Facility Safety: Protecting People, Assets & Uptime -- Occupational Health & Safety

Facility Safety: Protecting People, Assets & Uptime

Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 2:00pm ET - 1:00pm CT - 11:00am PT

One of the biggest safety challenges is how to create safe, compliant workplaces in existing facilities that have layouts, processes and equipment that can’t be changed. Safety is critical, but so are worker productivity and system uptime.

This session focuses on what it takes to retrofit safety solutions into existing environments. Attendees will hear about common retrofit issues like attaching to existing structures, dealing with material limitations, navigating around equipment and utilities, and designing systems that workers will actually use.

If you’re working to address a facility with safety risks built into its bones, this session offers practical guidance, from assessment to implementation, to move forward with confidence.

About the Speaker:

Thom Kramer, PE, CSP: Senior Safety Consultant – LJB Engineering

Thom is a safety consultant and structural engineer with 30 years of experience. He is an internationally recognized expert in applying engineering and safety practices to reduce risk for workers at heights. As a dually registered professional engineer and certified safety professional, he specializes in the assessment and design of fall protection systems, as well as fall protection program development and training. Thom is the former Chair of the ANSI/ASSP Z359 Full Committee and previously chaired three subcommittees (ANSI Z359.1, .6 and .17). He also serves as the Senior Vice President of ASSP, the current Chair of the ANSI Z359 National Work at Height Task Force, and as the President of the International Society for Fall Protection. He is widely considered as a thought leader in the fall protection and work at height industry, having given more than 300 technical sessions and workshops on the topic.

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