myosh HSEQ Industry Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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myosh Hosts regular HSEQ Industry Webinars. These podcasts include all of our webinars presented by leading industry experts and include topics such as Safety Differently, Mental Health, HSEQ Law, Covid-19, Leadership, Learning Teams, HOP (Human Organisational Performance, Chain of Responsibility, Safety Culture and Climate and much more.
‘Human error’ might be the most expensive phrase in safety, because it ends the conversation exactly where it should begin.
In this episode, Mark Alston explains why investigations so often treat symptoms and miss the system underneath.
We talk through ‘work as normal’, why superficial findings only fix one worker or one machine, and a practical method for reaching systemic risk, including why you should interview leadership for a near-miss, and why the analysis timeline doesn't belong in the report.
Who should listen
Safety managers, investigators and operations leaders who want their investigations to deliver more than a tidy report, and anyone curious about systems thinking and Safety II in practice.
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The big lessons come from the big events, right?
Not according to Mark Alston.
In this episode he argues the minor incidents we barely look at are our richest source of learning, if we stop tick-boxing them.
Mark shares the story of an incident that happened twice at the same mine, explains why 'failure to follow procedure' is a symptom rather than a cause, and walks through Event Insights: seven conversational questions that shift investigation from who failed to what failed.
Who should listen
Safety managers, investigators, supervisors and operations leaders who want more from everyday events, without more paperwork or blame.
New episodes regularly. Subscribe and leave us a review, it helps other safety professionals find us.
Same mining site. Same electricity. Roughly three-and-a-half times the emissions, depending on which grid you're on. National averages hide it. Audit-grade reporting under ISSA 5000 won't.
In this episode, Edna Goh from eco-shaper joins the myosh Academy for the practical, operational session in our three-part series Managing What Matters. We work through three things: the data overlap between HSE workflows and greenhouse-gas accounting, the regional emissions reality that makes national grid averages dangerous, and the Critical Control Management framework, top event, hazard ID, critical controls, verification, escalation, applied to carbon hotspots.
You'll hear which HSE data sources already feed Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions accounting, why a mining site on the Victorian grid emits roughly 3.5× more from electricity than the same site in South Australia, and why the discipline that runs your safety risk program is the same discipline carbon risk now needs.
HSE, HSEQ and operational-risk leaders in mining, construction, infrastructure and energy. Carbon and assurance leads preparing for AASB S2 reporting. And sustainability leads who already work with HSE and want a workflow they can begin applying next week.
New episodes weekly. Subscribe and leave us a review, it helps other safety professionals find us.
PAW is closing, and for a lot of Australian organisations, that's about to expose a gap they didn't know they had. In this episode, we sit down with Ian Fagan (Founder) and Sam McKenzie (Director of Psychosocial Compliance) from Skodel to unpack what's really changed in psychosocial risk compliance across Australia, and specifically in NSW, where WHS Codes of Practice became a legally enforceable benchmark from 1 July 2026.
We discuss three real, recent enforcement cases, a professional college board found to have mismanaged its own bullying risk, a ten-month workplace investigation that itself became the hazard, and a fatal fatigue case that ended in a $1.43 million fine and a director's personal conviction, and what they reveal about what regulators are actually testing for. Ian and Sam also share the practical 30/60/90-day plan for building an audit-ready psychosocial risk system once PAW is gone.
Who should listen:
HR leaders, WHS and HSE professionals, and anyone in governance or executive roles responsible for psychosocial risk, compliance reporting, or board-level safety oversight.
New episodes weekly. Subscribe and leave us a review, it helps other safety professionals find us.
We run more investigations than ever, so why aren't workplaces getting safer?
In this episode, Mark Alston of Investigations Differently argues the problem starts with how we classify events.
Mark unpacks why our injury classifications are largely made up, why a month-long investigation that ends in a ‘watch where you're walking’ toolbox talk is a red flag, and how the Event Learning Assessment helps you match effort to the genuine opportunity to learn.
You'll hear why ‘credible potential’ matters, why you should give your team permission not to investigate, and how to reframe the whole thing around risk.
Who should listen
Safety managers, investigators and operations leaders who are buried in incident paperwork that never seems to change anything, and anyone curious about Safety Differently, HOP and the New View in practice.
Your CFO forwards you an email: the auditor needs site-level fuel and electricity data, assured and signed off by a deadline and no one warned you it was coming.
In this episode, Grace Phelan of EcoShaper joins myosh Academy to explain why mandatory climate disclosure has quietly become an HSE responsibility, and why most teams are far closer to compliance than they realise.
We cover the three forces:
- Regulators,
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Capital and
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Supply chain
Making disclosure unavoidable; the difference between sustainability, ESG and climate disclosure (only one is the law); Australia's AASB S2 timeline and why FY27 is closer than it looks; and the four things assured disclosure needs that HSE teams already own.
Grace closes with one concrete action you can take this week.
This is Session 1 of a three-part series. Whether you're in mining, construction, infrastructure, energy or aged care, if you run HSE at a reporting entity, this one's for you.
Guest: Grace Phelan, Director of Customer & Partner Relationships, EcoShaper
We're communicating more than at any point in history, yet so many people still feel unseen and unheard at work. In this episode, psychologist Dr Natalie Flatt joins myosh Academy host Kristina Shields to explore what happens when we truly listen.
Nat explains why hearing someone and understanding them are two very different experiences, how unconscious bias grows in the absence of information, and why listening is one of the most visible indicators of psychological safety.
She also shares practical ways to build a genuine listening culture, reverse mentoring, coffee roulette and listening circles, and closes with a question worth sitting with: have I listened long enough?
In this episode:
- The difference between communicating and listening
- How listening interrupts the stories we invent about people
- Why curiosity is an underrated leadership capability
- Listening as the foundation of psychological safety
- Moving from diversity to genuine inclusion and belonging
- Talking with generations rather than about them
- Three practical habits to make listening part of culture
A standout line: "Bias thrives in simplicity. Listening thrives in complexity."
This episode is part of the myosh Academy free weekly series on workplace safety, wellbeing and leadership. Listen to the full conversation, then join us live next time:
Guest: Dr Natalie Flatt, Connect Psych Services · Host: Kristina Shields, myosh
The leaders making the biggest difference right now aren't the loudest. They're the most aware. In this episode, executive coach Annette Gray joins myosh Academy to share The Practice of Wise Leadership – a practical, grounded approach to leading consciously through complexity, change, and pressure.
We discuss what wise leadership actually looks like in 2026, why traditional command-and-control models are falling short, and the inner work that distinguishes conscious leaders from reactive ones. Annette shares the daily practices any leader can adopt, and then takes live questions from the audience for an honest, peer-to-peer conversation about leading well right now.
Who should listen: Senior leaders, safety and HSEQ managers, emerging leaders, and HR professionals in safety-critical industries. Anyone who wants to lead with more awareness and less reactivity.
New episodes weekly. Subscribe and leave us a review – it helps other safety professionals find us.
Most safety teams already run pre-task talks and post-incident reviews, so why do the same risks keep showing up, and the same lessons keep slipping through the cracks?
In this episode, ex-combat aviation pilots Sam Gladman and Mike Mason of On Target Teaming open up the brief and debrief framework that's non-negotiable in a fighter jet cockpit and explain why most HSEQ leaders have never had access to it. We discuss why typical toolbox talks underdeliver, what an effective brief actually looks like, how to surface insight from routine operations (not just incidents), and how a properly structured debrief builds the psychological safety teams need to talk honestly about performance.
You'll hear practical, ready-to-use guidance any safety leader, supervisor, or operations professional can apply on their next shift, whether you work in mining, construction, manufacturing, aviation, or any safety-critical environment.
This is essential listening for HSEQ professionals who want to move from compliance to performance.
New episodes weekly. Subscribe and leave us a review, it helps other safety professionals find us.
Following the overwhelming response to Part 1, this session moves beyond awareness and into what organisations must do next.
In this conversation, we explore how ADHD intersects with psychosocial risk, work design, and WHS responsibilities, and why treating ADHD as an individual issue may be missing the bigger picture.
Because when you map ADHD against workplace conditions, you don’t just see a performance challenge…
You see:
- Role ambiguity
- Cognitive overload
- Constant interruption
- Poorly managed change
All of which are named psychosocial hazards.
In this session, we cover:* What Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) looks like in the workplace * Why role clarity and structure are critical for performance * The impact of cognitive load and fragmented work environments * How poor work design creates invisible strain * Why this is a WHS and leadership responsibility * What good work design actually looks like in practice
The part most organisations don’t see:What happens when someone performs all day…
but has nothing left when they get home.
As discussed in this session, the cost of poor work design often doesn’t show up in:
- Performance reviews
- Absenteeism
- Dashboards
But it is real, and it matters.
Who this is for:* HSE / WHS Professionals * HR & People Leaders * Executives & Senior Leaders * Anyone responsible for work design, performance, or team wellbeing
About the presenters:Dr Natalie Flatt — Connect Psych Services CEO & Psychologist & Chief Mental Health Advisor
Kristina Shields — myosh Webinar Host
Burnout is no longer just a wellbeing issue — it’s a critical workplace safety risk.
In this webinar, Greg Stark (Founder & Director, Better Being) explores how burnout develops long before it appears in lag indicators like absenteeism, psychological injury claims, and workers compensation data.
Drawing on research across 3,000+ Australian workers, this session unpacks how declining capacity impacts focus, decision-making, and safety outcomes — often without being formally recognised in traditional safety systems.
In this session, you’ll learn:✔ Why burnout often goes undetected until it’s too late
✔ The link between capacity, workload, and safety risk
✔ Early behavioural signals leaders should be watching for
✔ The limitations of relying on lag indicators
✔ Practical strategies to identify and manage burnout risk earlier
Greg also shares actionable insights on how leaders can become early detection systems, and why supporting leader wellbeing is one of the most powerful levers for improving both safety and performance.
📊 Featuring real-time audience insights and practical Q&A discussion.
Adult ADHD diagnoses are rising rapidly, particularly among high-performing professionals in their 30s, 40s and 50s.
In this candid conversation, Kristina Shields from myosh sits down with lifespan psychologist Dr Natalie Flatt to explore what late diagnosis ADHD reveals about modern work design, leadership and psychosocial risk.
Together they unpack the hidden cost of masking and over-functioning, why many successful professionals feel chronically overwhelmed, and how workplace systems, not just individuals, play a critical role in performance and wellbeing.
You’ll learn:
- Why ADHD diagnoses are increasing among professionals
- The neuroscience behind executive functioning and attention
- How masking and over-functioning lead to burnout
- The hidden strengths many neurodivergent professionals bring to teams
- Practical ways leaders can design work that supports clarity, performance and psychological safety
This discussion reframes ADHD from an individual deficit to a workplace systems conversation, one that can improve outcomes for everyone.
Watch the full conversation and rethink how work is designed in your organisation.
📌 Featuring:
Dr Natalie Flatt — Lifespan Psychologist & Co-Founder, Connect Psych Services
Kristina Shields — myosh
Create eLearning that your people actually connect with.
In this co-hosted webinar, myosh and My Brand Digital explore how to design eLearning that looks, sounds, and feels like your workplace, building engagement, trust, and cultural alignment across your teams.
Join Leonie Moora and Jade Sweeney from My Brand Digital as they showcase how authentic visuals, Australian voices, and relatable language can transform compliance and safety training from generic to genuinely impactful.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- How custom visuals and scenarios bring real workplace stories to life
- The power of authentic Australian narration and tone
- Ways to rebrand library modules to match your organisation’s culture
- Real examples of tailored learning that boosts engagement and credibility
Whether you’re in HSE, HR, or Learning & Development, this webinar will inspire new ideas for creating training that truly reflects your people and your culture.
Learn more:
My Brand Digital — https://mybranddigital.com/
myosh — https://www.myosh.com/
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Session 3 of the Elevate Leadership Capability Series – proudly presented by myosh and FEFO Consulting.
In this final instalment of the series, we dive into the essential practices that enable high-performing teams and explore how coaching—not commanding—is the key to sustainable leadership impact.
Join expert presenters Terry Swanton (FEFO Consulting) and Karen Steele, a seasoned trainer and performance coach, as they share actionable strategies to build team trust, psychological safety, and critical thinking through a coaching-based approach.
What You’ll Learn:
- The #1 trait of high-performing teams (and how to build it)
- How to apply proven coaching frameworks to elevate leadership effectiveness
- Common pitfalls vs leading practices in coaching for safety
- The essentials of a coaching culture — mindset, cadence, and real-world tools
- How team health drives organisational performance
Whether you’re in safety, operations, or executive leadership, this session offers practical, research-informed insights to strengthen team dynamics and create a culture where performance thrives.
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Session 2 of the Elevate Leadership Capability Series – hosted by myosh, in collaboration with Ventia and FEFO Consulting.
In this session, we explore how senior leaders and workers can work together to drive real safety and performance outcomes through trust, psychological safety, and empowerment.
You’ll hear from:
- Laurell McLean – General Manager of Training, Ventia
- Saskia Germain – Training Delivery Lead, Ventia
- Morgan Slocombe – Senior Consultant, FEFO Consulting
What You'll Learn:
How leaders can inspire trust and create psychologically safe environments
How to empower workers to speak up and take personal ownership
Why coaching beats command-and-control leadership
Insights from Ventia’s award-winning Elevate and Safe for Life programs
Leadership styles that support mental health and resilience
This session is packed with real-world frameworks, behavioural insights, and tools you can immediately apply — whether you're in executive leadership or working on the front line.
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Session 1 of the Elevate Leadership Capability series, presented by myosh in partnership with Fefo Consulting.
In this powerful webinar, Fefo’s Bradley Brookes and Rachael Fitzgerald explore how organisations can move beyond reactive compliance and build systemic resilience using the proven principles of High Reliability Organisations (HROs).
Discover why many businesses unknowingly drift towards failure—and what leaders can do to identify weak signals, embed proactive risk management, and create a high-performance safety culture.
What you’ll learn:
- The 5 principles of High Reliability Organisations
- Why traditional safety systems miss early warning signs
- How to foster accountability and operational discipline
- Practical strategies to elevate leadership impact
Learn more about myosh safety solutions: https://www.myosh.com
Explore Fefo Consulting: https://www.fefo.com.au
Don’t miss Session 2: High Performing Senior Leaders & Workers – coming soon.
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Creating Influence – How Safety Professionals Can Win Leaders Over
Presented by Alanna Ball | Hosted by myosh
Recorded: 25 September 2025
About this Session:
Every WHS professional knows the frustration of having the right solution, the right data, and the right intent—yet struggling to gain traction with leadership. In this high-energy and practical session, Alanna Ball, founder of Women in Safety, shares how influence—not authority—is the true driver of sustainable safety outcomes.
Discover how to:
- Translate safety messages into the language leaders understand
- Apply the Trust Equation to build credibility and rapport
- Shift from compliance enforcer to trusted strategic partner
- Use “Who, Not How” thinking to collaborate across departments
- Turn dashboards and data into powerful visual influence tools
Whether you’re an emerging safety professional or a seasoned leader, this session will help you move from being in the room to being heard in the room.
Key Topics Covered:
- Influence vs Authority: Why trust beats titles
- Strategic storytelling to drive engagement
- Using organisational strategy to frame safety messaging
- Stakeholder mapping and leveraging internal partnerships
- Harnessing AI tools to communicate more effectively
About the Presenter:
Alanna Ball is a global leader in WHS, consultant to organisations across Australia, and founder of the Women in Safetycommunity and awards. Her work is driven by collaboration, curiosity, and a bold commitment to making safety influenceable and inclusive.
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What happens after the critical event — and how do we ensure it never happens again?
In this powerful final instalment of the Critical Risk Management Series, hosted by myosh in collaboration with FEFO Consulting, we explore how high-performing organisations learn from real work to drive continuous improvement and prevent repeat incidents.
📍 Key themes include:
- Why traditional investigations often miss the deeper organisational learning
- The shift from blame to understanding context
- The difference between Work as Imagined and Work as Done
- How to build psychological safety for honest reflection
- Turning lessons into actions that prevent catastrophic failure
🎙️ Presenters:
- Morgan Slocombe, Principal Consultant at FEFO Consulting – sharing strategies to build feedback loops that fuel resilience.
- Warren Smith, Director at Incident Analytics – diving into how data and insight can drive proactive safety leadership.
🧠 This session moves beyond compliance to explore the deeper systems thinking, operational learning, and mindset shifts that allow critical risk programs to evolve and improve.
Whether you’re in safety leadership, operational management, or governance — this is essential learning to close the loop on critical risk.
🎯 This is Part 3 of a 3-Part Series:
- ✅ Part 1: Designing Safer Work
- ✅ Part 2: Verifying Critical Controls in Action
👉 Explore the full series and register for future events at www.myosh.com
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Are your critical controls really working in the field — or just on paper?
In Part 2 of the myosh + FEFO Consulting Critical Risk Series, we go beyond the plan to explore how organisations can verify the presence and effectiveness of critical controls in real-world conditions.
🧠 Featuring deep insight from:
- Terry Swanton, Director at FEFO Consulting
- Nicole Copeland, HSSE Lead for Asia Pacific at Puma Energy — a global leader with 25+ years’ experience across engineering, energy, logistics, and ESG integration.
Together, they unpack:
- Why verifying control effectiveness matters more than ever
- How to prioritise assurance activity without overburdening the workforce
- Cultural and psychological drivers that shape risk perception
- How technology like wearables and geospatial tools are changing the game
- How to move from compliance-focused audits to conversations that drive learning
- The real-world dangers of relying on controls that are present… but not effective
🔥 Key Topics Covered:
- Human and organisational factors influencing safety outcomes
- Early warning signs and chronic unease in high-risk environments
- Case studies from construction, transport, and retail
- The power of engaging frontline teams in verification activities
🎯 Whether you're just starting your Critical Control journey or looking to take your safety strategy to the next level, this session is packed with actionable takeaways and honest, expert insights.
💡 This is Part 2 of a 3-Part Series:
- ✅ Part 1: Work Imagined — Watch here
- 🔜 Part 3: Learning from Work – Turning Lessons into Lifesaving Actions
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Welcome to Part 1 of the Critical Risk Management Series – "Work Imagined: Designing Safer Work Before It Starts."
In this powerful session hosted by myosh in collaboration with FEFO Consulting, safety experts Bradley Brooks and Garrith Parker unpack how organisations can proactively strengthen critical controls before high-risk work begins.
🔍 What you'll learn in this session:
- How to assess high-energy hazards and visualise potential failures
- Why context matters when designing your critical control strategy
- The role of HECA in managing catastrophic risk
- How to balance traditional risk assessments (like JSAs) with modern CCM approaches
- Tips to scale critical control management to your organisation's size and needs
- Real-world insights into shifting from paperwork to practical safety systems
Whether you're starting your Critical Control Management (CCM) journey or refining your current practices, this session offers practical tools and authentic advice to help you prevent the rare, but potentially fatal events.
🎙 Speakers:
- Bradley Brooks, Partner, FEFO Consulting
- Garrith Parker, Principal Consultant, FEFO Consulting
- Hosted by Kristina Shields, myosh
💡 This is Part 1 of a 3-Part Series:
- 🔜 Part 2: Work Done – Verifying Controls in Action
- 🔜 Part 3: Learning from Work – Turning Lessons into Lifesaving Action
👉 Don’t miss the next sessions – register here: [Insert registration link]
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In this game-changing webinar from myosh, discover how Artificial Intelligence is transforming traditional risk management into a smarter, faster, and more proactive process.
Join Adrian Manessis, architect of myosh’s innovative Critical Control Management (CCM) module, as he demonstrates how AI can automate and enhance the way your organisation approaches risk—from WHS to operational and financial domains.
✅ In this session, you’ll learn how to: • Instantly generate Bowtie diagrams and risk assessments using AI • Refine and customise AI outputs for your unique context • Validate existing assessments and uncover missed risks • Move from reactive to predictive safety • Leverage live dashboards and AI-driven insights for better decision-making
🔍 Say goodbye to time-consuming, incomplete risk assessments. This is your opportunity to revolutionise the way you think about risk—using tools that do the heavy lifting for you.
📅 Originally recorded: Thursday, 12 June 2025
🎯 Duration: 1 hour
📍 Presented by: myosh - Technology for Safer Workplaces
👇 Learn more and request a demo at: https://www.myosh.com
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Welcome to Session 3 of the Strategy for Safety webinar series, presented by myosh and FEFO Consulting.
In this final session, we focus on how to shift your safety performance mindset—from simply measuring outcomes, to tracking the inputs and behaviours that drive real improvement.
Featured Speakers:
- Mark Wright, Founder & Director of FEFO Consulting – an expert in strategy execution, leadership, and building effective safety systems.
- Adam Jackson, Head of Health, Safety and Environment – Pacific at JLL – an experienced safety leader with a passion for meaningful metrics and culture-driven change.
🎯 Key Learnings:
- Understand the difference between OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs—and when to use each
- Discover how to engage your people and gather honest, actionable feedback
- Learn how to measure what matters and use those insights to refine and improve over time
This session is the perfect close to a series designed to help organisations set vision, align teams, and measure what drives safety success.
📅 Recorded: 5 June 2025 🌐 Learn more or explore more webinars: https://www.myosh.com/academy/webinars
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Welcome to Session 2 of the Strategy for Safety series, hosted by myosh in collaboration with FEFO Consulting.
In this powerful session, we explore how to create a safety strategy that truly wins—by aligning the right people, strategy, and influence to drive performance.
Featured Speakers:
- Nicole Kidman, Executive General Manager at Journey Beyond – an experienced leader in operational safety, business strategy, and governance across high-risk industries.
- Rachel Fitzgerald, Partner at FEFO Consulting – a specialist in executive safety coaching, organisational strategy, and safety culture transformation.
🎯 What you’ll learn:
- How to align your strategy with your unique organisational context
- Ways to build the right capability and capacity for safety success
- Proven techniques to influence across all levels of the business
Whether you’re a safety leader, senior executive, or strategy professional, this session offers practical insights to help you build a high-impact, people-driven safety approach.
📅 Recorded: 29 May 2025 🌐 Learn more or register for upcoming sessions: https://www.myosh.com/academy/webinars
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Welcome to Part 1 of the Strategy for Safety webinar series, presented by FEFO Consulting in collaboration with myosh.
In this session, Mark Wright, Founder & Director of FEFO Consulting, and Todd Coates explore how to ignite your organisation’s safety identity and build momentum for meaningful change.
🔍 Key Takeaways:
- Learn how to determine where to focus your safety efforts—and where not to
- Understand how context shapes safety success
- Set a bold vision to engage and inspire your workforce
This is the first of three powerful webinars designed to elevate your safety strategy and leadership. Whether you're a safety leader, executive, or change agent—this series is for you.
📅 Recorded: 22 May 2025
🌐 Learn more or register for upcoming sessions: https://www.myosh.com/academy/webinars
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Got questions about Autopilot, Inattentive Habits, or human factors like stress and fatigue? We’ve got answers.
In this exclusive live Q&A session, Cristian Sylvestre, Founder of HabitSafe, joins myosh to respond to the most thought-provoking questions submitted throughout our three-part webinar series on the neuroscience of human behaviour and safety.
This session wraps up the series with a practical, insightful conversation about how to apply what we've learned in real-world settings—from the subconscious-conscious interplay to the disruptive effects of stress, rushing, frustration, and fatigue.
🎙️ Topics Covered:
- How Autopilot drives most of our daily behaviours
- What causes complacency—and how to counter it
- When and why human factors override safe decision-making
- Applying neuroscience to influence safer habits at work
🧠 Whether you joined all three webinars or are just catching up, this Q&A will help bring the series full circle and offer new clarity on improving safety outcomes.
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Why do smart people still make unsafe decisions—even when they know better?
In this final instalment of our three-part series with Cristian Sylvestre from HabitSafe, we uncover the missing link in human behaviour and safety performance.
We’ve already explored how Autopilot and Inattentive Habits drive most of our actions. But what happens when stress, frustration, or fatigue hijack those systems?
🧠 In this session:
Learn how these human factors disrupt the subconscious-conscious interplay, activating different neural circuits and influencing in-the-moment behaviour—often without us even realising it.
💡 Discover how we can use the latest neuroscience insights to help people manage these common disruptions and make safer decisions, even under pressure.
🎙️ Featuring:
Cristian Sylvestre, Founder of HabitSafe
Professional speaker, author, and expert in applying behavioural science and neuroscience to safety performance.
🗣️ We take questions live throughout the session! If we don’t get to yours, we’ll follow up in our post-webinar discussions.
👉 Part 3 of 3 – Watch the full series to transform your understanding of human behaviour and workplace safety.
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In this session, myosh teams up with Skodel to explore how businesses can effectively manage psychosocial risk without complex systems or processes.
We walk through the myosh Psychosocial Risk Module, designed to help organisations meet legal obligations under the Model Code of Practice – Identify, Assess, Control, and Review – in full consultation with their workforce.
🔍 In this session, we cover:
- The latest case law, including a $1M Enforceable Undertaking and the first NSW PCBU charged with Poor Organisational Justice
- The rise in psychological injury claims and ministerial commentary
- A practical demonstration of how to:
- Consult with staff
- Turn feedback into risk assessments
- Involve employees in control measures
- Complete a simple and effective review process
This session is essential viewing for WHS professionals, HR leaders, and anyone responsible for workplace wellbeing and compliance.
📌 Want to see how myosh can simplify your approach to psychosocial risk?
👉 Visit https://www.myosh.com
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The link between safety culture and safety outcomes is well established—but are you truly getting the most from your culture diagnostics?
In this insightful webinar, Dr. Amy Hawkes, Head of Psychology at Sentis, shares the Sentis approach to Positive Safety, explores the difference between safety culture and climate, and provides practical tips to overcome survey cynicism and maximise the value of your assessment results.
👉 Key Takeaways:
- The difference between safety culture and safety climate
- How culture/climate assessments support psychosocial risk management
- Why survey cynicism is more damaging than survey fatigue
- How to choose the right assessment and turn results into meaningful action
💬 Stay tuned until the end for actionable advice and tools you can apply in your own organisation.
💡 Got questions or experiences to share? Drop them in the comments—we'd love to hear from you!
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Are you focusing on what truly matters in your safety management, or just going through the motions? In this insightful webinar, Adrian Manessis, the architect behind myosh’s Critical Control Management (CCM) module, takes you through how to prevent serious incidents using our innovative CCM tools, now enhanced with Bowtie diagrams and groundbreaking A.I. functionality.
Learn how to:
- Identify and manage critical controls
- Build and manage Bowtie diagrams
- Leverage A.I. to automate and streamline risk assessments
Discover how these powerful features can help you shift from reactive to proactive safety management, enabling you to focus on what’s truly important, and drive efficiency in preventing incidents across health, safety, and quality.
Join us for this interactive session and gain the knowledge and tools to optimize your safety efforts with myosh!
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Leadership shapes workplace culture—but how can leaders truly foster psychological safety while managing the demands of real work?
In the final session of the Psychosocial Safety for Leaders series, myosh and FEFO Consulting explore how leaders can build the confidence, communication skills, and mindset needed to drive positive change and create mentally healthy, high-performing teams.
🚀 What You’ll Gain:
✅ Understand how leadership behaviours directly impact culture, engagement, and performance
✅ Learn how to navigate difficult conversations with empathy and clarity
✅ Discover simple, practical strategies to foster psychological safety in your workplace
🎤 Featuring expert presenters:
👨💼 Mark Wright – Founder, FEFO Consulting | Global Safety & Risk Leader
🧠 Dr. Liz King – Organisational Psychologist | Specialist in Leadership & Workplace Wellbeing
📌 Watch now and take the next step in leading with confidence, care, and clarity.
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Psychosocial safety is a leadership imperative—but how do you embed it into high-level decision-making?
In this second session of the Psychosocial Safety for Leaders series, myosh and FEFO Consulting explore how executives and board members can effectively prioritise psychosocial risk management while driving business success.
🏛 What You’ll Learn:
✅ Understand boardroom due diligence in relation to psychosocial risks
✅ Start meaningful leadership conversations about workplace mental health
✅ Integrate psychosocial safety into business strategy for long-term success
🎤 Featuring expert insights from:
🏛 Mark Wright – Founder, FEFO Consulting | Expert in Safety, Risk, & Organisational Transformation
🚀 Marc Niemes – APAC Representative, I Am Here Tribe | Leadership & Digital Learning Specialist
📌 Watch now to gain practical strategies for embedding psychosocial safety into leadership and decision-making.
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Psychosocial risks can be hiding in plain sight—impacting workplace safety, mental health, and business performance. In this first webinar of the Psychosocial Safety for Leaders series, myosh and FEFO Consulting explore the most common blind spots, share practical risk mitigation strategies, and discuss how data-driven insights can help identify risks before they escalate.
🔍 Key Takeaways:
✅ Understand the hidden psychosocial risks affecting workplaces
✅ Learn simple yet effective strategies to mitigate risks early
✅ Discover how data trends can improve hazard identification
🎤 Featuring industry experts:
👨💼 Mark Wright – Founder, FEFO Consulting
👨💼 Marc Niemes – APAC Representative, I Am Here Tribe
📢 Watch now to gain actionable insights and take the first step toward a safer, healthier workplace!
📌 Want more? Stay tuned for Webinar 2: Psychosocial Strategy – Boardroom Due Diligence and Influencing Strategic Choices.
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🚀 Why do we keep making the same safety mistakes? Despite decades of effort, workplace safety performance has stagnated. The latest neuroscience reveals a key reason: Autopilot, Inattentive Habits, and Complacency.
In this exclusive webinar, HabitSafe Founder Cristian Sylvestre and myosh explore the neuroscience behind human behaviour and how subconscious neural pathways drive up to 95% of our actions. Learn why traditional safety strategies aren’t enough and how we can apply the latest research to help people stay safer.
🔎 Key Topics Covered:
✅ The Autopilot-conscious interplay in our brain
✅ How Inattentive Habits lead to complacency
✅ Why traditional safety methods have plateaued
✅ How to leverage neuroscience for better safety outcomes
🗣️ We’ll be taking your questions throughout! If we don’t get to yours, we’ll have more time in the next session.
📌 This is Part 2 of a 3-Part Series. Stay tuned for the final session!
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How can organisations move beyond the checkbox approach to employee wellbeing?
Join us for an exclusive look at Better Being’s latest Wellbeing Index data, revealing the biggest challenges businesses face in 2025 and the strategies that truly make a difference.
💡 What You’ll Learn:
✔️ The Hidden Trends Shaping 2025 – Why employees are struggling to prioritise health, rising physical complaints, and the latest burnout statistics.
✔️ The Real Cost of Inaction – How wellbeing challenges impact workers’ compensation claims, productivity, and overall business success.
✔️ From Insight to Impact – Game-changing strategies leading organisations use to turn wellbeing data into meaningful, lasting change.
🔴 Featuring Greg Stark, Founder & Director of Better Being, a leading expert in workplace wellbeing.
📅 Watch now and take the first step toward a healthier, more engaged workforce!
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In this insightful and interactive webinar, Annette Gray, an experienced leadership coach, guides you through the key strategies for fostering a mentally healthy workplace.
Learn how leaders can create an environment where mental health is prioritised, employees feel safe to speak up, and the whole team thrives.
With over 20 years of expertise, Annette shares practical coaching techniques and real-world examples to help you integrate mental health and well-being into your leadership practices.
Through live coaching, Annette answers questions submitted by participants and provides actionable advice on building trust, reducing stigma, and supporting staff in a way that empowers them without overstepping.
Key takeaways from this webinar include:
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How to engage leadership and create a safe, supportive culture
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Building trust and authenticity in workplace conversations
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Practical tips for leaders to support staff with mental health challenges
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Creating effective frameworks for well-being, especially in male-dominated industries or geographically dispersed teams
Whether you're a safety leader, HR professional, or anyone looking to foster a mentally healthy and safe workplace, this webinar offers valuable insights for building a thriving, resilient workforce.
Listen now to start creating a workplace where everyone can thrive!
For over a decade, workplace fatalities and serious incidents have stubbornly plateaued—despite organisations investing more time, effort, and resources into safety than ever before. Is this really as good as it gets, or is there something we’re missing?
Join Cristian S, founder of HabitSafe, as he challenges conventional wisdom and uncovers the three biggest brain myths that could be limiting safety performance. Backed by the latest neuroscience research, this session will reveal how outdated beliefs about human behaviour may be holding safety back—and what we can do about it.
What You’ll Learn:✅ Why traditional safety efforts aren’t delivering better results
✅ The three most common (and dangerous) brain myths in safety
✅ How to reshape our approach using neuroscience-backed insights
We are thrilled to kick off our first webinar of the year with a topic that is critical to every organisation—how we can move beyond a compliance-driven approach to safety and create a culture where safety is seen as an investment rather than a cost.
Joining us for this session is Brett Solomon, Principal Consultant at Sentis.
Brett brings a wealth of experience in safety leadership and workplace psychology, helping organisations shift their safety mindset and build environments where employees feel empowered to take ownership of their safety and wellbeing.
Throughout the webinar, Brett will challenge traditional views on safety and offer practical strategies to foster a values-driven culture where safety and performance go hand in hand.
What does safety look like in your organisation?
Is safety looked at as a cost or as an opportunity?
Are employees seen as the problem or the solution? It’s easy to fall prey to the idea that safety takes too long, costs too much or just gets in the way of getting the job done.
But what if we looked at safety as a form of currency that we can use to invest in the things that matter most?
Join Sentis Principal Consultant, Brett Solomon, as he flips the traditional safety narrative on its head and create a space where people share a values driven desire to do great work in which quality and safety are paramount, and people are intrinsically motivated to invest in the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others.
Have you ever done something and immediately thought, “Why on earth did I do that?”
We’ve all made decisions that left us scratching our heads—whether it’s a slip-up at home or a poor choice at work.
In this webinar, Sentis Principal Consultant Dr. Brett Solomon will explore the neuroscience behind why even smart, well-intentioned people sometimes make ‘silly’ mistakes—especially regarding safety.
We’ll explore:
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Why people tend to take shortcuts and unnecessary risks
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How certain brain functions, cognitive biases and the balance between one’s personal internal motivations and external pressures drive choices - What leaders can do to help their people be more focused, vigilant and make better safety decisions
What can leaders do to help people be more focused and vigilant and make better safety decisions?
In today’s fast-paced and often complex work environments, leaders are frequently confronted with a stream of problems, negative experiences, and challenges from employees.
How can leaders shift these conversations from being problem-focused to solution-oriented?
Join us for an insightful webinar with Annette Gray, an expert in Solution-Focused Leadership and coaching, as she shares proven techniques to transform workplace conversations and unlock positive outcomes.
With over 23 years of coaching experience and over a decade of applying the solution-focused approach, Annette will explore how leaders can foster more constructive, solution-based dialogues.
She’ll guide participants through practical strategies to become more “coach-like,” helping teams navigate challenges and create actionable, positive changes.
This session will be particularly valuable for leaders and managers looking to:
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See a “live” demonstration of what Solution Focus Leadership looks like.
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Boost their confidence and credibility as leaders.
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Develop a personal action plan for effective solution-based coaching. - Constructive feedback that drives change while maintaining strong relationships.
Don’t miss the opportunity to enhance your leadership toolkit with these powerful, practical insights from one of Australia’s leading coaching professionals.
Many workplace challenges are complex.
No single factor can solve them on their own, and they require shifts in mindsets and behaviours across multiple levels of an organisation.
These complex adaptive challenges don’t have clear-cut solutions or "best practices" to implement.
In fact, treating them as technical problems can lead to more issues than progress.
Drawing on experiences from high-risk sectors such as mining and aviation, this webinar explores how organisations can move beyond simplistic behavioural frameworks and embrace the complexities of real work.
We discuss how to tap into the often-overlooked human potential within teams to create meaningful and sustainable impact.
Join us for an insightful webinar in collaboration with Skodel, where we explore how to effectively meet psychosocial compliance requirements in Australia without disrupting other business priorities.
With psychosocial risks becoming a key focus for safety leaders, it's crucial to understand the legal landscape and how to design and document your controls efficiently. In this session, we’ll unpack the current legal framework and what it means for your organisation.
We'll also dive into the Fortescue case study, offering a real-world example of how companies can manage psychosocial hazards and ensure compliance.
This webinar is designed for busy professionals and safety leaders looking to stay ahead of evolving regulations while keeping day-to-day operations running smoothly.
Key Takeaways:
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Understand the psychosocial compliance law in Australia and how it affects your business.
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Learn practical strategies for designing and documenting your psychosocial controls.
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Gain insights from Fortescue's landmark agreement with WorkSafe WA and what it means for your organisation’s approach to managing psychosocial risks.
Don't miss this opportunity to equip your team with the knowledge and tools needed to maintain compliance and protect your workforce.
Do you feel like you spend your days policing safety and trying to drive compliance?
Are your safety initiatives two steps forward, and three steps back?
If so, you may be operating in a negative safety culture, like 86% of the businesses Sentis has studied and worked with.
The solution? Shifting toward a positive safety approach and breaking through the safety plateau.
In this webinar, Sentis Principal Consultant, Jamie Mallinder, will unpack what the top-performing 14% of organisations are doing differently and how you can do it too.
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Understand the 8 levers for driving a positive safety culture
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Learn how to shift safety motivations
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Discover strategies for aligning data with your safety vision
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Make change stick with more positive reward systems and incident investigations.
Join us for this insightful webinar where we delve into the financial and organisational impacts of employee wellbeing through a data-driven lens.
Discover how identifying and leveraging lead indicators can drive proactive health measures, reduce costs, and enhance overall workplace performance.
Learn actionable strategies backed by data that can transform your approach to employee health and safety.
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Gain data-driven insights into how employee wellbeing directly influences organisational costs and productivity.
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Learn to recognise key lead indicators to signal potential health and safety issues before they escalate.
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Explore how data-driven improvements in employee wellbeing can lead to enhanced performance and reduced absenteeism.
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Understand how to gather accurate health data to inform proactive measures.
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Live Q&A
In recent years, we’ve seen a surge in new approaches to Health and Safety. These are driven by realities and necessities that create problems for us all.
Trying harder with the current ways of regulating, governing and organising will only cement what is going on.
We now have the chance to reimagine not only what success looks like, but the tools, means and capacities we could use to achieve it.
This webinar isn’t about best practices or a new framework to apply, but about putting the focus on what kind of workplaces we want to create through our safety practices – and how we can start building them today.
About our Speaker: Daniel Hummerdal, Director of Safety Innovation and Leadership, Southpac International Group A commercial pilot turned psychologist, turned safety innovator, Daniel Hummerdal is passionate about finding better ways to unleash the capacity of people to address the challenges that matter.
Daniel has worked in high-risk industries such as aviation, construction, and mining. Born in Sweden, raised in Rwanda, studied in France, and after working in the USA and New Zealand, he's now based in Brisbane, Australia.
Mental fitness refers to your ability to use flexible coping and cognitive skills to manage adversity to thrive.
If your mental fitness is strong, you are better equipped to show more confidence, self-compassion, and optimism.
This enhances our ability to retain information and respond more rationally. Improved cognitive functioning boosts focus, memory, time management, and communication, benefiting both personal and professional life.
Learn about the importance of Mental Fitness, the three key components, and strategies on how to build it.
Join myosh as they explore how technology is revolutionising Critical Control Management (CCM) to reduce workplace incidents and improve safety outcomes. This webinar will emphasise the technological advancements and automation capabilities of the myosh CCM module, designed to integrate seamlessly with your everyday work processes. myosh demonstrates how the myosh CCM module automates the verification of critical controls, embedding them into routine activities like workplace inspections and incident reports. The system’s real-time updates and automated workflows ensure that your organisation stays compliant, transparent, and responsive to potential risks. Throughout, the team covers - Defining Critical Risks & Controls: How the Digital Bowtie framework allows for clear, automated identification and management of critical risks and controls. - Automated Record Creation: Understanding how the Bowtie elements generate records and update in real time when controls are compromised. - Integrated Verification: How frequent processes like inspections and incident reports automatically update control statuses, ensuring consistent compliance. - Unlimited Workflow Opportunities: Exploring the flexibility of the myosh system to create automated actions, manage non-conformance, and integrate with other safety solutions. This session is ideal for those looking to leverage technology to enhance their CCM processes, reduce the likelihood of serious incidents, and drive real improvements in workplace safety. Key Takeaways: - Technological integration of CCM into daily work processes. - Automating critical control verification for enhanced safety. - Real-time updates and workflow automation for ongoing compliance and risk management.
Please enjoy this insightful webinar as myosh collaborates with Skodel to explore the critical intersection of safety management and employee wellbeing.
In today’s rapidly evolving work environment, it’s essential to adopt a holistic approach that ensures both safety and wellbeing are prioritised in the workplace.
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Holistic Approach to Safety and Wellbeing: - Understand the importance of integrating safety management practices with initiatives that promote overall employee wellbeing.
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Case Studies and Success Stories: - Learn from real-world examples and success stories that illustrate the benefits of a combined approach to safety and wellbeing.
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Tools and Technologies: - Discover the latest tools and technologies that facilitate the integration of safety management with employee wellbeing.
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Scoring Psychosocial Hazards Using a Risk Matrix: - Dive into the methodology for assessing psychosocial hazards and understand how to use a risk matrix for accurate scoring.
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Determining Next Steps with a Real Case Study Relating to Organisational Justice: - Explore a detailed case study to identify actionable steps and strategies to address organisational justice within your organisation.
This webinar is designed to ensure you gain valuable insights and actionable knowledge. Whether you are a safety professional, HR manager, or organisational leader, this session will provide you with the tools and understanding needed to foster a safer and more supportive workplace.
Join us for an insightful webinar presented by myosh in collaboration with Cristian from HabitSafe, as we delve into the fascinating world of neuroscience and its pivotal role in improving workplace safety.
Research shows that inattention contributes significantly to most incidents, including Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) events. In this webinar, we will explore: - Journey into Inattention: Discover what sparked Cristian's interest in the link between inattention and incidents.
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Neuroscience Fascination: Learn about the allure of neuroscience and how it enables us to peer inside the brain.
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Behavioral Insights: Understand what neuroscience reveals about human behavior and the critical importance of comprehending why people act the way they do in safety contexts.
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Information vs. Action: Examine why relying solely on information is insufficient for ensuring safety and what truly influences our actions.
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Conscious vs. Subconscious: Dive into how our conscious and subconscious minds process and perceive risk, and whether the same tools can influence both.
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Indicators and Impact: Discuss the relevance of lagging and leading indicators in safety and how they can be leveraged for maximum impact.
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Driving Understanding: Explore strategies to help workers and leaders gain a deeper understanding of what drives their actions and behaviors.
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Future of Safety: Address why the findings of neuroscience have often been overlooked in safety practices and why integrating these discoveries is crucial for the future.
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights from neuroscience and transform your approach to safety management.
Join us for an exciting and informative webinar as myosh and Mybrand Digital come together to revolutionise the way you engage your team in Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) training. In this session, we'll delve into innovative strategies to keep your audiences captivated and ensure your training programs are not only effective but also engaging. Discover how we utilise a variety of dynamic tools to enhance the learning experience, including: - Australian Voiceover: Leverage the familiarity and relatability of local voice talent to connect with your audience. - Scenarios using Animations: Bring learning to life with animated scenarios that depict real-world situations and solutions. - Drag and Drop Knowledge Checks: Interactive knowledge checks to reinforce learning and ensure comprehension. - Animated Videos: Use visually compelling animated videos to explain complex concepts simply and engagingly. - Background Music: Create an immersive learning environment with carefully selected background music. - Closed Captions: Ensure accessibility and inclusivity with closed captions for all learners. We'll also showcase the myosh Online Learning Platform, highlighting how this collaboration with Mybrand Digital offers a dynamic range of online courses designed to elevate your team's HSE knowledge. Mybrand Digital's expertise in crafting bespoke eLearning solutions and their extensive library of sought-after off-the-shelf courses provide a comprehensive learning experience. This webinar is a must-attend for anyone looking to enhance their organization's HSE training programs with engaging and effective eLearning solutions. Don't miss out on this opportunity to transform your training approach and keep your team engaged and informed. Register today!
Results from our recent study confirm that there is a distinct disconnect between leaders and frontline workers. The data, collected from more than 59,000 survey participants, indicates that frontline workers have a more negative perception to that of their leaders. This is especially true when it comes to safety across the physical, psychological and social experiences. In this webinar Dr Brett Solomon, Principal Consultant at Sentis will explore the differences in perception and learn what leaders can do to better understand how frontline workers experience the workplace to support safety, wellbeing and productivity. You’ll discover: The dangers of leadership being out of touch with how frontline employees experience the workplace Strategies for leaders to gain insights into the experiences of frontline workers, such as: Creating an environment where psychological safety and trust are prioritised Committing resources and time to understand the frontline perspective Actively soliciting feedback and ideas from employees Promoting teamwork and cooperative efforts
Dr Brett Solomon Principal Consultant Doctorate in Strategic Leadership Brett is a leadership expert and organisational culture transformation consultant. He specialises in assisting organisations to achieve significant improvements in performance, employee engagement, leadership effectiveness and safety. He has a wealth of experience, from being a lieutenant in the army to sitting on the strategic board of a multinational organisation, starting a consulting firm and fulfilling the role of a university dean. As a recognised leader in combining neuroscience, change management and leadership theory, Brett has been involved in numerous culture change, safety and leadership development initiatives throughout the world
Join us for an insightful webinar on the crucial role of mentoring in creating a safer and more productive workplace.
In collaboration with Annette Gray Consulting, a leader in mentoring and coaching, we will explore how structured mentoring programs can transform workplace culture and enhance Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) outcomes.
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Understand the fundamental principles of effective mentoring and its impact on workplace safety.
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Learn practical strategies to implement and sustain mentoring programs within your organisation.
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Discover real-world examples and success stories from Annette Gray's "Mentoring Made Easy" program.
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Gain insights into how mentoring fosters a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and proactive safety behaviours.
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Engage in an interactive Q&A session to address your specific mentoring challenges and opportunities.
Whether you are a safety professional, HR leader, or manager, this webinar will provide valuable tools and knowledge to leverage mentoring as a powerful driver for safety excellence in your organisation.
Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of mentoring and its vital role in creating a safer workplace.
In this webinar we take a people centred approach to psychosocial risk management in the complex landscape of workplace safety.
Amidst important discussions around risk assessment, legislation and legal requirements, it's crucial not to lose sight of the ultimate goal: creating healthier and more productive workplaces for our people.
This session is designed for leaders hoping to refine their approach to articulating and enhancing psychosocial safety within their organisations.
Join Anthony Gibbs, Sentis CEO, and Dr. Amy Hawkes, Sentis’ Head of Psychology, as they delve into a discussion on psychosocial safety in the workplace.
During this webinar, we will:
-Unpack a simple model to discuss and comprehend the safety experience of people in your organisation
-Discuss the elements that influence individual psychosocial safety, affecting their resilience and reserves
-Understand the research and models that sit behind this simple story
-Explore psychosocial safety as not only the absence of harm but the presence of protective factors that bolster your people’s wellbeing
Join us for an engaging and informative webinar showcasing the incredible ease of QR codes and the powerful functionality of the Viking Platform App.
Discover how to capture safety management data seamlessly, both online and offline, transforming the way you manage safety in the field.
By leveraging QR codes and mobile apps, organisations can transform their safety management practices, ensuring a safer, more efficient, and compliant workplace.
Learn how QR codes and mobile apps:
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Boost Efficiency and Productivity: Reduce time spent on data entry and retrieval, allowing employees to focus on core tasks.
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Ensure Accuracy and Compliance: Real-time data capture keeps information accurate and up-to-date, helping you stay compliant with safety regulations.
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Increase Accessibility: Offline functionality means safety processes aren't hindered by connectivity issues, ensuring critical tools are always available, even in remote locations.
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Speed Up Response Times: Immediate logging and action assignment lead to quicker responses to safety incidents, reducing risks.
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Streamline Processes: Simplify access to information and reduce manual data entry for more efficient safety management.
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Foster Engagement and Accountability: Easy-to-use mobile apps encourage active participation in safety management and enable real-time reporting and tracking.
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Save Costs: Cut down on paper-based processes and reduce data management time, leading to significant cost savings.
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Enhance Mobility: Empower field workers to perform safety tasks on the go, ensuring safety protocols are followed in real-time.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to see how integrating QR codes and mobile apps can elevate your safety management practices. Register now and revolutionise your approach to workplace safety!
We often hear the catch-all term “complacency” but do we really understand what it means?
Complacency is usually defined as “having done a task many times without incident so that the person is no longer attentive to the dangers involved”.
For instance, if every time we moved looking at our phone we ran into a pole, we wouldn’t remain complacent for long, and we would change our behaviour to a safer habit (for example, looking where we are going).
Over the last 50 years, we have managed safety in three traditional ways: • Fix the work environment. • Improve the safety management system. • Get people to think more about safety.
These three approaches have helped us improve safety and we need to continue with them, but research shows they are not enough to prevent many incidents, even serious ones like SIFs.
Today, there is an increasing trend of workplace incidents involving contact with something meant to be there. For example, people running into poles, slipping on stairs with non-slip strips, tripping on furniture and many others.
For these types of incidents, we can’t do much about the work environment (unless we bubble-wrap people), improving the system won’t do much either and getting people to think more about safety is a nice idea, but neuroscience shows that’s not how our brain works.
If we want to improve safety further, we need to get our most valuable asset, our people, to be seasoned players in the personal/occupational safety game.
To do that, we need to understand the different types of complacency and teach them how to manage each type better to reduce their impact.
Neuroscience explains the biological basis of complacency (yes, it’s part of being human) and has identified specific neural circuits responsible for the different types of complacency.
The good news is that each type has a specific solution.
Join Director and Founder of Better Being, Greg Stark and psychologist and co-founder of Connect Psych Services, Dr Natalie Flatt to explore the concept of stress. Learn the ins and outs of stress, how to combat burnout and build a resilient workforce.
Uncover findings from Better Being’s 2023 Wellbeing Index Report on employee wellbeing and gain practical insights into identifying and mitigating common workplace stressors.
Discover how leadership can support employee wellbeing and understand the crucial role of recovery when it comes to building resilience.
Key learning outcomes:
· Understanding stress and it helps us to perform.
· Learn the signs and symptoms of burnout and discover strategies to mitigate burnout.
· Explore the crucial aspect of recovery and sleep to enhance resilience and productivity.
· Gain insights into the role of leadership in promoting and supporting employee wellbeing.
· Live Q&A
Join us as we celebrate International Women's Month 2024 for a unique exploration into fostering diversity, inclusion, and workplace safety through the lens of 88 women from 19 countries who came together in Antarctica. Discover how creating a sense of belonging is essential for women in the workplace and the impact it has on building supportive networks.
Our webinar will delve into the challenges faced by women of various ages and explore the common human fear of rejection and exclusion. Learn practical strategies for incorporating inclusivity and diversity in the workplace while embracing the new norms that will encourage safety and support.
Throughout the session, our speakers, Kristina and Annette, will engage in meaningful conversations, addressing key questions about coexisting safely in the workplace and understanding the need for support across a diverse range of women’s experiences. Drawing inspiration from sustainability development goals and inner development goals, they will share insights on how to create and encourage a psychologically safe workplace.
Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable perspectives on what it takes to feel supported, both individually and as a team. Discover the simple ways to make your workplace more inclusive and join us in fostering a culture where vulnerability is not just encouraged but celebrated. Let's celebrate International Women's Month by taking significant steps towards a more diverse, inclusive, and psychologically safe future for all.
Be part of the conversation and contribute to a workplace environment that reflects the true strength of unity in diversity.
Join industry injury prevention experts, Dr Jenny Legge and Zac Lowth from Staunch Technology, as they discuss opportunities for change in our approach to reducing injury risk in our ageing workforce, particularly with the emerging focus on psychosocial factors contributing to musculoskeletal injury workers compensation claims.
Together, they will discuss some of the latest technologies and research for identifying, managing and reviewing our approach for a sustainable workforce of the future.
Participants will also receive a copy of your organisation's vulnerability score and a 10-step process for improvement.
The integrity and success of most critical risk management systems are often determined by the quality of safety leadership within the business. Not only do leaders need to ensure that the frontline workforce is adequately enabled to implement the appropriate critical controls at the task level, but they also need to support their workers through regular in-field reviews and verifications to ensure controls are present and effective. These infield interactions require leaders to have a mix of technical and interpersonal skills, to be able to coach the workforce to build critical control knowledge, as well as inviting open and collaborative discussions when gaps are identified, or improvement ideas are raised. Join Sentis Principal Consultant Dr Brett Solomon as he explores - • The role of the safety leadership within a critical risk management system; • Interpersonal communication strategies for an effective infield critical control verification process; • Understanding and responding to absent or ineffective controls; and, • Encouraging ongoing continuous improvement within the work planning and safety management system.
Learn from the Director of Better Being Greg Stark, as he shares the key elements of a successful wellbeing program, with practical tools and strategies for promoting wellbeing in your workplace, regardless of its unique characteristics.
– How an evidence-based approach to wellbeing can be adapted across work environments
– The importance of human-centred design
– Why innovation is important in proactively managing risk
Presented by Greg Stark,
Founder and Director, Better BeingWhat’s covered?Leaders and managers play a critical role in driving success and fostering a culture of high performance. However, amidst their responsibilities, burnout has emerged as a pressing issue. It is essential for leaders and managers to prioritise their own well-being to sustain their effectiveness. Join the Director of Better Being, Greg Stark, and discover:
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What is high performance?
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Why the task-orientated mindset is key to success
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The four key pillars of wellbeing
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Proven strategies and practical insights to creating a high performing team
Presented by Adam Clampett, Associate Director, FEFO Consulting and Luke Bonner, General Manager Health, Safety, Environment & Heritage
What’s covered?
Often organizations, teams, and individuals feel so busy, they forget to stop, reflect, and learn from others.
Both internal and external benchmarking is a great to compare performance and find new innovative ways to learn and improve.
Join us to learning more about benchmarking:
- What are key attributes of effective benchmarking?
- What is the difference between ‘opinion-based’ and ‘evidence-based’ benchmarking?
- Learn how to apply benchmarking through practical case studies
Presented by Angelina Badri, Founder and Director of Universal Safety Wellness
What’s covered?
Give people a better understanding of why people do what they do and discover what influences their behavior. More importantly, find out what leaders can help people strengthen how they think, feel and behave to improve organisational performance, especially safety.
Organizations continue to be challenged to find ways to improve safety performance, whether it’s the prevention of severe injuries (or worse), reducing injury rates or helping people deal with mental health issues. Puzzled by why their safety performance stagnates or in many cases deteriorates, organisations continue to persist, believing that having compliant systems in place is much of what is needed.
They do not recognize other aspects, holistic safety factors, that can help improve safety performance significantly, as well as organisational and human performance.
- So, where are the “holes” and how do organisations improve the use of holistic safety? By strengthening how people think, feel and behave.
- Applying holistic principles backed by brain science allows us to align what people do for safety with human biology. In other words, when people are personally aware of their “brain mode” and know how to deal with it, they maximize their ability to be situationally aware.
Presented by Greg Stark, Founder and Director of Better Being
What’s covered?
According to Maslow, there are four fundamental foundations that we must achieve before realising our potential: physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, and esteem. Often organisations skip straight to ‘safety’ to address employee wellbeing, however physiological needs form the basis of our health. Sleep, mindset, nutrition, and movement must be considered.
In this webinar, the Director of Better Being, Greg Stark, will explore these foundations and help you identify best practice for your business.
- Understanding how Maslow’s hierarchy of needs fits into the employee experience
- Steps to determine what wellbeing programs to implement
- Strategies to support the physiological wellbeing of employees
The modern workplace has changed dramatically in recent years with an increased emphasis on the psychological well-being of employees. With recent changes in legislation and upcoming regulatory compliance obligations, companies can no longer ignore the importance of psychosocial risk management and its impact on productivity, morale, employee retention and physical safety.
Join Ben Carnell, Head of Client Solutions at Sentis as he explores strategies for organisations to simplify the process of psychosocial risk management, ensuring a safer, healthier and more productive workplace.
In this webinar, gain a deeper understanding of:
- the unseen hazards and invisible injuries that can impact your employees’ well-being
- the impact of psychosocial risk on physical safety
- how to empower your leaders to promote well-being and reduce psychosocial risks
- best practice approaches to integrating psychosocial risk assessment into your current safety framework
- proactive strategies to manage psychosocial safety and stay ahead of the curve
Presented By Becky Picton, Human Factors and HOP Facilitator, Southpac
What’s covered?
Operational Learning is a Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) based technique of learning from those closest to the work to gain operational intelligence.
During this session we will introduce operational learning, what it is, what it isn’t and how it can be used across industry as a proactive means to learn and improve before negative events occur, improving both work and safety performance.
What difference would it make if Safety leaders and professionals changed the way they
listened?
Did you know that …..
- Most of us have an 8 second attention span (BTW our attention span is 1% lower
than a gold fish!) - 85% of what we learn is from listening
- 75% of the time we are distracted or pre-occupied
- One hour after listening we recall 20% of what we heard
- The average person listens at 25% efficiency
(Source: Tara Brach podcast episode 31 March 2023)
Listening is such an underrated skill. When we are at school we are taught to read and write but not actually how to listen.
In this interactive session you will experience what it is like to truly be listened to and the impact it has on you. Listening as a Safety Leader and Professional is one of the most critical and crucial skills you can demonstrate if you are to do your job well. People will more likely trust you and open up and be vulnerable around what is really happening – particularly around safety.
Come along to this session to practice deep listening and to hear some simple tips on how you can be even better listener to improve your effectiveness in your role and the
relationships you have inside and outside of work.
Presented by Mark AlstonWhat’s covered?Organisations often struggle to achieve meaningful outcomes from risk assessment workshops. In this webinar, Mark Alston shares five practical tips for improving risk assessment workshop outcomes and delivering controls that reduce risk.
- Change the focus of risk assessments: Rather than simply justifying a decision that has already been made, use risk assessments to identify uncertainty and unknowns.
- Include the discovery of normal work: In addition to identifying potential risks, it’s important to understand the context of work and the risks that come with it.
- Develop risk scenarios that focus on the credible.
- Push the boundaries of controls.
- Ditch the Excel spreadsheets and other risk assessment tools.
Presented By Penny Pearce and Mark Wright, FEFO Consulting
FEFO Consulting has designed a Psychosocial Dx to measure performance, apply reliable benchmarks and Levers for action.
Can surveys be used to assess risk or only identify hazard?
What options are available to manage psychosocial factors that are simple pragmatic and value add?
Join us during this webinar to understand Psychosocial Diagnostic (Dx) options and methods of responding to range of psychosocial regulations and industry guidance:
- Options available to identify hazards and assess risks that are often invisible
- Understand specific areas of exposure, job demands, job resources and the impact these have on work outcomes.
- Utilise reliable Levers to prevent, respond and promote healthy workplaces and high performance.
- Case studies of transferring legal requirements and theory into practices that add value.
Presented by Kelvin Genn, CEO, Art of WorkWhat’s covered?Safety is a function of work capacity, not the absence of the measurement of absence or counting of transactions. New measurement tools have been developed to provide a metric for Boards and Executives of organisations to understand the presence of safety capacity in their organisation by collecting and reporting on the state of operational capacity through enabling those that do the work.
These measures examine the extent of capacity building activities being undertaken in terms of reflecting on the investment the organisation has built up in the skills and capability of workers over and above the minimum competencies for their work. Capacity measures provide an index on the extent of resourcing for enablers of safety. Capacity measures are the high-water mark of the legislative obligations placed on officers to meet due diligence obligations that derive from workplace health and safety laws in jurisdictions such as Australia and New Zealand.
Safety Capacity is informed by an approach to health and safety that looks to build the health and safety capacity and resilience of an organisation, founded on engagement and trust with workers.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs, CEO, SentisWhat’s covered?What does safety look like in your organisation? Is safety looked at as a cost or as an opportunity? Are employees seen as the problem or the solution?
It’s easy to fall prey to the idea that safety takes too long, costs too much or just gets in the way of getting the job done. But what if we looked at safety as a form of currency that we can use to invest in the things that matter most?
Join Sentis CEO Anthony Gibbs as we flip the traditional safety narrative on its head and create a space where people share a values driven desire to do great work in which quality and safety are paramount, and people are intrinsically motivated to invest in the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others.
Throughout this webinar we will discuss:
- the definition of Positive Safety,
- using safety as an anchor for cultural change
- what a positive safety culture looks like, and
- how you can start implementing a Positive Safety culture in your organisation
On average, plant & equipment account for 71% of mechanisms related to worker fatalities². A Verification of Competency or VOC is a method of assessment which typically ensures that workers operating plant, equipment and other tools on work sites remain competent to do so – to keep themselves, others safe and solvent.
This webinar provides a risk-based approach to establish a VOC program that not only meets legal requirements, but also enables effective risk controls and a high-performance culture.
Learning Objectives
- Understand your legal obligations for VoC, including operator competency vs assessor competency
- Understand how to demonstrate due diligence and minimise risk of personal liability – facts vs myths!
- List options for taking a risk-based approach for establishing VoC safe systems of work
- Gain an understanding of leadership principles and methods of building a high-performance culture.
Join Kieran MacKenzie, founder of Presien, a Sydney-based AI company spun off from Laing O’Rourke, to learn about new artificial intelligence vision systems and how they will revolutionize heavy industry safety and productivity.
Presented by Mark Alston, Investigations DifferentlyWhat’s covered?Many organisations struggle to achieve meaningful outcomes from investigations. Investigation reports either blame the worker and/or simply identify low-level organisational issues. This often results in weak administrative actions which don’t reduce risk.
In this webinar, Mark Alston discusses his 5 top tips for improving the outcomes from investigations and delivering meaningful actions that reduce risks including:
- Changing from investigation to learning.
- Changing how we decide what to investigate.
- Including the discovery of normal work.
- Pushing the boundaries of actions.
- Creating the pull for change from our leaders.
Presented by Presented by Ben Chartier, Head of Product Development, Max MineWhats covered?Mining haul trucks are at high risk when declining down ramps, particularly on deep pits. Operators aremeant to maintain their vehicles well within operational speed limits to ensure that the vehicle can stay within a safe operating window.
Timely intervention is just as important as reporting accuracy. False positives erode confidence in taking interventions, but a conversation, hours or days later, is equally ineffective. Feedback needs to be timely in order to create significant shifts in behaviour.
MaxMine has pulled together a solution consisting of tech, data and coaching to provide a near-real time feedback loop to almost eliminate this risk in the challenging, high risk environment of open pit mining.
During the past three years many organisations, business leaders, teams and H&S professionals have had to navigate situations that feel complex.
This dynamic landscape has required organisations and their leaders to be flexible and respond efficiently to emerging risks and potential opportunities. Navigating complexity is not new to the Health & Safety Professional, business leaders and their teams. However, it is helpful to recognise when you are navigating unpredictability and adjust your decision-making process and approach to respond successfully.
In this panel discussion, Greencap will present and explore recent case studies where a decision-making framework was successfully used to navigate and respond to health and safety risks and unforeseen challenges. The discussion aims to provide participants with examples of how to:
• Successfully approach and navigate health & safety challenges; • Adjust the decision-making process to suit the unique needs of the situation; and • Respond in a contextually appropriate way.
Presented by Mark Wright & Bec Crompton, FEFO Consulting
Whats covered? What is the difference between ISO 45003 vs Model Code of Practice? This webinar will provide an outline typical psychosocial factors and difference between the international standard ISO 45003 vs the SafeWork Australia Model Code of Practice.
Key takeaways: • What are psychosocial requirements • How to get started? • Useful resources to help manage psychosocial risks.
How do you manage change to effectively control psychosocial risk?
Research has shown that initiatives implemented with effective change management activities are six times more likely to succeed. This webinar will outline highlight why the management of change is important and tips to successfully management transformational change.
Key takeaways: • Why is change important? • Health and Safety Index change management benchmark results • Planning a successful change transformation and taking a human centred approach
Presented by Bec Crompton, FEFO Consulting & Joanna Hull, Hull Consulting
What’s covered?
This webinar will outline risk management principles and options when assigning ownership and managing psychosocial factors.
Key takeaways:
• Psychosocial factors and relationship between Human Resources and Health & Safety function • Considerations when assigning the management of psychosocial risks • Tips to collaborate, assign ownership and effectively manage psychosocial risk
Presented by Terry Swanton, FEFO Consulting & Vicky Worland, Gotcha4Life Foundation
What’s covered?
How to prepare your organisation to be mentally fit?
This webinar provides tips.
Key takeaways:
• Why open up the conversation? • Tips to engage, educate and empower by building mental fitness • Examples of creating meaningful mateship, emotional muscle, and social connection to end suicide.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs and Dr Amy Hawkes (Head of Psychology, Sentis)
What’s covered?
Providing raw materials that are critical to economies around the world while ensuring a safe, productive operation is a delicate balance. In an environment where rising costs, social and geopolitical risks, infrastructure shortages and resource nationalism are common, mining organisations face unique challenges.
Join Sentis’ CEO Anthony Gibbs and Head of Psychology Dr Amy Hawkes as they explore the attitudes and behaviours of those working in mining along with challenges and opportunities within the sector to create actionable insights.
Throughout this discussion we’ll explore: • Key findings from our newest report representing all frontline and leadership levels from the coal, metal ore and non-metallic minerals subsectors • How the mining industry stacks up against cross-industry benchmarks for safety culture performance • Considerations to improve contractor integration and relationships between the frontline and management • Real life feedback from workers to illustrate day to day challenges • How to take steps to foster a better, safer organisation
Presented by Mark Cooper, Principal Consultant, Sentis
What’s covered?
High hazard activities rely on rules, procedures and standards to specify ‘safe operation’. While these standards are usually written by experts, they may not universally apply to every situation or operational context. A recent review of over 160 serious incidents across multiple industry sectors, identified that 49% of control failures involved intentional ‘workarounds’. This is not to suggest that workers are defiantly flouting rules or expectations. In fact, often workaround behaviours can be linked back to operational leadership and organisational factors.
Operational leaders set the tone and help shape the environment within which critical controls are managed. They act as role models, define what’s expected and influence behaviours and attitudes through their actions and words. In this webinar we’ll target the role of leadership in critical control management processes.
In this webinar, Sentis Principal Consultant Mark Cooper will explore: • The psychology of risk, risk taking and risk management • Strategies for leaders to promote, influence and reinforce the importance of critical control management • The benefits of examining the ways your work is affected by latent operational and corporate influences.
Presented by Adrian Manessis, Director Business Development
What’s covered?
Reduce Incidents with a Control Management framework that integrates with everyday work processes. The myosh Critical Control Management (CCM) module reduces the likelihood of incidents by automating the CCM process. Critical Control verification is incorporated into everyday processes such as regular workplace inspections The system helps organisations implement recommendations designed to reduce serious injuries and fatalities, as highlighted in the Brady report. One of the key recommendations in this report is the need to focus on the effectiveness and enforcement of controls to manage hazards, and drive real improvement in workplace safety.
Our team will demonstrate how:
- Critical Risks & Controls are defined within the Digital Bowtie
- Records are created automatically as Bowtie elements are added.
- The Bowtie updates in real-time when controls are compromised.
- Frequent processes such as inspections and incident reports automatically create verification records and update control status.
Organisations typically record thousands of verifications over time, ensuring compliance, transparency, and feedback for management. The system allows for unlimited workflow opportunities, for example, automatic action generation and non-conformance status amendments. myosh is a highly configurable, cloud-based safety solution featuring over 50 core modules. All modules can be easily integrated with one another and configured to interact with external software. The myosh team are focused on exceeding expectations for services and reliability and our product range evolves constantly based on user feedback and contributions from leading safety authorities.
Presented by Annette Gray, Director, Annette Gray Consulting
Mentoring is a way of supporting our growth and development in our career and has been around for many years. Generally it has been done very informally and organically. However now many organisations and associations are setting up more formal mentoring programs to ensure everyone gets access to be supported to grow and learn.
In this session Annette Gray will be moderating a panel of 4 people who will share their experience of being mentored and the impact it has had on their career.
You will have an opportunity to ask questions of the panel and share your experience of being mentored.
The Panel * Melissa Pollock, General Manager, Health and Safety, Abergeldie Complex Infrastructure * Janette O’Brien, General Manager HSEQ Transport, Service Stream * Louise Howard, A/Executive Director Engineering and Design, Sydney Metro * Ben Kirkbride, Head of Health, Safety, Environment and Quality, Gamuda Australia
Wearable technology has become a core element in the injury prevention and post injury rehabilitation process for many professional sports teams. This information is also essential in the injury prevention and post injury rehabilitation and return to work process following workplace injury.
Over the past five years Scott Coleman and Preventure have been collaborating with various employers across different industries to create a cost-effective and sustainable wearable technology tool that enables the measurement of the physical demands of individual work tasks and the capacity of workers to perform these tasks throughout their shift.
This session will involve a review of the use of wearable technology for movement analysis, an overview of the data analysis and reporting process and various case studies involving the use of wearable technology to prevent injuries and return injured workers back to full workload
Presented by David Bick, Director, Consulting Services, Joint Action Solutions
This is a follow-up session to David’s previous presentation. This session will showcase a LIVE demonstration.
The old traditional, reactive process of assessing WMSD in a task is changing. Digital technology has allowed a much more proactive and prevention focused way which allows non experts to produce quick, objective, accurate, cost effective and reliable results. We can now make data driven decisions by doing automated manual task risk assessments using wearable sensors which produce instant and relevant reporting to target the key hazards.
Presented by Annette Gray, Director, Annette Gray Consulting
What’s covered?
The great resignation is getting a lot of airtime in the media these days. However if you look at it from a positive angle, it is a great opportunity to do things differently and rethink many things we have taken for granted particularly how we lead people. You may be thinking what does Leadership for the Future actually mean? This will be a facilitated interactive session where we will explore together through conversation and interactive discussion: What does leadership for the future mean for you and your organisation? Employees are wanting leaders who:
- See them as a whole person and support their well-being and their sense of purpose
- Want to feel like they belong
- They want to have access to flexibility in how and where they work
- Speak to them in a respectful way where they are part of the problem solving and decision making
- Come along with your own views and ideas on how these topics can be integrated into how you and your organisations address these and pick up new ideas from others.
Presented by Adrian Manessis, Director Business Development, Mel Ikac, Solution Consultant & Maddie Edwards, Solution Consultant What’s covered? Reduce Incidents with a Control Management framework that integrates with everyday work processes. The myosh Critical Control Management (CCM) module reduces the likelihood of incidents by automating the CCM process. Critical Control verification is incorporated into everyday processes such as regular workplace inspections
The system helps organisations implement recommendations designed to reduce serious injuries and fatalities, as highlighted in the Brady report. One of the key recommendations in this report is the need to focus on the effectiveness and enforcement of controls to manage hazards, and drive real improvement in workplace safety.
Our team will demonstrate how:
Critical Risks & Controls are defined within the Digital Bowtie Records are created automatically as Bowtie elements are added. The Bowtie updates in real-time when controls are compromised. Frequent processes such as inspections and incident reports automatically create verification records and update control status. Organisations typically record thousands of verifications over time, ensuring compliance, transparency, and feedback for management. The system allows for unlimited workflow opportunities, for example, automatic action generation and non-conformance status amendments.
myosh is a highly configurable, cloud-based safety solution featuring over 50 core modules. All modules can be easily integrated with one another and configured to interact with external software. The myosh team are focused on exceeding expectations for services and reliability and our product range evolves constantly based on user feedback and contributions from leading safety authorities.
CCM Reporting on the performance of critical controls includes:
How many Where On what No of failures/passes Ineffective controls needing review Which critical risks became uncontrolled And can be reported by location, client, piece of equipment – it’s all configurable.
Presented by David Bick, Director, Consulting Services, Joint Action Solutions Whats covered? The old traditional, reactive process of assessing WMSD in a task is changing. Digital technology has allowed a much more proactive and prevention focused way which allows non experts to produce quick, objective, accurate, cost effective and reliable results. We can now make data driven decisions by doing automated manual task risk assessments using wearable sensors which produce instant and relevant reporting to target the key hazards.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs, (CEO Sentis), Dr Amy Hawkes, (Head of Psychology at Sentis) and Warren Smith
Research suggests that one in five recordable incidents and near misses have serious or fatal outcome potential—regardless of the actual outcome severity. Yet many organisations struggle with underreporting and classification of their more serious incidents.
Understanding the system and culture factors that contribute to underreporting and your organisation’s risk exposure is the first step to building a more mature reporting culture.
In this webinar, Sentis CEO Anthony Gibbs will interview Dr Amy Hawkes, Head of Psychology at Sentis, and Warren Smith, Founder of Incident Analytics, to explore: • the importance of accurately identifying serious injury/fatality potential events • key drivers of underreporting • the importance of weak signals to future serious events • some practical ideas and strategies you can implement to improve the way your organisation responds to incident reports.
Presented by Cristian Sylvestre, Habitsafe
What’s covered? The Problem Leaders invest heavily in eliminating hazards, improving the safety systems and making safety more conscious by engaging people with conversations about safety. During the last 50 years, these have helped improve safety significantly. We can’t do without them. Today, we use these three approaches more than we have before, and we do it substantially better than ever before. Yet, workplace fatalities in the Australia have stagnated since 2013, as have the number of incidents, even those with serious consequences.
So, do we continue to only do more of the same and hope the trend reverses? We need to contemplate we might be missing something. As safety professionals, we need to ask ourselves: Is there an innovation out there safety is failing to recognise and utilise?
Presented by Mark Wright, MD, FEFO Consulting
Is your health & safety strategy effective?
Do your metrics allow you to learn, adjust and improve?
If either your strategy is wrong or metrics are in effective, there is a good chance there are lost opportunities for success.
The Objective Results (OKR) approach to setting goals is a great way to effectively support a strategy and has been used at Google, LinkedIn Airbnb, and many more. OKR’s are often complimented by Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
Presented by Adam Turns, Symplexi
In safety we like to measure things. But does what we measure tell us what we really need? Does what we do, actually do what we want it to?
In this webinar, Adam Turns will ask you to consider some of your common beliefs around safety and why they are important. We’ll explore systems and culture and the things we currently measure, as well as touching on why changing our focus to some of the intangibles like trust, responsibility and commitment may be in our best interests.
Presented by Andy Shone, CEO, Southpac Group
The responsibility of Leadership can feel overwhelming, not least when all the literature, books and memes depict leaders as heroes. Heroes are expected to be, well, heroic. In safety leadership terms this means having all the answers, making the big calls, motivating people, being inspirational!
Leading as a host is a more realistic proposition. Leading isn’t all about being front and centre. As a host leader its more important to know when it’s time to step forward and when it’s time to step back. This webinar aims to re-frame safety leadership utilising the host leadership approach and will provide insights into alternative leadership practices.
What's Covered?
An Edith Cowan University (ECU) study has confirmed what many workers have long lamented: health and safety information, while vital, often fails to engage employees.
Dr Kelly Jaunzems’ study investigated occupational safety and health (OSH) information in the workplace and whether it was read, understood, taken on board, internalised and enacted.
The study found most companies use email to convey OSH information, but it is not the most effective method or preferred by employees, and social media’s potential remains virtually untapped.
Kelly will discuss
- How to tailor OSH Communication to reflect urgency, amount and type
- How other industries use social media platforms for their advantage
- How to create and engage with meaningful two-way conversations
About Dr Kelly Jaunzems
Researcher and Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
Dr Kelly Jaunzems is a qualitative researcher with extensive experience in ethnographic research design and implementation. She has a Master of Occupational of Health and Safety, and her PhD thesis investigated the communication of OSH information through a social construction framework. Her research focuses on social media, the social side of safety, and the channels and process of communicating OSH information to organisations, employees and the general public. Dr Jaunzems is co-chair of the AIOH’s Communications and Marketing committee, and the Australian representative on the IOSH Communication and Marketing Committee.
Presented by Dr Amy Hawkes (Head of Psychology, Sentis)
What’s covered? CHOOSING THE RIGHT SURVEY FOR YOUR BUSINESS With so many surveys available in the market now, you may have found yourself wondering which to choose. How do you decide which metric is best for your team or business? What is the difference between engagement, culture or climate? Which one will give you useful results and set you up for success? Employee surveys are a common occurrence in most businesses; the impact of them, however, can be quite variable. In this webinar we will discuss the growing trend to measure the employee experience, what the evidence base is for these measures, and how they can contribute to your business.
Join Amy Hawkes to explore:
- The components of engagement and difference between engagement, climate and culture
- Recent research across these areas
- When and why to assess engagement or culture
- Tips for selecting quality assessments
12.30pm Wed 6th April
Presented by Amelia Simony, HSE Manager, Spaceframe
How well is your team self-reflecting to learn and improve?
This webinar will outline how to apply critical control management and examples of how to reflect, learn and improve when working with contractors
Key takeaways:
- Confirming critical controls when working with contractors
- WHS Governance and control effectiveness
- Methods to collaborate, benchmark performance, learn and improve.
Presented by Marc McLaren, Art of Work
What’s covered? Safety leaders may be missing out on the most valuable source of information in their organisation. Marc McLaren explores the power of curiosity in building capacities in leaders to shift their practices and interactions from ‘telling and directing’ to ‘learning and engagement’. By creating an environment that permissions people to be curious about their own work, leaders are unlocking the full potential that exists at the frontline.
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Presented by Alex Sciascia, GM HSEQ, Ventia
Outsourcing Contractor Management
This webinar provides a case study on outsourcing solutions for managing short-term high-risk contractors. Key takeaways:
- Outsourcing to operate at speed
- Communicating known hazards
- Understanding delegations and authorities when dealing with contractors.
ented by Amelia Simony, HSE Manager, Spaceframe
Outsourcing Contractor Management
This webinar provides a case study on outsourcing solutions for managing short-term high-risk contractors. Key takeaways:
- Outsourcing to operate at speed
- Communicating known hazards
- Understanding delegations and authorities when dealing with contractors.
Presented by Annette Gray, Annette Gray Consulting
What’s covered? We now live in an era where our workforces and our families are wanting different interactions, different ‘way of being’ and a more respectful way of having conversations. Leaders are being required more and more to “know thyself” which means in terms of well-being understanding and learning how they can work well and live well.
Session outcomes:
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- What does working well and living well look like?
- How the Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey (GLWS) profile is the first step in educating leaders on their own well-being.
- Where do you need to focus to increase your own well-being?
Presented by Laura Blampied, Team Leader,Skout Solutions
Are your contractors prepared?
This webinar will outline methods to engage contractors prior to work commencing to ensure readiness
Key takeaways:
- Dealing with labour hire challenges
- Understanding roles of asset owner, principal contractor, and other stakeholders
- Establishing legal relationships, defining roles, and separating WHS obligations.
Presented by Ben Kirkbride, Head of HSEQ, Gamuda Engineering (Aust)
This webinar will provide considerations to selecting and engaging contractors. A practical case study on considerations to get started. Key takeaways: • Segmenting contractors • Tendering and other sourcing options • Pre-qualifying organisations, individuals, and contract terms.
Presented by Ben Carnell (Head of Client Solutions, Sentis)
What’s covered? Transforming safety culture is a big job. Cultures can take years to turn around and only do so with targeted focus and investment by leaders. Executive alignment and commitment both in principle and in practice are required. But how do you build the case for change and influence up the line? Join Sentis’ Head of Client Solutions, Ben Carnell, to explore how to build the case for safety culture change, align critical stakeholders and manage common objections.
Session outcomes:
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- How the psychology of change influences stakeholder engagement
- How to gain buy-in from senior leaders
- How to manage common stakeholder objections or roadblocks
- A practical step-by-step roadmap for setting up a cultural transformation project for success
Presented by Kelvin Genn (Managing Director, Art of Work)
What’s covered? The webinar will explore the techniques to harness real-time worker experience, and through these techniques engage workers insights. The session will explore how subject matter experts can harness these insights into the design of work methods that reduce the gap between work as done and work as imagined.
Kelvin Genn is the Art of Work’s Managing Director. He 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 systems and risk management programs across the Asia Pacific and Europe with Compass Group Plc, the world’s largest support service company with more than 750,000 employees.
Presented by Mark Alston (Managing Director, Investigations Differently)
What’s covered? Many organisations have prioritised identifying organisational issues as an outcome of their investigation process. Too often the issues identified are superficial and do not identify systemic issues. This lack of depth results in a preponderance of low-level administrative actions delivering little risk reduction to the organisation.
In this webinar, Mark Alston will discuss how to improve the depth of an investigation and identify systemic organisational issues.
Presented by Mark Alston (Managing Director, Investigations Differently)
What’s covered? Many organisations have prioritised identifying organisational issues as an outcome of their investigation process. Too often the issues identified are superficial and do not identify systemic issues. This lack of depth results in a preponderance of low-level administrative actions delivering little risk reduction to the organisation.
In this webinar, Mark Alston will discuss how to improve the depth of an investigation and identify systemic organisational issues.
Presented by Brian Jackson (Special Counsel, Moray & Agnew)
What’s covered?
The definition issues for employees and the COVID-19 vaccine is whether employers can enforce mandatory vaccinations –No Jab No Job?
With the Country and individual states opening up, employers need to know their legal obligations. Brian Jackson (Employment Lawyer from Moray & Agnew Lawyers) will present on this important topic so that employers know how to proceed and avoid claims and HR related risks.
Presented by Dr David Provan (Forge Works)
What’s covered?
Last month Forge Works released the Safety of Work Survey as part of a diagnostic process for improving the safety of work. This webinar discusses how this can be used as a replacement for existing safety climate and safety culture perception surveys. This evidenced based approach takes the contemporary safety theories of High Reliability Organisations (HRO), Resilience Engineering, Safety II, Safety Differently and Human and Organisational Performance and operationalises it in a way for organisations to understand their capacity for managing the safety of work.
In addition the survey also understands how your organisation believes safety should be managed. This is critical insight for any improvement and change process. Understand the science and the practice of the latest safety thinking and research and how you can apply it in your organisation.
Presented by David Provan and Ralph Shreeve (Safety Futures)
What’s covered?
The primary purpose of a modern supervisor working in hazardous operations is to organise, manage, support and develop the team’s ability to work safely. In order to effectively deliver on that primary purpose, we believe that the key actions of safe supervision are SHAPED i.e.,
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- Seeking differing opinions.
- Hunting for hazards.
- Aligning goals and roles.
- Planning collaboratively.
- Executing mindfully.
- Developing individual and team capabilities.
These actions are not the exclusive domain of the supervisor. As the team must be actively engaged in the process, safe supervision should not be seen as something that is done to the team, but rather as a dynamic element of teamwork. The supervisor is accountable for the quality of supervision but every member of the team has a shared responsibility.
Just as good leadership develops, and is in turn dependent upon, good follow-ship, safe supervision creates and is in turn dependent upon good teamwork. Optimising each of the elements of SHAPED supervision requires every member of the team to be fully engaged, not just with the supervisor and other team members, but also with the action itself.
This knowledge will develop your understanding of how to create a safe system of work and supervision where the team is actively engaged in looking out for themselves and each other.
This webinar is focused on:
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- Exploring a new definition of supervision and understanding the elements of ‘SHAPED’ supervision.
- Exploring ‘safe supervision’ as both a leadership role and a set of activities that the whole team engage with using the “Know, Say, Do” framework.
- Exploring how diversity and inclusion can enhance hazard hunts and discussions and planning.
- Understanding how to harness the positive effects and minimise the potential negatives of diversity and collaboration.
Presented by Mark Wright (Director, FEFO Consulting) with Wade Needham (General Manager – EHS, Natural Resources Australasia)
What’s covered? Are you celebrating success?
This webinar will outline how to simply report critical controls, data visualisation options and storytelling. A practical case study will also be provided on CCM performance reporting.
Key takeaways:
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- Quality vs Quantity metrics
- CCM as part of broader Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting
- Commercial acumen and CCM continual improvement
Presented by Mark Wright (Director, FEFO Consulting) with Rebecca Crompton (General Manager Safety, BSA Ltd)
Can you sleep at night, knowing your critical controls are effective?
This webinar will outline different types of critical control assurance activity. A practical case study will also be shown on how to provide stakeholders with comfort that critical controls are effective.
Key takeaways:
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- Verifying critical control effectiveness
- Unintended consequences
- Solution focus approach to CCM
Presented by Mark Wright (Director, FEFO Consulting) with Caitlin Stuhlener (Asia Pacific ESH Senior Manager, Lockheed Martin)?
What does success look like?
This webinar will outline options for setting critical control performance standards. A practical case study will also be provided on setting expectations for assurance activity and attributes of effective critical controls.
Key takeaways:
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- Critical control performance standard options
- Critical control boundaries and expectation setting
- Understanding roles, building the right capability to achieve objectives
Presented by Mark Wright (Director, FEFO Consulting) with Adam Jackson (Head of HSSE, PDS Australia, JLL) November 3 @ 12:30pm AEDT (Length: 30 minutes)
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What’s covered? Are you using a shotgun or .22 long rifle?
This webinar will outline different types of risk analysis option when evaluating Material Unwanted Events (MUE) and methods to identify critical controls. A practical case study will also be provided outlining how to identify critical controls pitfalls.
Key takeaways:
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- MUE risk analysis vs. standard Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS)
- Bowtie and different risk analysis options
- Different critical control types and pitfalls
Presented by Mark Wright & Terry Swanton (Directors, FEFO Consulting) October 27 @ 12:30pm AEDT (Length: 30 minutes)
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What’s covered? What’s an underwater diver’s biggest threat – Sharks or Clown Fish?
This webinar will provide a Critical Control Management (CCM) introduction and Material Unwanted Events (MUE) with high potential consequences. A practical case study will also be provided on mapping major hazards.
Key takeaways:
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- Critical Risk Management vs Critical Control Management?
- International Council of Mining and Metals (ICCM) guidance on CCM and leading practices
- Risk context and mapping Material Unwanted Events (MUE)
Presented by Dr Tessa Bailey (Principal Consultant, The Opus Centre)
What’s covered?
Understanding your responsibilities as an employer to protect worker health starts with understanding the factors in your organisation that have the potential to cause harm. Automation of routine tasks, technological advancements, and ongoing organisational change have transformed the nature of work. Performing complex and cognitively demanding tasks now represents the greatest percent of skill required by Australian employees.
This webinar will help you identify psychosocial factors that have the potential to cause harm to worker health in your organisation. You will learn how to manage the risk to reduce the potential for these hazards to occur, and if they do occur how to act appropriately to minimise the likelihood of harm.
There are many benefits to implementing evidence based systems for creating a psychologically safe and healthy work environment. This includes better individual worker wellbeing and organisational productivity outcomes, while also achieving your due diligence to provide a safe working environment.
What’s covered?
Water damage and subsequent mould growth can have lasting impacts to not only the health of occupants but also on the building structure itself, and these risks are amplified when corrective actions are delayed or if the source of the problem remains undiscovered for months or longer.
It is unfortunately too common for mould remediation projects to run over time or expand to include costly additional site attendances and further works. Our panel of Indoor Environmental Professionals (IEP) draws from decades of industry experience to identify the key factors common to successful remediation projects, and outline how an IEP can assist in ensuring remediation is successful.
This discussion covers the entire project lifecycle, including:
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- Initial investigations and scoping
- Industry best practice remediation processes – what works and what doesn’t
- How containment saves money and reduces health impacts
- The health and legal ramifications of mould remediation – making sure projects don’t come back to haunt you
Presented by Nigel Woodward (Senior Consultant, myosh), Adrian Manessis (Director, myosh) and Josh Bryant (Mitchell Services General Manager, People and Risk)
A game-changer in critical risk management
myosh are very excited to present the game changing concept of The Digital Bowtie together with our Critical Control Management module and the Smart Inspection process.
Key takeaways:
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- Learn how myosh CCM drives integrated action when controls are compromised
- Learn how The Rules Engine invokes powerful tech when controls are compromised
- Analyse risks and controls on an interactive Performance Dashboard
Presented by Mark Wright (Director, FEFO Consulting) with Wade Needham (General Manager – EHS, Natural Resources Australasia)
What’s covered? Are you celebrating success?
This webinar will outline how to simply report critical controls, data visualisation options and storytelling. A practical case study will also be provided on CCM performance reporting.
Key takeaways:
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- Quality vs Quantity metrics
- CCM as part of broader Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting
- Commercial acumen and CCM continual improvement
Presented by Mark Wright (Managing Director, Health & Safety Index) & Colin Williams (Director, heyProcurement)
What’s covered? This webinar provides an economic outlook of labour and materials, will provide Health and Safety Index benchmark results, factors impacting on poor contractor and supplier performance.
Often organisations take a one-size-fits-all approach to managing risks when procuring goods and services. This often leads to complexities, clutter, non-compliance, and ineffective cultures. Requirements vary based on supplier maturity, procurement categories, economic trends and activities performed.
We will explore current procurement trends impacting goods and services, including commercial risks, health and safety practices and behaviours.
Key takeaways:
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- Economic outlook and procurement risks
- Methods to engage contractors and suppliers
- Segmenting contractors and suppliers
- Measuring performance
- Applying risk-based controls and improvement plans.
What’s covered?
Presented by Greg McLoughlin (MD, Health by Design) This presentation examines how neurotransmitters and neural pathways impact health, safety choices, mental wellbeing and performance in all aspects of our lives. We also examine COVID impacts such as ‘work from home’ and look at profiles that are better suited or less suited to working from home.
Health By Design (HBD) have affiliations with Swinburne University’s school of psychology, the University of Sussex centre for innovation and Robertson Brain Health. HBD provide health, safety & human performance programs globally.
The definition issues for employees and the COVID-19 vaccine is whether employers can enforce mandatory vaccinations –No Jab No Job?
With the Country and individual states opening up, employers need to know their legal obligations. Brian Jackson (Employment Lawyer from Moray & Agnew Lawyers) will present on this important topic so that employers know how to proceed and avoid claims and HR related risks.
Presented by Mark Wright (Director, FEFO Consulting) with Rebecca Crompton (General Manager Safety, BSA Ltd)
What’s covered? Can you sleep at night, knowing your critical controls are effective?
This webinar will outline different types of critical control assurance activity. A practical case study will also be shown on how to provide stakeholders with comfort that critical controls are effective.
Key takeaways:
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- Verifying critical control effectiveness
- Unintended consequences
- Solution focus approach to CCM
Presented by Dr David Provan (Forge Works)
What’s covered? Last month Forge Works released the Safety of Work Survey as part of a diagnostic process for improving the safety of work. This webinar will discuss how this can be used as a replacement for existing safety climate and safety culture perception surveys. This evidenced based approach takes the contemporary safety theories of High Reliability Organisations (HRO), Resilience Engineering, Safety II, Safety Differently and Human and Organisational Performance and operationalises it in a way for organisations to understand their capacity for managing the safety of work.
In addition the survey also understands how your organisation believes safety should be managed. This is critical insight for any improvement and change process. Come along to understand the science and the practice of the latest safety thinking and research and how you can apply it in your organisation.
Presented by Mark Wright (Director, FEFO Consulting) with Caitlin Stuhlener (Asia Pacific ESH Senior Manager, Lockheed Martin
What’s covered? What does success look like?
This webinar will outline options for setting critical control performance standards. A practical case study will also be provided on setting expectations for assurance activity and attributes of effective critical controls.
Key takeaways:
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- Critical control performance standard options
- Critical control boundaries and expectation setting
- Understanding roles, building the right capability to achieve objectives
Presented by David Provan and Ralph Shreeve (Forgeworks)
What’s covered? The primary purpose of a modern supervisor working in hazardous operations is to organise, manage, support and develop the team’s ability to work safely. In order to effectively deliver on that primary purpose, we believe that the key actions of safe supervision are SHAPED i.e.,
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- Seeking differing opinions.
- Hunting for hazards.
- Aligning goals and roles.
- Planning collaboratively.
- Executing mindfully.
- Developing individual and team capabilities.
These actions are not the exclusive domain of the supervisor. As the team must be actively engaged in the process, safe supervision should not be seen as something that is done to the team, but rather as a dynamic element of teamwork. The supervisor is accountable for the quality of supervision but every member of the team has a shared responsibility.
Just as good leadership develops, and is in turn dependent upon, good follow-ship, safe supervision creates and is in turn dependent upon good teamwork. Optimising each of the elements of SHAPED supervision requires every member of the team to be fully engaged, not just with the supervisor and other team members, but also with the action itself.
This webinar is focused on:
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- Exploring a new definition of supervision and understanding the elements of ‘SHAPED’ supervision.
- Exploring ‘safe supervision’ as both a leadership role and a set of activities that the whole team engage with using the “Know, Say, Do” framework.
- Exploring how diversity and inclusion can enhance hazard hunts and discussions and planning.
- Understanding how to harness the positive effects and minimise the potential negatives of diversity and collaboration.
This knowledge will develop your understanding of how to create a safe system of work and supervision where the team is actively engaged in looking out for themselves and each other.
Presented by Mark Wright (Director, FEFO Consulting) with Adam Jackson (Head of HSSE, PDS Australia, JLL) November 3 @ 12:30pm AEDT (Length: 30 minutes)
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What’s covered? Are you using a shotgun or .22 long rifle?
This webinar will outline different types of risk analysis option when evaluating Material Unwanted Events (MUE) and methods to identify critical controls. A practical case study will also be provided outlining how to identify critical controls pitfalls.
Key takeaways:
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- MUE risk analysis vs. standard Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS)
- Bowtie and different risk analysis options
- Different critical control types and pitfalls
Presented by Dr Tessa Bailey (Principal Consultant, The Opus Centre)
What’s covered? Understanding your responsibilities as an employer to protect worker health starts with understanding the factors in your organisation that have the potential to cause harm. Automation of routine tasks, technological advancements, and ongoing organisational change have transformed the nature of work. Performing complex and cognitively demanding tasks now represents the greatest percent of skill required by Australian employees.
This webinar will help you identify psychosocial factors that have the potential to cause harm to worker health in your organisation. You will learn how to manage the risk to reduce the potential for these hazards to occur, and if they do occur how to act appropriately to minimise the likelihood of harm.
There are many benefits to implementing evidence based systems for creating a psychologically safe and healthy work environment. This includes better individual worker wellbeing and organisational productivity outcomes, while also achieving your due diligence to provide a safe working environment.
What’s an underwater diver’s biggest threat – Sharks or Clown Fish?
This webinar will provide a Critical Control Management (CCM) introduction and Material Unwanted Events (MUE) with high potential consequences. A practical case study will also be provided on mapping major hazards.
Key takeaways:
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- Critical Risk Management vs Critical Control Management?
- International Council of Mining and Metals (ICCM) guidance on CCM and leading practices
- Risk context and mapping Material Unwanted Events (MUE)
Presented by Debra Burlington (Director, Enhance Solutions)
What’s covered? During this session Debra will provide some insights into the differences between coaching and mentoring. As a qualified coach and the Chairperson of the Australian Institute of Health and Safety’s (AIHS) Mentoring Program, she has been exploring these differences for some time. Both are valid, and done well, both add a great deal of value to the development of those people we are influencing in the work place.
A key skill is being able to bring awareness to what kind of conversation is best in which situation. Debra will offer some hints and tips as to what to listen for that will indicate the type of conversation required in a given situation.
Presented by Presented by Michael Taylor, Ian Crew and Cedric Cheong (Greencap)
What’s covered? Water damage and subsequent mould growth can have lasting impacts to not only the health of occupants but also on the building structure itself, and these risks are amplified when corrective actions are delayed or if the source of the problem remains undiscovered for months or longer.
It is unfortunately too common for mould remediation projects to run over time or expand to include costly additional site attendances and further works. Our panel of Indoor Environmental Professionals (IEP) will draw from decades of industry experience to identify the key factors common to successful remediation projects, and outline how an IEP can assist in ensuring remediation is successful.
The discussion will cover the entire project lifecycle, including
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- Initial investigations and scoping
- Industry best practice remediation processes – what works and what doesn’t
- How containment saves money and reduces health impacts
- The health and legal ramifications of mould remediation – making sure projects don’t come back to haunt you.
Presented by Mark Wright (Managing Director, Health & Safety Index) & Colin Williams (Director, heyProcurement)
What’s covered? This webinar provides an economic outlook of labour and materials, will provide Health and Safety Index benchmark results, factors impacting on poor contractor and supplier performance.
Often organisations take a one-size-fits-all approach to managing risks when procuring goods and services. This often leads to complexities, clutter, non-compliance, and ineffective cultures. Requirements vary based on supplier maturity, procurement categories, economic trends and activities performed.
We will explore current procurement trends impacting goods and services, including commercial risks, health and safety practices and behaviours.
Key takeaways:
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- Economic outlook and procurement risks
- Methods to engage contractors and suppliers
- Segmenting contractors and suppliers
- Measuring performance
- Applying risk-based controls and improvement plans.
Presented by Greg McLoughlin (MD, Health by Design)
What’s covered? This presentation examines how neurotransmitters and neural pathways impact health, safety choices, mental wellbeing and performance in all aspects of our lives. We will also examine COVID impacts such as ‘work from home’ and look at profiles that are better suited or less suited to working from home.
Health By Design (HBD) have affiliations with Swinburne University’s school of psychology, the University of Sussex centre for innovation and Robertson Brain Health. HBD provide health, safety & human performance programs globally.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)
What’s covered?
Businesses invest big in safety improvement initiatives, yet relatively few can pinpoint the positive effects of these on their safety culture. The natural tendency is to turn to lag indicators. And while not inherently bad, these measures only provide part of the picture.
Businesses who excel at safety are looking to lead metrics to not only demonstrate a clear return on safety investment, but to also better predict and prevent incidents in the workplace. Knowing where to start is often the first hurdle. The second is convincing senior stakeholders to buy into a new way of measuring safety.
Join Sentis CEO, Anthony Gibbs to explore how the best in the business track safety performance with their executive’s full support.
Presented by Emma Pritchard and Jenny Inness (Harmers Workplace Lawyers’ Executive Counsel)
What’s covered?
What’s covered? Employers are facing a significant increase in serious mental health concerns within their workforces due to the ongoing impact of the COVID pandemic, and the extended lockdown and stay-at-home public health orders currently in place across many States and Territories.
Whilst working from home is an important safety measure at this time, the stress and anxiety caused by isolation and other associated stressors are giving rise to different safety concerns for workers from a mental health perspective.
In this webinar, Harmers’ Executive Counsel, Emma Pritchard and Jenny Inness, provide guidance on:
How employers can identify workers who may need help: * + Guidance for employers on sensitive and appropriate conversations to ascertain the health and wellbeing of your workers + Guidance on questions to ask and what not to ask when discussing mental health with your workers
What are your legal obligations as an employer in relation to mental health in the workplace? * + Work health and safety obligations + Disability discrimination legislation (including reasonable adjustments for mental health and inherent requirements of the job) + Contractual obligations
What can employers do to carefully look after workers’ mental health and to maintain a positive workplace culture? * + Guidance for employers on when employers can: Implement reasonable adjustments to accommodate mental health issues; Issue reasonable and lawful directions to manage sensitive mental health issues; Obtain independent medical assessments about fitness to work; Issue directions to take leave to manage mental health concerns + Guidance for employers to provide a supportive and positive workplace culture that can accommodate workers with mental health issues
Presented by Debra Burlington (Enhance Solutions)
What’s covered?
During this session, Debra provides some insights into how to use self-coaching as a tool for building resilience and taking care of the self. Often in a world full of busyness, we forget to take care of ourselves. In fact, not only do we not take care of ourselves, but we also become our harshest critic, often focussing on what we haven’t done, should’ve done and discounting how amazing we truly are.
This session provides some insights into the importance of self-coaching and some simple how-to tips for everyday implementation.
Presented by Kelvin Genn (Art of Work)
What’s covered?
The first principle of safety differently is engaging people as a solution to harness, rather than a problem to control. Human-centred design is built upon this principle. For too long safety has focused on creating controls that constrain people rather than focusing on harnessing the knowledge of those that do the work.
Stanford University Design Center has crafted the ideas of user experience and human-centred design to solve intractable problems their source. This webinar introduces you to the concepts of user experience and human-centred design and how to harness them for operational safety excellence.
Presented by Thibault Vincent (Principal Consultant, Sentis)
What’s covered?
Culture and leadership go hand in hand, especially when it comes to investing in safety. But the reality is that most safety leaders haven’t been taught the fundamental soft skills needed to lead effectively. And the implications for safety performance, compliance and reporting are concerning.
So, what does strong and effective safety leadership look like?
Explore the eight fundamental competencies required for strong safety leadership and where to focus for the greatest return on investment.
Listen to Mark Alston as he discusses practical solutions to incident investigation based on the theory of ‘Safety Differently.
What’s covered?
- Example of traditional root cause investigation verse a Safety Differently approach
- Why root cause investigations miss important gaps
- Work as Normal compared to Work as Intended
- Failure is not linear. There is a messy story
- Collection of evidence is key
- Comparing Work as Normal vs Work as Intended unlocks true organisational issues
- Operational learning questions
- Put it all together – 3 tier time line
Listen to Andy Holmes as he discusses the core elements of ISO45001 and how businesses are managing the transition.
What’s covered?
Published in March 2018, ISO 45001 became the first global standard of its kind, giving organisations a universally accepted framework for improving employee health and safety, reducing workplace risks, and creating healthier, safer working conditions.
ISO 45001 has been prepared using “High-Level Structure”. This is intended to enhance alignment among ISO’s management system standards, and to facilitate the implementation for organisations that need to meet the requirements of several standards simultaneously, for example, the already released ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015
With its ‘top-down’ philosophy, ISO 45001 also requires management and leadership to take greater responsibility for health and safety issues.
Tens of thousands of businesses around the globe are already certified, and it is expected that over 500,000 organisations will take up the standard internationally over the next decade. Join Andy Holmes as he discusses the transition to ISO 45001.
What’s covered?
Brian Jackson (Senior Lawyer) Moray & Agnew presents an urgent webinar on managing the economic and health & safety implications of the COVID-19 crisis on your workplace including:
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- How best to implement, and enforce necessary protocols to ensure the safety and wellbeing of your employees, with the least disruption and with effective compliance.
- How to manage staffing costs and under-utilisation in the COVID-19 environment, including voluntary reductions in pay and hours, and redundancies.
- The increasing use of the stand down provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009, where employees cannot be usefully employed due to a stoppage of work.
Presented by Andy Shone and Mark Alston All over the world, companies in a range of industries are beginning to benefit from the use of Learning Teams. What are Learning Teams and why are they so effective?
This session, using scenario-based learning, explores and demonstrates:
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- What operational learning can look like
- The use of Learning Teams to gain valuable operational insights
- Applying the myosh Learning Teams Module to capture learning team information
This session will equip you with the skills to:
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- Understand the fundamentals of Operational Learning
- Understand how the myosh Learning Teams Module works
- Integrate Learning Teams into systems using myosh
Presented by Mark Alston Commonly used incident classification methodologies have resulted in adverse consequences, including over classification, poor investigation outcomes, unnecessary investigations and unsustainable workloads for those responsible for facilitating the investigation.
Listen in to Mark Alston as he discusses a practical alternative solution, grounded by statute, that will assist in improving investigation outcomes and combat the negative impact on an organisations culture from the misuse of injury metrics.
What’s covered?
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis) We find ourselves in unprecedented times. The uncertainty created by current events, including COVID-19, has led to increased stress, distraction and anxiety in the workplace. For some, this is in addition to the recent devastations of drought, fire and flood. But what happens when workers find their stress compounding and fail to recognise it?
As a leader, it’s important to recognise when a worker may need to access support. This webinar will provide a framework to help leaders understand the difference between a team member thriving and surviving—and if they are surviving, whether they’re simply going through a bad patch or if they require extra support to manage a mental health issue or illness.
Session outcomes:
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- Understand a framework to recognise the difference between team members who thrive or survive during stress and crisis
- Gain insights around the dos and don’ts of supportive conversations
- Learn practical tools for effective conversations that guide team members towards support
Presented by Dr Michael Taylor COVID-19 has presented a series of challenges to our health, safety and business continuity. Whilst many of the recommendations for combatting this novel coronavirus are still being debated, the principles underpinning good workplace hygiene will still mitigate much of the risk, and provide a framework for managing this outbreak, and future pandemics.
This webinar covers what we know about COVID-19, how long it persists in the environment, transmission, PPE, and disinfection, and touches on wider principles which can be used to rapidly respond to future emergency situations.
Examples of best practice being employed in companies across Australia in a variety of industries are also shared.
resented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)
What’s covered? Businesses invest big in safety improvement initiatives, yet relatively few can pinpoint the positive effects of these on their safety culture. The natural tendency is to turn to lag indicators. And while not inherently bad, these measures only provide part of the picture.
Businesses who excel at safety are looking to lead metrics to not only demonstrate a clear return on safety investment, but to also better predict and prevent incidents in the workplace. Knowing where to start is often the first hurdle. The second is convincing senior stakeholders to buy into a new way of measuring safety.
Join Sentis CEO, Anthony Gibbs to explore how the best in the business track safety performance with their executive’s full support.
Key takeaways:
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- Popular success measurement and metrics
- The challenge with traditional lag indicators
- Lead metrics that resonate with senior stakeholders
- How to use metrics to build a case for safety culture change
Presented by Emma Pritchard and Jenny Inness (Harmers Workplace Lawyers’ Executive Counsel)
What’s covered? Employers are facing a significant increase in serious mental health concerns within their workforces due to the ongoing impact of the COVID pandemic, and the extended lockdown and stay-at-home public health orders currently in place across many States and Territories.
Whilst working from home is an important safety measure at this time, the stress and anxiety caused by isolation and other associated stressors are giving rise to different safety concerns for workers from a mental health perspective.
In this webinar, Harmers’ Executive Counsel, Emma Pritchard and Jenny Inness, will provide guidance on:
How employers can identify workers who may need help: * + Guidance for employers on sensitive and appropriate conversations to ascertain the health and wellbeing of your workers + Guidance on questions to ask and what not to ask when discussing mental health with your workers
What are your legal obligations as an employer in relation to mental health in the workplace? * + Work health and safety obligations + Disability discrimination legislation (including reasonable adjustments for mental health and inherent requirements of the job) + Contractual obligations
What can employers do to carefully look after workers’ mental health and to maintain a positive workplace culture? * + Guidance for employers on when employers can: Implement reasonable adjustments to accommodate mental health issues; Issue reasonable and lawful directions to manage sensitive mental health issues; Obtain independent medical assessments about fitness to work; Issue directions to take leave to manage mental health concerns + Guidance for employers to provide a supportive and positive workplace culture that can accommodate workers with mental health issues
What’s covered?
How can Safety leaders and professionals change the focus of their conversations and impact change fast?
Did you attend the myosh – “Finding what works and doing more of it” session in May this year? If you did attend, then this is the Part 2 session.
Covid, lockdowns and working from home has created many challenges and constraints on how we work and live. Change is hard and particularly adapting to change. Well, it does not have to be. If we want to help ourselves and the people we lead to change and adapt fast, then being solution-focused and helping steer people to what is working will have a greater impact.
This session shows you again in action what the difference is between being problem-focused as compared to solution-focused and how you can form better relationships with your peers, clients, team members and even family members if you stick with a solution focus approach, especially now in a time of great uncertainty. You will get to see it in action again!
Presented by Marc McLaren (Art of Work)
What’s covered? Organisations invest considerable time and effort to observe and learn about how work is being undertaken, in order to improve safe work outcomes. This combined effort, involving leaders, workers, Health and Safety practitioners, other functional specialists and administrative support can be broadly described as Work Interactions. The collective noun Work Interaction is intentionally used to capture a range of practices that aim to promote engagement, learning and behavioural and organisational change.
This webinar will cover the latest research into the broad area of Work Interactions and the insights gained from twelve Australian and overseas WHS practitioners who are actively seeking to enhance Works Interactions and share their experiences. The conversation will then move to how the learning and benefits gained by both those who initiate and participate can be enhanced, as well as an invitation to participate in the ongoing collaborative research work.
Presented by Marc McLaren (Art of Work)
What’s covered? Organisations invest considerable time and effort to observe and learn about how work is being undertaken, in order to improve safe work outcomes. This combined effort, involving leaders, workers, Health and Safety practitioners, other functional specialists and administrative support can be broadly described as Work Interactions. The collective noun Work Interaction is intentionally used to capture a range of practices that aim to promote engagement, learning and behavioural and organisational change.
This webinar will cover the latest research into the broad area of Work Interactions and the insights gained from twelve Australian and overseas WHS practitioners who are actively seeking to enhance Works Interactions and share their experiences. The conversation will then move to how the learning and benefits gained by both those who initiate and participate can be enhanced, as well as an invitation to participate in the ongoing collaborative research work.
Presented by Andy Shone Safety professionals and organisations all over the world are having conversations about Safety Differently. But what is Safety Differently, different from? What challenges is Safety Differently a response to? And what does it look like in practice?
This webinar provides some answers to these questions through an exploration of the key principles of Safety Differently.
Key resources mentioned in the presentation: * Books The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management * HOP | LAB The HOP|LAB is a space for the sharing of new ideas, research, opinions and experiences that support the application of Human and Organisational Performance. * Video Safety Differently: The Movie
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis) Accurate and timely reporting of safety incidents is a crucial component of a positive safety culture. These invaluable learning opportunities allow us to adapt, make improvements and prevent future injury. Yet, recent Australian data has found that on average, 31% of incidents go unreported and in some organisations, this figure rises as high as 53%*. And it’s not just frontline workers failing to report; leaders and managers also underreport at alarming rates.
In this webinar, we explore the three key drivers of underreporting and how to strategically address each one to drive improved safety outcomes, along with key takeaways to push your safety culture in a positive direction.
Session outcomes:
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- Explore insights from a global research study of 12,460 participants across industry
- Discover underreporting rates across team, leader and management levels
- Understand the three key drivers of underreporting and the risks to your business
- Learn strategies for addressing underreporting in your business
Presented by Jeremy Leu (Pacific General Manager, Bureau Veritas)
COVID-19 has changed businesses and will continue to change the way they operate in the coming future, even after the pandemic ends. Despite the situation being unlikely to return to ‘normal’, the priority for all businesses is to return to work as quickly as possible and with optimum health, safety and hygiene conditions for their employees and clients.
Businesses planning to restart their operations will face significant challenges to safeguard their employees and clients from health and safety risks related to the spread of COVID-19. Organisations will also need to be able to protect and build trust with their employees and clients, as well as promote transparency and credibility to the society in order to reoperate efficiently.
Bureau Veritas Australia has developed a methodology: SafeGuard Assurance Program to meet the requirements of all business sectors of the economy as they gradually reopen for business.
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- Validation of the guidelines – which your facilities are assessed against
- Self-assessment questionnaire – to be completed by each of your facilities
- Independent audit – of your facilities by Bureau Veritas
- Issuance of compliance certificate/label – to each of your audited facility
Presented by Phoebe Gane, Renee Dawson, and Bianca Camuglia (Greencap)
Engaging contractors is essential to the operation of many businesses and can underpin the success of an organisation’s activities, business model, brand, and culture. However, these services come with inherit risks.
It is imperative that persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) and shared duty holders implement robust governance frameworks, management systems, pre-qualification processes, and compliance strategies that facilitate the successful procurement and engagement of contractors. This then enables an organisation to deliver services and business activities in a manner that aspires and aims to ensure work is undertaken without risk to health and safety.
This Contactor Management webinar will provide you with practical advice on how to demonstrate due diligence, limit your liability, and how to recognise when it may be desirable to take greater control over a contractor’s safety arrangements.
This moderated presentation and discussion includes case studies that showcase practicable and sustainable approaches to contractor management and how this has assisted business and shared duty holders to operate safely, efficiently and with agility in today’s regulatory and economic environment.
The case studies also cover recent learnings from sudden changes to business operations and requirements during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Presented by Scott Coleman (Managing Director, Preventure) Research has indicated that traditional approaches to safety training (including manual handling training) are ineffective at changing worker behaviour and reducing injury risks. However, the Sports Science model of using wearable technology and data analysis to identify injury risks, then providing individualised training and feedback has been proven to effectively change behaviour and reduce injury risks.
In this session, we’ll review the research and methods behind successful sports-based injury prevention programs, and demonstrate how the same methods can be used to protect workers from injury in a cost-effective and sustainable way. We’ll also explore the use of data analysis and smartphone technology to:
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- identify specific injury risks for individual workers
- identify which training modules the worker needs to complete to reduce these risks, and
- deliver these training modules to the worker through their smartphone
Presented by Kelvin Genn, MD Art of Work Safety has traditionally been about the elimination of negative outcomes (incidents, injuries, errors, malfunctions). While this approach has lead to significant improvements it has also produced several problematic side effects: disengagement and disempowerment of people, increasing bureaucracy, loss of innovation and productivity. Furthermore, many organisations now struggle with plateauing safety records. Some industries even experience increasing injury and fatality rates despite unprecedented investments in safety.
Over the last 5 years, a growing number of organisations and thought-leaders have developed a set of ideas and practices that help organisations to overcome the current impasse. In this Webinar, attendees will be introduced to the assumptions, principles and practices that underpin Safety Differently in Practice, drawing upon the experiences and examples for organisations that are on the journey. The webinar provides attendees with insight as to how safety differently can be enabled at the operational, functional and strategic levels of organisations. Suitable participants are managers, supervisors, technical experts, safety professionals and safety representatives.
Presented by Michael Hutcheson, Mark Bluett, and Adam Hart For many businesses, emergency management planning has taken a back seat due to the sudden and widespread impacts of the current pandemic.
Prior to its onset, managing Emergency Management in many facilities was a relatively straightforward task for those responsible; compliance matters were scheduled, warden numbers stable and evacuation diagrams have expiry dates to ensure their review was on time. The COVID-19 Pandemic disrupted facility managers’ plans for maintaining compliance by creating the pressing needs to relocate staff, adapt business practices and technology, and manage a building with very few occupants.
As Australia’s States and Territories progress through the stages of restrictions, how should Emergency Management be managed, and how do you plan the return of people to their workplace?
This Returning to the Workplace webinar provides practical advice on how to maintain Emergency Management Compliance, taking into account reduced occupancy levels while observing social distancing and hygiene requirements.
This moderated presentation and discussion includes practical approaches, while staff remain out of the office and as they begin to return to your workplace, that will provide your building and business the flexibility needed to maintain emergency management compliance as the current situation and restrictions are eased.
Presented by David Provan and Kym Bancroft Safety II principles and ideas are increasingly being explored by organisations as they seek to further improve their safety performance and re-shape their safety practices and culture. There is however some misunderstanding about what Safety II is and how it is different from our traditional ‘Safety I’ approach.
Dr David Provan explains the key aspects of Safety II and what they mean for the way we think about managing our organisations. There are now many organisations internationally with implementation experience of Safety II. Urban Utilities is one of the leading organisations who has been implementing Safety II for several years. Kym Bancroft shares their story and what they have practically done directly in relation to the key aspects presented by David.
Presented by Mark Alston Traditional risk assessments are used by organisations to justify decisions already made and to ratify controls that are already in place. Risk assessments can become a ‘cut & paste’ exercise with little or no innovation discovered. Controls remain predominately focused on ‘Safety Work’ rather than the ‘Safety of Work’.
Utilising a Learning Teams approach to risk assessments, allows a facilitator to explore the work as normal, focus on assessing genuine risks and enable an environment that encourages a risk assessment team to innovate. This approach can be easily incorporated into organisations existing risk assessment processes.
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Presented by Lena Wicha Research consistently finds that factors associated with work and the work environment can significantly increase the likelihood of employees developing physical and mental health conditions. Unlike physical hazards (e.g. exposure to noise or asbestos), which are only present for specific roles and industries, mental health risks exist in every industry and job.
Empirical studies in the organisational context show that the increased risk to develop mental ill-health is primarily a result of poorly designed work. So how can we design work that keeps employees well?
The SMART work design model, developed by Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow Professor Sharon Parker at the Centre for Transformative Work Design (CTWD), is a framework that can be used to design healthy, meaningful and motivating work that not only keeps employees well but helps them thrive.
Based on decades of research, the SMART work design model identifies five key themes that result in thriving organisations. Focusing on SMART work design enables organisations to design engaging and enriched jobs, helping to create significant benefits for individuals, teams and organisations across jobs and industries.
Presented by psychologist Lloyd D’Castro (MD, Working Life – People Solutions) We all know a significant factor to achieving great safety outcomes in any organisation is dependent upon having employees confident enough to speak up about their concerns, and furthermore, when they do speak up, for leaders to listen, then act. But what does it take to create an environment that employees speak up?
For some answers to this, we look at what we have learnt and continue to learn from fMRI’s (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) research and combine it with practical everyday brain-friendly language – language that gives the brain more comfort. This session will unashamedly put the onus on leaders at all organisational levels to lead with the brain in mind.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis) How conscious are your leaders of the safety behaviours they actually reward? According to a recent study of 8,212 participants across heavy industry, 89% of workers report that their leader struggles to display effective recognition for strong safety performance. In fact, only 1 in 10 workers hold positive perceptions of their leader’s recognising ability.
Ineffective recognition can have unintentional consequences and drive unhelpful safety behaviours that put workers at increased risk. In this webinar, we explore the concept of effective recognition and how to leverage intrinsic motivation to create long-term, positive safety culture change.
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- Explore the importance of recognition in influencing the behaviour of employees.
- Learn the basics of how to recognise others effectively.
- Understand the inherent challenges in most reward and recognition systems and how to overcome these.
- Learn how to build intrinsic motivation within your team for improved safety performance.
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Presented by Brad Paroz, David Hauser, and Dr Chong Chee Goh Given the dynamic and varied nature of COVID-19 restrictions currently in place, or being eased, across most states and territories, businesses have no clear visibility of when the current crisis and period of disruption will come to a finite end. In addition, altered models of operation, and infection control requirements, which have been embedded over the course of the pandemic are becoming ‘the new normal’, requiring businesses to review and adapt their systems, asset management frameworks and processes.
It is therefore incumbent upon the business sector to provide a platform for success, protect the value of their assets and remain compliant with their duties and obligations under the Australian health and safety framework, including the concept of having COVIDSafe Assurance for business operations, facilities and practices.
Managing Building Compliance through COVID 19 and Beyond. To be relevant and informative in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant dynamic regulatory environment, this webinar is in the format of a facilitated discussion with an expert panel from Greencap’s Property Risk Audit (PRA) team, including Brad Paroz (Practice Manager), Chong Chee Goh (Principal Consultant) and David Hauser (Team Manager).
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- Learn how to manage building compliance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant dynamic regulatory environment.
- Learn to protect the value of assets and remain compliant with duties and obligations under the Australian health and safety framework.
- Understand the importance of having COVIDSafe Assurance for business operations, facilities and practices.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis) Why is investing in resilience training and development a smart business choice? In a recent survey of safety professionals across Australia and New Zealand, 76% of people reported that the stress associated with the impacts of COVID-19 had negatively affected employee safety in the workplace. But only 44% had discussed the possible implications and put in place a plan to support their people, beyond their already existing Employee Assistance Programs.
Everyone will be faced with change, challenge and stress at some point in their lives. While some people manage stressful periods effectively, others struggle to cope and find stresses impact their performance at work and at home. Now more than ever, individuals are feeling the effects of stress, distraction and anxiety.
It makes business sense to support your people at this time, but it’s clear that COVID isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. So how can you support your people to cope with the inevitable change, uncertainty and setbacks that lay ahead? The answer is resilience. People who demonstrate this skill bounce back from adversity, manage stress effectively, build trusting relationships, and show adaptability and agility to unpredictable or changing situations.
In this webinar, we explore why supporting your people to actively manage their stress levels and make helpful choices to build their resilience will help them flourish in fast-changing workplaces. We also explore the steps required by leaders to make a tangible change in their business.
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- Explore the benefits of including resilience as a core component of wellbeing and safety strategies
- Understand a model of resilience that supports employees to thrive in the workplace
- Discover practical strategies to improve resilience and wellbeing in the workplace
Presented by Greencap Moderated by Phoebe Gane Speakers: Jason Linford, Julie Sullivan, Jason Green Crystalline silica is an abundant mineral found in a wide range of materials such as sand, stone, concrete, mortar, glass, ceramic, bricks and engineered stone. Processes such as cutting, crushing, grinding or drilling can generate respirable crystalline silica (RCS). Occupational or cumulative exposure to RCS can result in serious, debilitating and potentially fatal health effects.
The focus on RCS within the Australian legislative framework has increased significantly in recent years following an increase in the number of workers within the engineered stone industry diagnosed with silicosis, and other RCS related health impacts. Whilst RCS is regulated as a hazardous chemical under the Model WHS Regulations and relevant OHS Regulations, industry-specific Codes of Practice are now coming into force within the various states and territories. For some states and industries, such engineered stone in Queensland, these codes are legally enforceable, whereas other recently published codes (such as the Victorian Compliance Code for Engineered Stone) currently only represent guidance.
The increased legislative focus on the engineered stone industry does, however, highlight the importance of proactive identification, assessment and management of the risks associated with RCS within the construction, infrastructure and resources sectors where there can be high potential for silica exposure.
Join us for this moderated Panel discussion where, using recent case studies and scenarios across numerous industries, we will discuss some of the challenges, complexities and practicalities of effective risk control for RCS. The presentation will also outline the proactive measures employers and PCBUs should be implementing to control RCS risks effectively in the face of increasing legislative governance.
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Presented by Greg McLoughlin, CEO of Health By Design International Current circumstances have reminded us that being simply reactive with health management isn’t sufficient. To thrive rather than merely survive, a workforce needs to be proactive about personal health, mental fitness, and injury risk – all of which are inextricably linked.
An integrated approach to workplace health has never been more important. Not only is it more cost-efficient, but it also enhances the employee experience. By bringing together injury and illness prevention with health promotion, studies have shown that integrated programs are particularly effective in assessing ‘high risk’ workers with the least likelihood of engaging in traditional health and wellbeing programs.
This webinar looks at the value proposition of integrated programming and how it can maximise engagement and business outcomes, such as reducing absenteeism and worker-compensation costs, along with the key challenges for workplaces and how to overcome these.
Leaders who can communicate a safety vision well assist their team to see how the vision can practically be implemented through their day-to-day operations. They encourage employees to continuously embrace the vision and, as a result, see improved engagement and safe work performance from the team.
In this webinar, we explore the science of creating an inspiring vision and how to make a business-wide safety vision relevant for your team’s reality. We also explore ways leaders can inspire teams to buy into the vision and ultimately take ownership at a team level to keep the vision alive.
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Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis) The ability to create, promote and maintain a clear vision for safe, productive work is a core safety leadership competency. Yet, in a recent study of 535 leaders representing four high-risk industries, only 12% rated themselves as highly effective at sharing a safety vision, while almost one in four rated themselves as ineffective. Further, evidence shows that creating and communicating a compelling safety mission and vision is a hallmark of organisations with a strong, positive safety culture.
Leaders who can communicate a safety vision well assist their team to see how the vision can practically be implemented through their day-to-day operations. They encourage employees to continuously embrace the vision and, as a result, see improved engagement and safe work performance from the team.
In this webinar, we explore the science of creating an inspiring vision and how to make a business-wide safety vision relevant to your team’s reality. We also explore ways leaders can inspire teams to buy into the vision and ultimately take ownership at a team level to keep the vision alive.
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Presented by Matthias Krope (Youngwoo Ind) This webinar focuses on different training and learning methods for workers at construction sites, industry business or any other field where high-risk activities or dangerous situations can occur. The focus is on experiential safety awareness training methods with a sensory impact.
On average, we retain about 10% of a written text, 20% of what we record acoustically, 30% of what we see, 50% of what we see and hear in combination, and 90% of what we tell and really do.
Matthias Krop demonstrates how Youngwoo simulates everyday risks and hazards in a safe training environment that actively involves workers.
“We will show results from our clients, how injury rates on complex construction sites have been reduced significantly by using practical safety training units. Sharing references from the field where safety training simulators for high-risk activities like confined space, electrical safety, working at height or lifting have been installed can be food for thought and open discussions.”
“This fresh approach can help other companies on the market, when facing challenges in effective safety training with e.g. high fluctuation of personnel, external temporary workers that need to be trained in a short time (outages), bridge language barriers and improve the safety awareness and safe work behaviour.”
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Presented by David Provan (Managing Director, Forge Works) There are eight important considerations for OHS professionals looking to increase their impact and drive stronger health and safety performance within their organisation.
For safety professionals and safety teams, staying close to what matters in your role is crucial to being effective and bringing about change that can help improve the safety of work, now and in the future. This webinar shows you where to start.
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- Safety-II Professionals: The Future of Our Role in Organisations (Webinar)
- How does Work Safety Impact Performance, Profit, and Culture? (Report)
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Presented by Ben Hamilton and Cameron Morse (FTI Consulting) Managing the response to a crisis incident requires a multifaceted approach. Beyond the immediate practical response, there is also a need to manage communications with a myriad of internal and external stakeholders.
Drawing on their combined experience in managing communications for crisis events in multiple industry sectors, FTI Consulting’s Ben Hamilton and Cameron Morse provide an overview of best practice crisis communications, and detail the importance of having a robust, up-to-date and regularly tested crisis communications plan.
Key links:
- COVID-19: Is business ready for a second spike?
- Communicating Through a Crisis: The cost of not saying sorry
- FTI Consulting Strategic Communications Hub
Moderated by Malcolm Fabiny Speakers: Zayne Baggot, Cassandra Fernandez, Joe Stanek, Jo Morris
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It is not uncommon for a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) to encounter asbestos during normal day-to-day work that has, or has not, been previously identified. This is more evident during the demolition or refurbishment of a building, structures, or plant.
Asbestos is a naturally occurring carcinogenic mineral that was manufactured into over 3,000 products and widely used in the construction industry in Australia until 2003. Over time, these products can deteriorate due to natural aging, weathering, day to day operations, and other environmental factors.
Asbestos has continually been removed from buildings and plant as sites have been developed, refurbished or demolished to the standard of the day and the constraints of the building operations at the time. Without total demolition, you cannot be guaranteed that the asbestos has been entirely removed.
State Regulations (WHS and OHS) require that asbestos is identified on-site, a register prepared, labelled, managed, and removed by a licensed removalist prior to any work likely to damage the asbestos-containing materials (ACM) and prior to demolition or refurbishment. As the number of licensed asbestos assessors and competent persons across all jurisdictions of Australia increases, some state regulators are paying close attention to the standards of their work. Some of these individuals have had their competency challenged, resulting in prosecutions and/or the requirement for retraining.
This moderated panel discussion covers the difference between management and demolition surveys, competent persons, if it is reasonably foreseeable that asbestos might be present at your workplace, and if there are steps to avoid unexpected finds/exposure.
The presentation also outlines some of the legislative governance and the panel will share from their diverse experiences as active practitioners and from a leader in the advocacy of asbestos awareness and education.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)
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Understand why your people don’t engage with your safety tools, the risks associated with the return to a ‘new normal’ and what you can do about it.
The uncertainty created by current events, including COVID-19, has led to increased stress, distraction and anxiety in the workplace. And while we may find ourselves on the road to a ‘new normal’, many organisations still need to navigate change, challenge and uncertainty on a daily basis. There’s no more important time than now for workers to be able to recognise hazards and make helpful choices around safety. But with increased distractions at work and at home, such as threats to job security and ambiguity of what’s next, workers are at increased risk of incident and injury. So, how do you ensure that your people make conscious safe choices every day, even in times of challenge and uncertainty?
In many organisations, workers adopt a ‘tick and flick’ approach to risk assessment tools and processes. This compliance behaviour stems from unhelpful attitudes around the risk assessment process and can be challenging to address. To shift behaviour, we need to unpack the attitudes leaders and workers have around risk assessment tools and processes. Only with helpful attitudes and a positive mindset around safety will we see workers truly engage in the risk identification and management process, particularly during challenging periods.
In this webinar, explore the impact of hindering attitudes towards risk assessments and how leaders can influence more helpful attitudes. We also explore leadership strategies and techniques to shift worker attitudes, and also dive into the organisational processes that can contribute to unhelpful attitudes within the business.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)
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A healthy dose of performance pressure is crucial for maintaining optimal levels of production. However, problems arise when levels of production pressure increase to the point that the focus on production starts to overshadow the importance of safe behaviours. Recent Australian data has found that 28% of workers report experiencing pressure from their direct supervisor to prioritise production over safety. Of those, 40% report experiencing this pressure on a weekly basis*. In an environment where supervisors prioritise production over safety, it’s not a question of if an incident will occur, but when and how serious.
This session explores the challenges and implications organisations face when leaders struggle to balance the reality of production demands with a focus on safety. We also provide practical recommendations for organisations seeking to address this issue and achieve a culture of safe production.
Presented by Cameron Stevens (Director of Safety Innovation, Pocketknife Group)
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In the wake of profound disruption, the future is now in focus. By forcing us from our routines, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted us to re-examine the ways we work and how we manage health and safety.
Success in 2021 will depend on our ability to anticipate what’s next and double down on our willingness to harness disruption and drive meaningful change.
This webinar explores the Safety Innovation Academy’s 2021 safety tech predictions to support WHS Professionals in the design of a future-fit safety management strategy for the year ahead.
Presented by Mark Alston (Principal Facilitator, Investigations Differently)
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Managers have often delegated the responsibility to approve risk assessments within their organisation. This webinar discusses:
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- Why we assess risk
- What good risk looks like
- Why context is essential
- What makes an effective control
- Common pitfalls of the risk assessment
- A quick quality checklist
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)
What’s covered?
The landscape of work is changing. Physical distancing, remote work arrangements and a shift in work focus mean we find ourselves needing to connect and interact with our teams in new and different ways. Add to this the increased stress and uncertainty of recent events, and the psychological and physical wellbeing of our people has never been more at the forefront.
For many, being faced with making sudden and difficult decisions about individuals’ employment, temporary or permanent business closures and the impact these have on families and communities can be devastating. Now more than ever, the degree of trust a leadership group has with their employees is key.
In this webinar, we explore the science of trust and the skills required by safety leaders to develop and maintain the necessary level of psychological safety in the current climate of uncertainty. With the right approach, leaders can still be candid about the brutal facts of the current reality while maintaining a team culture that allows open communication, information sharing, solution-focused problem solving and a continued focus on the physical and psychological safety of their teams.
Presented by Mark Wright and Kate Power (FEFO Consulting)
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The Health and Safety Index received over 120,000 responses across several Australian and New Zealand industries during 2020. As we reflect on the Health and Safety Index results, there are many Health & Wellbeing lessons learnt which are worth sharing and comparing to research, i.e., Job Demand + Job Resource = Work Outcomes Model.
This webinar discusses the top results, lowest results, and the highest predictors.
Based on the Health and Safety Index results and our experience, we believe “training” is often not the silver bullet to improve health and wellbeing. Noting every organisation has different needs, Health and Safety Index results in 2020 conclude there are four key areas of focus that are extremely useful to improve workplace health and wellbeing.
Presented by Brian Jackson (Special Counsel, Moray and Agnew)
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In the upcoming months, the rollout of the vaccine in Australia will commence and this will open up a range of complex issues for Australian employers.
Is it reasonable and lawful for an employer to require its employees to take the vaccine? What will be the issues around PPE? What will be the position around employees with allergies? What can an employer do if an employee refuses to take the vaccine? This is an evolving and challenging area of the law.
Presented by Dr Michael Taylor (Principal Consultant/Mycologist) and David Houser (Team Manager, Property Risk) from Greencap
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2020 was a year that fundamentally altered the spaces and ways in which we work. Lasting impacts from the pandemic include a significant increase in working from home, physical changes to the layout of offices and workspaces, and revised occupancy rates in our offices and buildings.
In this webinar, we look at some of the quick checks you can do to ensure your indoor environment (including considerations such as temperature, humidity, mould, dust, viral particles, ventilation) is optimised for healthy working spaces, and ergonomic reviews you may need to undertake for the post-pandemic workplace.
The webinar is facilitated by two of Greencap’s IEQ and Ergonomic Assessment specialists, Dr Michael Taylor and David Hauser, who set out the working environment ‘101’ items and provide recommendations for the ‘quick fixes’ and more substantial changes required to optimise the indoor environmental quality of workplaces.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis) and Dr Amy Hawkes (Head of Psychology)
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Let’s face it. Creating a positive safety culture is hard. You can have the best equipment, all the right systems and train your people, and still see a workforce disengaged with safety. With research showing that 86% of worksites operate in a negative safety culture, there’s a clear case for change. But where do you start?
In this session you’ll discover:
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- The four key components of safety culture
- A practical model for measuring safety culture maturity
- Why investing in your people and leadership can help take your safety culture to the next level
- How to get started on your safety culture journey
- Data and insights that build the case for safety culture change.
Presented by Debra Burlington (Director, Enhance Solutions)
0438 574 450 deb@enhancesolutions.com.au
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During this session, Debra provides some insights into how to listen from a deep level in order to gain rapport and build relationships one conversation at a time. In the world of safety, our role is to influence and bring about change, often through the actions of others. Safety professionals need to be able to quickly build rapport and have their conversations count.
This session offers some key actions that can be taken in order to gain an understanding of how people map their world. This includes the use of precision questioning in order to seek clarity and build a common understanding.
Presented by Jo Kitney, Certification Governance Committee Chair, AIHS / Kelly Somerville, Certification Coordinator AIHS
What’s covered?
The Australian Institute of Health & Safety conducts certification of the Generalist OHS Profession, through a program that acknowledges the capability and credibility of OHS Practitioners and Professionals through the combination of their education and work experience.
Certification of the OHS Profession sets standards of education, experience, and demonstrated knowledge and skills and evaluates people against those standards. It gives increased confidence and guidance to employers, clients, workers and the community as to the competence and standing of the person providing professional advice, and assist in the active promotion of the profession in industry and the wider community. The program is set at a high standard internationally, with certified Practitioners and Professionals actively promoted.
This webinar helps you understand a bit more about the OHS Certification program, application process and professional certification pathway.
Presented by Annette Gray (Director, Annette Gray Consulting)
What’s covered? How can Safety leaders and professionals change the focus of their conversations and impact change fast?
Did you attend the myosh – “Finding what works and doing more of it” session in May this year? If you did attend, then this is the Part 2 session.
Covid, lockdowns and working from home has created many challenges and constraints on how we work and live. Change is hard and particularly adapting to change. Well, it does not have to be. If we want to help ourselves and the people we lead to change and adapt fast, then being solution-focused and helping steer people to what is working will have a greater impact.
This session will show you again in action what the difference is between being problem-focused as compared to solution-focused and how you can form better relationships with your peers, clients, team members and even family members if you stick with a solution focus approach, especially now in a time of great uncertainty. You will get to see it in action again!
Presented by Kelvin Genn (Art of Work)
What’s covered? The first principle of safety differently is engaging people as a solution to harness, rather than a problem to control. Human-centred design is built upon this principle. For too long safety has focused on creating controls that constrain people rather than focusing on harnessing the knowledge of those that do the work.
Stanford University Design Center has crafted the ideas of user experience and human-centred design to solve intractable problems their source. This webinar will introduce you to the concepts of user experience and human-centred design and how to harness them for operational safety excellence.
Presented by Debra Burlington
What’s covered? During this session, Debra will provide some insights into how to use self-coaching as a tool for building resilience and taking care of the self. Often in a world full of busyness, we forget to take care of ourselves. In fact, not only do we not take care of ourselves, but we also become our harshest critic, often focussing on what we haven’t done, should’ve done and discounting how amazing we truly are.
This session will provide some insights into the importance of self-coaching and some simple how-to tips for everyday implementation.
Presented by Thibault Vincent (Principal Consultant, Sentis)
What’s covered? Culture and leadership go hand in hand, especially when it comes to investing in safety. But the reality is that most safety leaders haven’t been taught the fundamental soft skills needed to lead effectively. And the implications for safety performance, compliance and reporting are concerning.
So, what does strong and effective safety leadership look like?
Join us to explore the eight fundamental competencies required for strong safety leadership and where to focus for the greatest return on investment.
Presented by Matt Brearley (Managing Director, Thermal Hyperformance)
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It’s no surprise that heat-related illnesses spike during hot weather, but what about worker injuries? A growing body of evidence demonstrates that workers are more prone to injury during hot weather and this session provides a pragmatic overview of how this occurs and who’s at the greatest risk.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)
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Investment in safety culture is crucial. Even with the right equipment, experience and systems, if your people lack the motivation to take responsibility for their own safety, it’s not a question of if an incident will occur, but when. But in a landscape where 86% of organisational sites operate within a negative or unhelpful safety culture, how do businesses unlock the next stage of their safety culture journey?
In this webinar we explore:
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- Insights from a global research study of 21,711 participants across industry
- The risks of a Public Compliance culture and their impacts on safety performance and discretionary efforts
- The role of leadership in driving a culture beyond compliance
- A practical roadmap for setting your next cultural transformation project up for success
Your Obligations as Asset Owners, Property/Facility Managers and Occupants
Presented by Greencap Brad Paroz (Practice Manager – Property Risk) Dr Chong Chee Goh (Principal Consultant – Property Risk) Adam Davenport (Key Account Manager – TrimEVAC)
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Fires can have a devastating toll on businesses and communities, with far-reaching impacts. Major fire incidents in the last few years (such as Grenfell Tower, Campbellfield factory, West Footscray warehouse) have stimulated significant activity and development of fire safety, essential safety measures, and emergency management legislative frameworks across Australia.
Join us for this webinar where our Fire Safety, Essential Safety Measures and Workplace Emergency Management specialists will host a panel discussion on the current fire safety legislative environment and trends across Australia and some of the pitfalls and challenges to applying robust approaches to fire safety. The panel will also discuss emergency management plans and the practical measures that asset owners, managers and building occupants can implement to effectively protect themselves and their businesses from fire risk.
How can safety professionals change the focus of their conversations and impact change fast?
Presented by Annette Gray (Director, Annette Gray Consulting)
What’s covered?
It’s a common pitfall to focus on problems rather than solutions when we have conversations at work with our peers, team members or clients and especially now in the uncertain times we live in. But what if you could be asking solution-focused questions that steer people to what is working and what they want rather than getting stuck in the “quagmire” of what is wrong?
This session shows you in action what the difference is between the two approaches and how you can form better relationships with your peers, clients, team members and even family members if you stick with a solution focus approach, especially now in a time of great uncertainty.
Presented by Mark Alston (Director, Investigations Differently)
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Traditionally high-level risk management has focused on enterprise risk, recently many organisations are now focusing on high-consequence, low-frequency safety events, otherwise known as critical risk management. Implementing critical risk management can seem a daunting proposition.
During this webinar, Mark Alston, from Investigations Differently will take you through a structured approach that organisations, albeit with a bit of hard work can implement easily. It will cover:
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- Establishing a framework
- Identifying critical risks
- Facilitating workshops
- Critical control selection
- Critical control design
- Monitoring critical risks
resented by Jo Kitney (Managing Director, Kitney OHS)
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Traditional WHS/OHS manuals, procedures, forms, and excel spreadsheets are no match for the complexities of current-day business management. This has created demand for WHS/OHS management systems and practices that are simple, smart and integrated, to reduce silos, duplication, and bureaucracy. As we shift from the traditional approaches to health and safety, and look to declutter, improve human organisational performance, and focus on human-centric design, we need all aspects of the business to be ready and willing for the change.
This next generation of WHS management, and those working in health and safety, needs to be smart, efficient, and capable of meeting the pillars for modern and future management.
Kitney’s BErTHA model for next-gen WHS management provides a smart yet simple approach to understanding an organisation’s vision, goals, and outcomes, and using four pillars to enable WHS management, people and culture, innovation, and technology, and assurance and improvement. In this presentation, Jo Kitney provides the background to BErTHA, her origins, how the four pillars work together, and a case study of consultancy work with a client using BErTHA for a gap analysis, strategy, and improvement plan for managing health and safety at work.
Presented by Kelvin Genn (MD, Art of Work)
What’s covered?
In this webinar, Kelvin explores human-centred design and the principles of safety differently to build and sustain operational effective critical controls.
Presented by Andy Shone (CEO, Southpac Group)
What’s covered?
What gets measured gets done, or so we believe! Today many organisations are driven by KPI’s and dashboards. The result of this often means that we focus on efficiency, getting stuff done quickly, as opposed to being thorough, i.e. being effective. This mindset appears to be increasingly driving the familiar routine;
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- Deadlines are imposed for close out of the identified issues.
- Dashboards and reports drive action.
- Quick fixes ensue.
- Problems recur.
The result of all of this in the worst-case scenario is that Management Systems become a convenient mechanism for managing administrative work (safety work) without affecting the safety of work.
Einstein is reported to have said that if he only had one hour to solve a problem, he would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and the remaining 5 minutes solving it routinely. His focus was one on learning and understanding the true nature of the problem as opposed to gaining a superficial understanding and immediately instigating a fix.
Organisations need to move towards approaches that are more focused on learning and understanding. Approaches that accept the inherent complexity of the modern workplace, and in turn take systemic action to improve performance rather than falling back on simple explanations and familiar fixes.
Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) is an approach or philosophy that focuses on building an understanding of how organisations and people work together with the aim of enhancing performance. Looking at performance holistically includes all potential outcomes including safety, quality, productivity and efficiency.
The learning team method is focused on taking the time to truly understand, with the aid of frontline personnel, how work is happening and the best way to make it better.
Presented by Peter Oxnam (Principal Consultant – Environment, Greencap)
What’s covered?
Join Greencap, Risk & Safety Management specialists, in a presentation on key areas to focus on for the incoming 1 July General Environmental Duty (GED), covering what is changing, and what you can do to be prepared. Tips on how your business can stay ahead of the changes, avoid enforcement actions, and come out on top.
Presented by Peter Oxnam (Principal Consultant – Environment, Greencap)
What’s covered?
Join Greencap, Risk & Safety Management specialists, in a presentation on key areas to focus on for the incoming 1 July General Environmental Duty (GED), covering what is changing, and what you can do to be prepared. Tips on how your business can stay ahead of the changes, avoid enforcement actions, and come out on top.
Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)
What’s covered? The importance of pre-starts and safety briefings should not be underestimated. When run effectively, they encourage two-way communication about safety hazards and controls, provide an open forum to discuss lessons learned, and highlight challenges and opportunities for improvement. But the unfortunate reality is that most pre-starts are seen as a ‘tick and flick’ activity, with little engagement or input from the teams on the frontline.
This webinar is key whether you’re a senior manager looking to support your leaders, on the frontline seeking to inspire your team to take safety seriously, or just curious to know what good looks like.
Session takeaways:
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- How to spot the warning signs that your pre-starts, safety briefings, or start-of-shift meetings aren’t hitting the mark
- The fundamental soft-skills needed to influence safety on the front-line
- Creative examples that have captured attention and encouraged engagement
- A simple checklist for leaders to improve within-team communication
Presented by Mark McLaren (Art of Work)
An enormous amount of time and energy is rightfully invested in understanding what causes and subsequently prevents a life-changing injury or a fatality from happening in the workplace.
This genuine pursuit can inadvertently contribute to some unintended outcomes. The bid to stop the unwanted event can lull an organisation into a false sense of confidence. It is easy to become imbued with misplaced confidence that the designed and assessed preventive Critical Controls will reduce the likelihood of something going wrong to almost zero.
This overconfidence effect is a well-established bias. It occurs when a person’s subjective confidence in their judgements is greater than the objective accuracy of their judgements. This overconfidence bias can lead to a misjudgement of the likelihood or probability of something happening. In this case, the belief becomes one of, “now everything has been thought of and put in place it cannot happen.” The initial reaction to such a bold statement is that we don’t believe this to be true; we know it can still happen, albeit it is extremely unlikely to happen.
Well here is a simple test. Q1. How many mitigating controls sit on the right-hand side of your organisation’s Bowties, and Q2. If the loss of control event occurred would those controls prevent a serious injury or fatality?
So maybe a way of righting the lopsided Bowtie is not to jettison the controls on the left but to ask a different type of question. If the loss of control event happens and the damaging energy is released, such as mechanical, electrical, or gravitational, how will the damaging energy be contained, distanced or deflected so it does not cause a serious injury or fatality? In this webinar, the question of how to design better mitigating Critical Controls is explored further.
Presented by Janet McCulloch (Strategic Consultant, Lysander)
Historically, organisations have not had a significant focus on mental health and wellbeing within their workplace health and safety programs. With increasing awareness of the need to do something to take a proactive approach to preventing mental health injuries, HSE professionals are now faced with the question, “What works?”
An Integrated Approach to Wellness is a program developed to change workplace cultures and leadership practices in response to alarming findings in the 2018 Downey-Swinburne report. The report exposed the levels of depression, anxiety and stress in the construction industry exceeded Australian population norms by more than 37 per cent and were twice that of comparison industries, highlighting the need for industry-endorsed cultural change.
Using the pilot program undertaken on the Mordialloc Freeway Joint Venture as case study, this presentation outlines the key elements that need to co-exist in any Wellbeing program in order to optimise results. And the results on the Mordialloc Freeway project are fascinating to see.
Presented by Dr Tristan Casey
What’s covered?
Numerous ideas and models abound regarding leadership and how it should be done to improve safety. In this complex and sometimes confusing space, it can be easy to get lost in the competing views of what ‘good’ safety leadership looks like.
LEAD4Safety is an innovative model of safety leadership, developed through active partnerships between safety science experts, the Queensland government, and industry. Where the LEAD4Safety model adds value is it integrates multiple theories about safety leadership and is also based on the idea that it is futile to search for a one size fits all approach to safety. Good safety management requires flexibility as well as stability; prevention of failure as well as promotion of success.
LEAD4Safety is an award-winning model that has been recognised by the National Safety Council of Australia via the coveted Pinnacle award in 2019, and has since been adopted by Workplace Health & Safety Queensland, the Electrical Safety Office, Teys Australia, WorkSafe Victoria, and many other diverse organisations in high-risk settings.
Presented by Vallorie Hodges and Fiona McCarthy
What’s covered?
A strong prevention bias in safety thinking doesn’t offer a robust understanding of the complexity of high consequence events. Despite the best risk assessments, procedures, and people, we simply cannot prevent all incidents. We must instead balance prevention efforts with capacity to respond and recover when things go badly. But how do we operationalise this in our organisations?
This session offers a model and the backstory of how we are using it as a simple visual framework to stimulate dialogue and promote learning, shared understanding, and safety differently language. The model is an adaptation of the bowtie… as a propeller. It includes preventive, operational and recovery elements placed in a dynamic mode, represented by turning blades – within a margin of manoeuvre sphere.
We use the model to highlight how prevention efforts deter threats, and to show how the capacity to respond to events may reduce the impact of events. But the real leverage comes when we conceptually shift from bowtie to propeller – the process becomes dynamic, demonstrating how learning creates a feedback loop to improve the entire system- including preventive, operational and response/recovery components.
Presented by Andy Shone (CEO, Southpac Group)
What’s covered? This webinar provides an updated introduction to Human & Organisational Performance (HOP), including principles, terminology and key concepts. It covers important topics including Blue Line vs Black Line (WAI vs WAD), asking better questions, and the importance of understanding and improving how everyday work happens.
Presented by Andy Shone (CEO, Southpac Group)
What’s covered? In the second part of this webinar series, we will dive into the practical application of HOP at an organisational level, covering examples from organisations currently putting HOP into practice, and practical pathways for introducing HOP and Learning Teams.
What’s covered? In the second part of this webinar series, we will dive into the practical application of HOP at an organisational level, covering examples from organisations currently putting HOP into practice, and practical pathways for introducing HOP and Learning Teams.
Register for Part 1: Understanding Human & Organisational Performance (HOP) Terminology and Methodologies