myosh Webinars

Making Psychosocial Risk Management a Clear and Valuable Process in Your Organisation

Presented by Dr Tessa Bailey (Principal Consultant, The Opus Centre)

What’s covered? 

Understanding your responsibilities as an employer to protect worker health starts with understanding the factors in your organisation that have the potential to cause harm. Automation of routine tasks, technological advancements, and ongoing organisational change have transformed the nature of work. Performing complex and cognitively demanding tasks now represents the greatest percent of skill required by Australian employees.

This webinar will help you identify psychosocial factors that have the potential to cause harm to worker health in your organisation. You will learn how to manage the risk to reduce the potential for these hazards to occur, and if they do occur how to act appropriately to minimise the likelihood of harm.

There are many benefits to implementing evidence based systems for creating a psychologically safe and healthy work environment. This includes better individual worker wellbeing and organisational productivity outcomes, while also achieving your due diligence to provide a safe working environment.

CCM Series - 1: Material Unwanted Events (MUE): How to Identify and Map What’s Important

What’s an underwater diver’s biggest threat – Sharks or Clown Fish?

This webinar will provide a Critical Control Management (CCM) introduction and Material Unwanted Events (MUE) with high potential consequences. A practical case study will also be provided on mapping major hazards.

Key takeaways:

• • Critical Risk Management vs Critical Control Management?
  • International Council of Mining and Metals (ICCM) guidance on CCM and leading practices
  • Risk context and mapping Material Unwanted Events (MUE)

Coaching & Mentoring: What is the Difference?

Presented by Debra Burlington (Director, Enhance Solutions)

What’s covered? 

During this session Debra will provide some insights into the differences between coaching and mentoring. As a qualified coach and the Chairperson of the Australian Institute of Health and Safety’s (AIHS) Mentoring Program, she has been exploring these differences for some time. Both are valid, and done well, both add a great deal of value to the development of those people we are influencing in the work place.

A key skill is being able to bring awareness to what kind of conversation is best in which situation. Debra will offer some hints and tips as to what to listen for that will indicate the type of conversation required in a given situation.

Key Factors for Successful Mould Remediation

Presented by Presented by Michael Taylor, Ian Crew and Cedric Cheong (Greencap)

What’s covered? 

Water damage and subsequent mould growth can have lasting impacts to not only the health of occupants but also on the building structure itself, and these risks are amplified when corrective actions are delayed or if the source of the problem remains undiscovered for months or longer.

It is unfortunately too common for mould remediation projects to run over time or expand to include costly additional site attendances and further works. Our panel of Indoor Environmental Professionals (IEP) will draw from decades of industry experience to identify the key factors common to successful remediation projects, and outline how an IEP can assist in ensuring remediation is successful.

The discussion will cover the entire project lifecycle, including

• • Initial investigations and scoping
  • Industry best practice remediation processes – what works and what doesn’t
  • How containment saves money and reduces health impacts
  • The health and legal ramifications of mould remediation – making sure projects don’t come back to haunt you.

Top 4 Reasons for Poor Contractor and Supplier Performance

Presented by Mark Wright (Managing Director, Health & Safety Index) & Colin Williams (Director, heyProcurement)

What’s covered? 

This webinar provides an economic outlook of labour and materials, will provide Health and Safety Index benchmark results, factors impacting on poor contractor and supplier performance.

Often organisations take a one-size-fits-all approach to managing risks when procuring goods and services. This often leads to complexities, clutter, non-compliance, and ineffective cultures. Requirements vary based on supplier maturity, procurement categories, economic trends and activities performed.

We will explore current procurement trends impacting goods and services, including commercial risks, health and safety practices and behaviours.

Key takeaways:

• • Economic outlook and procurement risks
  • Methods to engage contractors and suppliers
  • Segmenting contractors and suppliers
  • Measuring performance
  • Applying risk-based controls and improvement plans.

Brain Chemistry and the Impact on Health, Safety, Mental Wellbeing and Human Performance

Presented by Greg McLoughlin (MD, Health by Design)

What’s covered? 

This presentation examines how neurotransmitters and neural pathways impact health, safety choices, mental wellbeing and performance in all aspects of our lives. We will also examine COVID impacts such as ‘work from home’ and look at profiles that are better suited or less suited to working from home.

Health By Design (HBD) have affiliations with Swinburne University’s school of psychology, the University of Sussex centre for innovation and Robertson Brain Health. HBD provide health, safety & human performance programs globally.

Beyond TRIFR: Creating Meaningful and Measurable Lead Indicators for Safety

Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)

What’s covered?

Businesses invest big in safety improvement initiatives, yet relatively few can pinpoint the positive effects of these on their safety culture. The natural tendency is to turn to lag indicators. And while not inherently bad, these measures only provide part of the picture.

Businesses who excel at safety are looking to lead metrics to not only demonstrate a clear return on safety investment, but to also better predict and prevent incidents in the workplace. Knowing where to start is often the first hurdle. The second is convincing senior stakeholders to buy into a new way of measuring safety.

Join Sentis CEO, Anthony Gibbs to explore how the best in the business track safety performance with their executive’s full support.

Managing Mental Health in the Workplace During COVID-19 Lockdowns

Presented by Emma Pritchard and Jenny Inness (Harmers Workplace Lawyers’ Executive Counsel)

What’s covered?

What’s covered? 

Employers are facing a significant increase in serious mental health concerns within their workforces due to the ongoing impact of the COVID pandemic, and the extended lockdown and stay-at-home public health orders currently in place across many States and Territories.

Whilst working from home is an important safety measure at this time, the stress and anxiety caused by isolation and other associated stressors are giving rise to different safety concerns for workers from a mental health perspective.

In this webinar, Harmers’ Executive Counsel, Emma Pritchard and Jenny Inness, provide guidance on:

How employers can identify workers who may need help:

• • Guidance for employers on sensitive and appropriate conversations to ascertain the health and wellbeing of your workers
  • Guidance on questions to ask and what not to ask when discussing mental health with your workers

What are your legal obligations as an employer in relation to mental health in the workplace?

• • Work health and safety obligations
  • Disability discrimination legislation (including reasonable adjustments for mental health and inherent requirements of the job)
  • Contractual obligations

What can employers do to carefully look after workers’ mental health and to maintain a positive workplace culture?

• • Guidance for employers on when employers can: Implement reasonable adjustments to accommodate mental health issues; Issue reasonable and lawful directions to manage sensitive mental health issues; Obtain independent medical assessments about fitness to work; Issue directions to take leave to manage mental health concerns
  • Guidance for employers to provide a supportive and positive workplace culture that can accommodate workers with mental health issues

The Value of Self Coaching

Presented by Debra Burlington (Enhance Solutions)

What’s covered?

During this session, Debra provides some insights into how to use self-coaching as a tool for building resilience and taking care of the self. Often in a world full of busyness, we forget to take care of ourselves. In fact, not only do we not take care of ourselves, but we also become our harshest critic, often focussing on what we haven’t done, should’ve done and discounting how amazing we truly are.

This session provides some insights into the importance of self-coaching and some simple how-to tips for everyday implementation.

The Power of Human-Centred Design

Presented by Kelvin Genn (Art of Work)

What’s covered?

The first principle of safety differently is engaging people as a solution to harness, rather than a problem to control. Human-centred design is built upon this principle. For too long safety has focused on creating controls that constrain people rather than focusing on harnessing the knowledge of those that do the work.

Stanford University Design Center has crafted the ideas of user experience and human-centred design to solve intractable problems their source. This webinar introduces you to the concepts of user experience and human-centred design and how to harness them for operational safety excellence.