Three Frameworks, One Goal: Preventing Fatalities 062526

Are you speaking a different safety language to your colleagues? In this webinar, Christian brings together three powerful but often siloed risk management frameworks — Critical Control Management, Energy-Based Safety, and Critical Steps — to explore how they connect, where they overlap, and how practitioners can integrate them into a single, coherent approach. Whether you're from mining, construction, process safety, or the energy sector, this session will challenge how you think about what a "control" really is — and whether yours can survive human error. 🔑 Key topics covered: What each framework is and where it came from The 1,500-joule energy threshold that defines fatal risk Why a control that requires human perfection isn't a critical control How critical steps fit into bow tie analysis Real-world examples including mobile equipment and underground strata The case for a cross-industry community of practice ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Welcome & Introductions 07:00 – Session overview & self-assessment poll 09:00 – Overview of the three frameworks 10:00 – Critical Control Management explained (mining/resources context) 10:07 – Energy-Based Safety & the 1,500-joule fatal threshold (Dr. Matthew Halliwell / CSRA) 10:53 – Critical Steps: the point of no return defined 12:19 – Why fatality rates have plateaued — the case for shifting focus 23:01 – Energy sources framework: gravity, motion, mechanical & more 24:53 – Broad Brush Risk Assessment and where energy-based safety adds rigour 27:27 – Building controls that survive human error 28:32 – Signs your critical controls list needs a rethink 30:00 – What counts as a true control vs. support activity vs. verification 31:14 – Direct controls vs. alternative controls (energy-based safety language) 38:00 – Critical Steps deep-dive: the "three I's" — Immediate, Irreversible, Intolerable 41:51 – Practical examples: applying critical steps to common fatal risks 43:58 – Integrating critical steps into bow tie analysis (the key insight) 46:00 – Preconditions, risk-important conditions & barriers in the bow tie 50:13 – Summary: bringing all three frameworks together into one process