Dan Plexman
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Workplace Safety Advocate | Burn Survivor & Resilience Leader | Occupational Health Expert
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DAN PLEXMAN BIOGRAPHY
Dan Plexman is an international workplace safety expert, speaker, and world champion arm-wrestler based in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He is recognized for his powerful presentations on safety culture, mental health, and resilience, drawing from his lived experience as a survivor of a catastrophic electrical arc flash fire.
Before his accident, Dan Plexman built a career in the pipeline, oil sands, and construction industries, later entering a four-year electrical apprenticeship. He worked across various high-risk environments where he observed gaps in training, supervision, and communication that placed workers at unnecessary risk.
In 2008, while working alone in a manlift under live power lines, Dan came close enough to trigger an electrical arc flash that engulfed him in flames. The explosion caused third- to sixth-degree burns to 60 percent of his body and led to a 17-foot fall. Doctors gave him only a 13 percent chance of survival.
Dan spent weeks in a coma and endured more than a decade of surgeries, grafts, and rehabilitation to rebuild mobility and manage chronic pain. The accident also resulted in the loss of 13 digits and lasting trauma that required ongoing psychological recovery and adaptation. Over time, Dan discovered new purpose through advocacy and public speaking, helping companies, safety professionals, and employees understand the human impact of workplace negligence.
He emphasizes that preventable incidents are not simply compliance failures but breakdowns in awareness, culture, and accountability. His sessions provide actionable frameworks for building safer work environments through leadership responsibility, open communication, and practiced emergency rescue plans.
Beyond the stage, Dan Plexman contributes to safety conferences and advisory committees, collaborating with industry leaders and trade unions to advance national safety standards. His involvement with the Canadian Union of Skilled Workers highlights his ongoing commitment to education and peer mentorship within the skilled trades.
In addition to his professional work, Dan found healing and strength through adaptive athletics, ultimately becoming a world champion arm-wrestler in the 80-kilogram disabled division at the 2022 World Armwrestling Championships in France.
His return to elite competition after a near-fatal injury serves as a testament to human perseverance, physical discipline, and mental resilience.
Today, Dan Plexman continues to travel across North America to share his story and strategies for safety excellence, ensuring that workers, families, and organizations never experience what he endured.
Dan Plexman Topic Presentations
Dan Plexman Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.
Plan & Prepare. Prevent & Protect
The Cost of Complacency
Resilience After the Fire
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