| 08.30 |
Registration |
| 09.00 |
Opening remarks from the chair |
| 09.10 |
Employers’ responsibilities and best practices responding to COVID-19 pandemic
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- 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
- Dealing with potential discrimination and adverse action claims due to employee flexibility
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Danny Kilpatrick, Manager Health and Return to Work, SafeWork NSW
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| 9.55 |
Navigating safety precautions with working from home
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- 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 health and safety risks related to work from home
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Sarah Goodhew, Partner, Seyfarth Shaww
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| 10.40 |
Morning Tea |
| 11.10 |
Managing psychosocial risk factors and supporting for mental health in the workplace
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- Understanding employers’ obligations to monitor mental health
- Discovering emerging psychological risks and work-related stress
- Dealing with employees’ anxiety about remote working
- Implementing prevention measures and risk management strategies
- Exploring practical steps to balance performance management and support for mental health
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Catherine Dunlop, Partner, Maddocks
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| 11.55 |
Managing return to work processes in psychological injury claims
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- Understanding the potential influencing matters to facilitate a quick return to work
- What is “reasonable management action” during performance management?
- 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
- What is the premium impact?
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Andrew Douglas, Managing Principal, FCW Lawyers
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| 12.40 |
Lunch |
| 13.40 |
Roundtable discussion: Understanding “reasonably practicable” to reduce health and safety risks
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- 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?
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Andrew Douglas, Managing Principal, FCW Lawyers
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| 14.25 |
Exploring cases in industrial manslaughter and individual liability
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- 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
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Trent Sebbens, Partner, Ashurst
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| 15.10 |
Afternoon tea
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| 15.40 |
Developing an effective contractor management program
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- Obligations owed to contractors
- Developing a contractor management system
- Dealing with workplace incidents involving contractors and subcontractors
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Harriet Eager, Partner, MinterEllison
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| 16.20 |
2020 Vision – What we learned in WHS this year (that affected us all)
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- Bushfires
- Pandemics
- Supply chains
- Mental Health
- Resilience
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Carlie Holt, Partner, Sparke Helmore
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| 17.00 |
End of conference |
