Canberra – 4 May
8.30 Registration
9.00 Opening Remarks from the Chair
9.10 Achieving psychosocial safety compliance in line with evolving regulations
- Providing legislative updates relevant to psychosocial safety in your jurisdiction
- Troubleshooting common deficits in existing psychosocial safety frameworks
- Ensuring your psychosocial safety framework meets new compliance obligations
- Exploring case law, points of intervention and psychosocial injury claim outcomes
Dr Laura Sowden, Partner, Mills Oakley
9.55 Uplifting workplace psychosocial safety and performance outcomes – case study
- Identifying psychosocial safety hazards across complex and diverse workforces
- Consulting with hazard-exposed workers to design meaningful interventions
- Conducting effective psychosocial risk assessments and mitigation strategies
- Implementing psychosocial safety initiatives and continually reviewing their effectiveness
Speaker TBA
10.40 Morning Coffee
11.10 Aligning WHS strategies with evolving regulator priorities
- Highlighting current focus areas for regulators in policy, audits and investigations
- Defining clear expectations for compliance with new regulations
- Working productively with regulators when incidents or uncertainties arise
- Responding effectively to improvement notices and investigation outcomes
Speaker TBA
11.55 Developing safety culture beyond compliance on paper
- Ensuring safety compliance goes beyond policies, training and memos
- Leveraging existing safety frameworks to strengthen new compliance initiatives
- Developing a safety-first culture across diverse and dispersed workforces
- Negotiating effective safety and compliance practices with regulators
Andrew Douglas, Managing Director, FCW Lawyers
12.40 Lunch
1.40 Unpacking risks, opportunities, and the role of AI in WHS
- Understanding WHS and systems implications for the advent of AI
- Exploring how AI might improve and streamline effective safety practice
- Managing the safety risks associated with operational AI implementation
- Integrating ethical considerations of using AI into AI safety strategies
Dale McQualter, Partner, Maddocks
2.25 Conducting effective investigations into WHS incidents
- Investigating different types of complex WHS incidents
- Gathering and maintaining evidence in line with legal standards of admissibility
- Working with medical practitioners, witnesses and other stakeholders
- Ensuring safe investigations to mitigate further injury or delays in the process
Speaker TBA
3.10 Afternoon Tea
3.30 Meeting ‘reasonably practicable’ requirements for emerging safety risks
- Elucidating emerging safety risks and their implications for WHS strategies
- Defining reasonably practicable actions and decision-making for emerging risks
- Examining regulations and case law regarding reasonably practicable actions
- Demonstrating WHS strategies and safety decisions meet reasonably practicable requirements
Ronan Boothman, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
4.15 Understanding obligations and liabilities when engaging contractors
- Outlining where each party’s accountabilities for safety begin and end
- Getting contractors on board with safety with simple and efficient tools
- Utilising subject matter expert knowledge where required to ensure full coverage of safety requirements
- Consulting, reviewing and redesigning safety strategies for contractors and volunteers for continued compliance
Clayton Utz, Speaker TBA
5.00 Closing Remarks from the Chair
5.10 End of Congress