Arrival & Registration

45min

Welcome & Introduction

Tyron McGurgan, Chief Executive Officer, Focus Network

5min

Master of Ceremonies

Andrew Barrett, Chief Connector, Safety on Tap

5min

Andrew Barrett

Andrew loves solving challenges with people. He also loves sharing. There are so many challenges to work on, and many being solved every day - [...]

Opening Keynote Presentation – Towards ‘Better Governance’

Chris Jones, Chief Safety & Wellbeing Officer, Department of Corrections NZ/ Ara Poutama Aotearoa

Despite due diligence obligations being written into New Zealand’s legal framework almost seven years ago, there’s a strong consensus that few Boards are fulfilling their duties well and that health and safety governance isn’t adding much value to organisational efforts to keep people healthy and safe – a focus on compliance, lagging indicators, and paperwork continue to dominate New Zealand Board discussions.

In this session, Chris will share insights from the cross-industry ‘Better Governance’ project and will outline a new vision and set of guiding principles for a reimagined approach to health and safety governance. He will also share some of the award winning approach to health and safety governance he has implemented in New Zealand’s Department of Corrections.

30min

Chris Jones

Chris Jones is Chief Safety and Wellbeing Officer at the Department of Corrections, where 9,000 staff work to support and manage 40,000 prison [...]

Speaker Session – 5 Steps To Strengthen The Resilient Capacity Of Your Organisation

Dr. David Provan, Chief Executive Officer, Forge Works

1. Understanding the science-based capacities for resilient performance
2. Evaluating the presence of existing resilient capacity
3. Developing and enhancing operational performance through new capacities for resilience

30min

David Provan

David is an experienced safety professional with an ongoing commitment to practice, research and learning. He is currently the Managing Director [...]

Keynote Presentation – Making Stuff Stick

Terry Wong, General Manager, Move 4 Life

1. Ever implemented a program, initiative or change in process that has failed to stick?
2. Discover the latest in learning transfer, habit formation and buying behaviour and how it might help your safety or wellbeing program stick
3. Discover how to leverage critical personal, psychological and environmental factors to build a sustainable program
4. Learn some tips and tricks from the implementation of a movement-based physical wellbeing program, across a range of industries and budgets

30min

Terry Wong

Terry Wong is General Manager of Move 4 Life, an organisation which is about helping people to MOVE Better & LIVE Better. Move 4 Life [...]

Networking Break

20min

Keynote Presentation – Power skills: do OHS and Operational leaders have the skills to influence intergenerational teams and shape the future of high-risk work?

Jen Jackson, Founder & CVO, Everyday Massive

OHS teams and Operational leaders are adding a suite of power skills to their development plans to ensure they can influence and motivate teams, generate-buy in, and build trust with generationally diverse workforces.

In this highly engaging presentation Everyday Massive will:

• Explain what power skills are and why they’re important in work and life
• Unpack the skills that underpin influence, trust, and psychological safety
• Share what the most sought-after power skills are for OHS teams and Operational leaders
• Take delegates through a live showcase of power skills programs being delivered in high-risk industries around the world

30min

Jen Jackson

Jen Jackson is the founder and CVO of AFR Fast 100 company Everyday Massive — an award-winning human experience company dedicated to improving [...]

One-to-One Meetings

30min

Workshop 1 – Managing Workplace Aggression & Violence when Customers Aren’t Trainable

Kylie Fraser, Director Safety, Security and wellbeing, McDonald’s

30min

Kylie Fraser

An experienced National Senior Manager and HSE generalist with an extensive breadth and depth of knowledge, backed up by excellent business [...]

One-to-One Meetings

30min

Workshop 2A – Psychological Safety Needs to be Developed – Not Demanded

Rob Fisher, Founder, Fisher Improvement

There is a difference between empowering the workforce and enabling them. You can be safe without being operationally excellent, but you cannot be operationally excellent without being safe!

This interactive session will describe and discuss our experience on over 300 successful deployments of human and organizational performance, safety differently, and a holistic approach to the practical application of the science of psychological safety. Take some real ideas home to help you along your journey of improvement.

30min

Rob Fisher

Rob is a pioneer in Human and Organisational Performance and all aspects of performance improvement including incorporating the understanding of [...]

Workshop 2B – Bringing Critical Risk Management to Healthcare workplace safety

Nicola Davies, General Manager Health, Safety and Wellbeing, Healthscope

Anthony Deakin, Healthscope

30min

Nicola Davies

Nicki is the GM Safety & Wellbeing at Healthscope, Australia's only national private hospital operation and healthcare provider with a network of [...]

Anthony Deakin

Anthony is a highly credentialed Safety and Operational Risk Management professional, with extensive experience in strategy development, system [...]

Keynote Panel Discusssion – What Does the Convergence of EHS & ESG Mean for your Existing Technology Stack?

Panellists:

Cameron Smith, Head of Safety & Wellbeing, 7-Eleven

Kylie Fraser, Director Safety, Security and Wellbeing, McDonald’s

Shailendra Tripathi, Senior Director WHS, Optus

Moderator:

Matt Browne, Director and Technology Advisor, HSI DONESAFE

• EHS and ESG can work together as one, and how you can leverage the overlap between the two to realise ROI.
• To practically use technology to increase employee participation in your EHS & ESG program that can uncover your 80% blind spot.
• To tackle psychosocial and psychological safety within your EHS/ESG program.
• Your technology framework can unify how your organisation sees, understands and actions risk, compliance & governance in real-time.

30min

Cameron Smith

Bio coming [...]

Kylie Fraser

An experienced National Senior Manager and HSE generalist with an extensive breadth and depth of knowledge, backed up by excellent business [...]

Shailendra Tripathi

Director of Work Health and Safety, Wellbeing and Claims management. Shailendra has expertise in Quality, Safety and Environmental systems and [...]

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

One-to-One Meetings

30min

Workshop 3A – Adaptable, Scalable, and Efficient Training and Competency Management for Employee and Contractor Health, Safety, and Wellbeing

Mark Maiolo, AM SAM - APAC, Avetta

30min

Mark Maiolo

Mark has more than 20 years of experience across Energy and Utilities, Telecommunications, and Infrastructure sectors. He helps business to drive [...]

Workshop 3B – How does Health & Safety get the most out of Artificial Intelligence?

Claire Davis, Head of Product, Contact Harald

Health and Safety (H&S) can greatly benefit from Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology by improving work processes and enhancing worker safety.

Voice-based AI can streamline and automate various H&S tasks such as hazard & incident reporting, safety inspections, and risk assessments.

AI can be used to automate routine tasks such as data entry, freeing up staff for other tasks. AI can also be used to improve communication with employees, for example, by providing real-time language translation for employees where English is their second language.

Additionally, AI can be used to help H&S stay up to date with the latest regulations and best practices, by providing relevant information and guidance in real-time.

With the help of voice-based AI, Health & Safety can create a safer work environment, improve their operational efficiency, and gain valuable insights into their operations.

30min

Claire Davis

With over 15 years experience in product and software development, my passion lies in utilising technology to create industry leading, customer [...]

One-to-One Meetings

30min

Workshop 4 – Improving Culture – Safety as a lever to building a better organisation

David Tregoweth, General Manager, Opal ANZ

Lots of organisations talk about their safety culture. The reality is the safety culture you achieve will be a subset of the broader culture you create - or tolerate.

If your overall culture is rubbish, this will put a ceiling on what you will achieve in safety. The reverse is true too - and there is no doubt that safety can lead the change - and set the standard.

In a world full of buzzwords, acronyms, and descriptors such as Safety 1 and Safety 2 - let’s cut through all of the nonsense and talk about what works in culture and what does not. Let’s talk about the role of the safety practitioner in facilitating this and where we often shoot all hope of a better culture in the leg…

30min

David Tregoweth

Senior leader in safety, risk, quality and environment, with expertise across a variety of sectors, industries and leadership roles. Key [...]

Roundtable Session – Overcoming Challenges to Achieve Continuous Improvement for Workforce Health & Safety

Mark Maiolo, AM SAM - APAC, Avetta

Ilche Vojdanoski, Account Executive, Avetta

Explore ways to gain stakeholder buy in, achieve best practice, and access support for delivering continuous improvements for worker health and safety. Discuss organisational requirements and goals, ways to establish a plan, and how to implement workforce management for employees and contractors.

40min

Mark Maiolo

Mark has more than 20 years of experience across Energy and Utilities, Telecommunications, and Infrastructure sectors. He helps business to drive [...]

Ilche Vojdanoski

A business professional that has experience delivering successful results through leading: - the development and execution of customer focused [...]

Roundtable Session – How to break the chain of command and create a culture that speaks up for safety. Insights from high-risk industry

Jen Jackson, Founder & CVO - Everyday Massive

We’ve given teams permission to stop for safety.
We’ve asked them to speak up for safety.
We’ve reminded them that safety is everyone’s responsibility.

And do they stop, speak up, and take responsibility?
Or do you feel like you’re shouting into the wind?

OHS teams continue to battle for real estate when it comes to corporate messaging. So, how do we get our communication to cut-through? How do we embed our safety messages? How do we get teams to connect with our content?

In this highly engaging roundtable session Everyday Massive will:

• Provide a practical framework for creating human-centred communication that cuts through the noise and connects with operational teams
• Showcase some of the most creative and clever human-centred safety campaigns
• Share a best-practice case study from a company that recorded 1000s of quality hazard reports from the frontline, just weeks after a ‘speak-up for safety’ campaign

40min

Jen Jackson

Jen Jackson is the founder and CVO of AFR Fast 100 company Everyday Massive — an award-winning human experience company dedicated to improving [...]

Roundtable Session – The role of EHS in ESG: Collaborating on the future of ESG

Karen Mealmaker, Director EHS, EY

EY will host a facilitated conversation with participants on the role of EHS in answering the big questions facing the current ESG agenda, and will examine how EHS professionals can utilise their knowledge and expertise in this space. Discussion topics will include:

• The challenge of setting clear and transparent ESG Goals
• How to engage employees and stakeholders for effective communication & collaboration on material ESG issues
• The critical role of data in driving ESG decisions
• More effective use of technology in enabling progress in ESG

40min

Karen Mealmaker

An experienced corporate health, safety and wellbeing specialist. Worked across Victorian industries including utilities, retail and property [...]

Roundtable Session – A deep dive into the cornerstones of a successful OHS digital transformation project

Dr. Manuel Seidel, Founder & CEO, ecoPortal

Technology projects fail at a rate of 69% and OHS software is no exception! Join Dr. Manuel Seidel, Founder & CEO at ecoPortal, in this interactive session to explore what it takes to realise a successful OHS digital transformation.

We’ll ask the tough questions and through the sharing of real-life stories facilitate a session that will leave you with practical steps you can take to:

• Place your OHS system at the heart of you safety program;
• Ensure all your stakeholders’ needs are catered for;
• Manage change in order to achieve user acceptance;
• Drive adoption and foster a positive safety culture.

This roundtable is ideal for those in the process of reassessing their existing OHS solution, or evaluating, selecting or implementing OHS software at their organisation.

40min

Dr. Manuel Seidel

I am passionate about transforming traditional 'box tick' and compliance-focused health & safety, sustainability and risk management systems [...]

Networking Break

15min

Keynote Panel Discussion – WHS and the C-Suite – How Safety is Embedded at Aurora Dairies Though the Long Range Planning & Operating Model

Panellists:

Ben James, CEO, Aurora Dairies

Gavin Merriman, Workplace Health, Safety & Environment Manager, Warakirri Asset Management

Wade Needham, Director ESG & EHS, Natural Resources

• How a strong operating model contributes to Safety as a by-product
• How Aurora Dairies integrates WHS into CAPEX planning (Infrastructure Upgrades) and Project Execution
• How Aurora Dairies won the WorkSafe Victoria Award ‘Commitment to Workplace Health & Safety on a Farm‘ category. - And what’s next on the horizon.
• How WHS Professionals can best support a CEO, including how to support M&A Due Diligence activities and what are the components of a success integration of a new asset
• How a CEO manages diverse stakeholder ESG expectations such as integrating the risk appetite of investors, asset manager, employees, industry and the public
• How supporting and being part of consultation forums through industry bodies improves WHS across an industry

40min

Gavin Merriman

Gavin joined Warakirri in April 2018 in the role of HSE Manager. Gavin supports multiple investment platforms within Warakirri Asset Management [...]

Ben James

Ben joined Warakirri in May 2012 in the role of Operations Manager. He studied a Bachelor of Applied Science Agriculture at University of [...]

Wade Needham

Wade is working with forwarding thinking leaders in the agriculture and post farm gate industries to reduce the frequency and impact of ill health on [...]

Roundtable Session – The NBN – Connecting Safely Evolving the Safety & Wellbeing Function Design to Enable a Contemporary Safety & Wellbeing Leader-led Culture.

Grace Singh, General Manager - Safety, Wellbeing and Governance, People and Culture, NBN

Cade Evans, Executive Manager, Business Partnering, NBN

Rachel Solomon, Executive Manager, Enablement, NBN

Nathan Anderson, Executive Manager, Assurance and Industry Engagement, NBN

This session will share a Leadership Team’s journey in resetting a Safety and Wellbeing strategy, it’s team functional design and flow of work to evolve within a maturing organisation. A business moving from build to operate, maintain and grow across Australia.

The team will share insights on role design, stakeholder engagement, employee and strategic partner listening approach, concepts in the flow of work, engagement and communication tone and resetting accountability as a function to lead as we intend to operate. Work in progress to achieve the desired state of a contemporary safety and wellbeing practice, approach, service model considerations, strategic partnerships, and performance monitoring that aim to enhance the people leader, partner and employee experience across the Safety and Wellbeing domain.

40min

Grace Singh

Grace Singh joined nbn in March 2022, and leads the Safety, Environment, Health and Wellbeing and People Data and Risk and Compliance Practice areas [...]

Cade Evans

I am a pragmatic HSE Leader with over 15 years of demonstrated experience improving health and safety culture and performance in large scale complex [...]

Rachel Solomon

I am an experienced leader and modern-thinking Safety & Wellbeing professional with a passion for engaging with people. I have experience in policy [...]

Nathan Anderson

Nathan has been working at nbn for over 2 years and is now responsible Safety and Wellbeing Assurance and Industry Engagement. Having come from a [...]

Roundtable Session – Show Your Strategy: A practical workshop on WHS Strategies

Amanda Clements, Group HSE Manager, Strategy & Wellbeing, Mirvac

Ever wondered how your health and safety strategy stacks up? Or how it could be improved to get better traction and results? Here’s your opportunity to answer both those questions and many more in this participant-centred workshop designed with maximum learning in mind!

We’ll aim to surface the best of what is and what could be, when it comes to designing and implementing a health and safety strategy. You’ll also have the opportunity to practice your inquiry skills whilst learning from others at the same time. This workshop is all about you and your peers - no slides, no one speaking at you, no sitting and drifting off!

You will need to bring a hard copy of your current strategy and be willing to share it in a small group. To make the most of this workshop, have a think beforehand about questions you would ask a peer about their strategy… maybe it’s about communication, or how it was developed, or measuring impact…what you learn is completely up to you!

40min

Amanda Clements

My mission is to help great teams do extraordinary things. Using an integrated and holistic systems approach, one of my strengths is being a [...]

Roundtable Session – Taking and integrated approach to managing psychosocial risk

Gina Ayers, Global HSE Director, The Arnott’s Group

To manage Psychosocial Risk, businesses must take an integrated approach by focusing on the three areas of;

• Preventing Harm from occupational psychosocial risk
• Promoting Health through wellbeing education, understanding and awareness and providing employees with the tools and capabilities to enhance their psychological fitness
• Providing Care to employees experiencing psychological harm

40min

Gina Ayers

My journey into Health, Safety & Wellbeing started from a strong desire to help other people. It was during my time working as an [...]

Roundtable Session – Using data analysis to enhance safety controls and training

Kenan Hibberd, Executive Manager, People, Culture and Safety, Unitywater

Unitywater's experience in analysing hazard, incident and injury data to validate critical risks, support a transformation in safety reporting and guide controls enablement that has lead to an improved safety management system.

40min

Kenan Hibberd

Kenan has worked in executive safety and human resources roles for public sector, national and international organizations across the healthcare, [...]

Free Time

70min

OHS Leaders Networking Drinks Reception

30min

OHS Leaders Networking Dinner

2h 30min