myosh Webinars

LEAD4Safety: The Model and 4 Strategies

Presented by Dr Tristan Casey

What’s covered? 

Numerous ideas and models abound regarding leadership and how it should be done to improve safety. In this complex and sometimes confusing space, it can be easy to get lost in the competing views of what ‘good’ safety leadership looks like.

LEAD4Safety is an innovative model of safety leadership, developed through active partnerships between safety science experts, the Queensland government, and industry. Where the LEAD4Safety model adds value is it integrates multiple theories about safety leadership and is also based on the idea that it is futile to search for a one size fits all approach to safety. Good safety management requires flexibility as well as stability; prevention of failure as well as promotion of success.

LEAD4Safety is an award-winning model that has been recognised by the National Safety Council of Australia via the coveted Pinnacle award in 2019, and has since been adopted by Workplace Health & Safety Queensland, the Electrical Safety Office, Teys Australia, WorkSafe Victoria, and many other diverse organisations in high-risk settings.

In this webinar, Dr Tristan Casey, safety leadership expert, will introduce the LEAD4Safety model and explain its science in easy-to-understand terms. Dr Casey will describe the four LEAD4Safety strategies and what example practices look like among successful safety leaders. The webinar will conclude with case studies around how LEAD4Safety has been applied by industry to achieve their safety performance goals.

How Good Leaders Create a Culture of Wellness: A Case Study from Construction

resented by Janet McCulloch (Strategic Consultant, Lysander)

What’s covered? 

Historically, organisations have not had a significant focus on mental health and wellbeing within their workplace health and safety programs. With increasing awareness of the need to do something to take a proactive approach to preventing mental health injuries, HSE professionals are now faced with the question, “What works?”

An Integrated Approach to Wellness is a program developed to change workplace cultures and leadership practices in response to alarming findings in the 2018 Downey-Swinburne report. The report exposed the levels of depression, anxiety and stress in the construction industry exceeded Australian population norms by more than 37 per cent and were twice that of comparison industries, highlighting the need for industry-endorsed cultural change.

Using the pilot program undertaken on the Mordialloc Freeway Joint Venture as case study, this presentation outlines the key elements that need to co-exist in any Wellbeing program in order to optimise results. And the results on the Mordialloc Freeway project are fascinating to see.

The Story of the Lopsided Critical Risk Bowtie

Presented by Mark McLaren (Art of Work)

What’s covered? 

An enormous amount of time and energy is rightfully invested in understanding what causes and subsequently prevents a life-changing injury or a fatality from happening in the workplace.

This genuine pursuit can inadvertently contribute to some unintended outcomes. The bid to stop the unwanted event can lull an organisation into a false sense of confidence. It is easy to become imbued with misplaced confidence that the designed and assessed preventive Critical Controls will reduce the likelihood of something going wrong to almost zero.

This overconfidence effect is a well-established bias. It occurs when a person’s subjective confidence in their judgements is greater than the objective accuracy of their judgements. This overconfidence bias can lead to a misjudgement of the likelihood or probability of something happening. In this case, the belief becomes one of, “now everything has been thought of and put in place it cannot happen.” The initial reaction to such a bold statement is that we don’t believe this to be true; we know it can still happen, albeit it is extremely unlikely to happen.

Well here is a simple test. Q1. How many mitigating controls sit on the right-hand side of your organisation’s Bowties, and Q2. If the loss of control event occurred would those controls prevent a serious injury or fatality?

So maybe a way of righting the lopsided Bowtie is not to jettison the controls on the left but to ask a different type of question. If the loss of control event happens and the damaging energy is released, such as mechanical, electrical, or gravitational, how will the damaging energy be contained, distanced or deflected so it does not cause a serious injury or fatality? In the upcoming webinar, the question of how to design better mitigating Critical Controls will be explored further.

Running Effective Pre-Start Meetings

Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)

What’s covered? 

The importance of pre-starts and safety briefings should not be underestimated. When run effectively, they encourage two-way communication about safety hazards and controls, provide an open forum to discuss lessons learned, and highlight challenges and opportunities for improvement. But the unfortunate reality is that most pre-starts are seen as a ‘tick and flick’ activity, with little engagement or input from the teams on the frontline.

This webinar is key whether you’re a senior manager looking to support your leaders, on the frontline seeking to inspire your team to take safety seriously, or just curious to know what good looks like.

Navigating Victoria’s New Environmental Protection Act: The Regulations and Your Obligations

What’s covered? 

Join Greencap, Risk & Safety Management specialists, in a presentation on key areas to focus on for the incoming 1 July General Environmental Duty (GED), covering what is changing, and what you can do to be prepared. Tips on how your business can stay ahead of the changes, avoid enforcement actions, and come out on top.

From Reacting to Learning – The Next Step in Organisational Effectiveness

Presented by Andy Shone (CEO, Southpac Group)

What’s covered? 

What gets measured gets done, or so we believe! Today many organisations are driven by KPI’s and dashboards. The result of this often means that we focus on efficiency, getting stuff done quickly, as opposed to being thorough, i.e. being effective. This mindset appears to be increasingly driving the familiar routine;

• • Deadlines are imposed for close out of the identified issues.
  • Dashboards and reports drive action.
  • Quick fixes ensue.
  • Problems recur.

The result of all of this in the worst-case scenario is that Management Systems become a convenient mechanism for managing administrative work (safety work) without affecting the safety of work.

Einstein is reported to have said that if he only had one hour to solve a problem, he would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and the remaining 5 minutes solving it routinely. His focus was one on learning and understanding the true nature of the problem as opposed to gaining a superficial understanding and immediately instigating a fix.

Organisations need to move towards approaches that are more focused on learning and understanding. Approaches that accept the inherent complexity of the modern workplace, and in turn take systemic action to improve performance rather than falling back on simple explanations and familiar fixes.

Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) is an approach or philosophy that focuses on building an understanding of how organisations and people work together with the aim of enhancing performance. Looking at performance holistically includes all potential outcomes including safety, quality, productivity and efficiency.

The learning team method is focused on taking the time to truly understand, with the aid of frontline personnel, how work is happening and the best way to make it better.

Critical Controls – Safety Differently

Presented by Kelvin Genn (MD, Art of Work)

What’s covered? 

Kelvin will explore human centred design and the principals of safety differently to build and sustain operational effective critical controls.

About Kelvin Genn

Kelvin Genn is the Art of Work’s Managing Director. He is a strategic systems thinker with experience in Human Factors and organizational re-engineering. He developed his systems thinking approach working in the Royal Australian Air Force for 10 years. Following this, for 10 years, he led systems and risk management program across Asia Pacific and Europe with Compass Group Plc, the world’s largest support service company with more than 750,000 employees.

More recently he was working for (SKM) Sinclair Knight Merz as the Global General Manager for Safety and Wellness delivering safety for major project construction in mining, energy and infrastructure.

As a Board Member for NSW Health, Kelvin has worked as the NSW Health Director for Clinical Quality and Patient Safety. He has also worked with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to develop the national accreditation system for all health care providers across Australia. He was responsible for shaping the state and national agendas for clinical health care safety and quality through provision of expert advice to the NSW Health Management Board and the NSW Minister of Health.

BErTHA – Four Pillars For Next-Gen WHS Management

Presented by Jo Kitney (Managing Director, Kitney OHS)

What’s covered? 

Traditional WHS/OHS manuals, procedures, forms and excel spreadsheets are no match for the complexities of current-day business management. This has created demand for WHS/OHS management systems and practices that are simple, smart and integrated, to reduce silos, duplication and bureaucracy. As we shift from the traditional approaches to health and safety, and look to declutter, improve human organisational performance, and focus on human-centric design, we need all aspects of the business to be ready and willing for the change.

This next generation of WHS management, and those working in health and safety, needs to be smart, efficient, and capable of meeting the pillars for modern and future management.

Kitney’s BErTHA model for next-gen WHS management provides a smart yet simple approach to understanding an organisation’s vision, goals, and outcomes, and using four pillars to enable WHS management, people and culture, innovation and technology, and assurance and improvement. In this presentation, Jo Kitney will provide the background to BErTHA, her origins, how the four pillars work together, and a case study of consultancy work with a client using BErTHA for a gap analysis, strategy, and improvement plan for managing health and safety at work.

Smart Inspections, The Rules Engine and Critical Control Management

Presented by Nigel Woodward and Adrian Manessis

What’s covered? 

Smart Inspections work faster. Backed by a powerful Rules Engine (REng), key inspection responses can invoke foolproof processes.

Smart Inspections are feature-rich and dynamic:

• • Include Images in your questions for context
  • Configure notifications based on key responses
  • Add conditional logic, nested or branching
  • Drag and Drop to build or quickly import inspection template via spreadsheet

Smart Inspections with the Rules Engine (R.Eng) – Optional

With Smart Inspections + the REng, the person conducting the inspection does not have to consider whether to escalate issues or create actions. Critical processes, actions, and notifications are preconfigured to trigger based on inspection responses. This automatic process bypasses the need for workers to make value judgments in the field.

How ‘regular’ coal face inspections can initiate critical processes and provide continuous Critical Control Verification:

• • Notify people or groups
  • Initiate or change workflow
  • Automatically assign actions
  • Automatically create records in other integrated modules
  • Automatically change the status of a linked record
  • Configure to record level
  • Amend history log within records
  • Ongoing control verification

Critical Risk Management (CCM): A Practical Guide

Presented by Mark Alston (Director, Investigations Differently)

What’s covered? 

Traditionally high-level risk management has focused on enterprise risk, recently many organisations are now focusing on high-consequence, low-frequency safety events, otherwise known as critical risk management. Implementing critical risk management can seem a daunting proposition.

During this webinar, Mark Alston, from Investigations Differently will take you through a structured approach that organisations, albeit with a bit of hard work can implement easily. It will cover:

• • Establishing a framework
  • Identifying critical risks
  • Facilitating workshops
  • Critical control selection
  • Critical control design
  • Monitoring critical risks