North America
In 2025, IADC partnered with DEKRA to update and extend DEKRA’s 2016 Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention research using current drilling industry data. The study aims to validate prior findings within the drilling sector, provide drilling-specific insights into SIF causal factors, and establish new industry benchmarks for SIF exposure. The original 2016 study revealed that while minor injuries dropped 51% over 15 years, SIFs declined by only 25.5%, highlighting that serious events have distinct causes requiring focused prevention strategies. Using anonymized, global data from IADC member companies, this study tests whether 2016 conclusions hold true in drilling operations and seeks to uncover sector-specific patterns.  The study delivers original, drilling-specific safety insights that strengthen SIF prevention for IADC members and the broader industry.

From Count to Consequence: A business case for adopting the Incident Severity Rate (ISR): Daryl Ramnarace, VP QHSE, Baruc Habacuc Morales, Nabors Industries Ltd
Safety is more than compliance—it’s a business performance indicator with direct financial implications. Yet the industry-standard metric, Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), provides an incomplete view by counting all incidents equally, regardless of severity or impact. A medical case and a fatality are treated the same, masking critical risk exposure and limiting leadership’s ability to make informed decisions. This white paper introduces the Incident Severity Rate (ISR), a weighted, cost-informed metric that gives executives a clearer picture of organizational safety health. By assigning proportional weight to different types of incidents, ISR better reflects the true operational and financial consequences of safety failures. It also aligns more closely with the results of proactive, behavior-based safety programs—initiatives that reduce serious incidents but often go unrecognized in traditional TRIR metrics. In a business environment where ESG scrutiny, reputational risk, and operational efficiency are top of mind, ISR offers a sharper lens to evaluate cultural maturity, investment effectiveness, and safety leadership. For executives seeking to lead high-performing, risk-aware organizations, it’s time to evolve from measuring frequency alone to measuring what truly matters.

5:00 pm Welcoming Reception & Exhibition Red Oak Ballroom AB

7:30 am Registration, Coffee Service & Exhibition Red Oak Ballroom AB

8:15 am Welcome & Introduction Magnolia

• Thad Dunham, Vice President, Government & Industry Affairs – Onshore, IADC

8:30 am GIA Update: Thad Dunham, Vice President, Government & Industry Affairs – Onshore, IADC

8:45 am Regulatory Panel
High level regulators will bring us up to speed on current issues facing the industry from their respective agencies.

• Panelists to be named. 

9:30 am Coffee Service & Exhibit Viewing

10:00 am Culture & Leadership 

Worker’s Perception of Leader Intelligence, Safety Climate and Safety Participation in the Oil and Gas Extraction Industry: David Renz, Assistant Professor Safety Management, Slippery Rock University
The presentation will share results of a research study evaluating the association between workers’ perception of the person in charge (PIC) leadership under the framework of the leader intelligence model and its dimensions (emotional, spiritual, and rational) with both safety climate and safety participation in the onshore oil and gas extraction industry (OGEI). 

From Underperforming to Best in Fleet – Taking Back Ownership: Thomas Pritchett, Senior Manager, The REACH Group
Change, especially of the type found in Oil & Gas in the last few years, can overwhelm a rig culture and make it very difficult to maintain top performance levels.  This presentation discusses how leaders, when given the right tools and autonomy, can overcome barriers to change, silos, leadership beliefs and old-school philosophies that may have been successful in the past but often don’t work today, to achieve the high-performing culture they want.

The Barrier Health Dashboard: A New Era in Process Safety Management: Garrett Reinert, Director – QHSE, Valaris
Explore how Valaris is transforming process safety management through its Barrier Health Dashboard (BHD)—a real-time platform that integrates over one million data points across People, Plant, and Process systems. This presentation highlights how BHD delivers predictive insights, automates escalation, and quantifies barrier degradation to prevent Major Accident Events. Learn how a unified, data-driven view of system health is reshaping operational integrity and regulatory readiness across a global fleet.

11:30 am Luncheon & Exhibit Viewing 

12:45 pm Keynote Presentation: Chad Jarvis, Wells Operations Integrity Manager, ExxonMobil

1:15 pm HR Panel
Key Human Resources personnel from within the industry will have a conversation focused on wellness, worker’s comp & insurance.

• Jonathan Covington, Chair IADC HR Subcommittee; Precision Drilling 

2:15 pm Adjournment