Safety Committees' Summer Meeting 2021

Join your AWO colleagues and staff in Chicago for our Summer Safety Committees’ Meeting!

For those of you that cannot attend in person, AWO will be recording and posting this meeting for all members. On the registration page, attendees will have the ability to select "in-person" or "virtual" attendance to be alerted when the recordings are published.

AWO’s Summer Safety Committees’ meeting will be chockfull of educational and informational content. The Safety Leadership Advisory Panel has assembled leading speakers and panels on pertinent safety topics such as dealing with hot and cold working environments, preventing falls overboard, assessing mariner resilience and wellbeing, mitigating distracted operations, improving situational awareness, and challenges and opportunities associated with artificial intelligence. We will also have updates and discussions on lessons learned from COVID-19 for future unpredictable events, environmental stewardship best practices, safety statistics data performance, and much more!

Safety remains the significant factor that unifies all elements of the tugboat, towboat and barge industry, and the maritime industry generally. The joint meeting of the Coastal and Interregion Safety Committees will continue to highlight the challenges and opportunities that exist as our industry navigates our transitioning safety landscape and provide updates on the different AWO safety initiatives and programs.