Rick Spring
Vice-President, Sales, Strategic Accounts, SafeStart
As SafeStart’s Vice-President of Sales and Strategic Accounts, Rick is passionate about helping companies understand the need to address human error as the next step in developing their safety program. Because the SafeStart process is about personal safety awareness training, it encourages employees to take personal accountability for their own safety, reducing injuries both on and off the job.
Rick holds an MBA from Western University. Prior to joining SafeStart, he was the CEO of Ace Life Thailand and he spent the majority of his career in the life insurance sector.
Rick's sessions
The Secrets to Unlocking Leadership Buy-In Beyond Compliance
Apr 23, 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM - Magnolia C
Most organizations have done an outstanding job with the hierarchy of controls and overall compliance programs. In an ideal world, that would be enough to solve recurring safety problems yet injuries still persist. One critical area that is often overlooked is how human factors influence safety outcomes. For potential investments in new safety initiatives, addressing human factors may only be on the "nice to have" list. This session will start the conversation on why human factors training is essential in every industry and participants will take away useful strategies to gain leadership buy-in to support the effective management of human factors in the workplace and beyond. Be part of the discussion in this interactive Q&A with two expert safety leaders and your host Rick from SafeStart.
Presented by
Rick Spring, SafeStart
Ed Stephens, ABB Robotics and Discrete Automation
George Irving, NAES Corporation