With April home to World Day for Safety and Health at Work, organizations often take this as an opportunity to strengthen their occupational safety culture. In an era of rapid technological advancement and evolving workplace dynamics, the need for innovative safety solutions has never been more critical.
Established in 2003 by the International Labour Organization, this year’s focus is on the effects of climate change on occupational safety and health with other key factors being the impact of new technologies and production processes, new working conditions such as higher workloads, and emerging forms of employment such as self-employment and outsourcing.
Our carefully curated list of recommended keynote speakers brings together industry veterans, safety innovation leaders, and workplace culture experts. These thought leaders share evidence-based strategies, real-world case studies, and practical solutions that go beyond mere compliance to create truly safer workplaces.
Don’t miss this opportunity to revolutionize your organization’s approach to workplace safety. Meet some of our workplace health and safety experts below and contact us to book your April event.
Featured Workplace Health and Safety Experts
From cave diving to first responders, our distinguished lineup of health and safety experts bring unique insights from high-risk environments to help audiences enhance workplace safety.

Dr. Lisa Belanger
Stay Focused, Stay Safe: Science-Backed Strategies to Avoid Distractions and Enhance Safety
Attention isn’t just about productivity — it’s a critical safety skill. The ability to focus can be the difference between avoiding hazards or facing consequences.
In this evidence-based keynote, Dr. Lisa Bélanger combines the latest research in psychology and neuroscience with practical, real-world applications to help you enhance focus, reduce distractions, and build habits that promote everyday safety. Attendees will walk away with actionable tools and science-backed techniques to stay alert, make better decisions, and prevent accidents.

Bruce Kirkby
Workplace Safety: Protecting Good People from Bad Decisions
Even the most well-intentioned individuals and highly-experienced teams can fall prey to biases and heuristics — mental shortcuts that speed operations but unwittingly increase risk exposure as well.
Having successfully lead teams through volatile and dangerous wilderness environments for three decades, Bruce Kirkby has first-hand experience with these tricky yet universal blind spots. He outlines the seven most common mental lapses affecting the workplace, equipping audiences with a series of simple mitigation strategies, designed to keep them safe, day after day, year after year.

Jill Heinerth
Improving the Culture of Safety in High-Risk Environments
More people have walked on the moon than visited many of the places that Jill Heinerth has seen on Earth. By drawing on her experiences cave diving in some of the most dangerous places, Jill outlines three primary categories in creating safe workplaces — risk assessment, leadership, and safety culture — equipping audiences with strategies and tactics for reaching a sustainable, incident-free workplace.
Jill’s visually stunning presentation share universal risk management strategies and show audiences how to implement them in their own teams and organizations.

Matthew Pegg
Chasing Gold: Workplace Health and Safety
Chief Matthew Pegg served more than 32 years as a first responder, including eight years as the chief of Canada’s largest fire and emergency services. His entire career in the fire service, along with his time as a corporate pilot, were both safety-first roles.
Having previously chaired the fire service advisory committee to the Ontario Ministry of Labour and having been active in the occupational health and safety space for many years, Matthew draws from his extraordinary career, he shares important lessons on building safe workplaces.

David Marquet
Intentionally Safe: Changing Safety from Compliance to Culture
Having served in the submarine force for 28 years, Captain David Marquet takes audiences on an interactive journey through creating a culture of safety. Safety does not come from “wanting to be safe” but rather from an interlocking set of organizational practices and individual behaviours.
Based upon proven principles from the nuclear submarine operations, David covers key practices that embed safety into the culture of an organization.

Dr. Joe MacInnis
Safety Leadership in High-Risk Environments
Self-described as an “accidental leader,” Dr. Joe MacInnis has led or participated in more than 50 of the world’s most important expeditions and logged more time beneath the surface of the Arctic ocean than any other scientist on Earth.
A medical doctor and expert on human performance in high-risk, high-stress environments, Joe is an eloquent and stirring speaker who shares the extraordinary leadership risk management lessons he’s learned from the high seas and beyond.
Ready to Transform Your Workplace Safety Culture?
Enhance your organization’s safety culture with our world-class speakers. From neuroscience-backed strategies to proven leadership principles forged in the world’s most challenging environments, our experts bring the perfect blend of practical experience and evidence-based solutions.
Contact us today to book your April event and make World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025 a catalyst for lasting change in your workplace.