Explore the Agenda
7:30 am Check-In, Coffee & Light Breakfast
8:25 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Cutting Costs Without Compromising Biopharma Safety by Streamlining EHS Operations & Optimising Resources
8:30 am Panel Discussion: Doing More with Less: Optimising EHS Team Structures to Improve Operational Efficiency & Demonstrate Business Value
- Explore how to streamline EHS processes, eliminate unnecessary administrative tasks and redirect limited resources towards high-priority operational risks and strategic initiatives
- Compare centralised EHS functions, embedded business partners and specialist centres of excellence to determine how different organisational structures can improve efficiency and accountability
- Discover how to quantify the financial and operational value of EHS investments through risk reduction, cost avoidance, productivity improvements and performance metrics that resonate with senior leadership
9:00 am Hazard a Guess
Work collaboratively through realistic biopharma EHS scenarios, assess emerging risks and make critical decisions as new information comes to light. Challenge your peers’ approaches, share lessons from real-world experience and explore how to turn unexpected challenges into effective, preventative action.
- The Airflow Reversal Dilemma: A containment system is exposing laboratory workers to potentially contaminated air, but the proper fix is costly and delayed, forcing a decision between stopping work, implementing an alternative engineering control or relying on enhanced PPE
- The Radiation Safety Officer Shortage: Rapid expansion into radiopharmaceutical manufacturing leaves you without an experienced Radiation Safety Officer, forcing you to balance operational demands against the risks of hiring less experienced staff or delaying operations
- The Concurrent Construction Chaos: Multiple contractors are carrying out high-risk activities across a new manufacturing facility when conflicting hot work and lockout/tagout procedures create a potentially serious safety incident
- The AI Surveillance Acceptance Problem: An AI-powered monitoring system could improve hazard detection across a 24/7 facility, but employee resistance over privacy and surveillance threatens trust and safety culture, leaving you to decide how to secure buy-in
10:00 am Morning Break & Networking
Strengthening Laboratory Safety Through Cost-Effective Containment, Exposure Assessment & Risk Management for Emerging Modalities
10:30 am Building a Global Maturity Model to Drive Continuous Improvement & Scale Safely
- Discover how Grifols established a global EHS governance framework across 36 countries, using site safety maturity assessments to standardise and improve performance
- Explore how to develop and implement a site safety maturity model, identify performance gaps and advance locations towards stronger safety management systems and ISO certification where appropriate
- Overcome the challenges of implementing global safety programmes across matrix organisations through leadership buy-in, regular site engagement and systematic governance that sustains safety culture despite competing operational priorities
11:00 am Reducing Chemical Exposure in Biopharma Laboratories Without Compromising Contamination Control
- Navigate exposure monitoring challenges for sterilising agents with limited regulatory guidance by assessing peracetic acid, hydrogen peroxide and associated degradation products, drawing on available ACGIH and EPA guidance alongside employee-reported exposure symptoms to inform risk assessments
- Reduce employee exposure through safer cleaning practices and alternative sterilisation approaches by exploring Rocket Pharmaceuticals' experience replacing excessive sterilant use in a laboratory with scheduled ionised hydrogen peroxide cleaning, supported by exposure monitoring, ventilation controls and collaboration with facilities teams
- Overcome resistance to changing established cleaning procedures without compromising safety standards by engaging laboratory staff, encouraging incident reporting and using exposure monitoring and bioburden testing to evaluate proposed changes to cleaning frequency and chemical selection
11:30 am Panel Discussion: Applying Occupational Exposure Banding & Quantitative Exposure Assessment to Strengthen Controls for Potent Compounds & Novel Modalities
- Master occupational exposure banding (OEB) methodologies for categorizing compound potency and determining appropriate control measures
- Learn quantitative exposure assessment techniques including air monitoring, surface contamination evaluation, and biological monitoring programs
- Explore how to establish exposure controls for compounds where toxicological data is limited, particularly for novel therapeutic modalities
12:00 pm Roundtable Discussion: Laboratory Safety Challenges – R&D, Contract Testing & Manufacturing Interface
- Discuss how to balance rapid scientific development with appropriate EHS oversight when emerging modalities have limited hazard and occupational exposure data
- Explore how organisations adapt risk assessments and safety controls as compounds move from early development into larger-scale manufacturing
- Share strategies for strengthening collaboration between scientists, EHS teams and manufacturing leaders to identify emerging risks without unnecessarily delaying development
12:30 pm Lunch & Networking
Occupational Health & Holistic Wellbeing – Beyond Mental Health to Comprehensive Employee Protection While Optimising Resources
1:30 pm Leveraging Occupational Health Data & Leading Indicators to Prevent Workforce Risks & Demonstrate Business Value
- Explore how to transform occupational health data, including medical surveillance, injury reports and employee health concerns, into actionable leading indicators that identify emerging workforce risks
- Discover how monitoring trends in workplace stress, burnout and other health signals can enable earlier interventions to prevent employee health issues and minimise operational disruption
- Understand how to develop meaningful occupational health KPIs that demonstrate the impact of employee wellbeing on productivity, absenteeism and business performance to secure senior leadership buy-in
2:00 pm Roundtable Discussion: Developing Holistic Wellbeing Strategies to Reduce Burnout & Deliver Measurable Business Value
- Share practical approaches to identifying and addressing employee burnout, psychological safety and work-related stress within high-pressure biopharma environments
- Develop actionable wellbeing strategies that integrate mental health support, workload management and employee engagement while remaining achievable within existing budgets and resources
- Identify meaningful KPIs, including absenteeism, employee retention, engagement and programme participation, to evaluate wellbeing initiatives and demonstrate their contribution to business performance
2:30 pm Afternoon Break & Refreshments
Managing Emerging Technical Risks & Strengthening Safety Controls Across Radiopharmaceutical Manufacturing & Facility Decommissioning
3:00 pm Fireside Chat: Overcoming Radiation Safety Challenges in Radiopharmaceutical Manufacturing Through Effective RSO Resourcing, Actinium-225 Exposure Controls & Risk Management
- Understand the critical shortage of qualified Radiation Safety Officers (RSOs) as more companies enter the radiopharmaceutical space
- Learn safety requirements for emerging isotopes like Actinium-225 including ventilation, air monitoring, surface contamination evaluation, and specialized survey equipment
- Discover how manufacturing site radiation safety differs from academic/hospital settings in terms of scale, 24/7 operations, and team requirements