Arrival & Registration

45min

Welcome & Introduction

Tyron McGurgan, CEO, Focus Network

5min

Master of Ceremonies

Andrew Barrett, Chief Connector, Safety on Tap

5min

Andrew Barrett

I love solving challenges with people. I also love sharing. There are so many challenges to work on, and many being solved every day - let's [...]

Opening Keynote Presentation – Leading for HSE, Can You Accept Feedback?

Elle Osborne, Global HSE Director, Baker Hughes

As we go into a world of even bigger data fuelled internally and externally, we need to prepare our leaders to accept feedback and act on it.

30min

Elle Osborne

Elle Osborne is an HSE leader who partners with the operations Team of PPS to work towards creating a safer, competent, and operationally [...]

Keynote Presentation – Decluttering: Breathing Life Back into Safety

Kym Bancroft, Head of Health and Safety, Queensland Urban Utilities

30min

Kym Bancroft

Experienced in the design, development and implementation of evidence-based Safety and Wellbeing Cultural Change processes, I can simultaneously [...]

Panel Discussion – how IRT Group and Australia Post are cutting injuries and future-proofing an ageing workforce

Panelists:

Maria Payne, National Safety Partner, Australia Post, Retail
Campbell McGlynn, Head of People & Culture, IRT Group
Terry Wong, General Manager, Move 4 Life

Campbell McGlynn (Heal of People & Culture, IRT Group), Maria Payne (National Safety Partner, Retail, Australia Post) and Terry Wong (General Manager, Move 4 Life) review their experience in implementing the Move 4 Life SYSTEM. This discussion will look at what’s worked, what’s been learned and what to think about if you’re trying to address sprain and strain injuries or confronting issues associated with an ageing workforce.

40min

Maria Payne

Maria Payne is the National Safety Partner for Retail in Australia Pos – a network of more than 700 outlets and over 6,000 employees. Maria [...]

Campbell McGlynn

Campbell McGlynn is Executive General Manager, People & Culture at IRT Group, one of Australia's largest non-profit, community-based seniors [...]

Terry Wong

Terry Wong is General Manager of Move 4 Life.  He is dedicated to eliminating the impact and cost of sprain and strain injuries and [...]

Networking Break

15min

One-to-One Meetings

30min

Workshop 1 – Integrating Health and Wellbeing with Safety

Jamie Ross, Head of Zero Harm, Spotless

For 99% of human history we all did a great job of working together, trusting and caring for each other, and focusing on what mattered most to keep ourselves safe and alive. What has happened in the most recent 1%? Why do our innate human fears and psychological conditions formed thousands of years ago now create huge challenges to changing behaviours and creating strong safety cultures?

Drawing on the latest global psychological and anthropological research, supported by fascinating real-life stories, this presentation explores how our world has inherently changed around us as humans, and how those changes impact directly on organisational culture and performance. We look at how modern-day factors - continuous states of distraction, the 'technology tsunami', and the increase in micro-laziness - are creating even more challenges for organisations seeking to improve performance.

The audience are left with memorable stories and concepts, plus practical techniques to apply what has been learnt from traditional societies, in order to influence their people to better engagement and performance.

30min

Jamie Ross

Jamie is the Head of Zero Harm for the Spotless group, responsible for leading the business towards best practice in risk management and [...]

One-to-One Meetings

30min

Workshop 2A – Peers Supporting Peers: Enhancing Psychosocial Safety at Work with a Peer Support Program

James Sclater, Senior Organisational Development Specialist, Assure Programs

A Workplace Peer Support Program is an integrated approach to supporting the psychological health and safety of employees, by leveraging existing collegial support at work. This presentation will explore the best practice use of peer support programs in the workplace including an effective communication strategy, the recruitment and selection of peer supporters, training, ongoing support and evaluation, as well as some of the common pitfalls and lessons learned

30min

James Sclater

James Sclater is a Registered Psychologist with a Master in Organisational Psychology. He has consulting experience spanning all industries in [...]

Workshop 2B – Using Artificial Intelligence to Democratize Ergonomics in the Workplace

Kent Hatcher, CPE, Director of Consulting and Ergonomics Engineer, Velocity EHS

Until recently, quantitative assessments for identifying musculoskeletal disorder risk factors in the workplace required in-depth training, competency, and practice. Ergonomics teams would get bogged down by the dreaded “paralysis by analysis” and spend valuable time finding issues in the workplace versus spending time fixing them.

With recent advances in technology including artificial intelligence and computer vision, it is now possible to democratize ergonomics—involve everyone in optimizing the workplace.

Ergonomics teams can be equipped with tools that help them solve problems more accurately, quickly, and effectively. This session will explore the role of technology, how to increase team effectiveness, and scale ergonomics across an enterprise.

30min

Kent Hatcher

Kent Hatcher, Director of Consulting and Ergonomics Engineer at VelocityEHS’ Humantech, partners with companies to develop, manage, and sustain [...]

Keynote Presentation – The most influential tech trends that will impact the safety profession in 2020

Matthew Browne, Chief Executive Officer, Donesafe

30min

Matthew Browne

As one of Donesafe’s two founders, Matthew Browne is driving one of the fastest growing safety startups in Australia. Matthew works closely [...]

Networking Lunch

40min

Keynote Presentation – A Practical Approach to Thinking Differently – The CHEP Journey

Craig Johnson, Senior Manager Safety Health and Environment Asia Pacific, CHEP

‘Safety Differently’ was first explored as a concept within CHEP in 2018, in the search to better understand human behaviour and their response to workplace conditions. The change arose through the realisation that one of the key measures of safety was plateauing and the introduction of a new approach to safety management would open more opportunity for greater improvement.

The presentation explores the CHEP journey through the Safety Differently lens; from its beginnings, to building wider engagement throughout the business. It looks at some of the key learnings along the way, and how CHEP adapted, to eventually bring about a change in the way the business responds to situations that arise in the workplace.

30min

Craig Johnson

Craig Johnson is the Senior Manager, Safety Health and Environment, Asia Pacific for CHEP and holds over 14 years’ experience with CHEP in [...]

One-to-One Meetings

30min

Workshop 3A – Topic to be confirmed

Naveen GV, Managing Director & Global BD Executive New Subscriber Development, Gensuite

30min

Naveen GV

Naveen G.V is an Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) and Management professional with 20 years of experience spanning across Government, [...]

Workshop 3B – Improving Workplace Psychological Health and Safety with Technology

Jason van Schie, Managing Director, Flourishdx

“A psychologically healthy and safe workplace is one that promotes workers' psychological wellbeing and actively works to prevent harm to worker psychological health, including in negligent, reckless or intentional ways”. This definition assigns two responsibilities to employers: 1) prevent harm; and 2) promote wellbeing.

This workshop will explore how risk management and health promotion can be deployed at scale with FlourishDx to enable proactive (as opposed to reactive) mental health care for employees. The important role of the line manager and how they can be empowered to lead psychological health and safety at a work group level will be discussed.

30min

Jason van Schie

Jason van Schie holds a Masters of Applied Psychology (Occupational), and has been working as a registered psychologist since 2005. Based in [...]

One-to-One Meetings

30min

Workshop 4 – Unlocking the Barriers to Learning: When Wrong is Right

Campbell Warren, Group Manager HSEQ, Coates Hire

Past, present and future views of safety, despite all their differences, will inevitably agree on one thing: evidence-based practice is the key to learning. But what age-old societal burden prevents us from unlocking evidence that currently exists within our businesses; the evidence that we so desperately need to improve?

This presentation redefines what should be accepted as evidence in an increasingly complex world, and through making one small (yet very difficult) change, shows how we can make evidence-based practice our modus operandi.

30min

Campbell Warren

Campbell has worked extensively across Mining, Construction, Utilities and Equipment Hire. Very early on in his career, Campbell saw first-hand [...]

Roundtable Session – Enhance ROI by Establishing a Consistent Methodology for Supply Chain Risk Management

Tony Webster-Smith, Regional Vice President - APAC at Avetta

40min

Tony Webster-Smith

Experienced Regional Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the logistics and supply chain industry. Skilled in HSE Management [...]

Roundtable Session – Safety Culture vs Safety Strategy… what comes first?

Jen Jackson, CEO & Founder - Everyday Massive

Come join the Everyday Massive team to hear what organisations such as Amazon, PepsiCo, Probuild and Queensland Urban Utilities are doing to design their safety cultures. And spoiler alert... it all starts with strategy.

In this roundtable we'll dive into:

What safety leaders need to think about to align their safety programs to organisational outcomes. How to bring all stakeholders on the journey with you — and have them as raving advocates. The key safety experiences that have the most impact on people.

40min

Jen Jackson

CEO and founder of Everyday Massive | The Employee Experience Company Published author or How to Speak Human (Wiley, 2018) Keynote speaker on [...]

Roundtable Session – Reducing risk and maximising benefit – how should you be assessing your new hires?

Philip Paysden, General Manager – WorkCare, APM WorkCare

Health Assessments are always a contentious issue – should we, shouldn’t we – why bother and if so what is worth assessing?

This interactive workshop looks at best practice in physical and psychological best practice when assessing the health of your current and future employees.

APM WorkCare with over 25 years industry experience in workplace productivity and wellness takes a critical look at health and pre-employment assessments in 2020. An interactive session including an expert panel and live demonstrations, we will look at:

• The benefits of Medical (doctor) versus Functional (allied health) assessments when not mandated by regulations
• A critical review of the best ways to Physically assess candidates
• A critical review of the best ways to Psychologically assess candidates
• Technology and online options – what is worth the investment, and what is not
• Innovation in 2020 – what is the latest research and what are some things you can bring to your workplace to reduce risk and maximise benefit from your pre-employment investment.

40min

Philip Paysden

Philip Paysden is the General Manager of APM WorkCare, leading the workplace health division of the Global Human Services Business APM. With 16 [...]

Roundtable Session – From Reacting to Learning, the Next Step in Organisational Effectiveness

Andy Shone, CEO, Southpac International

What gets measured gets done, or so we believe! Today many organisations are driven by metrics 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;

• Deadlines are imposed for close out of the identified issues.
• Quick fixes ensue.
• Dashboards and reports drive action.
• Problems recur.

The result of all of this, Management Systems become a convenient mechanism for managing administrative work (safety work) without affecting the safety of work.

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. Specifically 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.

40min

Andy Shone

Andy is the CEO of Southpac Group and is an active facilitator and consultant in Quality, Safety and Human & Organisational Performance. He has [...]

Networking Break

15min

Keynote Presentation – Surviving and Thriving in a World of Innovation: Driving Workplace Safety and Health at Tesla

Laurie Shelby, VP EHS, Tesla

We all have to deal with a rapidly changing business world. Developments such as increased automation and intensifying global competition add complexity and stress to our daily lives. But what if you worked for a company like Tesla, where innovation and rapidly-paced change are part of your daily routine? Are there any lessons learned at Tesla that we can apply to our own dynamic work environments? Laurie Shelby, Vice President, EHS, Tesla, will share some of her challenges and lessons learned. As most know, Tesla seems to be constantly in the news these days, promoting the world's transition to sustainable energy with electric cars, solar energy, and integrated renewable energy solutions for homes.

Main points that meeting attendees will learn from your presentation:

1. Process used for building a safety and health culture in a disruptive and innovated company.
2. How to not let outside influences slow progressive safety – quiet the “less informed”.
3. Process for designing safety into products and processes.

40min

Laurie Shelby

Laurie Shelby joined Tesla Inc. as their EHS Vice President in October 2017. She leads worldwide EHS for approximately 45,000 employees in the [...]

Roundtable Session – Following the Leader

Greg Hewson, Executive General Manager – HSEQ, Broadspectrum

The importance of visible, felt leadership is well recognized in establishing a mature safety culture. But what forms should this take and what do good senior leadership actions look like? Is seeing and “feeling” senior leaders in the field enough? Many organizations have KPIs around Leadership Talks or similar activities. Senior leaders and Boards influence safety outcomes in many ways, and the biggest impact may not be due to what they say when in the field. Are we effectively using the skills and experience of senior leaders to critically assess the way work is planned and done? What is the right balance between general field conversations and ensuring “Safety 101”? In this roundtable discussion we will encourage participants to share thoughts and good practices around positive leadership involvement – what works well/ what doesn’t.

40min

Greg Hewson

A senior HSE leader with a record of achievement and success in project execution, cultural step-change, strategic HSE management, systems [...]

Roundtable Session – Creating a Learning Culture

Amanda Clements, Zero Harm Manager Strategic Improvement - Roads, Downer

Sarah Colley, Group Manager – Innovation & Culture, Downer

Organisational learning is key to change and innovation. This experiential workshop will walk you through how a Learning Team process is run. You will walk away with practical insights into how to harness the collective insights of your workforce to collaborate to solve complex issues.

40min

Amanda Clements

A recognised thought leader in her field, Amanda is on a mission to bring a more humanistic approach to work in order to increase performance [...]

Sarah Colley

Sarah's work focuses on human-centred approaches to building a health, safety and well being culture. Sarah is a nationally registered [...]

Roundtable Session – Planning for success, securing worker engagement from day zero

Evan Kidd, Group Work Health Safety Manager, Abacus Property Group

“Turnkey” solutions seem to be again gaining popularity within the wider WHS and HR spaces, but are these destined to fail from the start?

Using “Employee Wellbeing Programs” as an example, we’ll look at some of the processes involved after the date of executive buy-in to building a program that our people are truly invested in.

40min

Evan Kidd

Evan Kidd joined Abacus Property Group in 2014 bringing with him significant operational and strategic management experience across multiple [...]

Free Time

30min

OHS Leaders Networking Reception

30min

OHS Leaders Networking Dinner

2h 30min