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    Mercure Sydney Airport, 25th-26th September

    A collaboration between The Safety Institute of Australia and myosh Technology

Meet some of the most respected and leading safety thinkers in the industry

The inaugural Safety Forum will help your organisation keep up to date with some of the major challenges currently facing the industry such as aligning safety with business goals, WHS legislation, workplace bullying and how to gain the support of executives and board members.

PLENARIES

Day 1 Morning

Drew Rae 9:15-9:40
Lecturer, Griffith University
Focussing on The Safety of Work, Rather Than the Work of Safety (Keynote)

David Provan 9:40-10:05
Founder, Safety 21
Safety Differently Professionals: How new theory might transform our role

Adrian Manessis 10:05-10:30
Director, myosh
What Are The New Technologies Hitting HSE?

Brian Dixon 11:00-11:25
Lead Auditor, Bureau Veritas Australia
ISO 45001 -The New Global Standard in Occupational Health and Safety

Plenaries

Dr Sharron O’Neill 11:25-11:50
Senior Lecturer, UNSW (Canberra)
GRI403: The New Global Standard 

Steven Asnicar 11:50-12:15
Director, Chain of Responsibility
NHVR – Chain of Responsibility Law Changes in 2018

 

Day 2 Afternoon

Dr Peta Miller 1:30-1:55
Senior Lecturer, UNSW (Canberra)
Benchmarking– Can We Measure Our Psychological Health and Safety Performance?

Kelly Lovely 1:55-2:45
Change Facilitator, Bookenz Leadership
Diversity and Inclusion in the Australian Health & Safety Industry

Plenaries

Keith Govias 1:55-2:45
National HSE Manager, Reject Shop
Diversity and Inclusion in the Australian Health & Safety Industry

John Daly 3:15-3:40
Director, Safe Design Australia
Safety in Design
(Safety Differently)

Safety Forum Q&A 3:40-4:05

SAFETY DIFFERENTLY STREAM

Day 1

Kurt Warren 1:30-1:55
Head of HSE, Laing O’Rourke
Safety Differently – A Case Study

Chris Hubbard 1:55-2:20
General Manager (HSE), Energy Queensland
Safety is Defence: What Does Line Ownership Mean for the Safety Professional? 

Christine Withycombe 2:20-2:45
Head of HSE, Essential Energy
Essential Energy – Transition from Safety I to Safety II

Andrew Barrett (panel discussion) 3:15-4:30
Ft Deirdre Lewis, Campbell Warren, Greg Smith, Andrew Bowe
Safety Differently in Heavily Regulated Industries – Within reach or are we dreaming?

Day 2

Kelvin Genn 9:00-10:30
Managing Director, Art of Work
Stop Investigating, Start Learning (Learning from Normal Work)

Jop Havinga 9:00-10:30
Interpreter of Practice, Art of Work
Stop Investigating, Start Learning (Learning from Normal Work)

David Provan 11:00-11:25
Founder, Safety 21
Decluttering for Safety 

Mel Pollock 11:25-11:50

Interacting Differently

Kelvin Genn 11:50 – 12:15
Managing Director, Art of Work
The Redesign of Safety Management Systems 

TECHNOLOGY, STANDARDS, AND LAW STREAM

Day 1

Andrew Chapman 1:30-1:55
Director, Australian UAV
Using Drones to Improve Operational Safety

Ian Tarpey 1:55-2:20
National Health and Safety Manager, Cottonsoft
Managing Machinery Risk: Why We Need to Start Thinking Differently

David Wollage 2:20-2:45
Occupational Safety and Health Officer, City of Nedlands
The Basics and Hazard Cards

Susan Yates 3:15-3:40
Principal Consultant, Greencap
Workplace Psychological Injury: Identification of Risk Factors

Adrian Manessis 3:40-4:05
Director, myosh
myosh Technologies Part 1

Open Networking Session 4:05-4:30

Day 2

Sarah O’Leary 9:00-9:15
Client Relationship Manager, myosh
Using Online Learning for Policy Acceptance, Workplace Inductions and More

Naomi Kemp 9:15-9:40
Founder, Safe Expectations
Compliance Sense-Making

Brian Jackson 9:40-10:05
Special Counsel, Moray & Agnew
Mental Health and Safety in the Workplace: At a tipping point

Steve Hains  10:05-10:30
National Practice Lead, Greencap
Asbestos – Still a Major Issue for Business in 2018

Darren Schoof 11:00-11:25
Business Systems Analyst, myosh
HSEQ System Implementation

Darren Schoof 11:25-11:50
Business Systems Analyst, myosh
HSEQ Configuration Lesson

Adrian Manessis 11:50-12:15
Director, myosh
myosh Technologies Part 2 With Q&A

Brian Jackson

Special Counsel
Moray & Agnew

Mental Health and Safety in the Workplace:
At a Tipping Point

Mental health issues cost business billions of dollars worth in workers’ compensation, HSE claims, absenteeism and presenteeism…

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Brian Jackson

Special Counsel – Moray & Agnew

Mental Health and Safety in the Workplace: At a Tipping Point

Mental health issues cost business billions of dollars worth in workers’ compensation, HSE claims, absenteeism and presenteeism. The costs and hours-spent continue to rise year on year.  Brian’s presentation will identify the legal obligations of the employer, and explore strategies and options to promote employee well-being and manage mental health and safety issues in the workplace.

Dr Drew Rae

Safety Lecturer
Griffith University

Focussing on The Safety of Work, Rather Than the Work of Safety

Dr Rae’s recent publications challenge the common assumption that risk assessments and incident investigations lead to safer work. He suggests alternatives based around a better understanding…

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Dr Drew Rae

Safety Lecturer
Griffith University

Keynote – Safety Differently

Dr Drew Rae manages the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University, where he directs and teaches into the postgraduate (Graduate Certificate and Masters) programs in Safety Leadership. Drew’s research brings a critical cross-disciplinary approach to the examination of myths, rituals and bad habits that surround safety practice.

Drew’s recent publications challenge the common assumption that risk assessments and incident investigations lead to safer work. He suggests alternatives based around a better understanding of the constraints that prevent safe innovation, and the resources that support successful work. Drew presents the DisasterCast podcast and is Associate Editor for the journal Safety Science.

Brian Dixon

Lead Auditor
Bureau Veritas

ISO 45001 -The New Global Standard in
Occupational Health & Safety

Learn how ISO 45001 differs from existing standards, how it will apply to the Australian landscape, and how companies can treat its implementation as a strategic investment…

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Brian Dixon

Lead Auditor
Bureau Veritas

ISO 45001 -The New Global Standard in Occupational Health and Safety

ISO 45001, the long-awaited international standard for occupational safety and health, was published in March 2018 following a five-year development process. Learn how this new standard differs from existing standards, how it will apply to the Australian landscape, and how companies can treat its implementation as a strategic investment.

Andrew Chapman

Director
Australian UAV

Using Drone Technology to Improve
Operational Safety

Drones and drone data are already making a significant impact on the efficiency and effectiveness across a wide range of industries.

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Andrew Chapman

Director
Australian UAV

Using Drones to Improve Operational Safety

Drones and drone data are already making a significant impact on the efficiency and effectiveness across a wide range of industries. Fortunately, these financial benefits also go hand-in-hand with an improvement to safety by keeping people on the ground and out of harm’s way. In many cases drones can completely avoid the need for people to work at heights, in confined spaces, or in proximity to dangerous machinery, contamination and other hazards on site. The data being gathered initially for business-driven efficiency improvements is now being recognised as valuable to safety and compliance teams, who can now conduct Virtual Site Visits to assess various issues, take measurements and write their reports all without leaving the office. Where appropriate, the use of virtual rather than physical site visits also greatly reduces the highest statistical risks to many organisations: vehicle accidents and on-site injury from slips, trips, bites and falls.

Steven Asnicar

Director
Chain of Responsibility

NHVL – Chain of Responsibility Law Changes
in 2018

The upgrade of these laws makes it critical for every organisation to understand the legal liability and criminal prosecutional…

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Steven Asnicar

Director
Chain of Responsibility

NHVR – Chain of Responsibility Law Changes in 2018 

Changes to the Chain of Responsibility (CoR) laws are coming in mid-2018 with these changes aligning CoR laws more closely with workplace health and safety laws in Australia. The upgrade of these laws makes it critical for every organisation to understand the legal liability and criminal prosecutional aspects aim of CoR, which is to make sure everyone in the supply chain share responsibility for ensuring breaches of the HVNL do not occur.

COR Review Process provides an effective risk management system through:

  • Improving compliance planning processes by enabling the key focus to remain on core business and helping to ensure continuity of service delivery without breaching Transport, Infrastructure and Traffic processes
  • Reducing the likelihood of potentially costly ‘surprises’ and assists with preparing for challenging and undesirable events and outcomes through direct and indirect Chain of Responsibility Breaches
  • Contributing to improved resource allocation by targeting resources that produce the highest level of risks to the organisation across transport interaction
  • Improves efficiency and general performance for the organisation in managing COR risk
  • Contributing to the development of a positive organisational culture, in which people and agencies understand their purpose, roles and direction when assessing COR
  • Improving accountability, responsibility, transparency and governance in relation to both decision-making and outcomes
  • Adding value as a key component of decision-making, planning, policy, performance and resource allocation, when subject to continual improvement and changes in National Laws

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Steven Hains

National Practice Lead
Greencap

Asbestos – Still a Major Issue for Business in 2018

Despite being banned from use in Australia from 2004, asbestos is still a very topical issue in today’s workplaces. From recent issues with imported products from overseas still containing asbestos to a general lack of understanding…

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Steven Hains

National Practice Lead
Greencap

Asbestos – Still a Major Issue for Business in 2018

Despite being banned from use in Australia from 2004, asbestos is still a very topical issue in today’s workplaces. From recent issues with imported products from overseas still containing asbestos to a general lack of understanding of asbestos registers and requirements for intrusive/destructive testing prior to refurbishments — continued raising of awareness is required to continue to mitigate the risk associated with this deadly product. Whilst many organisations have committed to ‘asbestos free’ workplaces the sheer cost and practicability of this has been a significant challenge for business and Government.

This presentation will discuss the above current issues and best practice in asbestos risk management, including a case study from one of Greencap’s national clients on how they have managed and mitigated risk associated with asbestos across their portfolio.

 

Steven Hains

Steven joined Greencap in 2008 as a Health and Safety consultant and has been a key member of the NSW team for over 7 years. Since joining the business Steven has held various roles within WHS, property risk, business development and regional management roles. Steven has become a truly multi-disciplinary consultant, with tertiary qualifications in WHS, is a Class A Licenced Asbestos Assessor and Principal Auditor for OHS Management Systems.

Steven has extensive experience in the areas of property portfolio risk and compliance, WHS, contractor management, digital platforms and integrated service offerings – working with multiple large property owners/managers over the past 7 years.

Prior to his role as National Practice Lead – Property, Steven served as the Regional Operations Manager NSW/ACT – responsible for the four offices within this region – Canberra, Wollongong, Sydney and Newcastle.

Terry Foster

Leadership and Safety Coach
Safety Works

Safety Leadership – Relationship is Where it Starts

Terry is an experienced leadership and safety coach. He specialises in facilitating culture change programs designed to optimise and sustain safety performance for individuals, teams and organisations across a variety of industries…

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Terry Foster

Leadership and Safety Coach
Safety Works

Safety Leadership – Relationship is Where it Starts

Terry’s presentation will explore the following topics:

  • Reviewing how we currently relate  to safety
  • Considering how it could be different
  • Inquiring about how we currently relate to safety leadership
  • Articulating your stand
  • The values that drive you
  • Why engagement is important
  • What creating the space looks like

About Terry 

Terry is an experienced leadership and safety coach. He specialises in facilitating culture change programs designed to optimise and sustain safety performance for individuals, teams and organisations across a variety of industries, including aviation, manufacturing, utilities, construction, energy and resources, community services local, state and federal governments.

Terry’s passion for making a difference along with his authentic facilitation and coaching style provide the client with the opportunity for breakthrough improvements, personal empowerment, as well as a sense of achievement and fulfilment.

Naomi Kemp

Founder
Safe Expectations

Compliance
Sense-Making

Over the past 40 years, increasing goal and risk-based legislation has coincided with an increase in demand for safety professionals…

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Naomi Kemp

Founder
Safe Expectations

Compliance Sense-Making

Over the past 40 years, increasing goal and risk-based legislation has coincided with an increase in demand for safety professionals. Driven by regulation, liability and insurance arrangements, outsourcing and contracting, and technologies for surveillance, the primary role of a safety professional has been to enable compliance with the safety laws. By developing formalised rules, administrative actions, and authorisations to ensure safety, Provan (2017) suggests Safety professionals have become administrators of safety bureaucracies. In his examination of the bureaucratization of safety, Dekker (2014), conceded the benefits, such as the reduction of harm while highlighting counter effects including structural secrecy, ‘‘numbers games,’’ constraints on workers, diversity, and creativity all hampering of innovation.

In Queensland, small businesses are the predominant type of businesses actively trading (97.4%). By adding the 10,251 medium-sized businesses, this then totals 99.8% of Queensland’s businesses being in the SME category. When it comes to health and safety, the reality is for many of these businesses, meeting compliance is ‘good enough’. This continues to drive the demand for expertise to interpret and translate legislation into company actions to demonstrate compliance.

In this paper presentation, I discuss how the University of Queensland has taken compliance out of the legal office and implemented a Compliance Management System with the very people in charge of maintaining it. I explain the consultation process used to ‘make sense’ of compliance obligations and the assurance process which provides our officers with confidence and their due diligence verification. I conclude with how we changed the perceived need for bureaucratic processes and box ticking.

 

Naomi Kemp

Naomi is UQ’s Enterprise Compliance Manager, Board Member of the Safety Institute of Australia, Safe Expectations Founder and Convenor of the Queensland Young Safety Professionals Network.

But they are just titles, she really is…

A strong advocate for use of restorative justice approaches within safety legislation. Passionate about personal health and wellbeing. A determined optimist who challenges ‘the way it has always been done’. Mentor for young safety professionals and executive leader mentee. Naomi believes safety and compliance is part of what you do every day, it is not a constraint or a condition.

Susan Yates

Principal Consultant
Greencap

Workplace Psychological Injury: Identification of Risk Factors

The requirement to provide safe workplaces includes ensuring the psychological safety of people at work. To prevent psychological injury there is a need to identify at-risk employees and have suitable support mechanisms for them. Drawing on extensive…

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Susan Yates

Principal Consultant
Greencap

Workplace Psychological Injury: Identification of Risk Factors

The requirement to provide safe workplaces includes ensuring the psychological safety of people at work. To prevent psychological injury there is a need to identify at-risk employees and have suitable support mechanisms for them.

Drawing on extensive reviews of high cost psychological claims and the identification of organisational factors that contribute to psychological injury, Susan will share insights into key indicators and challenges in the area of workplace psychological safety.

Susan Yates

Susan Yates is a Principal WHS Consultant with Greencap, she has more than twenty-five years of professional risk, insurance, WHS and injury management experience.

She has held preventative risk management roles for both private and public companies, providing risk management advice and identification of emerging risks and solutions for workers compensation; and providing risk management input into the design of WHS tools and systems. Susan’s experience in risk management has been accumulated across numerous industry sectors including Health, Education, Human Services, Retail, Insurance and Hospitality.

In 2004, Susan took on a challenging role as a risk management consultant, assisting clients establish programs to prevent injury and reduce subsequent compensation claims.  During this time, she designed and delivered the NSW Treasury Managed Fund (TMF) Psychological Injury Risk Management Strategy, which formed the basis of the NSW strategy “Leading Well” launched by the Director General of NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet in 2007.

Andrew Barrett (Panel Discussion)

Deirdre Lewis, Campbell Warren,
Greg Smith, Andrew Bowe

Safety Differently in Heavily Regulated Industries:
Within Reach Or Are We Dreaming?

Changing the way we work, think, or act, is always hard. Moving away from the familiar is a challenge, one best done not by reading books or listening to talking heads, but engaging in a discussion about how things do…

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Ian Tarpey

National Health and Safety Manager
Cottonsoft

Managing Machinery Risk: Why We Need to Start Thinking Differently

We need to start looking at what is certain and what is uncertain when working with machinery.  No one can predict the future so we need to have a firm grasp on the present. We know risk is reduced by certainty. The degree of uncertainty we expose…

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Ian Tarpey

National Health and Safety Manager
Cottonsoft

Managing Machinery Risk: Why We Need to Start Thinking Differently

We need to start looking at what is certain and what is uncertain when working with machinery.  No one can predict the future so we need to have a firm grasp on the present.  We know risk is reduced by certainty. The degree of uncertainty we expose our people to is proportionate to the certainty we install.

We need to start understanding the nature of risk with machinery and how to have better conversations and closure of risk. If we cannot manage the risk with group controls, where do we go from here?

 

Ian Tarpey

Ian has a wealth of knowledge gained over the past 18 years as a Health and Safety Manager with multiple FMCG manufacturers including food, plus the wine and oil industries span over Australasia and Europe.

With a medical background, Ian has a postgraduate in Case Management which is enhanced with NEBOSH, Prince2, NLP and other associated qualifications.

In recent years Ian’s passion has been to think differently about Machine Safety with focuses on Systems, Evidence and Education, Behaviour and Risk.

myosh has enabled Ian to further identify, track and close risk, especially around machinery in the workplace which has delivered fundamental changes and benefits to Cottonsoft.

 

Chris Hubbard

General Manager – HSE
Major Australian Distribution Entity

Safety is Defence – What Does Line Ownership Mean for the Safety Professional?

“Safety is Defence” is a cultural safety program developed by a field supervisor in a major Australian electricity utility company. We will explore how the program came into being, the key concepts and work conducted to date. Additionally, we will explore…

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Chris Hubbard

General Manager – HSE
Major Australian Distribution Entity

Safety is Defence – What Does Line Ownership Mean for the Safety Professional?

“Safety is Defence” is a cultural safety program developed by a field supervisor in a major Australian electricity utility company. We will explore how the program came into being, the key concepts and work conducted to date. Additionally, we will explore the role of the Safety Team in the program and the challenges experienced with having to “back off” to ensure the program remained a true field initiative and not seen as the next corporate program.

Chris Hubbard

Chris is a safety professional with over 20 years experience in industry, primarily in the energy sector, having worked in mining, oil refining, on and offshore oil and gas, CSG-LNG and electricity distribution. Most recently, Chris held the lead HSE role for one of the major Queensland CSG-LNG projects and is currently General Manager – HSE for a major Australian Distribution Entity.

Kurt Warren

Head of HSE – Southern Region
Laing O’Rourke

Safety Differently
A Case Study

Kurt is a highly accomplished, insightful & business focused safety executive offering over 17 years’ experience in a range of…

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Kurt Warren

Head of HSE – Southern Region
Laing O’Rourke

Safety Differently – A Case Study

Kurt is a highly accomplished, insightful & business focused safety executive offering over 17 years’ experience in a range of safety leadership roles in Engineering, Nuclear, Aviation, Defence, Electricity, Water and most recently in Rail and Construction with Laing O’Rourke. His career is focused on high-risk industries with experience across varying business models and organisational risk profiles. From shop floor to boardroom Kurt is an advocate of the application of risk management, and looking at safety differently.

Kelly Lovely

Change Facilitator, Coach, Business Mentor – Bookenz Leadership

Diversity and Inclusion in the
Australian Health & Safety Industry

Now in its second year, the Women in Safety and Health (WISH) network remains committed to its strategic actions around mentoring…

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Kelly Lovely

Change Facilitator, Coach, and Business Mentor
Bookenz Leadership

Diversity and Inclusion in the Australian Health & Safety Industry

Now in its second year, the Women in Safety and Health (WISH) network remains committed to its strategic actions around mentoring, research and thought leadership, social media and collaboration events and more recently advocacy. But are we doing enough?

The purpose of this presentation is to present the results of the 2017 WISH Leadership Survey, to outline the 2018 activities and actions of WISH and to provoke / challenge and provide worked examples to the audience as to how it can do more to assist the beautiful goal of Diversity and Inclusion across the Australian Health & Safety industry.

 

Kelly Lovely

One half of Bookenz Leadership, Kelly is a change facilitator, individual coach, and business mentor.

Kelly supports the Australian Health & Safety industry through her work as a consultant, speaker, and Non-Executive Director – with a specialty in risk and audit and operational excellence.

With a long history in playing sport, Kelly is enthusiastic, pragmatic, up-to-date and has a proven track record in delivering outcomes (often in challenging and high-pressure environments) and in ‘serving up’ results to clients.

Kelly specialises in working with people and teams who are disengaged, ‘stuck’ or facing challenges with their work. She is passionate about business development and about assisting Boards, Leadership Groups/teams and individuals through organisational culture challenge and change.

Lastly, Kelly is current chair of the Women in Safety and Health (WISH) network and is a passionate advocate for the celebration of diversity and inclusion.

Keith Govias

National Health and Safety Manager
The Reject Shop

Diversity and Inclusion in the
Australian Health & Safety Industry

Keith brings over 10 years of experience in leading and managing safety functions within national retailers and international FMCG…

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Keith Govias

National Health and Safety Manager
The Reject Shop

Diversity and Inclusion in the Australian Health & Safety Industry

Keith is the National Workplace Health and Safety Manager for The Reject Shop (TRS).  TRS is a discount variety goods retailer that has 350 Stores nationally and employs over 5500 employees.

Keith has overall responsibility for the preventative safety strategy and injury management programs and leads a team of three safety professionals.  He holds a Masters in Occupational Health, Safety and Environment Management and brings over 10 years of experience in leading and managing safety functions within national retailers and international FMCG Manufacturers.

Keith also has significant experience in managing Self-Insured and non-self-insured Worker Compensation programs.

Adrian Manessis

Director
myosh

What Are The New Technologies
Hitting HSE?

Discover the new technologies that are making it easier for safety professionals to report and collate data used for improvement…

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Adrian Manessis

Director
myosh

What Are The New Technologies Hitting HSE?

Discover the new technologies that are making it easier for safety professionals to report and collate data used for improvement. Technologies such as geolocations, digital signatures, mobile inspections, fast hazard management, streamlined contractor management, and automated workflow are all examples of new technologies that make identification, investigation, and reporting easier.

 

Adrian Manessis 

Adrian has been directly involved in implementing safety management software for over 20 years to hundreds of organisations in a wide range of industries. He has extensive experience with analysing, supporting, training, integrating and customising safety management systems into small organisations and global multinationals with over 40,000 people.

Sarah O’Leary

Client Relationship Manager
myosh

Using Online Learning for Policy Acceptance,
Workplace Inductions, and More

Online Learning continues to be the most effective, and fastest growing, method of delivering organisational training and inductions. Sarah O’Leary will discuss how…

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Sarah O'Leary

Client Relationship Manager
myosh

Using Online Learning for Policy Acceptance, Workplace Inductions, and More

Online Learning continues to be the most effective method of delivering organisational training and inductions. In fact, the latest figures from the ABS reveal Online Learning as the fastest growing method of work-related training, having increased from 12.8% in 2013 to 19.2% in 2017.

Sarah O’Leary will discuss how organisations use Online Learning Platforms to share course content, test for understanding, and automatically issue certificates and notifications. Courses are web-based and can be completed anywhere with internet access, even on smartphones.

Online Learning provides an efficient way to manage site inductions for contractors, visitors and new employees. Send courses or inductions to site visitors before they arrive and save time. Reinforce and test knowledge with your own predefined questions and answers. Trainers can quickly and easily create professional courses featuring Video, Text, HTML and Images and include a variety of questions to test and verify participants knowledge.

You can include your unique Course link on your website or send email invites to potential attendees. Learn more about these techniques and how organisations create, share and manage Inductions and Training.

 

Sarah O’Leary

In her role as myosh Relationship Manager, Sarah O’Leary engages with clients and HSEQ professionals to identify organisational requirements and HSEQ trends.

Through extensive client feedback, the myosh team established a need for a comprehensive software solution that would make it easier for organisations to create, share and manage Training and Inductions.

David Wollage

Occupational Health and Safety Officer
City of Nedlands

The Basics and Hazard Cards

David was new to safety when he was appointed the Occupational Health and Safety Officer for The City of Nedlands, a Local West Australian Council with almost 200 employees over 21,000 residents…

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David Wollage

Occupational Health and Safety Officer
City of Nedlands

The Basics and Hazard Cards

David was new to safety when he was appointed the Occupational Health and Safety Officer for The City of Nedlands, a local West Australian council with almost 200 employees and over 21,000 residents. David is keen to share his successful implementation of ‘basics’, such as Hazards Cards and how they have adopted myosh Technologies to make significant improvements in council health and safety.

Kelvin Genn

Managing Director
Art of Work

Art of Work
Seminar

Kelvin Genn is a strategic systems thinker with experience in Human Factors and organizational re-engineering. He developed his systems…

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Kelvin Genn

Managing Director
Art of Work

Art of Work Seminar 

Kelvin Genn is a strategic systems thinker with experience in Human Factors and organizational re-engineering. He developed his systems thinking approach working in the Royal Australian Air Force for 10 years. Following this, for 10 years, he led a systems and risk management program across Asia Pacific and Europe with Compass Group Plc, the world’s largest support service company with more than 750,000 employees.  

More recently he was working for (SKM) Sinclair Knight Merz as the Global General Manager for Safety and Wellness delivering safety for major project construction in mining, energy, and infrastructure.

As a Board Member for NSW Health, Kelvin has worked as the NSW Health Director for Clinical Quality and Patient Safety. He has also worked with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to develop the national accreditation system for all healthcare providers across Australia. He was responsible for shaping the state and national agendas for clinical health care safety and quality through provision of expert advice to the NSW Health Management Board and the NSW Minister of Health. Currently, he holds board positions with the Food Safety Information Council and is also a committee member of the Safety Institute of Australia.

Jop Havinga

Interpreter of Practice
Art of Work

Art of Work
Seminar

Jop Havinga has a fascination with the messy details of work-as-done and how these play out in an organisation as a whole…

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Jop Havinga

Interpreter of Practice
Art of Work

Art of Work Seminar 

Jop Havinga has a fascination with the messy details of work-as-done and how these play out in an organisation as a whole. This from the factors that shape individual decisions, what meaning people ascribe to their environment, organisational actions, and how these affect work. Jop is currently finishing up his Ph.D. with the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University, on coordination and teamwork process of blast crews in mining. Before that Jop has worked in human-computer interaction on software and technology, and has gotten his bachelor in psychology and master in human factors and media psychology at Twente University in the Netherlands.

David Provan

Founder
Safety 21

Safety Differently Professionals: How New Theory Might
Transform Our Role

The safety management literature describes two distinct modes through which safety is achieved. These can be described as safety through…

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David Provan

Founder
Safety 21

Safety Differently Professionals: How New Theory Might Transform Our Role

The safety management literature describes two distinct modes through which safety is achieved. These can be described as safety through centralized control, or safety through guided adaptability. Safety through centralized control, labeled by Hollnagel as ‘Safety-I’, aims to align and control the organization and its people through the central determination of what is safe. ‘Safety-II’ aims to guide the organization and its people to be able to safely ‘adapt’ to emergent situations and conditions. Safety-II has been presented as a paradigm shift for organizations and theoreticians, but it has created difficulties for safety professional practice in organizations. In this presentation, I will provide new insight into the way that the safety professional role, and work within an organisation, adapts to a solely Safety-I approach, and provide direction for what safety professionals can practically do at the intersection of safety-I and safety-II. I will outline the implications and way forward for safety professionals. How does the role of a safety professional change when safety-I and safety-II need to practically coexist? When do safety professionals re-enforce, and when do they under-mine frontline work-as-done? I will outline specific activities for safety professionals to change, and to add to their role to move towards a Safety-II mode of safety, while balancing safety-I organizational demands. This will move the safety professional further towards what I believe is our fundamental responsibility, and previously proposed by David Woods as a measure of resilience, that is – ‘to create foresight about the changing shape of risk before people are harmed.’

 

David Provan

David is a recognised international safety expert. He is the founder of safety consultancy firm Safety 21, and also a part-time lecturer and researcher at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia).

David’s consulting business, Safety 21, supports organisations to transition their safety practices and resources into the 21st century, leveraging the latest thinking, research, and technology. He is presently working with clients in the; transport, oil and gas, construction, logistics, mining, and utilities industries. David will complete his Ph.D. research project in 2018 titled, “What is the role of a Safety Professional? The identity, practice and future of the profession”. He has recently published research on; safety professionals, safety theory and organisational safety practice.

He is the former General Manager Health, Safety and Environment for Origin Energy. Prior to that he was the Head of Quality, Safety and Sustainability for Siemens (Pacific Region), and the Manager of Safety Systems and Accreditation for Queensland Rail. He has held Safety Executive Leadership positions across several high-hazard industries with international operations for the last 20 years, in public, private and government organisations.

David has a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology), Masters of Health Science (Risk Management and OHS), and a Masters of Business Administration (Finance). David is a Chartered Generalist OHS Professional Member of the Safety Institute of Australia, and a Member of the International Resilience Engineering Association.

 

John Daly

Director
Safe Design Australia

Achieving Safety Through
Design

John is recognised as an international expert in health, safety, environment, and wellbeing matters, with a 22year specialisation in this field…

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John Daly

Director
Safe Design Australia

Safety In Design

John is recognised as an international expert in health, safety, environment and wellbeing matters, with a 22year specialisation in this field. He has provided safety consultancy and expert witness services to a broad range of organisations across diverse industries, most notably spending five years leading HS&W for Vodafone Group. John is passionate about Safe Design, seeking to share stories and develop innovative solutions to positively impact individuals and influence organisational mindset. When not doing this, he’s getting wet sailing, or wiping bugs from his motorcycle helmet.

Safe Design Australia’s team of work health and safety consultants and risk managers provide services throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region. Their clients include architects, building designers, developers, design and construct companies, principal contractors, engineers, and government organisations. Safe Design Australia understands that good design is important, and safe design can be achieved without compromising design intent

Christine Withycombe

Head of Health Safety and Environment
Essential Energy

Essential Energy – Transition from Safety I
to Safety II

Amidst the demands that come with whole of business transformation, Christine has established a new strategic framework that will shift safety from…

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Christine Withycombe

Head of Health Safety and Environment
Essential Energy

Essential Energy –  Transition from Safety I to Safety II

Christine leads the health, safety and environment function for Essential Energy. Amidst the demands that come with whole of business transformation, she has established a new strategic framework that will shift safety from bureaucracy and compliance to a simpler, where our people are empowered and enabled.

Christine is a passionate advocate of ‘people as a solution’ to bring about sustainable change. Her safety transformation program combines the best elements of the organisation’s existing safety practices with a new approach focused on empowering employees to create safe and successful work.

Christine has over 20 years’ experience leading organisational change and has helped teams in industries as diverse as energy and utilities, security and logistics and banking and financial services to sustainably improve their performance. Originally an Accountant and Auditor, she has focused her career on the development and implementation of enterprise risk, business improvement and health and safety frameworks both in Australia and overseas, including developing countries.

Dr Sharron O’Neill

Senior Lecturer
UNSW (Canberra)

GRI403: What The New Global Standard on WHS Reporting Means for Australian Organisations

Dr O’Neill was Chair of the GRI’s GRI403 project working group. Her area of research expertise is accountability for WHS performance and her projects examine the design…

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Dr Sharron O'Neill

Senior Lecturer
UNSW

GRI403: What The New Global Standard on WHS Reporting Means for Australian Organisations

Dr Sharron O’Neill is a senior lecturer in the School of Business at the UNSW Canberra and was Chair of the GRI’s GRI403project working group. Sharron’s area of research expertise is accountability for work health and safety (WHS) performance and her projects examine the design, measurement, reporting and assurance of financial and non-financial measures of OHS performance.

Sharron holds academic and professional accounting qualifications and financial accounting experience in manufacturing, transport and healthcare industries. Her research projects bring the accounting and safety professions together with industry, government and academia and she is a member of CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand, Australian Institute of Company Directors and Safety Institute of Australia.

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