June 2026
June 1, 2026
8:00AM - 9:30AM
From Development to Departure: Planning for Success
Dr. Taylor Gilley
June 1, 2026
9:45AM - 10:45AM
De-Siloing Safety
Rob Fisher
Safety doesn't live in a vacuum. It coexists with quality, operations, maintenance, environmental, and other organizational elements. You can be safe without being operationally excellent, but you cannot be operationally excellent without being safe! Practically applying the leadership knowledge, language, and behaviors related to human and organizational performance (HOP) can break down the walls and silos typically seen in organizations and make you a more effective safety leader. Understanding and managing human error and incidents is vital to learning and improving. Learn proven methods, processes, models, and tools you can take away and use immediately to make you a better leader and help your organization on the journey to operational excellence. Take advantage of learning from someone who has done over 400 integrations of human performance, human factors, and HOP around the world.
June 1, 2026
11:00AM - 12:00PM
The Psychology of Judging Decisions: How Resulting, Hindsight Bias, and Cognitive Traps Distort Safety in High-Hazard Work
John Grubbs
In petrochemical operations, leaders routinely evaluate decisions made under pressure, uncertainty, and incomplete information. Yet the human brain is wired to judge those decisions after the outcome is known, creating distortions that erode fairness, misdirect investigations, and undermine learning. This session takes a hard look at the forces of resulting, hindsight bias, and decision-making fallacies that quietly shape how safety professionals interpret events—often leading to oversimplified conclusions, misplaced accountability, and lost opportunities for improvement.
Through real-world examples and research-based insights, we will explore why the mind naturally exaggerates predictability, overvalues outcomes, and retrofits logic onto complex operational choices. Participants will learn how these psychological traps infiltrate safety investigations, post-incident reviews, and leadership decision-making—often without anyone noticing. Most importantly, we will focus on how to build bias-resistant processes, improve decision quality, and create a more accurate learning culture in high-risk petrochemical environments.
Key Takeaways
- How resulting and hindsight bias distort investigations and leadership judgment
- Why poor outcomes are often mistaken for poor decisions—and how to prevent that error
- Practical tools for evaluating decisions as they were made, not as they turned out
- Methods for reducing cognitive bias in EHS reviews, reports, and leadership responses
- A clearer, more accurate framework for decision-making in complex, high-hazard operations
June 1, 2026
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Title coming soon!
Dr. Vincent Solis
June 1, 2026
1:45PM - 2:45PM
Session Title & Description coming soon!
Tommy Nipp
June 1, 2026
3:00PM - 4:00PM
