Sabrina AUGUSTE holds a Bachelor's degree in organisms and populations. She started her professional career as a manager of a private aquarium open to the public. She then joined the Palais de la découverte in 1997 as a biologist. Her involvement in the field of prevention, over the years, led her to join the health and safety department. At the same time, and in order to improve her skills in this field, she obtained a professional degree in risk assessment and management for health and safety in companies, at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In 2011, she joined the Institut de Physique du Globe (IPGP) as a prevention advisor in order to create the prevention department, with the mission to develop the health and safety policy at work. In 2013, having won a competitive examination for a design engineer, she chose to join the Centre Régional des Œuvres Universitaires et Scolaires (Crous) of the Versailles academy. Her skills acquired in the field of professional risk management and her knowledge of regulations (ERP, labor code, housing code, food hygiene) were thus put to use in a new work environment. She learned how to communicate and disseminate information in the field of OHS, taking into account the particularities linked to the geographical spread of the structures (more than 100 buildings spread over 4 departments in the Ile-de-France region) and to the multiplicity of professions (more than 40 professions in catering, accommodation and administration).

He has a master's degree in Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities and has been a prevention advisor at the University of Artois since 2001. This multidisciplinary institution (excluding health) is structured around 7 components located in 5 cities. It welcomes 12,000 students and 17 research centers on 112,000 m².

Trained as an ecologist, then as an engineer in industrial environmental engineering, Anouk Bedino first worked as a prevention and safety officer in a chemical plant classified as Seveso 2, where she applied the cause tree method that she will present to you. She joined the world of higher education and research in 2004, first as a health and safety technician at the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, then as an assistant engineer at the ENS in Lyon in 2007. In 2014, she became a prevention advisor and head of the prevention and occupational health department. This multidisciplinary department is made up of experts in risk prevention and health (preventionists, occupational physicians, occupational health nurses, nurses, occupational psychologists, psychologists, and disability officers).

Engineer specialized in governance and risk strategy (security, safety and crisis management) in complex organizations such as Health, Higher Education and territories and Defense Security Officer.

CIRANO Fellow between 2009 and 2020, Suzanne Bisaillon is an honorary professor at the Université de Montréal where she taught at the Faculty of Pharmacy between 1974 and 2009. Since 2009, she has been a lecturer at the School of Public Health (environmental and occupational health), and then a lecturer at Polytechique-Montréal where she still teaches.

Holder of a PhD in Industrial Pharmacy from the University of Montreal, she was a pharmacist from 1970 to 2002, then a practicing lawyer from 1989 to 2020 and, since 2020, a retired lawyer.

Her passion for teaching, highlighted by two awards for excellence in the field, has led her to continue lecturing and teaching integrated risk management principles to this day.
In 2016, she was invited as a lead author for the book published by Lavoisier (France) under the working title of La pragmatique (ou réalité) d'aujourd'hui sur la perception des risques en établissement de santé en France.

Suzanne has experience on the following boards: the Society for the Promotion of Science and Technology, the Board of the University of Montreal, the Alumni Board of the University of Montreal, the Board of the Montreal Pharmaceutical Discussion Group and the Board of the CHSLD Centre-Ville, a long-term care facility. She also chaired the Users and Residents Committee of CHSLD Vigi Mont-Royal, was a member of the Scientific Committee, Réseau RISQ+H, CIRANO. She was a member of the Groupe vigilance sur la sécurité des soins attached to the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec until 2015, when the Group ended its activities. At the national level, she was a member of the Board of Directors (2013-2018) and Treasurer (2015-2018) of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI/ICSP).

As part of an executive exchange program, she worked for four years within Health Canada as Acting Director of the Office of Risk Management, Emergency Preparedness and Critical Services in the Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch (HECSB). At the end of her tenure, she received two awards in recognition of her tireless efforts to build a risk management culture and infrastructure throughout HECSB.

Mickael Cadudal is vice-president of Gp'Sup, he is also director of the Prevention Safety Environment at the University of Rennes. The Prevention, Safety and Environment Department works closely with the university's management and the institution's structures. It provides the necessary expertise in the various fields of competence that are prevention, security, safety and the environment. It coordinates the networks of prevention and safety players (prevention assistant, radiation protection assistant, first aiders, SST, safety warden, etc.). It is also a privileged contact for state and control organizations in the area of prevention and safety.

Yuvin Chinniah is Director of the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering and a full professor at Polytechnique Montréal. He is a member of the Poly-Industries 4.0 laboratory and a member of the Management and Globalization of Technology (GMT) research group.

Holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, his research interests include occupational health and safety (OHS), industrial safety, machine safety, machine risk assessment (ISO 12100, CSA Z432), machine risk reduction (type A, B, C standards), machine design integrating safety, machine safety standards and regulations, conditional maintenance of hydraulic systems, design of safety control systems using ISO 13849 and IEC 62061, design of electrical control systems, programmable electronics, hydraulics and pneumatics, lockout and alternative methods using CSA Z460 (control of hazardous energies on equipment), risk management related to confined spaces, OHS in plant layout, OHS and continuous improvement (Deming), safety of robots (conventional and collaborative), OHS and industry 4. 0.

Vincent Conrad holds an engineering degree in occupational risk prevention. He began his career as head of the health and safety department at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris in December 1996. In 1998, Vincent Conrad became secretary of the GP'Sup before becoming its president in November 2009. Prevention advisor and head of the risk prevention department at the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne since May 2001, Vincent Conrad also provides numerous training courses at the national level in the field of health and safety at work and the prevention actions he develops within his institution are often taken up by other universities.

Marie-Noël da Silva is an occupational health and safety professional with over 20 years of experience in the development and implementation of OHS programs and action plans. She has been a senior health and safety advisor at Polytechnique Montréal since 2017.

Her expertise extends to environmental protection, the application of OHS laws, regulations and standards (e.g. OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001), workplace inspections, risk identification and analysis, incident investigations and much more! A true agent of change, she specializes in organizational transformations that allow managers and employees to mobilize around the crucial issue of prevention.

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2003, Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin has been President and Chief Executive Officer of CIRANO since 2016, has been leading the Baromètre CIRANO project on risk perception in Quebec, which annually collects data on Quebecers' concerns on 47 social issues since 2011, is responsible of the CIRANO Pole on the Socio-economic Impacts of Digital Intelligence and Main Researcher of the theme Innovation and Digital Transformation. Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin is Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. She is also a Visiting Scientist at Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health and an associate researcher at the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO).

Holding a Ph.D. in Management Science (in risks and insurance management) from École normale supérieure de Cachan, her research interests focus on risk management and decision-making in different risks and uncertainty contexts as well as public policies. Her research combines economic analysis, cost-benefit analysis, survey data analysis, and more recently massive unstructured data analysis.

In 2008 she created the RISQH network to raise awareness and share experiences on risks management, and patient safety and quality of care in health care facilities.

She participated in the creation of the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of AI.

She is also co-PI of the "Monitoring and Surveys" function at the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology.

She has published numerous scientific articles, several books and more than 30 reports for government and other organizations. She has given more than a hundred conferences and is regularly solicited to speak in the media.

Maximilien Debia created the Laboratoire d'hygiène du travail de l'Université de Montréal (LHTUM) with Professor André Dufresne and has been in charge of it since its creation in 2010. He has been teaching occupational hygiene at the Université de Montréal since 2006. In May 2012, he obtained the status of Clinical Assistant Professor and then in 2014 of Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health (DSEST) at the School of Public Health of the Université de Montréal. Professor Debia is responsible for the occupational hygiene option of the Master's degree in Environmental and Occupational Health and is a member of the program committees for the Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées (DÉSS) en hygiène du travail and the Diplôme d'études spécialisées (DÉS) en médecine du travail of the Faculty of Medicine. He is also the scientific co-editor, with Professor Michel Gérin, of the journal Travail et Santé. Professor Debia is the recipient of a FRQ/IRSST Junior 1 career award (2015-2019).

Camille Despierres is in charge of the safety risk prevention department at Crous de Lyon since 2018.

She holds a master's degree in occupational health, ergonomics and safety from the Université Lumière Lyon 2, she worked 5 years in the industrial automotive sector (Renault Trucks), as an ergonomist-preventer.

Former military firefighter of the Marseille Marine Fire Battalion, he is currently working in the territorial command chain and in the Hérault departmental fire and rescue operations center, assigned to the Technical and Logistics Group and specialized in forest fire operations. Qualified as a preventionist, he is currently working on files related to innovation and technological watch in the field of high-pressure extinguishing means and robotic support.

Amel Elimam is a Consultant in Intervention and Prevention of Conflict and Violence at Polytechnique Montreal. A professional in law, mediation and dispute prevention, she pays particular attention to prevention in all its forms, including the most creative. 
Passionate about scientific research in the areas of DRP, neurobiology applied to pedagogy and andragogy, she attaches great importance to the transmission of knowledge and in particular to life skills.

A microbiologist by training, Aurélie Henrard joined the university prevention field in 2009 at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin and then at the University of Paris Descartes in October 2010. As Prevention Advisor for the Faculty of Pharmacy, she guides the management of the UFR and the 14 research units in the implementation of the establishment's occupational risk prevention policy.

Arriving in Auvergne Rhône Alpes in 2014, she passed the exam of safety advisor for the transport of dangerous goods and joined the Ulisse unit in November 2015. A specialist in hazardous waste, her main mission is to support CNRS research units in complying with current regulations (ADR, IATA) for the daily transport of hazardous materials present in laboratories (chemicals, biological samples, gas cylinders, radioactive sources, etc).

Marie Laberge is an Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal. School of Rehabilitation.  She holds a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Ergonomics) from the University of Quebec in Montreal since 2011. Her research interests include the socio-professional integration of adolescents, the prevention of work disability, the development, implementation and evaluation of occupational health interventions, the modelling of integrated knowledge translation interventions, and sex/gender-based analysis.

France Labrèche has been a researcher in the IRSST's Chemical and Biological Risk Prevention research field since late 2009. Before joining the IRSST, she worked for many years in public health, always in occupational health. Since 1996, she has been particularly interested in work-related cancers and work-related lung diseases.

Christine Lefebvre is Head of Human Resources, Health and Safety Section, at Polytechnique Montréal. She exercises expert leadership and coaches managers to take better charge. She assists managers in change management, develops a strategic plan for health and safety, wellness and attendance at work, ensures the success of the attendance at work program, is responsible for the group insurance program and assists management in improving the work climate.

Frédéric Lévesque s’est joint à Technorm en 2005 en tant qu’ingénieur. Il est maintenant chef d’expertise dans l’équipe Codes et normes – Sécurité Incendie. Il agit principalement à titre d’ingénieur concepteur et conseiller technique en matière de construction et de sécurité incendie.

Au cour de sa carrière, il a notamment développé sa compétence en calcul de charge de chauffage/climatisation ainsi qu’en hydraulique et en conception de système de gicleurs automatiques.

Frédéric effectue des analyses de conformité en matière de construction et de sécurité incendie dans les secteurs industriel et commercial. Il conçoit des systèmes de gicleurs automatiques, de canalisations d’incendie et d’alarme incendie pour divers usages (résidentiel, commercial, institutionnel, industriel et risques spéciaux). Par ailleurs, il a réalisé plusieurs expertises et études en matière de chauffage, ventilation et plomberie du bâtiment.

Evolving within the University Le Havre Normandie since 1990, his skills and knowledge have allowed him to progressively increase my fields of expertise in the field of security*, expertise recognized within the establishment but also by external partners. As a fire safety manager, he is responsible for the operation and proper functioning of the technical installations related to fire safety in the 18 buildings of the University on its 3 sites. He organize evacuation drills, carry out administrative, technical and regulatory follow-ups of departmental or communal safety commissions... He is involved in the elaboration of construction, fitting-out or rehabilitation projects of buildings and in the follow-up of works.

*1986 Paris Fire Brigade, 1990 Technical Agent, 1999 Fire Safety Technician, 2002 Fire Safety Agent - ERP1 / SSIAP 1, 2004 Fire Safety Manager - ERP2 / SSIAP 2, 2005 Fire Safety Manager - ERP3 - IGH 3 / SSIAP 3, 2007 Specific training in show safety, 2017 Assistant Engineer - Fire Safety Manager, 2021 Design Engineer - Head of the Fire Safety Department.

Catherine Noel is a prevention consultant. She has a degree in architecture and real estate expertise. After additional studies in occupational health and safety, she has been working as a prevention consultant for 22 years in the university environment. She first worked at the Université Catholique de Louvain for 11 years and then at the Université de Liège. She dealt more specifically with issues related to building safety (fire, asbestos, explosive atmospheres, design and coordination of facilities, etc.) After an inter-university certificate in crisis management and emergency planning, she coordinated the Internal Emergency Plan.  Since 2022, she has been the Director of the University Service of Occupational Health and Safety, which manages the issues of Occupational Wellness (prevention and protection of occupational hazards) on the one hand, and biosafety and environmental permits on the other.
She is president of the Association of Prevention Advisors of Belgian Universities and University Hospitals since 2009. She has been involved, on a private basis, for 17 years at the political level in her home town (local councillor, councillor of the Public Centre for Social Action, President of the Local Commission for Rural Development, member of the Consultative Commission for Land Use and Mobility, member of the Police Council).

Alan Orton has more than 35 years of experience on a multitude of complex projects in the fields of science and technology, healthcare, education, and for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and electronics industries. He is recognized as leader in the design of centres for basic and clinical research, of diagnostic laboratories for human and animal health, and of facilities for the development and production of pharmaceutical and biological products. 

Manuelle Oudar holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in law from Université Laval.

She joined the Quebec public service in 1988, where she held senior positions in several departments. First working for the Ministries of Justice and Environment, she then joined the legal affairs team of the Ministries of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity in 1992, where she became Director of Litigation in 1997. She coordinated numerous legislative amendments, notably in the areas of labour standards, pay equity, employment and parental insurance. In 2007, she was appointed Director of Legal Affairs for the Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport as well as for the Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine and the Secrétariat à la politique linguistique. She was subsequently appointed Assistant Deputy Minister for Networks at the Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport in 2010, and then Deputy Minister of the Ministère du Travail du Québec in 2012. She is therefore very familiar with labour standards, pay equity and occupational health and safety.

Ms. Oudar's outstanding achievements and career path have been recognized by the honours she has earned: she received the Leadership Award from the Association of Québec Women in Finance (AFFQ), and was named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women's Executive Network (WXN). The Institut d'administration publique du Québec (IAPQ) also awarded the Prix d'excellence de l'administration publique du Québec for the creation of the CNESST, a success story for the public sector and Quebec society.

Marie-Blandine PEINTURIER holds a postgraduate degree in industrial environment management. She began her career in the public service at the University Lumière Lyon 2 in 1996, where she worked as a health and safety engineer and created the health and safety department. In 2003, she joined the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where she was prevention advisor and head of the prevention and occupational health department. In 2014 she joined the health and safety department of the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University where she was deputy prevention advisor and head of the risk prevention department. In 2018 she passed the competitive examination for research engineer and joined the University of Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), as prevention advisor and head of the hygiene and safety department. In 2019, she was transferred to the newly created INRAE Lyon-Grenoble Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes center, still as a prevention advisor. In 2021, she joins the team of occupational health and safety inspectors. In addition to inspecting higher education, research and sports establishments, she provides them with advice tailored to their specific needs in order to improve prevention, and trains safety managers and staff at all levels.

Sarah Penas is an Occupational Health and Safety Inspector at the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research. She holds a Master's degree in Civil Security Law. She worked as a prevention advisor in a school and then in a university. She was then Deputy Administrative Director of the Faculty of Dental Surgery.

Pierre Poquillon holds a degree in agricultural engineering and a post-graduate degree in biology. He began his career in a private group managing aquariums open to the public. He then joined the public service at the University of Southern Brittany where he was in charge of heritage and health and safety engineering. There he built, ex-nihilo, the organization of the prevention of professional risks. With this experience, he has been an occupational health and safety inspector since 2007. In addition to inspecting higher education, research and sports establishments, he provides them with advice adapted to their specificities in order to improve prevention, and trains safety managers and staff at all levels.

Sonia Racois is engineer in Industrial Risk Prevention, Health, Safety and Environment, 1995. Implementation of an environmental management system (according to the ISO 14001 standard) and realization of an application for authorization of a classified installation on the Longvic site of Schneider Electric, in 1996. Realization of hygiene-safety-environment audits for various SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) on behalf of an industrial building construction firm from 1997 to 2003. Prevention advisor for the University of Franche Comté from 2004 to 2019. Safety Engineer at the University Hospital of Besançon from 2019 to 2020.

Carole Savoie is a senior health and safety advisor at Polytechnique Montréal. She is part of the health and safety team for the Department of Chemical Engineering, the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, the Reprographics Department and the Office Sectors (Computer Services, Finance Department, Library, etc.).

Holder of a Ph.D. from Polytechnique Montreal, a Master's degree in research from Arts & Métiers Paris-Tech in France and a Bachelor's degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers (ENSAM-Morocco), all three in industrial engineering. She is currently an assistant professor at Polytechnique Montréal. Her field of specialization focuses on the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and the identification of risk factors associated with these disorders, particularly in a dynamic work environment.

His methodological approach is based on the ergonomic analysis of work activities from a research-intervention perspective through a multidisciplinary approach. His research is part of the mixed methods research stream, using various data collection methods such as observation, direct measurements and self-evaluations. His research has a significant impact on industrial practice, helping to improve the safety and health of workers in various work environments.

Serge Striganuk has been the Vice-President, Business and Resources at Polytechnique Montréal since June 1, 2021.

Mr. Striganuk received his PhD in Education Management from the Université de Sherbrooke in 2010, after having earned a Master's degree in Educational Management (M. Ed.) from the same institution in 2000. He completed a Bachelor's degree in Physical Activity Sciences - Teaching from the Université de Montréal in 1981.

Mr. Striganuk was Dean of the Faculty of Education at the Université de Sherbrooke from 2013 to 2021, and prior to this, was the Director of the Department of Education and Training Management at the Université de Sherbrooke for four years. He has also been a professor in the same department between 2001 and 2021.

From 2014 to 2021, Striganuk served as president of the l’Association des doyens, doyennes et directeurs, directrices pour l’étude et la recherche en éducation au Québec - ADEREQ. In this capacity, he was solicited and contributed to several files with the Ministère de l'Éducation and the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur. He also co-chaired the Table Ministère de l'éducation-Universités (TMU), and was co-chair of the Table de concertation en éducation associated with the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI) from 2015 to 2021. He was a member of the Canadian Association of Deans of Education (CADE).

Mr. Striganuk's work focuses on school management and teamwork. His research interests include governance in educational settings, collaboration in educational institutions and educational change in Quebec.

Raoul Weihoff was in charge of property and health and safety at the IUT 1 in Grenoble from 1984 to 2015 in an institute composed of 10 teaching departments delivering technical diplomas in the secondary sector: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and industrial computing, civil engineering, chemistry, thermal engineering and energy, physical measurements, networks and telecommunications.

From 2016 to 2021 he was Director of Maintenance Operations at Grenoble Alpes University, a multidisciplinary university with 55,000 students in more than 200 buildings spread over 5 French geographical departments.

He is an active member of the GP'Sup and Arties associations (association of higher education heritage managers) and has participated in several working groups in these 2 associations.