SAFETY IN LABOUR HIRE FORUM
MANAGING RISK IN THE ON HIRE CONTRACTOR SPACE
WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER - ONLINE EVENT
This one-day online conference focuses on creating awareness and providing information and strategies to host organisations, and labour hire agencies, on the management of work health and safety risks and issues associated with labour hire work.
Join us online to explore strong labour hire partnerships, good safety habits, and the action required by host organisations and labour hire agencies to discharge their duties under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011. Hear from our keynote speakers, safety and legal experts, SafeWork NSW (the regulator) and representatives of the host and labour hire agency organisations, who will inspire you with practical ideas that you’ll be able to implement in your workplace.
SESSION DETAILS
Date: Wednesday 27 October
Time: 8:30am - 4.00pm AEDT
Location: online
Cost: free of charge
AMY TOWERS - RISK COLLECTIVE
Amy is a committed, curious and tenacious risk wrangler and work health and safety consultant. As Founder and Principal Advisor she leads projects, runs training programs and ensures the right people are engaged to deliver comprehensive and exceptional service, advice and support to the Risk Collective’s clients. An advisor with more than 15 years’ experience working with clients to analyse, guide and improve their workplace compliance and productivity while reducing their litigation risk Amy is an incredible asset to the businesses she partners with. Amy holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (OHS) from RMIT (2002) as well as post-graduate studies in Business Management (2008) and Communication & Organisation from the University of Queensland (2019). She has also completed Lead Auditor Training and attended the Thought Leaders Business School.
CHARLES CAMERON - RCSA
With over 20 years’ experience in the workforce solutions industry, Charles experience spans across economics, advocacy, risk management, lobbying, compliance and professional standards. Before taking on the role of Chief Executive, Charles was an equity Partner with FCB, Australia’s largest dedicated workplace legal and consulting firm, prior to which he founded and grew his own consulting firm which specialised in lobbying and risk management within the recruitment and employment services industry. He gained invaluable experience working with IPA, one of Australia’s most established recruitment firms, where he was the Workplace Relations and Safety Manager as well as 7 years working as an Advisor and Advocate for Australian Industry Group.
Kate Wright - Black Dog Institute
As Workplace Engagement Manager at the Black Dog Institute, Kate engages with workplaces and business leaders to help organisations to create a work environment that promotes mental wellbeing, increased staff engagement and greater productivity. Kate has a lived experience of mental illness and knows first-hand the importance of creating mentally healthier workplaces, both from the perspective of a manager and an employee experiencing mental illness. She has experience managing people, projects and business units in consultancy, community and not-for-profit sectors across Australia, working with diverse cohorts such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, refugees, and people with disability.
Helen Fitzroy - Author
Helen’s passion for workplace safety commenced following the death of her husband, Steve, in an underground mining accident in Norseman, WA in 1991. The accident left Helen a widow in her early thirties with three young children to raise. One of Helen’s coping strategies was writing. She wrote to her husband Steve, but also to herself and her children leading to the publishing of her first book some years later, “Just a Number”.
“Just a Number” outlines her family’s journey in the five years following Steve’s death, as they traversed the quagmire of emotional, legal and bureaucratic processes that constitute life for a bereaved family following a workplace death. Since writing Just A Number, Helen has been travelling extensively across Australia as well as overseas campaigning for improved safety and better support for bereaved families.
Cristian Sylvestre
Cristian’s 25-year safety career started at ICI (now Orica) and then moved to Shell for 10 years. In this heavy processing environment, he learned a different way of thinking about safety.
In 2004, he founded HabitSafe Pty Ltd to research and study safety from a different perspective, that of brain science. Cristian authored the book “Third Generation Safety: The Missing Piece” to help people understand how inattention comes about and what we can be done about it.
As a professional chemical engineer, and having completed a Masters, he is trained to analyse complex systems and processes, and to use evidence-based science and hard data to deliver the simplest solutions that achieve positive safety outcomes. Cristian has worked in over 100 workplaces in Australia and New Zealand with significant success. He has extensive practical experience in a range of workplaces including mining, manufacturing, construction and government.
John Makris
With over 20 years’ experience working in regulatory workplace health and safety, environmental and heavy vehicle compliance, dealing with regulators, and providing advice and representation on numerous issues, John is regarded as a notable senior leader in the industry. His appetite for getting to know and understand his clients, and his focus on providing exceptional service and support to them is admired by John’s peers and colleagues and valued by his clients.
His real passion is helping clients get their businesses back on track with minimum downtime and disruption, following workplace incidents and investigations. John expertly guides clients through the uncertainty and complexity of dealing with workplace incidents, including police and regulator investigations, prosecutions and coronial proceedings. His insightful, clear and practical advice is built around helping teams and people understand what has occurred and what needs to happen next, and focused on minimising any adverse impacts on the business and its people.
John also takes pride in staying ahead of the game; he invests a significant amount of time educating and training his clients on a range of safety, environmental and heavy vehicle compliance subjects so they too can be ahead of the game, and can be proactive in meeting their regulatory and compliance obligations.
SafeWork NSW
SafeWork NSW will present on its commitment to delivering the objectives of the ‘At Risk Workers Strategy 2018-2022’.
To support and protect workers employed through labour hire arrangements, by:
o Promoting guidance materials for the labour hire industry.
o Raising awareness on the WHS responsibilities for labour hire agencies, hosts and workers.
o Discussing shared duties and the significance of having an effective WHS consultative arrangement in place.
o Describing risk management principles for placement and engagement of labour-hire workers
o Sharing practical examples of labour hire agencies and hosts working together to ensure the health and safety of labour hire workers.
Andrew Klein - MC
Andrew is one of Australia’s leading Professional Conference MCs and a Pitching & Presentation Skills speaker, trainer and writer, working on conferences around the Asia-Pacific region as well as the US and South Africa……or at least he did, back in the days when you could work in places apart from your living room. These days he is “Virtually an MC” – working on events live and online. His clients (apart from many years of RCSA conferences) include BT, QBE, Westpac, Aon, Dymocks, McDonalds, NSW Health, KPMG, MLC, CPA (Australia) Auto One… and his mother-in-law’s bridge club.
MARIA HOOKER
Maria has been the National WHS & E Manager for Allied Pinnacle since 2003.
Her role includes overseeing Workplace health, safety, environmental management, and workers compensation for 23 sites around Australia.
Maria has been involved in the Safework NSW Mentor/mentee program since 2008, and as a Mentor has helped over 17 businesses to understand how to develop and manage their workplace health and safety management system to suit their business, implement new processes with practical solutions and learn how to reduce risks and eliminate or minimise an incident.
With over 20 years’ experience, she knows only too well what the WHS risks are for workers in Manufacturing, and especially with Labour hire workers since Allied Pinnacle employs up to 40-60% of labour hire workers at their sites.
GENEVIEVE FLEMMING
As an Inspector with SafeWork NSW, Genevieve has been fortunate to work in various areas, including Operations, Return to Work and Investigations. As a result, she understands firsthand the severe impacts of a significant WHS incident on businesses, communities, and workers.
She is genuinely committed to working alongside duty holders to achieve a healthy and safe workplace. She is presently working in the WHS Metro Interventions team responsible and responsible for overseeing SafeWork NSW’s ‘At Risk Worker Strategy’
DAVID CHERNICH
David is the Australian and New Zealand Safety Manager for Labourforce Group which is a labour hire business specialising in warehousing and transport logistics. David has been with Labourforce for the past twelve months and in total has been working in WHS within the labour hire industry for the past 15 years with extensive experience in large multi site businesses
David has dealt with high risk blue collar businesses within:
REGAN BROWN
Regan’s mission is to drive the discussion towards even stronger Supply Chain & Logistics Staffing Solutions.
For any enquiries please contact Kate Griffiths at
trainingevents@rcsa.com.au or +61 403 174 387