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Day One: Thursday, 27th August 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
8:30
Registration & welcome coffee
9:00
Opening remarks from Chair
NATIONAL OHS HARMONISATION
9:10
Model OHS Act: Getting the dynamics right
Stephanie Mayman, Commissioner, Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission
9:50
Safe Work Australia: Driving harmonisation
  • Immediate and long terms priorities for Safe Work Australia
  • What will be the critical elements in enabling the plan and streamlining implementation in conjunction with state and federal agencies?
Tom Phillips AM, Chair, Safe Work Australia
10:30
Morning Tea
10:50
Don’t risk 2nd rate safety
  • The right for workers and their unions to initiate prosecutions and to have OHS disputes conciliated and arbitrated where the relevant authorities have failed to act
  • Risk management
  • Employers to bear the onus of proof in prosecutions
  • The right for union officials to enter workplaces and investigate suspected OHS breaches without notice
  • A genuinely tripartite approach to OHS matters
Steve Mullins, OHS Officer, ACTU
11:20
Building blocks for fair, safe and decent workplaces
  • Preservation and extension of workers, health and safety representatives and unions
  • Consultation and representation in workplace safety planning
  • Access to independent safety training and trade unions
Deb Vallance, National OHS Coordinator, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
12:00
PANEL SESSION
Impact of harmonisation of OHS
  • The panel discusses the factors that will underpin the success of the new directions and the challenges and opportunities that the reviews and harmonisation offer for a strong, flexible and best practice national workplace safety system
12:30
Lunch
1:30
Workers Compensation: Developing a collaborative system and practice that reduces financial and social cost of injury and disease
2:10
Workplace investigations – Helping you reduce risk
  • Understanding the investigative process and how to maximise its effectiveness
  • Become familiar with what is involved, how you can help and what to expect
  • Learning the lessons – using the investigation as a risk management tool.
  • Recent case studies highlighting how an effective investigation can be used to reduce future risk
Kieran Milne, Managing Director, MJM Inc
2:50
Is the Board doing enough? Corporate governance and OHS
Andrew Cardell-Ree, Senior Counsel, Herbert Geer
3:30
Afternoon Tea
3:50
Consultation for prevention
  • Engaging supervisors and employees in identification and assessment of manual handling risks
  • Developing active communication lines between management and employees to enable responsibility, accountability and safety
  • Learning from incidents and near misses – systems for review and response
Noelene Lucjan, Principal HR Adviser (WH&S), Department of Environment & Resource Management, Queensland
Winner, Queensland Work Safe Award 2008
4:20
Concealed burden of mental health
  • Examine the prevalence of psychological distress on employees
  • Identify treatment seeking behaviour of employees for psychological distress
  • Consider the magnitude of employee productivity losses due to psychological distress
  • Discuss how treatment for mental health problems changes employee productivity
  • Review some treatment strategies for employees with psychological distress
Dr Michael Hilton, Project Director, Work Outcomes Research Cost-Benefit (WORC) Project, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research
5:00
Second hand tobacco smoke: Our No. 1 neglected OH&S issue
  • Dangers of second hand smoking at workplaces and conflict with basic OH&S right
  • How effective are states policies in preventing second hand exposure : best and worst practice
  • Objectives for legislators, work safety authorities and employers
  • At risk workplaces and systems for control
  • Strong case for specific inclusion in OH&S laws/regulations
Stafford Sanders, Communications Officer, Ash Australia
5:30
Closing remarks from Chair & end of day one
 
Day Two: Friday, 28th August 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
8:30
Registration & welcome coffee
9:00
Opening remarks from Chair
9:10
Are safety systems enough? Where do you go from there?
John Curran, Group Manager – Health and Safety, George Weston Foods
9:50
Three pillars of safety: people, plant and systems
  • Engaging people at all levels of the OHS process
  • Identifying risks to people, plant and systems to effectively manage risk and reduce lost time injury frequency
  • Creating and maintaining a mindful organisation where positive OHS leadership drives the elimination of injury and illness
Steve Gambrill, Manager OH&S, Eraring Energy
Winner, National Safe Work Australia Award 2008
10:30
Morning Tea
10:50
Changing safety culture to reduce injury
  • Developing tools to monitor, record and track progress on all hazard and incident reports
  • Reviewing standard operating procedure: impact of continuing induction and training packages for employees and contractors
  • Building confidence in employees about reporting incidents and the management response
Viki Coad, Health and Safety Representative, Wingara Wine Group
Winner, National Safe Work Australia Award 2008
11:20
Management exposure to OHS prosecutions
  • Director and officer indemnities for penalties and costs in the event of an OHS prosecution
  • Law versus politics when dealing with interviews following an incident
  • What changes for individuals under a harmonised regime
Harold Downes, Partner, Freehills
12:00
Enabling industry wide change through policy, strategy and industry codes
  • The need for a common approach and positive reform as opposed to the imposition of new charges and diverse approaches to implementation
  • Principle areas of challenge for the trucking industry
  • Reconciling operational priorities across state lines with the cost of compliance
  • Focusing on reduction of risk and enhancement of safety for drivers
Stuart St Clair, CEO, Australian Trucking Association
12:30
Lunch
1:30
Dangerous Goods Storage - The good, the bad, and the ugly
  • Overview of legislation covering dangerous goods
  • Hazardous areas and ignition sources
  • Gases in cylinders
  • Flammable liquids issues
  • Separation from protected places
  • Emerging issues with dangerous goods in buildings, building certifiers, conflicting Therapeutic Goods legislation, and Building Code of Australia
  • Safety management systems - critical procedures
  • Placards
Anthony Warwick, Principal Consultant – Hazardous Materials, Parsons Brinckerhoff
2:10
Fatigue Risk Management - An Integrated Scientific Approach
  • The effect of sleep restriction
  • Correlation between fatigue and accident risk
  • Objectively measuring fatigue
Errol McKenzie, Partner, Deloitte
Joubert Breet, Account Director, Deloitte
2:50
Afternoon Tea
3:10
Engaging all system partners for a collaborative and effective RTW framework
Kelly Brown, Managing Director, Recovery Partners
3:50
Presenteeism, absenteeism and barriers to RTW
  • Identify areas of need and how to manage them
  • Promoting workers health for increased productivity and decreased compensation costs
  • Role of the occupational physician in enabling effective RTW outcomes
Dr Ross Mills, President, Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
4:30
Closing remarks from Chair & end of conference
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