Presented by Mark Cooper, Principal Consultant, Sentis What’s covered? High hazard activities rely on rules, procedures and standards to specify ‘safe operation’. While these standards are usually written by experts, they may not universally apply to every situation or operational context. A recent review of over 160 serious incidents across multiple industry sectors, identified that 49% of control failures involved intentional ‘workarounds’. This is not to suggest that workers are defiantly flo...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 185
Presented by Adrian Manessis, Director Business Development What’s covered? Reduce Incidents with a Control Management framework that integrates with everyday work processes. The myosh Critical Control Management (CCM) module reduces the likelihood of incidents by automating the CCM process. Critical Control verification is incorporated into everyday processes such as regular workplace inspections The system helps organisations implement recommendations designed to reduce serious injuries and fa...
Sep 29, 2022•26 min•Ep. 184
Presented by Annette Gray, Director, Annette Gray Consulting Mentoring is a way of supporting our growth and development in our career and has been around for many years. Generally it has been done very informally and organically. However now many organisations and associations are setting up more formal mentoring programs to ensure everyone gets access to be supported to grow and learn. In this session Annette Gray will be moderating a panel of 4 people who will share their experience of being ...
Sep 15, 2022•55 min•Ep. 183
Wearable technology has become a core element in the injury prevention and post injury rehabilitation process for many professional sports teams. This information is also essential in the injury prevention and post injury rehabilitation and return to work process following workplace injury. Over the past five years Scott Coleman and Preventure have been collaborating with various employers across different industries to create a cost-effective and sustainable wearable technology tool that enable...
Sep 08, 2022•47 min•Ep. 182
Presented by David Bick, Director, Consulting Services, Joint Action Solutions This is a follow-up session to David’s previous presentation. This session will showcase a LIVE demonstration. The old traditional, reactive process of assessing WMSD in a task is changing. Digital technology has allowed a much more proactive and prevention focused way which allows non experts to produce quick, objective, accurate, cost effective and reliable results. We can now make data driven decisions by doing aut...
Sep 04, 2022•43 min•Ep. 181
Presented by Annette Gray, Director, Annette Gray Consulting What’s covered? The great resignation is getting a lot of airtime in the media these days. However if you look at it from a positive angle, it is a great opportunity to do things differently and rethink many things we have taken for granted particularly how we lead people. You may be thinking what does Leadership for the Future actually mean? This will be a facilitated interactive session where we will explore together through conversa...
Aug 30, 2022•49 min•Ep. 180
Presented by Adrian Manessis, Director Business Development, Mel Ikac, Solution Consultant & Maddie Edwards, Solution Consultant What’s covered? Reduce Incidents with a Control Management framework that integrates with everyday work processes. The myosh Critical Control Management (CCM) module reduces the likelihood of incidents by automating the CCM process. Critical Control verification is incorporated into everyday processes such as regular workplace inspections The system helps organisat...
Jul 21, 2022•43 min•Ep. 179
Presented by David Bick, Director, Consulting Services, Joint Action Solutions Whats covered? The old traditional, reactive process of assessing WMSD in a task is changing. Digital technology has allowed a much more proactive and prevention focused way which allows non experts to produce quick, objective, accurate, cost effective and reliable results. We can now make data driven decisions by doing automated manual task risk assessments using wearable sensors which produce instant and relevant re...
Jul 07, 2022•51 min•Ep. 178
Presented by Anthony Gibbs, (CEO Sentis), Dr Amy Hawkes, (Head of Psychology at Sentis) and Warren Smith Research suggests that one in five recordable incidents and near misses have serious or fatal outcome potential—regardless of the actual outcome severity. Yet many organisations struggle with underreporting and classification of their more serious incidents. Understanding the system and culture factors that contribute to underreporting and your organisation’s risk exposure is the first step t...
Jun 16, 2022•58 min•Ep. 177
Presented by Cristian Sylvestre, Habitsafe What’s covered? The Problem Leaders invest heavily in eliminating hazards, improving the safety systems and making safety more conscious by engaging people with conversations about safety. During the last 50 years, these have helped improve safety significantly. We can’t do without them. Today, we use these three approaches more than we have before, and we do it substantially better than ever before. Yet, workplace fatalities in the Australia have stagn...
Jun 10, 2022•50 min•Ep. 176
Presented by Mark Wright, MD, FEFO Consulting Is your health & safety strategy effective? Do your metrics allow you to learn, adjust and improve? If either your strategy is wrong or metrics are in effective, there is a good chance there are lost opportunities for success. The Objective Results (OKR) approach to setting goals is a great way to effectively support a strategy and has been used at Google, LinkedIn Airbnb, and many more. OKR’s are often complimented by Key Performance Indicators ...
Jun 02, 2022•51 min•Ep. 175
Presented by Adam Turns, Symplexi In safety we like to measure things. But does what we measure tell us what we really need? Does what we do, actually do what we want it to? In this webinar, Adam Turns will ask you to consider some of your common beliefs around safety and why they are important. We’ll explore systems and culture and the things we currently measure, as well as touching on why changing our focus to some of the intangibles like trust, responsibility and commitment may be in our bes...
May 26, 2022•44 min•Ep. 174
Presented by Andy Shone, CEO, Southpac Group The responsibility of Leadership can feel overwhelming, not least when all the literature, books and memes depict leaders as heroes. Heroes are expected to be, well, heroic. In safety leadership terms this means having all the answers, making the big calls, motivating people, being inspirational! Leading as a host is a more realistic proposition. Leading isn’t all about being front and centre. As a host leader its more important to know when it’s time...
May 19, 2022•40 min•Ep. 173
What's Covered? An Edith Cowan University (ECU) study has confirmed what many workers have long lamented: health and safety information, while vital, often fails to engage employees. Dr Kelly Jaunzems ’ study investigated occupational safety and health (OSH) information in the workplace and whether it was read, understood, taken on board, internalised and enacted. The study found most companies use email to convey OSH information, but it is not the most effective method or preferred by employees...
Apr 28, 2022•40 min•Ep. 172
Presented by Dr Amy Hawkes (Head of Psychology, Sentis) What’s covered? CHOOSING THE RIGHT SURVEY FOR YOUR BUSINESS With so many surveys available in the market now, you may have found yourself wondering which to choose. How do you decide which metric is best for your team or business? What is the difference between engagement, culture or climate? Which one will give you useful results and set you up for success? Employee surveys are a common occurrence in most businesses; the impact of them, ho...
Apr 21, 2022•45 min•Ep. 171
12.30pm Wed 6th April Presented by Amelia Simony, HSE Manager, Spaceframe How well is your team self-reflecting to learn and improve? This webinar will outline how to apply critical control management and examples of how to reflect, learn and improve when working with contractors Key takeaways: Confirming critical controls when working with contractors WHS Governance and control effectiveness Methods to collaborate, benchmark performance, learn and improve....
Apr 06, 2022•29 min•Ep. 170
Presented by Marc McLaren, Art of Work What’s covered? Safety leaders may be missing out on the most valuable source of information in their organisation. Marc McLaren explores the power of curiosity in building capacities in leaders to shift their practices and interactions from ‘telling and directing’ to ‘learning and engagement’. By creating an environment that permissions people to be curious about their own work, leaders are unlocking the full potential that exists at the frontline....
Mar 31, 2022•56 min•Ep. 169
Pres Presented by Alex Sciascia, GM HSEQ, Ventia Outsourcing Contractor Management This webinar provides a case study on outsourcing solutions for managing short-term high-risk contractors. Key takeaways: Outsourcing to operate at speed Communicating known hazards Understanding delegations and authorities when dealing with contractors. ented by Amelia Simony, HSE Manager, Spaceframe Outsourcing Contractor Management This webinar provides a case study on outsourcing solutions for managing short-t...
Mar 30, 2022•29 min•Ep. 168
Presented by Annette Gray, Annette Gray Consulting What’s covered? We now live in an era where our workforces and our families are wanting different interactions, different ‘way of being’ and a more respectful way of having conversations. Leaders are being required more and more to “know thyself” which means in terms of well-being understanding and learning how they can work well and live well. Session outcomes: What does working well and living well look like? How the Global Leadership Wellbein...
Mar 24, 2022•59 min•Ep. 167
Presented by Laura Blampied, Team Leader, Skout Solutions Are your contractors prepared? This webinar will outline methods to engage contractors prior to work commencing to ensure readiness Key takeaways: Dealing with labour hire challenges Understanding roles of asset owner, principal contractor, and other stakeholders Establishing legal relationships, defining roles, and separating WHS obligations....
Mar 23, 2022•32 min•Ep. 166
Presented by Ben Kirkbride, Head of HSEQ, Gamuda Engineering (Aust) This webinar will provide considerations to selecting and engaging contractors. A practical case study on considerations to get started. Key takeaways: • Segmenting contractors • Tendering and other sourcing options • Pre-qualifying organisations, individuals, and contract terms.
Mar 16, 2022•42 min•Ep. 165
Presented by Ben Carnell (Head of Client Solutions, Sentis) What’s covered? Transforming safety culture is a big job. Cultures can take years to turn around and only do so with targeted focus and investment by leaders. Executive alignment and commitment both in principle and in practice are required. But how do you build the case for change and influence up the line? Join Sentis’ Head of Client Solutions, Ben Carnell, to explore how to build the case for safety culture change, align critical sta...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 164
Presented by Kelvin Genn (Managing Director, Art of Work) What’s covered? The webinar will explore the techniques to harness real-time worker experience, and through these techniques engage workers insights. The session will explore how subject matter experts can harness these insights into the design of work methods that reduce the gap between work as done and work as imagined. Kelvin Genn is the Art of Work’s Managing Director. He is a strategic systems thinker with experience in Human Factors...
Feb 03, 2022•56 min•Ep. 163
Presented by Mark Alston (Managing Director, Investigations Differently ) What’s covered? Many organisations have prioritised identifying organisational issues as an outcome of their investigation process. Too often the issues identified are superficial and do not identify systemic issues. This lack of depth results in a preponderance of low-level administrative actions delivering little risk reduction to the organisation. In this webinar, Mark Alston will discuss how to improve the depth of an ...
Dec 02, 2021•39 min•Ep. 162
Presented by Mark Alston (Managing Director, Investigations Differently ) What’s covered? Many organisations have prioritised identifying organisational issues as an outcome of their investigation process. Too often the issues identified are superficial and do not identify systemic issues. This lack of depth results in a preponderance of low-level administrative actions delivering little risk reduction to the organisation. In this webinar, Mark Alston will discuss how to improve the depth of an ...
Dec 02, 2021•39 min•Ep. 161
Presented by Brian Jackson (Special Counsel, Moray & Agnew) What’s covered? The definition issues for employees and the COVID-19 vaccine is whether employers can enforce mandatory vaccinations –No Jab No Job? With the Country and individual states opening up, employers need to know their legal obligations. Brian Jackson (Employment Lawyer from Moray & Agnew Lawyers) will present on this important topic so that employers know how to proceed and avoid claims and HR related risks....
Nov 30, 2021•52 min•Ep. 160
Presented by Dr David Provan ( Forge Works ) What’s covered? Last month Forge Works released the Safety of Work Survey as part of a diagnostic process for improving the safety of work. This webinar discusses how this can be used as a replacement for existing safety climate and safety culture perception surveys. This evidenced based approach takes the contemporary safety theories of High Reliability Organisations (HRO), Resilience Engineering, Safety II, Safety Differently and Human and Organisat...
Nov 30, 2021•46 min•Ep. 159
Presented by David Provan and Ralph Shreeve ( Safety Futures ) What’s covered? The primary purpose of a modern supervisor working in hazardous operations is to organise, manage, support and develop the team’s ability to work safely. In order to effectively deliver on that primary purpose, we believe that the key actions of safe supervision are SHAPED i.e., Seeking differing opinions. Hunting for hazards. Aligning goals and roles. Planning collaboratively. Executing mindfully. Developing individu...
Nov 30, 2021•57 min•Ep. 158
Presented by Mark Wright (Director, FEFO Consulting) with Wade Needham (General Manager – EHS, Natural Resources Australasia) What’s covered? Are you celebrating success? This webinar will outline how to simply report critical controls, data visualisation options and storytelling. A practical case study will also be provided on CCM performance reporting. Key takeaways: Quality vs Quantity metrics CCM as part of broader Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting Commercial acumen and CCM ...
Nov 30, 2021•33 min•Ep. 157
Presented by Mark Wright (Director, FEFO Consulting) with Rebecca Crompton (General Manager Safety, BSA Ltd) Can you sleep at night, knowing your critical controls are effective? This webinar will outline different types of critical control assurance activity. A practical case study will also be shown on how to provide stakeholders with comfort that critical controls are effective. Key takeaways: Verifying critical control effectiveness Unintended consequences Solution focus approach to CCM...
Nov 30, 2021•33 min•Ep. 156
