myosh Webinars

Health and Safety Index – Health and Wellbeing 2020 Results

Presented by Mark Wright and Kate Power (FEFO Consulting)

What’s covered?

The Health and Safety Index received over 120,000 responses across several Australian and New Zealand industries during 2020. As we reflect on the Health and Safety Index results, there are many Health & Wellbeing lessons learnt which are worth sharing and comparing to research, i.e., Job Demand + Job Resource = Work Outcomes Model.

This webinar discusses the top results, lowest results, and the highest predictors.

Based on the Health and Safety Index results and our experience, we believe “training” is often not the silver bullet to improve health and wellbeing. Noting every organisation has different needs, Health and Safety Index results in 2020 conclude there are four key areas of focus that are extremely useful to improve workplace health and wellbeing.

The COVID 19 Vaccine – What are the Legal Issues for Employers?

Presented by Brian Jackson (Special Counsel, Moray and Agnew)

What’s covered?

In the upcoming months, the rollout of the vaccine in Australia will commence and this will open up a range of complex issues for Australian employers.

Is it reasonable and lawful for an employer to require its employees to take the vaccine? What will be the issues around PPE? What will be the position around employees with allergies? What can an employer do if an employee refuses to take the vaccine? This is an evolving and challenging area of the law.

Webinar: Beyond COVID – Creating Healthy Work Environments

Presented by Dr Michael Taylor (Principal Consultant/Mycologist) and David Houser (Team Manager, Property Risk) from Greencap

What’s covered?

2020 was a year that fundamentally altered the spaces and ways in which we work. Lasting impacts from the pandemic include a significant increase in working from home, physical changes to the layout of offices and workspaces, and revised occupancy rates in our offices and buildings.

In this webinar, we look at some of the quick checks you can do to ensure your indoor environment (including considerations such as temperature, humidity, mould, dust, viral particles, ventilation) is optimised for healthy working spaces, and ergonomic reviews you may need to undertake for the post-pandemic workplace.

The webinar is facilitated by two of Greencap’s IEQ and Ergonomic Assessment specialists, Dr Michael Taylor and David Hauser, who set out the working environment ‘101’ items and provide recommendations for the ‘quick fixes’ and more substantial changes required to optimise the indoor environmental quality of workplaces.

Webinar: Making Sense of Safety Culture

Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis) and Dr Amy Hawkes (Head of Psychology)

What’s covered?

Let’s face it. Creating a positive safety culture is hard. You can have the best equipment, all the right systems and train your people, and still see a workforce disengaged with safety. With research showing that 86% of worksites operate in a negative safety culture, there’s a clear case for change. But where do you start?

In this session you’ll discover:

• • The four key components of safety culture
  • A practical model for measuring safety culture maturity
  • Why investing in your people and leadership can help take your safety culture to the next level
  • How to get started on your safety culture journey
  • Data and insights that build the case for safety culture change.

Conversational Intelligence

Presented by Debra Burlington (Director, Enhance Solutions)

0438 574 450
deb@enhancesolutions.com.au

What’s covered?

During this session, Debra provides some insights into how to listen from a deep level in order to gain rapport and build relationships one conversation at a time. In the world of safety, our role is to influence and bring about change, often through the actions of others. Safety professionals need to be able to quickly build rapport and have their conversations count.

This session offers some key actions that can be taken in order to gain an understanding of how people map their world. This includes the use of precision questioning in order to seek clarity and build a common understanding.

Webinar: Introduction to OHS Certification by the AIHS

Presented by Jo Kitney, Certification Governance Committee Chair, AIHS / Kelly Somerville, Certification Coordinator AIHS

What’s covered?

The Australian Institute of Health & Safety conducts certification of the Generalist OHS Profession, through a program that acknowledges the capability and credibility of OHS Practitioners and Professionals through the combination of their education and work experience.

Certification of the OHS Profession sets standards of education, experience, and demonstrated knowledge and skills and evaluates people against those standards. It gives increased confidence and guidance to employers, clients, workers and the community as to the competence and standing of the person providing professional advice, and assist in the active promotion of the profession in industry and the wider community. The program is set at a high standard internationally, with certified Practitioners and Professionals actively promoted.

This webinar helps you understand a bit more about the OHS Certification program, application process and professional certification pathway.

Finding Out What Works and Doing More of it – Part 2

Presented by Annette Gray (Director, Annette Gray Consulting)

What’s covered? 

How can Safety leaders and professionals change the focus of their conversations and impact change fast?

Did you attend the myosh – “Finding what works and doing more of it” session in May this year? If you did attend, then this is the Part 2 session.

Covid, lockdowns and working from home has created many challenges and constraints on how we work and live. Change is hard and particularly adapting to change. Well, it does not have to be. If we want to help ourselves and the people we lead to change and adapt fast, then being solution-focused and helping steer people to what is working will have a greater impact.

This session will show you again in action what the difference is between being problem-focused as compared to solution-focused and how you can form better relationships with your peers, clients, team members and even family members if you stick with a solution focus approach, especially now in a time of great uncertainty. You will get to see it in action again!

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 will introduce you to the concepts of user experience and human-centred design and how to harness them for operational safety excellence.

The Value of Self Coaching

Presented by Debra Burlington

What’s covered? 

During this session, Debra will provide 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 will provide some insights into the importance of self-coaching and some simple how-to tips for everyday implementation.

8 Safety Leadership Competencies

Presented by Thibault Vincent (Principal Consultant, Sentis)

What’s covered? 

Culture and leadership go hand in hand, especially when it comes to investing in safety. But the reality is that most safety leaders haven’t been taught the fundamental soft skills needed to lead effectively. And the implications for safety performance, compliance and reporting are concerning.

So, what does strong and effective safety leadership look like?

Join us to explore the eight fundamental competencies required for strong safety leadership and where to focus for the greatest return on investment.