Fatalities are rare events. As a result, organisations rely on sharing clear, vivid knowledge about how people can die in order to better prevent them.

In many workplaces, however, how we talk about fatal risk is often simplified, abstract, and disconnected from the reality of how deaths actually occur. This creates a significant challenge: without a detailed and shared understanding of how fatal events can unfold, organisations are less able to design and maintain controls that effectively prevent them.

This workshop explores and challenges these norms, and introduces practical strategies to address them.

Drawing on concepts such as mental imagery - commonly used in elite sport - participants will learn how to make risk more tangible without being dramatic. The session introduces a ‘fatal risk language’ framework to clearly describe how work is performed, how events can unfold, and how controls may fail.

Participants will learn how to weave this language into leadership training, formal incident communications, everyday team discussions, emergency exercises, and even AI prompts for data analysis. By improving the clarity of how fatal risk is communicated, the approach helps counter normalisation, sharpen attention to weak signals, and strengthen critical controls.

This workshop is exclusively available to pre-registered, all-access pass delegates.