Jointly organized by IBEC & AIHA with CDC’s funding, the summit featured industry experts, including James Frederick from Occupational Safety. Focused on safety in various sectors from education to agriculture, it assessed best practices and remaining challenges in indoor safety. Key topics: transmission routes, mitigation strategies, challenges in industries, technological innovations, and understanding barriers to…

Focused on the impact of COVID-19 on faith-based communities, discussing strategies for safe in-person gatherings and community rebuilding, with insights from diverse experts.

Senior economist William Adams analyzed pandemic-induced transformations in the economy, discussing shifts in consumer behavior, business models, and financial markets, plus future forecasts.

Dr. Marot discussed the role of psychology in our return to public life post-COVID, covering best practices and insights from industrial psychology, neuropsychology, and mindfulness.

Examined tools and best practices from infection control to safely resume schooling. Topics covered resilience, recovery, and a confident return to schools with a focus on infection risk management for all stakeholders.

Focused on the crucial protection against airborne COVID-19 transmission in public indoor spaces and understanding its spread predominantly indoors. We explored solutions to adapt public buildings to minimize transmission risk.

Objective: Confidence in PPE – Science, and Fidelity of PPE Supporting Healthy Workforce and Workplaces Goals: Identify opportunities to align efforts of public safety, public health, and law enforcement to ensure safe and legitimate PPE supply chains  Understand opportunities for collaboration across industry, labor, government, and academic stakeholders to rapidly address identified needs and capability…

With a proven ability to produce collaborative, interdisciplinary forums, IBEC was asked to develop and publish a 5th STAGE of the clean 2020 summit for the Department of Homeland Security. This event would focus on issues with PPE. It would also demonstrate that IBEC had garnered the respect of government agencies at the highest level. 

Objective: Supporting Science & Innovation for Clean Spaces and Healthy Congregation for the Workforce and Work Space Goals: Identify current standards and guidance being implemented in the workplace Understand current best practices to implement identified standards and help further mitigate risks in the workforce Identify current science-based best practices that would allow the workforce to…