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

David Tregoweth, General Manager, Opal ANZ

30min

David Tregoweth

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

One-to-One Meetings

30min

Workshop 2A – 9 pitfalls that can cause your OHS software implementation to fail (and how to succeed instead)

Dr Manuel Seidel, Founder & CEO, EcoPortal

Technology has the potential to transform the way your organisation does and sees safety, yet several factors play into whether you succeed or fail at realising positive change.

Having worked alongside hundreds of organisations to implement safety software, Dr Manuel Seidel understands the common obstacles faced by OHS managers on the road to digital transformation and what it takes to overcome them.

• How to avoid common mistakes when implementing OHS software using real stories from organisations across Australasia;
• Tips for navigating the paradox of choice in vendor selection;
• How to ensure the technology partner you select can continue to meet evolving Health & Safety needs;
• Key considerations that will aid smart decision-making throughout the implementation process.

30min

Dr. Manuel Seidel

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

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

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

How Healthscope are adapting the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) critical control management approach to strengthen the frontline controls and drive down serious injuries to the workforce. Having purposeful conversations around the critical risks and conducting critical control checks is becoming part of the safety rounding routines @Healthscope, balancing the safety of our people with the care of our patients.

30min

Nicola Davies

Bio coming [...]

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

Matt Browne, Director and Technology Advisor, HSI DONESAFE

Today's fast-paced distributed workplaces are accelerating in complexity by the day. Fuelled by the need to become deeply connected at every level, workplaces have become increasingly disconnected. Unfortunately, this disconnect is rapidly widening as the need to capture more data and the need to connect this critical data contextually is forcing business leaders to create even more data siloes and introduce more point solutions to address the challenges of today's complex workplace. Ultimately EHS and ESG Leaders are tasked to deliver across the multitude of ever-growing use cases, KPI's, KRI's, and compliance measures within a deeply fragmented workplace ecosystem using yesterday's technology stack.

This session highlights some practical ways EHS and ESG leaders of large enterprises can navigate this complexity while meeting some of the most demanding asks of tomorrow's workplace.

Learn how:

• 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

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

Sharon Macquarie, Head of Global Training, Avetta

Learn how to employ technology to automate training and competency management, remove manual processes and reduce administrative costs for greater efficiency.

Understanding high-risk industry training best practices, e-learning trends and future developments in worker competency management.

Explore meaningful analytics for a safer workforce. Hear common workforce competency challenges and how businesses have overcome them.

30min

Sharon Macquarie

Workforce competency specialist - Vocational education advocate - Training efficiency expert - Education industry [...]

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

Speaker coming soon

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

One-to-One Meetings

30min

Workshop 4 – Managing Workplace Aggression & Violence when Customers Aren’t Trainable

Kylie Fraser, Director Safety, Security and wellbeing, McDonalds

30min

Kylie Fraser

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

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

Edwin Chan, Director, Account Management - 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

Edwin Chan

A self-motivated professional working in the SaaS space to enhance and improve client relationships. I am strong in client relationship building, [...]

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

25 years employed to manage safety. Masters of Applied Science (OHS) Apprenticeship under Bill Shorten - Australian Workers Union I have [...]

Ben James

Bio coming [...]

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