5th Annual Workplace Health and Safety Law
Draft agenda
Addressing workplace challenges and
navigating the uncertainties of the future of work
Canberra: 9 November
Melbourne: 17 November
Sydney: 24 November
- Regulator’s insights into employers’ responsibilities and best practices responding to COVID-19 pandemic
- Assessing employers’ liability to effectively respond to the pandemic
- Considering the application of appropriate controls to manage workplace safety
- Applying hygiene measures and ensuring workplaces are ready for social distancing
- Reviewing your risk management focus on work-related travel and client interaction
- Streamlining return to work in a post COVID-19 world
- Adopting to changes of work structures
- Transitioning to flexible working arrangements beyond COVID-19
- Understanding employers’ legal risks around employees seeking flexibility
- Complying with social distancing requirements and workplace layout to effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Dealing with potential discrimination and adverse action claims due to employee flexibility
- Navigating safety precautions with working from home
- What are the practices employers can put in place to keep employees safe when they work from home?
- What are employers’ duties and how far do these duties extend?
- Creating workplace flexibility while driving efficiency
- Adopting to changes of work structures and preparing for long-term workplace arrangements
- Effectively responding to workplace discrimination related to work from home
- Managing psychosocial risk factors and supporting for mental health in the workplace
- Understanding the increasing regulatory focus on mental health
- Discovering emerging psychological risks and work-related stress
- Looking after the mental health of employees at home
- Dealing with employees’ anxiety about remote work
- Implementing prevention measures and risk management strategies
- Exploring practical steps to balance performance management and support for mental health
- Managing return to work processes in psychological injury claims
- Understanding the potential influencing matters to facilitate a quick return to work
- Preparing a return to work plan to minimise the duration and costs of claims
- Enabling appropriate workplace adjustments for injured workers
- Dealing with difficult return to work cases
- Exploring cases in industrial manslaughter and individual liability
- Discovering the latest developments in industrial manslaughter
- Understanding individual liability and directors’ duty to comply with WHS obligations
- What compliance and assurance actually looks like for senior personnel?
- Discussing cases and examples that officers are guilty of industrial manslaughter
- Preparing your business with updated legislation
- Roundtable discussion: Understanding “reasonably practicable” to reduce health and safety risks
- How to define “reasonably practicable” and what are the matters taking into account?
- Eliminating health and safety risks that are reasonably and practicable
- Looking into cases of reasonably practicable
- What practices you can your organisation put in place?
- Reviewing and monitoring WHS compliance
- Ensuring compliance with WHS legislation and standards
- Applying workplace safety practices to ensure the safety and welfare of your employees and contractors during the pandemic
- Using proactive compliance strategies to prevent non-compliance