SAFEmap Africa Safety Leadership and Risk Management Conference 2009
Book for the Durban, Cape Town Johannesburg venues:
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Sept. 14 |
Durban |
Book for the Umhlanga venue on
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or +27 (0)12 998 2602, fax +27 (0)12 998 2603 |
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Sept. 16 |
Cape Town |
Book for the Blouberg Stand venue on
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or +27 (0)12 998 2602, fax +27 (0)12 998 2603 |
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Sept. 18 |
Johannesburg |
Book for the Midrand venue on
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or +27 (0)12 998 2602, fax +27 (0)12 998 2603 |
The registration fee is R1 200 per delegate.
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David Broadbent - Trauma Counsellor speaks of management,
leadership, and his near-fatal experience
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Safety psychologist David Broadbent’s career as trauma
counsellor and leadership trainer nearly ended one morning on the way to
work. Titanium plates, screws, and the use of a bicycle safety helmet allow David’s career to continue, but no treatment or prevention should be understood to replace effective safety leadership, management, awareness, and competency. |
‘Oh! @#$, where did that come from?’ Australians are known for somewhat
explicit language, and an Australian safety guru now adds his personal
near-fatal experience to teaching board members, managers and occupational
safety officers how to sustain risk awareness and build competency, instead
of blindly trusting in safety ‘rules’.
Australian safety psychologist David G Broadbent suffered a cruel twist of
fate in October 2008 while cycling to work. He heard a car skidding, felt a
massive hit, and spent four months in emergency treatment, recovery, and
rehabilitation from 24 broken bones and a punctured lung. His recovery
process continues.
During 15 years of counselling trauma victims, mostly people involved in
accidents at work, David was led to practical research into innovative
technologies to prevent fatalities, injuries and loss by analyzing, managing
and leading workplace safety culture.
As one of the world’s leading safety technologists, David consults
managements around the world on transformational safety leadership and
safety competencies, including two previous publicized presentations to
annual Safemap Africa conferences.
Now David is one of a very select few who are near-fatal incident survivors,
as well as applied safety psychologists.
“My perspective of safety technology and trauma is now different from my
perspective before the incident,” he said while preparing his next
presentation at the Safemap Africa Safety Leadership and Risk Management
conference in three South African cities in September.
David now adds personal experience of a journey from near death to recovery,
to the value he adds to safety management programs.
“Of course I wish it had never happened, but I shall use whatever I can to
help others to survive their own challenges,” he said.
Nothing could prepare this keen cyclist for his experience on the Pacific
Highway near his home in Maitland, New South Wales in Australia in October.
His habit of analyzing risks and using the very best personal protection
equipment, though, did make the difference between life and death.
And his recovery is aided by his academic understanding that incidents do
not always happen to ‘others’, that blame is not a management tool, and that
some hazards remain risks, despite the best efforts of rules, barriers,
prevention, and protection.
He retains some nightmares, and a left arm and shoulder made mostly of
titanium. “The shoulder makes my net worth move up and down with the stock
market,” he jokes. But his trauma training now helps him to “see a little
light at the end of the tunnel, and that eventually I would get through the
worst aspects of recovery.”
David will also provide the keynote address at the Safety Institute of
Australia’s national conference in Queensland in June, and present themes at
other forums throughout the Asia Pacific. He explores safety issues against
his academic, counseling and personal experiences, in a ‘down to earth’
style that he is internationally renowned for.
In 2007, David was invited to present the keynote address at the New Zealand
National Safety Awards. In 2008 he spent time in India, South Africa and
China supporting the safety journeys of many companies by making complex
approaches accessible and compelling.
Gert Cruywagen - Business Leader Learns to Thrive in a Risk 'Jungle'
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Gert Cruywagen’s presentation, like his book, is filled with graphic revelations about the bush and the corporate jungle. |
Business leadership requires a keen sense of opportunities, threats, a lot
of abstract thought, and some humour.
Award-winning risk manager, speaker, author and wildlife enthusiast, Gert
Cruywagen, will explain valuable lessons that organizations can learn from
the African bush in a lively and illustrated presentation at the annual
Safemap Africa conference, in three cities in September.
Cruywagen uses facts, stories, case studies and anecdotes that are
fascinating, informative and funny, yet realistic, and illustrated with
unique and colorful photographs. His new and refreshing look at business
strategies is built on keen observation of how animals survive, thrive and
get organized in the African bush.
The informative and humorous presentation outlines hazards, risks, threats,
and how to thrive in times of competition.
Delegates are sure to remember and apply the lessons that Cruywagen teaches
on recognizing the early signs of failure or success.
* Jungle business management; Lessons from the African Bush, by Gert
Cruywagen, is published by Actua Press.