Oct 08 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. The firms that can follow an unbroken thread through all of it - from the first instruction to final handover - are the ones that stay compliant, win disputes and protect their people. Most firms capture only fragments, held in separate systems and discover the gaps at the worst possible moment: 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 follows one worker across one construction site to show where the record breaks and how to keep it whole. Across three connected threads - safety, environmental exposure and the project record - you'll see exactly how the gaps appear and how leading firms close them.
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.
This summit is for construction leaders, HSE and EHS managers, commercial and project directors and anyone responsible for keeping their firm protected - whether the challenge is disputes, enforcement, environmental compliance or worker safety.
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 hard look at where the industry stands today and why a complete, connected record has become the line between compliance and catastrophe.
What we'll cover:
Speakers: Dame Judith Hackitt
Years after a project completes, a dispute lands over who told whom to do what. The firm that can produce the email wins. The firm that's still searching through the inboxes of people who've long since left the company loses. This session shows how Ideagen Mail Manager makes sure you're always the first and winning firm.
What we'll cover:
Speakers: Harvey McCaw & Dave Wesemann
An incident happens on site. Now prove who was there, what they were trained to do and that you investigated it properly. Most firms can't, because the answers live in three different systems and one of them is a spreadsheet. This session follows a worker from the gate to the close-out of an investigation, and shows how the safety record stays unbroken the whole way.
What we'll cover:
Speakers: Emily Schultz & Paul Blundell
Environmental conditions on a construction site change in minutes, and the same conditions land differently on every worker. This session shows how continuous monitoring of both the site environment and individual worker exposure builds one complete, defensible exposure record - so you can prove what happened, when, and to whom.
What we'll cover:
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
The firms that stay protected aren't the ones with the best paperwork. They're the ones whose thread never breaks.
