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 →
PRESENTATION Tanya Pelja, Executive Director, Health, Safety Environment and Quality, BGIS Topic: Operationalising Safety: Reassessing your influential span and functional effectiveness My goals at BGIS is to create a culture of care beyond compliance. In order to build and then maintain a positive, informed and operationalised safety culture we must create strong, deep and far-reaching collaboration between safety and other…read more →
PRESENTATION Ben Knox, Director, Compliance OHS Topic: Safety – A Cross Functional Role The responsibility of risk management is no longer confined to a select few individuals nor is the role of the safety professional just linked to the WHS legislative requirements, standards, codes of practice. More and more is being discussed about the role of safety in organizations, accreditations…read more →
PRESENTATION Sue Woodall, Founder, LiveWorkCancer Topic: CancerKind Workplace: Navigating Work and Careers with Compassion Cancer, a multifaceted disease with over 200 variations, affects approximately 1 million Australians today, a number projected to double by 2040. Recognising cancer as a disability under the Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Act, employers are required by the Fair Work Act to provide reasonable adjustments for employees…read more →
PRESENTATOR: Daniel O’Dea, Operational Research Officer, Alternative & Renewable Energy Technology, Fire & Rescue NSW Topic: How to safely use, store and charge lithium-ion batteries Lithium-ion batteries have become ubiquitous with our daily lives, both in our homes and workplaces. They are incredibly useful, storing large amounts of electrical energy which is key to our energy transition. Unfortunately, when they fail,…read more →
PRESENTATION Brian Hughes, ex-SafeWork Inspector and Work Health and Safety Consultant, Benchmark OHS Pty Ltd Topic: Issue Resolution It is a requirement to have an agreed procedure for Issue resolution that is set out in writing, but how many people understand what that means or how to achieve it, and what happens if an issue can’t be resolved? While it…read more →
PRESENTATOR: Pete Jensen, Director, Larsen Jensen Topic: Create Your Own Psychosocial Risk Management Blueprint Identifying, assessing and managing psychosocial hazards and risk can create a level of anxiety and stress for many safety professionals, and runs the risk of becoming just another compliance exercise, and missing the whole intention of the legislation. In this presentation Pete will offer an alternative view,…read more →
2024 Annual General Meeting & Christmas Luncheon to be held at 12:30 pm, on Wednesday 11th December 2024 at the Revesby Workers Club, At the AGM feedback on this year’s events will be requested, both negative and positive, along with suggestions on how we can improve our program next year. The AGM will also include a review of the financial report, the election of key steering committee…read more →
