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April 21, 2026
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The Job Safety Analysis (JSA) capability on the Accelerate® Platform is made to both speed up your JSA process and increase accuracy by standardizing JSAs across your locations, simplifying and streamlining this essential safety and risk management task. Join us for a 30-minute software demonstration to see how to get more impact from your JSAs with less effort using Operational Risk JSA software guided by VelocityAI. Our AI assistant, Vēlo, allows you to move fast to prevent injury and illness for workers. With a JSA template customized to your needs and the new AI-powered Task Description tool, Hazard Analyzer, and Control Recommendations, the software takes the guesswork out of identifying and proactively managing workplace risks.
During this demo, you’ll see how to:
Ergonomics professionals are being asked to do more, with limited time, limited resources, and increasing pressure to prove results.
This virtual conference is designed to tackle the real challenges ergonomics teams face every day: deciding where to focus, justifying investments, managing risk across large populations, and turning data into action that leadership actually supports.
Featuring perspectives from internal experts, customers, and industry partners, this conference goes beyond theory and sales pitches. It focuses on how ergonomics professionals can work smarter, influence decisions, and deliver measurable prevention outcomes.
If you’re tired of fighting for buy-in, stuck reacting instead of preventing, or struggling to show the value of your ergonomics work—this conference is built for you.
Event sessions
AI-Supported Decision-Making for Prevention and Control Measures in Ergonomics EvaluationsDate and Time: Tuesday, April 21, 2026 from 10:00-10:30am ET
Speakers: Ricardo Massola, MSc, EPIC & Blake McGowan, CPE, VelocityEHS
Session Description: This session explores the application of artificial intelligence to support decision-making in ergonomics risk management under international standards, such as Mexico’s NOM-036 standard for manual materials handling. Using an AI-powered ergonomics platform, risk assessments can be automated, standardized, and aligned with regulatory requirements. The session will present methods, examples, and expected outcomes, including faster evaluations, improved consistency, and proactive risk prevention. Attendees will gain insight into how AI technologies can enhance compliance while reducing musculoskeletal disorder risks and improving workplace efficiency.
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Fostering Engagement and Innovation: Launching an Internal Ergo Cup CompetitionDate and Time: Tuesday, April 21, 2026 from 10:40-11:10am ET
Speaker: Blake McGowan, CPE, Director & Head of Product Marketing, Ergonomics, VelocityEHS
Session Description: The Ergo Cup® competition was created by the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers to celebrate innovative, effective solutions to ergonomics challenges within an organization. Taking this concept to launch an internal “Ergo Cup” style of competition at your organization is an excellent way to engage your team in coming up with practical, impactful changes to the workplace that can go a long way to reduce musculoskeletal disorder risk (MSD) and improve worker comfort and productivity.
This session will offer straightforward guidance on launching your own ergonomics competition to drive engagement and accountability, while fostering an energized, proactive safety culture. Blake McGowan, CPE, will share tips and experiences from judging these events in the past with Ergonomics customers, with a few standout winning examples. Just like many improvements to a workspace, the Ergo Cup challenge doesn’t have to be complicated to drive dramatic results.
Ergonomics in Action: Live Software Demo, Including AI Hands & Wrists AssessmentDate and Time: Tuesday, April 21, 2026 from 11:20-11:50am ET
Speaker: Jaclyn Faraci, CPE, CSP, Senior Solution Consultant, VelocityEHS
Session Description: Addressing the leading cause of workplace injury and illness, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), requires an ergonomics process that is consistent, sustainable, and transparent. VelocityEHS Industrial Ergonomics on the Accelerate Platform provides organizations around the world with a comprehensive system that’s proven to reduce MSD risk.
Join us for a live demonstration of the software, featuring the latest VelocityAI-powered innovations, and you’ll see how the combination of interactive eLearning, advanced 3D motion capture assessments, and expert recommended risk controls empowers teams to make impactful improvements and clearly report results. The enhanced risk assessment model leverages the latest research to analyze posture in three dimensions—boosting accuracy, cutting processing time, and incorporating hand and wrist postures and side bending and back twisting data into your automated risk scores.


Scaling Ergonomics with Intention: Givaudan’s Successful Ten-Site EvolutionDate and Time: Tuesday, April 21, 2026 from 12:00-12:45pm ET
Speakers: Jeff Kussin, Givaudan, Cindy Festge, Fit For Work, Kent Hatcher, CPE, VelocityEHS
Session Description: Scaling an ergonomics program doesn’t happen by accident. It takes coordination, commitment, and consistency.
Jeffery Kussin, Regional EHS Manager at Givaudan, will walk through how their ergonomics journey began with a single-site implementation and expanded into a standardized, multi-site program spanning ten locations. The shift didn’t happen overnight. It took alignment, persistence, and the right partnerships.
In this session, you’ll hear how Givaudan leveraged the VelocityEHS Ergonomics solution and collaborated with service partner, Fit For Work, to strengthen their strategy, expand engagement, and move from isolated efforts to a sustainable, scalable program. If you’re looking for ideas on how to start small, scale intentionally, and sustain impact, this session delivers a real-life story from a team that’s done it.
Finance 101 for Safety Professionals: How Ergonomics-Related Injuries Impact Your Corporate Financial StatementsDate and Time: Tuesday, April 21, 2026 from 12:55-1:25pm ET
Speaker: Blake McGowan, CPE, Head of Product Marketing, Ergonomics
Session Description: This session quantifies the financial impact of ergonomics-related injuries (e.g., musculoskeletal disorders [MSDs]) within the workplace. It links these injuries to specific line items across an organization’s financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, revealing detrimental effects on cost of goods sold, operating margins, productivity, and equity. Attend to better understand how proactive ergonomics programs significantly reduce injuries and associated costs while improving productivity and financial performance. You’ll get recommendations to help communicate these insights effectively to business and financial shareholders.
Learning Objectives:
Many organizations still rely on manual, fragmented processes to manage critical EHS workflows despite growing pressure to reduce serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs), improve cNot all incidents are the same. Some are relatively minor, some are near misses, and some are wake-up calls that should spur us to take a hard look at the effectiveness of our hazard controls and safety practices. Potential Serious Injuries and Fatalities (pSIFs) are workplace near-misses or incidents that fortunately didn’t end in tragedy—but easily could have had a devastating impact on your workers and your business. Compared to more traditional lagging safety indicators like total recordable incident rate (TRIR) or days away, restricted, or transferred (DART) rates, pSIF provides a leading indicator to help safety professionals more clearly identify where the greatest risks lie and develop more targeted preventive actions before they can lead to a serious injury or fatality. Lagging safety metrics are important, but relying too heavily on past performance and tracking all incidents in the same way means we’re potentially overlooking serious workplace risks.
pSIF represents a new school of thought in injury and illness prevention that is gaining serious traction among EHS leaders. Now is the time to revisit your safety metrics to ask what you’re doing to track pSIFs and how they can help you refine your safety and prevention programs. Whether you’re in safety leadership, operations, or on the frontline, this session will give you actionable strategies to take pSIF risks head-on.
Learning Objectives:
How software technologies including AI and machine learning support pSIF tracking, analysis and insights.
Understand the significance of pSIFs and how to identify, assess, and track pSIF risks in accordance with the new ASTM E2920-26 pSIF standard.
Discover why lagging safety metrics often fail to help prevent SIFs and how safety leaders are incorporating pSIF into their incident reporting metrics to drive culture change and save lives.
An Interactive Series for the Curious, the Skeptical, and Everyone In Between
AI is everywhere—but what does it actually mean for your work, your industry, and your day-to-day decisions as an EHS professional? This interactive forum is built to bring EHS pros like you together monthly to learn more about the relevance of AI, and why you can’t afford to ignore it. Each session will be hosted by industry-experts who will help drive conversation focused on different AI-related topics.
What You’ll Get:
Who Should Join?
No matter your role or experience level, this forum is designed to make space for open questions, live discussions, and honest takes on what AI can (and can’t) do.
Bring your questions. Let’s figure it out together.
Individual session topics will be announced via email beforehand. Space is limited—register today!
Are you ready for Form R reporting deadlines? Now’s the time to make sure, because reports will be due before you know it, and EPA has recently updated the TRI chemical list.
Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) establishes the obligation for certain facilities to prepare and submit a Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Report, aka a Form R report, if their usage of TRI-listed chemicals exceeded applicable thresholds. The deadline for Form R reports is July 1 of each year for the previous calendar year’s data. What makes these reports challenging is that EPA continually adds new hazardous chemicals to the TRI reporting list. If you’re the owner or operator of an affected facility, you need to be aware of current reporting obligations to ensure the accuracy and completeness of your upcoming TRI submissions. That’s especially important because EPA continues to update the TRI chemicals list and has recently added more poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the list, and you need to determine if you use them and make sure you’re tracking them.
In this webinar, the experts at VelocityEHS will guide you through the recent reporting changes for this year and provide a comprehensive overview of the entire reporting process to help you stay in compliance with TRI reporting requirements. There will also be a live Q&A with the presenter, and all attendees who ask questions will receive answers, either live (time permitting) or via follow-up email.
Register today so you can learn:
Managing contractor safety can be one of the most complex challenges for EHS professionals, especially as reliance on contractors and temporary workers continues to grow. Slow, manual administrative processes for evaluating contractor compliance and onboarding workers and uncertainty around safety training, certification, and performance contribute to significant risks for organizations.
The key to overcoming these challenges is implementing a systematic, standardized approach to contractor safety management that is supported by the right tools and technologies. In this session, we’ll walk you through a proven five-step process for contractor safety that provides a clear, actionable strategy for contractor safety management framework. You’ll also learn best practices to ensure every contractor and temporary worker on site meets your organization’s safety standards and compliance requirements, and how emerging AI capabilities are driving new levels of efficiency and control over contractor safety.
What You’ll Learn:
Join us for this in-depth webinar and strengthen your contractor safety management program with practical strategies you can start using right away.
As occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) pushes to advance beyond reactive compliance toward a model of predicting and preventing injuries in the workplace, emerging technologies are redefining how organizations manage ergonomics, risk, safety, and performance in industrial environments.
This session explores six critical technology trends that will define the next decade of OEHS innovation, helping leaders understand how their business can excel across critical categories in OEHS management.
OEHS managers and executives will:
Many organizations still rely on manual, fragmented processes to manage critical EHS workflows despite growing pressure to reduce serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs), improve contractor oversight, and stay ahead of regulatory change. In this session, Nathan Goldstein, Senior Manager at Verdantix, will present independent findings from a Verified Value Delivery (VVD) study conducted on behalf of VelocityEHS.
Drawing on survey data, expert interviews, and customer validation, the study models the financial, strategic, and risk mitigation impact of deploying VelocityEHS solutions including core safety, contractor safety, operational risk, chemical management, and industrial ergonomics. For a mid-sized manufacturing organization with $1.5B in revenue, 3,000 employees, and 20 sites, the analysis projects:
Attendees will gain insight into where financial returns are realized, such as reductions in injury-related costs, non-compliance penalties, safety-related downtime, and administrative time savings, as well as the strategic advantages of consolidating EHS data into a unified platform.
Nathan will also explore how integrated EHS platforms support cross-site standardization, stronger safety culture, improved data quality, and AI-enabled workflows that position organizations for future innovation.
Are you ready for Form R reporting deadlines? Now’s the time to make sure, because reports will be due before you know it, and EPA has recently updated the TRI chemical list.
Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) establishes the obligation for certain facilities to prepare and submit a Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Report, aka a Form R report, if their usage of TRI-listed chemicals exceeded applicable thresholds. The deadline for Form R reports is July 1 of each year for the previous calendar year’s data. What makes these reports challenging is that EPA continually adds new hazardous chemicals to the TRI reporting list. If you’re the owner or operator of an affected facility, you need to be aware of current reporting obligations to ensure the accuracy and completeness of your upcoming TRI submissions. That’s especially important because EPA continues to update the TRI chemicals list and has recently added more poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the list, and you need to determine if you use them and make sure you’re tracking them.
In this webinar, the experts at VelocityEHS will guide you through the recent reporting changes for this year and provide a comprehensive overview of the entire reporting process to help you stay in compliance with TRI reporting requirements. There will also be a live Q&A with the presenter, and all attendees who ask questions will receive answers, either live (time permitting) or via follow-up email.
Register today so you can learn:
EHS professionals face an ever-expanding landscape of regulatory requirements; from OSHA recordkeeping and Hazard Communication updates to chemical reporting, PFAS oversight, and injury and illness recordkeeping. Many safety managers know ergonomics is a major driver of injuries, lost time, and rising costs, but struggle to explain its true impact in a way leadership understands. While some might view ergonomics as an operational or safety “sidecar,” it is a non-negotiable business imperative, given its impact on risk, cost, productivity and workplace sustainability. However, without a clear business case, ergonomics programs often remain underfunded, reactive, or sidelined in favor of more visible safety priorities.
In this live Executive Q&A session, Blake McGowan, Head of Product Marketing for VelocityEHS and Senior Principal Ergonomics Technical Fellow, will explore how safety and health leaders can reframe ergonomics as both a business risk and an opportunity that executives understand. The discussion will focus on translating musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk into leadership language, uncovering both known and hidden ergonomics-related risks, and connecting ergonomics efforts to outcomes such as productivity, quality, absenteeism and turnover.
While Occupational Health & Safety Executive Editor and Publisher David Kopf will interview McGowan on key ergonomics topics, most of the session will be dedicated to answering audience questions. So, bring your real-world challenges and get candid insight into how leading organizations are approaching ergonomics decision-making today.