Best Practices - for Collaborative Learning Between Public and Private Sectors

  • October 23, 2025
  • 8:00am-10:00am
  • Queen Elizabeth Community and Cultural Centre -- 2303 Bridge Rd, Oakville, ON L6L 2G6

Facilitated by Said Ismail

Best Practices - Maximizing Benefits for Learning when Private and Public Sectors Through Collaboration: This will provide you with a fundamental understanding of best practices for fire investigations and how collaboration between the public and private sectors can provide the best opportunity for learning for all while accomplishing each organization's specific goals.

Said Ismail

Said is a licensed professional engineer and certified and explosion investigator, also managing Southwestern Ontario for OCI Group with over 16 years of experience where he specialized in product design and certification, incident and fire investigations and equipment failures. He specializes in electrical and electronic failures, product liability and fire investigation, with particular expertise in electrical code and product standard compliance. Said has overseen hundreds of investigations identifying the failure of equipment, installations and processes which contributed to electrical incidents, and has performed over 60 root cause investigations to determine the cause of electrical incidents which resulted in critical injuries, fatalities and/or large losses. Said has been with OCI Group for the past four years and has been involved in over 300 investigations involving fires resulting from many causes and has been involved with inspections of electrical wiring and equipment involved with failures and fires.