| 8.30 |
Registration |
| 9.00 |
Opening remarks from the chair |
| 9.10 |
Managing workplace bullying and harassment |
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- Bullying and harassment jurisdiction updates
- Developing effective bullying policies and procedures in your organisation
- Preventing and responding to bullying, harassment and discrimination
- Meeting employers’ duties to manage the risks of workplace bullying
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Jeremy Limpens, Managing Director, Jeremy Limpens Consulting |
| 9.55 |
- Managing employees’ fitness for duty
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- Identifying the inherent requirements of a position
- What evidence is required of an employee’s fitness for duty?
- How fitness for duty interacts with the performance improvement/performance management process?
- Effective management of employment terminations on the basis of fitness for duty
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Sina Mostafavi, Senior Associate, People + Culture Strategies |
| 10.40 |
Morning Coffee |
| 11.10 |
Effective performance management in your workplace |
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- Managing under performance and poor conduct
- Mitigating the legal risks associated with performance management
- Hallmarks of successful performance management
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Carlie Holt, Partner, Work Health and Safety Law, Sparke Helmore |
| 11.55 |
Preventing psychological injuries from a corporate perspective |
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- What are the employer’s duty of care responsibilities under workplace and safety legislation
- Developing integrated mental health strategies for the workplace – policies, systems and people capabilities
- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary intervention approaches
- Identifying and mitigating psychosocial hazards
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David Burroughs, Principal Psychologist and Managing Director, CommuniCorp Group |
| 12.40 |
Lunch |
| 13.40 |
Managing injured employees and facilitating return to work |
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- Supporting injured employees after injury happens
- Communicating effectively with injured employees
- Dealing with the process for different types of injury claims
- Implementing effective return to work programs
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Trent Forno, Partner, Minter Ellison |
| 14.25 |
Strategic workplace dispute resolution |
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- Understanding the procedures and processes for resolving workplace issues
- Determining which procedure to apply
- Third party involvement in the resolution of disputes
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Jonathan Wright, Director and Principal, Workdynamic Australia |
| 15.10 |
Afternoon tea |
| 15.40 |
Effective lawful termination of employment |
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- What are the employers’ rights to terminate employees that endanger themselves or other workers?
- How to lawfully investigate an allegation of unsafe conduct and make the decision to terminate?
- Understanding employees’ unfair dismissal right in these circumstances
- How does this interact with the statutory obligation to maintain a safe workplace?
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Trent Forno, Partner, Minter Ellison |
| 16.20 |
- OHS incident response and crisis management
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- Understanding and prioritising actions needed to be taken in the first 24 hours
- Strategies to respond to emergency services, safety regulators, unions, HSR’s and media
- Scoping the internal investigation and communicating with employees, family, clients and insurers
- Strategies to return operations to normal in a timely manner
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Cormack Dunn, Special counsel, Herbert Smith Freehills |
| 17.00 |
End of conference |
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