Oct 22 2026
13:00 BST - 16:00 BST | 22:00 AEST - 01:00 AEST | 08:00 EDT - 11:00 EDT
On a construction project, your record is your defence and you're only as protected as its weakest thread. The Unbroken Thread brings together construction's most influential safety voice with Ideagen customers and experts to show how leading firms keep that record whole, from the site gate to final handover.
Every construction project runs on a constant flow of decisions, exposures and communications. Most firms capture that record in fragments, held in separate systems and only discover the gaps when a regulator, a claimant or a client comes asking.
Opened by Dame Judith Hackitt, whose landmark review created the golden thread principle, this summit tackles the four places the record most often breaks, and shows how leading firms fix each one.
You'll leave understanding why no single system tells the whole story, and how connected records across your workforce, your site conditions and your project communications form one continuous, defensible thread.
Where the thread breaks:
You'll leave knowing exactly where your own record is strongest, and where it's most likely to break.
This summit is for construction and engineering leaders, HSE and EHS managers, commercial and project directors and anyone responsible for keeping their firm protected.
It took a tragedy to prove that construction's records were systemically broken. Dame Judith Hackitt, whose independent review created the golden thread, opens the summit with a candid look at why records still fail, and what it takes to fix them.
What we'll cover:
You'll leave with: a framework for thinking about your record across the whole project, not just one discipline.
Speakers: Dame Judith Hackitt
Years after a project completes, a dispute lands over who told whom to do what. The answer is in an email, but it's sitting in the inbox of someone who left the business long ago. This session shows how leading firms make sure that gap never opens.
What we'll cover:
You'll leave with: a clear view of where your correspondence record is most exposed, and how to close it.
Speakers: Harvey McCaw & Dave Wesemann
An incident happens on site. The answers to who was there, what they were trained for and what really caused it sit in different systems, and one of them is usually a spreadsheet. This session follows the safety record from the site gate to investigation close-out.
What we'll cover:
You'll leave with: a way to keep the safety record connected from the moment a worker arrives to the moment an investigation closes.
Speakers: Paul Blundell & Emily Schultz & Adam Civval
A dust plume reaches the houses next door before anyone on site knows. A worker's exposure is estimated on paper, after the fact. This session shows how leading firms build one complete exposure record, covering both the site and the individual.
What we'll cover:
You'll leave with: an exposure record that proves what happened, when and to whom, months or years later.
Speakers: Shaun MacRae & Sam Thomas
Former Chair of the UK Health and Safety Executive
President & CEO, Spectrum Engineers
Chief Product Officer, Ideagen Envirosuite
Senior Solutions Engineer, Ideagen
Senior Email Management Consultant, Ideagen
Director, Ideagen Wearable Safety
Customer Success Director, Ideagen
Head of Product, Ideagen Work Wallet
The firms that stay protected aren't the ones with the best paperwork. They're the ones whose thread never breaks.
