A320 captain and freelance safety consultant

Rudy is a captain on the Airbus A320 and coordinates the Air Safety Committee within the Belgian pilots’ association (BeCA). He is an active member of the EUROCONTROL Just Culture Task Force, a consultant, and a keynote speaker who helps organizations approach safety in a pragmatic way.

As his surname suggests, Rudy is a bridge builder. His motto is: "people are safety,” because understanding each other’s perspectives is essential when learning how to continuously improve safety, efficiency, and quality.

Pont has a background as an industrial engineer in Electromechanics, with more than 15 years of experience in safety management. He holds a master’s degree in Air Safety Management from City University London and a master’s degree in Safety Sciences from the University of Antwerp, where he is also affiliated as a guest lecturer.

People don’t come to work to do a bad job
But is that really true? Don’t people sometimes come to work and intentionally do things wrong? And if not, why do things still go wrong so often? And how do you gain control over that?

In this interactive session, Rudy Pont guides you through various examples in which things (mostly unintentionally) go wrong. Recognizable situations that show that those closest to the incident are often not the cause, but the recipients. In practical terms, this means you need to look for systemic causes. How to do that, and which tools can help, are covered in this presentation. No complicated theories or bizarre academic models, but practical insights that help you safeguard safety, efficiency, and quality by looking at things differently. And above all, by truly understanding how work is actually done in practice. Curious? Sign up quickly.