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2nd Annual Health & Safety in Mining Forum

May 20 & 21, 2015, Renaissance Toronto Downtown, Toronto, ON, Canada

Shaping the Future of Mining Safety

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Listed below are some administrative details for your information.

1. There have been a few changes to the program. You can find the updated version enclosed in this packet.

2. Name tags have been provided to help you identify fellow delegates.

3. Please be on time after breaks as we have a very intensive program. Our chairperson will do his best not to delay the beginning of each session.

4. Please silence your mobile phones during the sessions.

5. Please complete the evaluation forms and return them to the registration desk.

If you have any questions during the conference, we would be more than happy to assist you.

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CONFERENCE DAY 1

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2015

8:00 Registration & Breakfast

8:45 Chairperson Opening Remarks

LEADERSHIp FOR AN EFFECTIvE HEALTH AND SAFETY CuLTuRE

9:00 Being Honest, Being Bold and Driving ChangeMATTHEW D. MOOREvice President of health & safetyHarsco Minerals

9:45 Structural productivity & HSE ImprovementsDIRK CLAESSENSGeneral Manage Global Industrial ProductsIBM

10:30 Networking Break

THE vALuE OF HEALTH AND SAFETY TO CORpORATE SuSTAINABILITY

11:00 The Importance of Safety and Operational Sustainability• Calculating the real cost of accidents• Implementing risk- based solutions specific to

maintaining a competitive edge and operational sustainability.

MICHAEL MEIgHENFormer Director HSES Americas Global Manager Asset RiskArcelor Mittal|

12:00 Luncheon

RISK MANAgEMENT IN MININg OpERATIONS

1:00 Emergency Management preparedness & Response programs• Emergency communications and the latest

developments in operational site safety• Improve emergency response preparedness,

importance of refuge chambers and rescue technologies training

vIC pAKALNISPresident and cEoMIRARCO

1:45 pushing Safety Through The Roof!• How the workplace environment impacts employee

engagement, safety, and productivity.• Creating a situational awareness, managed risk

approach to peak safety and performance.FRED STAWITzPrincipal, technical trainingKinder Morgan Inc.


2:45 Behavioral Based Observation (BBO)• The positive intervention process to improve what

people do by the choices they make• Learning theories state that complex behavior is

learned gradually through the modification of simpler behaviors

ERIC THOMpSONHSE ManagerHorizon North

3:30 Dependable Solutions While Maintaining a Safe and productive Work Environment Mitsubishi technology in building world-class tunnel boring machines.• Safety architecture deliver reliable ventilation systems

and solutions for emergency evacuation.DEAN MYERSSr. Channel Sales ManagerMitsubishi Electric Automation Inc.

4:15 Round table Discussion: Developing a Successful Employee-driven Safety programthe large group will break into 5 smaller groups, each discussing a different issue. Every group will be led by a roundtable chair who will lead a lively discussion, ask questions, and create an open atmosphere for idea sharing. At the conclusion, every chair will summarize the findings of their discussion and present to the rest of the audience. The discussion topics are as follow:• How do you develop an employee-driven safety

program?• Focus on preventing fatalities• Effective critical control management

5:00 End of day one

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CONFERENCE DAY 2

THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2015

8:00 Coffee & Continental Breakfast

8:45 Opening Chairperson Remarks

9:00 Interactive Workshopthis cutting edge workshop will demonstrate how IBM & Apple have formed an alliance and created the Guardian Angel application. The Guardian Angel is a virtual shield which allows intuitive specifications of the personal wellness of mining employees, detects potential hazards, and allows continuous communication to operational centers. DIRK CLAESSENSGeneral Manager Global Industrial ProductsIBM


REguLATIONS AND THE LEgAL ASpECTS OF SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAgEMENT

11:30 Mining Legislative Review Committee updatesKey findings and results presented from the Mining, health, safety, & Prevention reviewROgER EMDINEmployer Co-Chair, Mining, Health, Safety & Prevention ReviewManager Sustainable DevelopmentSudbury Integrated Nickel Operations, glencore

12:15 Luncheon

1:15 Development of New Initiatives in Fatality prevention: “Safety at Work” – Is Hope our Method?• A journey to where?• Conversations that count, …..Say it like you mean it• Being unreasonable – taking a stand, What are

leaders up for?RICHARD MORLANDFormer Chief Operating OfficerBHp Billiton

2:00 Life-Critical Safety Standards• Ensuring confined space is not confined safety• Avoiding crane-based lifting accidentsDR. THOMAS DAvIDSONdirectorInternational Board of Environmental Health & Safety


3:15 Round Table Discussion Identifying Future global Trends and Changing paradigmsthe large group will break into 5 smaller groups, each discussing a different issue. Every group will be led by a roundtable chair who will lead a lively discussion, ask questions, and create an open atmosphere for idea sharing. At the conclusion, every chair will summarize the findings of their discussion and present to the rest of the audience. The discussion topics are as follow:• Dealing with an unstable economy• Emerging and emerged international trends• Creating a strategic shift towards socially responsible

behavior• Identifying and managing global political instabilityNICKY guNTHERKey Account ManagerEnablon vIC pAKALNISPresident and cEoMIRARCO

4:00 Conference conclusion


Meet Our Comprehensive Speaker Panel

DENNIS LEONARDvP health & safetyKiewit MiningAs safety director, Dennis Leonard is responsible for Kiewit Mining Group’s overall safety program and performance. Over the past 10 years, Kiewit has performed more than 50 mining contracts totaling

more than $1.3 billion in revenue. Dennis began his career with Kiewit in 1995. During his time at the company, he has served as a safety engineer, safety manager, and district safety manager, before moving into his current Kiewit safety leadership role in 2012. Dennis has authored various safety articles for the International Board of Environmental Health and Safety and the Associated General Contractors of Arizona. His works have included “The Value of Safety,” Stretching in the Workplace” and “Managing an OSHA Inspection – Before, During and After.” As a Board Accredited Registered Safety Professional, Dennis is a twofold recipient of the “Safety Professional of the Year Award” presented by the Associated General Contractors. He has provided guidance and training to many safety professionals by serving on the Board of Governors with the International Board of Environmental Health and Safety. He is based out of Omaha, NE.

gONzALO RIOS B. SC., MBA, Epvice President of health and safetyAura MineralsMr. Rios is an executive level Corporate Social Responsibility professional with approximately 20 years of experience in the mining industry. His tenure in the sector has included both direct experience

working at Latin American operations as well as the executive management of environmental, health and safety, and social performance aspects of Latin based operations. His spectrum of CSR and sustainability experience includes stakeholder engagement, community development, social investment, health & safety management, managing and monitoring of environmental impacts, as well as associated corporate reporting in these areas. At present, Mr. Rios is the Vice President of Corporate Responsibility for Toronto-headquartered Aura Minerals. Over the past four years he has been responsible for all aspects of social and environmental performance, but more specifically, the oversight of the Health and Safety programs of their four operations and one pre-development project in Brazil, Honduras, and Mexico. He has previously worked with Pan American Silver as the Director of Environmental Affairs, AMEC International Chile as the Manager of Projects including Health, Safety & Environment for South America, an independent Safety and Environmental Consultant, and was the Safety and Environmental Superintendent for Compañía Minera Cerro Bayo Ltda in Chile. Mr. Rios is an environmental engineer, and has an MBA from the University of Chile.

MICHAEL MEIgHENGlobal Operations (HSES) Risk ManagementArcelorMittalMichael Meighen is a senior Global Mining Executive with experience leading teams in in North America (United States, Canada and Mexico), South America (Columbia, Brazil); Africa (Liberia); Eastern Europe

(Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia); and Europe (United Kingdom, Belgium). Michael’s most recent position was Director of HSES (Health, Safety, Environmental and Security) Americas for ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading integrated steel and mining company. He was also Global Risk Manager for the mining

segment, where he held responsibility for 42 mining operations and more than 35,000 employees across operations, financial, safety, engineering, HR, purchasing, marketing, and transportation. Prior to ArcelorMittal, Michael served as Senior Consultant for Hawcroft Consulting International, where he conducted business risk analysis and offered executive consulting services to identify, assess, and resolve overarching issues for broad-based global mining operations. Michael has served as Principal Investigator for the U.S. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and on the Safety Committee of the National Mining Association, as well as state and international associations. With a Master of Science in Management, a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering, and as a Registered Member of SME, Michael offers executive consulting services for mining (operations, health and safety), construction, transportation (port and rail), and heavy industry, and also holds extensive experience coordinating lobbying efforts for major companies around the world.

ERIC THOMpSONHSE ManagerHorizon North Eric Thompson is an executive level Health, Safety and Environmental Manager (HSE) with 28 years HSE experience. He has worked in the forestry, oil well drilling, construction and remote catering industries

for the past 35 years. His passion for safety has taken him to various locations throughout Indonesia, Australia, Finland, USA and Canada. Eric is currently responsible for the safety management systems for Horizon North. He engages 1900 employees and clients that occupy up to 9500 beds. Additional responsibilities include harmonizing HSE within other entities within Horizon North; which encompasses camp manufacturing, matting, installs and transportation.

RICHARD MORLANDFormer President & cooBHp-Ekati Diamond MineRichard Morland has been a member of the resource industry for 33 years. A graduate of the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia), he has spent 22 years in operational leadership positions in resource

companies in Australia and Canada. He specializes in business transformation, based on a simple conviction that the elimination of serious injuries and fatalities from the workplace is the ultimate expression of deep care by leaders for employees, and is the enabler of breakthrough business performance. Richard is the former Vice President of Operations, President & Chief Operating Officer of the Ekati Diamond Mine (2006-2010). He also served on the Board of Avalon Rare Metals (2012-2014), and now does executive consultancy work focused on a transformational initiative called the Safety Guarantee. Richard has lived in Yellowknife, Canada since January 2006. He is married with three adult children and is a dual Australian-Canadian citizen.


Meet Our Comprehensive Speaker Panel

DIRK CLAESSENSGeneral Manager Global Industrial ProductsIBMDirk Claessens is the General Manager for Industrial Products globally. He joined IBM as a Consulting Partner when PwC consulting was acquired in 2002. As a consulting partner he has been involved in delivering

assignments in Supply Chain Management, Technologies and Application Strategies and Implementations in the industrial Sector. This includes international assignments for two years in Australia/New Zealand, and one year in Taiwan after which he returned to Europe. Joining IBM he was asked to lead the Metals and Mining Industry Globally (for Business Services) and as such he has worked in Chemicals and Petroleum and Metals and Mining companies and spoken on various occasions on conferences around the world. He was asked to run the Industrial Sector for Growth Markets and relocated to Shanghai in 2009. He was appointed General Manager Metals and Mining and was relocated to Brazil to run the practice from there. Back in Europe since 2014. He holds a degree in Commercial Engineering and an MBA.

MATTHEW D. MOOREglobal health & safetyHarsco MineralsMatt is a Graduate of the University of Cincinnati and has spent over 25 years in EHS. He has served in both the public and private sector during his career and has led EHS efforts in various manufacturing settings.

He is currently the Director of EHS for Harsco, a multifaceted manufacturer and industrial service provider. Matt previously worked for companies such as Avery Dennison, U.S. Steel and before joining Harsco worked for Gerdau for 13 years and served as their Corporate Director of Health and Safety.

FRED STAWITzPrincipal, technical trainingKinder Morgan Inc.Fred Stawitz, a national award-winning educator and writer, is the author of the exciting new book “Don’t Run Naked Through The Office” which explores employee engagement from the employee’s point-of-view. He is

currently Principal, Technical Training and Regional OQ Program Coordinator, for Kinder Morgan, Inc. He has developed effective training programs for the American space shuttle program as well as Shell’s natural gas pipeline and headed up the development of online technical training for America’s largest pipeline company. He has chaired national HR and safety conferences inspiring stimulating discussions on the impact of the workplace environment on productivity and safe operations. He has been the featured guest on several television news/talk shows including CNN Headline News - Local Edition in Southern California and a PBS local affiliate special in Pennsylvania, and was quoted in a special U.S. Congressional Quarterly Report.

vIC pAKALNIS President and cEo MIRARCO – Mining InnovationVic Pakalnis has a rich and diverse background in applying public sector policy as well as training and organizational design, based on over 32 years of experience in the public administration, at a senior

executive level within the Ontario Public Service. In 1972, he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Mining Engineering and in 1976, obtained a

Master’s Degree in Engineering, both from McGill University. In 1994, Vic garnered his wall with yet another Master’s Degree, this time in Business Administration from Queen’s University. In 2007, he was appointed the 2007-2008 Ontario Public Service Amethyst Fellow in Public Policy at Queen’s University School of Policy Studies, where he taught courses in the MPA, MIR and Mining Engineering Programs on policy implementation, project management, and occupational health and safety. Vic was also appointed as Kinross Professor in Mining and Sustainability in 2009 at the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining at Queen’s University. He has a lead role in the Queen’s Aboriginal Access to Engineering Program. His research interests are in applied sustainability, seabed mining, engineering and public policy. Before his entry in the Government of Ontario in 1978, Vic worked in various mines in the province: Falconbridge Nickel Mines, Kerr Addison Mines, Inco Mines Ltd. as well as the Iron Core Company of Canada. Vic then led a career in provincial government at the Ontario Ministry of Labour. During his aforementioned 32-year career, he worked as Provincial Director of Mining, Director of Industrial Health & Safety, Regional Director of Eastern Ontario (which included corporate and program responsibilities for Health and Safety Programs and Employment Standards) and Operations Director for Human Resources (which required him to recruit and train over two hundred new inspectors). Amongst all his success, Vic was also one of the founding members and past Chair of the Eastern Ontario Regional Directors’ Council and the Provincial Interministerial Council and in 2010, was elected as president of the 88,000-member Ontario Public Service Quarter Century Club. Furthermore, he chaired the tri-partite Provincial inquiry into Health and Safety in the Pulp and Paper industry and co-led the Early Wins Team within the Internal Administration Restructuring Project in 1995, a project that was charged with reducing the cost of administration within the Ontario Public Service by $300,000,000. After his widespread career in government, Vic’s diligence was praised when he was awarded Ontario’s prestigious Amethyst Award for Excellence in Public Service. Due to his great influence in the Canadian Mining Safety community, Vic has appeared on radio and television networks such as CNN, BNN, CBC and CTV as a commentator on health and safety issues, in particular the Chilean Mine Rescue Operation in 2010. He is the author of a number of a number of papers on varying subjects such as: mine safety, public policy, training and organizational design. Lastly, Vic is a proud member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, the Society of Mining Engineers, the Canadian Institute for Mining and Metallurgy and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. He serves on the Board of the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada as well as the Board of Minerva Canada, which promotes the introduction of occupational health and safety in schools.


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strategic organizing Partner:What began with two brothers and a dream has grown — 130 years later — into one of the largest construction companies in North America, with a

growing presence in Australia. Throughout Kiewit’s history, we have built roads that connect the world, dug canals to carry water to thirsty lands and bored tunnels through mountains. We build. We mine. We shape the landscape and create energy solutions. And we do it all with integrity, never compromising our ethics. Since its inception, Kiewit’s culture has thrived on strong principles. From generation to generation, the torch has been passed down and carried by the hands of our leaders and workforce. Today, our core values remain our company’s cornerstone and are the sum of our business ethics conduct.People. Without our safety-minded workforce, our company would cease to exist — it is that simple. That is why we hire the best and brightest minds in the industry. And by providing the best training, we watch our employees strengthen their skills to further our company’s success.Integrity. We conduct our business and personal affairs with the highest levels of integrity. We take responsibility and accountability for all our words and actions. We are honest, straightforward and deal fairly with everyone. Operational and financial records are maintained accurately and truthfully — no exceptions. Excellence. At Kiewit, we never stop raising the bar. Consistently focused on high quality production, we commit to excellence in all we do. We encourage new and innovative ideas with forward thinking. We build our work right the first time, delivering with a sense of urgency, the highest value to our clients.Stewardship. Every day, we realize the role we have as stewards in our communities and on this earth —after all, we work in our own backyards as much as we do yours. By preserving our legacy and developing a new generation of leaders, we are building a stronger organization for future employees and our owners of tomorrow.

Endorsing PartnerCameseFounded in 1981, the Canadian Association of Mining Equipment and Services for Export (CAMESE) is the national voice for Canada’s mining equipment and service exporters. Its more than 250 corporate

members across the country supply the entire mining industry spectrum including mineral exploration, mine development, mining, mineral processing, environmental monitoring, smelting and refining. In addition to providing members with information and advice, advocacy and an international marketing program, CAMESE is most interested in providing foreign brokers or end-users with reliable Canadian sources of all types of goods and services used in the mining industry.

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