myosh Webinars

Finding What Works and Doing More of It!

Presented by Annette Gray (Director, Annette Gray Consulting)

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

What’s covered? 

It’s a common pitfall to focus on problems rather than solutions when we have conversations at work with our peers, team members or clients and especially now in the uncertain times we live in. But what if you could be asking solution-focused questions that steer people to what is working and what they want rather than getting stuck in the “quagmire” of what is wrong?

This session will show you in action what the difference is between the two approaches 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.

Managing Fire Safety and Risk: Your Obligations as Asset Owners, Property/Facility Managers and Occupants

Presented by Greencap

Brad Paroz (Practice Manager – Property Risk)
Dr Chong Chee Goh (Principal Consultant – Property Risk)
Adam Davenport (Key Account Manager – TrimEVAC)

What’s covered? 

Fires can have a devastating toll on businesses and communities, with far-reaching impacts. Major fire incidents in the last few years (such as Grenfell Tower, Campbellfield factory, West Footscray warehouse) have stimulated significant activity and development of fire safety, essential safety measures, and emergency management legislative frameworks across Australia.

Join us for this webinar where our Fire Safety, Essential Safety Measures and Workplace Emergency Management specialists will host a panel discussion on the current fire safety legislative environment and trends across Australia and some of the pitfalls and challenges to applying robust approaches to fire safety. The panel will also discuss emergency management plans and the practical measures that asset owners, managers and building occupants can implement to effectively protect themselves and their businesses from fire risk.

Driving a Positive Safety Culture

Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)

What’s covered? 

Investment in safety culture is crucial. Even with the right equipment, experience and systems, if your people lack the motivation to take responsibility for their own safety, it’s not a question of if an incident will occur, but when. But in a landscape where 86% of organisational sites operate within a negative or unhelpful safety culture, how do businesses unlock the next stage of their safety culture journey?

In this webinar we explore:

• • Insights from a global research study of 21,711 participants across industry
  • The risks of a Public Compliance culture and their impacts on safety performance and discretionary efforts
  • The role of leadership in driving a culture beyond compliance
  • A practical roadmap for setting your next cultural transformation project up for success

What Happens to Workers When it’s Hot?

resented by Matt Brearley (Managing Director, Thermal Hyperformance)

What’s covered? 

It’s no surprise that heat-related illnesses spike during hot weather, but what about worker injuries? A growing body of evidence demonstrates that workers are more prone to injury during hot weather and this session will provide a pragmatic overview of how this occurs and who’s at the greatest risk.

Introduction to OHS Certification by The Australian Institute of Health & Safety

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 will help you understand a bit more about the OHS Certification program, application process and professional certification pathway.

Conversational Intelligence by Debra Burlington, Director Enhance Solutions

Presented by Debra Burlington (Director, Enhance Solutions)

What’s covered? 

During this session, Debra will provide 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 will offer some key actions that can be taken in order to gain an understanding of how people map their world. This will include the use of precision questioning in order to seek clarity and build a common understanding.

Making Sense of Safety Culture

resented 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.

Beyond COVID – Creating Healthy Work Environments

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 will 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 event will be facilitated by two of Greencap’s IEQ and Ergonomic Assessment specialists, Dr Michael Taylor and David Hauser, who will 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.

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.

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 will discuss the top results, lowest results and 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.