PRESENTATION Kristy Nicholson, Workforce Strategies Leader, Marsh Advisory, Pacific Topic: Behavioural safety is the missing piece of the safety puzzle Human behaviour is an element within every incident and injury. Even with the safest workplace and the best systems in place, workers will still act unsafely at times. Sometimes they will hurt themselves or others when they do. Behavioural safety…read more →
PRESENTATION Ian Blum, Manager Work Health and Safety Metro North, SafeWork NSW Topic: Managing Psychological Risks in the Workplace Psychosocial safety has a WHS focus due to increasing rates of psychosocial injuries. To guide and support businesses, SafeWork NSW launched the Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work In May 2021. In 2022, this was followed with changes to…read more →
PRESENTATOR – Richard Stevens, Director Risk & Client services, Emcorp Group Topic: Managing a crisis, the links from a workplace incident to a crisis and how best to respond All workplace systems, processes and procedures are underpinned by the human experience. This can have a dramatic outcome on both your and your fellow staff’s ‘inward and downward’ versus ‘upward and…read more →
PRESENTATION – Nicole Vernon, Manager of Safety Health and Wellbeing, Legal Aid NSW Topic: Our Mentally Healthy Workplace Journey Nicole will discuss and cover aspects such as: Leadership buy in Understanding risks and a focus on key risks organisationally Refocusing Understanding risks and a focus on key risks locally About your Presenter Nicole Vernon is the Manager of Safety Health and…read more →
PRESENTATION John Makris, Partner, Kingston Reid & Greg Maddaford (Recently retired Senior SafeWork NSW Inspector) Topic: Managing Workplace Incidents Greg Maddaford and John Makris will present a two-part session over the August and September meetings on managing workplace incidents, both from SafeWork NSW’s perspective, and from the Employer / PCBU’s perspective. The sessions will be presented by way of…read more →
PRESENTATION John Makris, Partner, Kingston Reid & Greg Maddaford (Recently retired Senior SafeWork NSW Inspector) Topic: Managing Workplace Incidents Greg Maddaford and John Makris will present a two-part session over the August and September meetings on managing workplace incidents, both from SafeWork NSW’s perspective, and from the Employer / PCBU’s perspective. The sessions will be presented by way of…read more →
PRESENTATION Heizy Serrels, National Manager, Learning & Wellbeing Culture / Senior Psychologist, Centre for Corporate Health Topic: Psychosocial Hazard Management in the Workplace The session will cover: Discussion of common psychosocial hazards in the workplace How to best manage psychosocial hazards – case study examples Activity: application of approaches to management of common psychosocial hazards About your Presenter…read more →
This is the Second session of practical application of BBS following from the introduction session provided March PRESENTATION Kristy Nicholson, Workforce Strategies Leader, Marsh Advisory, Pacific Topic: Behavioural safety workshop Following her thought provoking, and question generating session in March this year, Kristy will provide a follow on session on behavioural safety to deep dive into why workers take risks,…read more →
PRESENTER – Kim Smith, APAC EHS Manager, Caesarstone Australia Topic: Risks Associated with the Use of Engineered Stone & Its Impacts In December 2023, Australia’s WHS Ministers unanimously agreed to prohibit the use, manufacture and supply of engineered stone. The Ministers accepted Safe Work Australia’s recommendation to apply a blanket ban to engineered stone based on its finding that there is…read more →
PRESENTATION Fiona McKenzie, Resolving Matters Topic: Negotiation Tips For Difficult Conversations For most of us, difficult conversations are a fact of life. For safety professionals, who are dealing with safety concerns, addressing non-compliance issues and handling crisis discussions, difficult conversations are ubiquitous. When the stakes are high — during a negotiation or when dealing with conflict or poor alignment in…read more →
