Executive Q&A: Safety Software Implementations - Lessons Learned!
Date: Tuesday August 26, 2025 at 2:00pm ET - 1:00pm CT - 11:00am PT
Rolling out safety software across a workforce is never as simple as flipping a switch. From integrating tech into daily routines to overcoming resistance from the field, it takes intentional planning, cross-team communication, and frontline buy-in to make safety software deliver on its promise. In this live Executive Q&A, you'll hear from two leaders who have guided organizations through the challenges of implementing digital safety tools—and emerged with actionable lessons for success.
This is a valuable opportunity to ask your own questions and gain real-world insights from safety professionals with hands-on rollout experience. Learn what works (and what doesn’t), what “aha” moments shaped their strategies, the sorts of metrics to measure a rollout’s success, and how to build the kind of engagement that unlocks software’s full potential for your team.
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DATE: Tuesday August 26, 2025
TIME: 2:00PM ET - 1:00PM CT - 11:00AM PT
About the presenters:
Andrew Soto, Co-Founder and Operations Director, SOKL Consulting Ltd.
With more than 14 years of experience, Andrew Soto is a nationally recognized HSE leader, holding multiple industry certifications including the Gold Seal Certificate and CPTED training. He’s managed safety across multi-million-dollar projects and helped organizations lower incident rates, reduce software costs, and build safer, smarter operations. In his work with SOKL Consulting Ltd., he specializes in health, safety, and security consulting for the construction, real estate, housing, and municipal sectors. Andrew is a recipient of BOMA Edmonton’s Emerging Leader Award and was named one of OHS Canada’s Top 25 Under 40. He also serves on the boards of AASP and BOMA Canada.
Barry Lawrence, Founder and Director, Bastion Safety Solutions
Barry Lawrence is the Founder and Director of Bastion Safety Solutions Inc., a safety and operations firm serving industrial, commercial, and municipal sectors across Canada and the U.S. A Red Seal Journeyman Electrician (RSE), OHS Certified Safety Professional, and NCSO. Barry began his career in the trades in 1998 and transitioned into leadership in the late 2000s. He has worked with blue-chip EPCs and multinational operators across construction and manufacturing, leading operational and safety turnarounds that delivered sustained improvements exceeding 90 percent. His approach blends practical field insight with the discipline of compliance, using software as one of many tools to improve safety outcomes and make processes easier to follow and harder to ignore.
About the Moderator:
David Kopf, Executive Editor and Publisher, OH&S
A career business media professional, David Kopf has led OH&S since January 2023. He has been with OH&S’s parent company 1105 Media since 2007, previously publishing and editing titles for the post-acute healthcare market. Prior to that, Kopf has served in various editorial capacities in the telecommunications, data communications, banking and power sports industries. Kopf is committed to reinforcing and expanding OH&S’s value and range of services for workplace safety professionals, and the Executive Q&A webinar series is the latest example of that initiative.
Duration: 1 hour
