myosh Webinars

Creating a Culture of Trust for a Psychologically Safe Workforce

Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)

What’s covered? 

The landscape of work is changing. Physical distancing, remote work arrangements and a shift in work focus mean we find ourselves needing to connect and interact with our teams in new and different ways. Add to this the increased stress and uncertainty of recent events, and the psychological and physical wellbeing of our people has never been more at the forefront.

For many, being faced with making sudden and difficult decisions about individuals’ employment, temporary or permanent business closures and the impact these have on families and communities can be devastating. Now more than ever, the degree of trust a leadership group has with their employees is key.

In our upcoming webinar, we’ll explore the science of trust and the skills required by safety leaders to develop and maintain the necessary level of psychological safety in the current climate of uncertainty. With the right approach, leaders can still be candid about the brutal facts of the current reality while maintaining a team culture that allows open communication, information sharing, solution-focused problem solving and a continued focus on the physical and psychological safety of their teams.

Session outcomes:

• • Explore the science behind building trust at both an organisational and individual level
  • Understand a leader’s role in establishing psychological safety and what ‘good’ looks like
  • Discover how to foster a culture of learning and improvement

Approving Risk Assessments: A Quick Guide For Managers - Mark Alston, Investigations Differently

What’s covered? 

Managers have often delegated the responsibility to approve risk assessments within their organisation. This webinar will discuss:

• Why we assess risk
• What good looks like
• Why context is essential
• What makes an effective control
• Common pitfalls of the risk assessment
• A quick quality checklist

2021 Safety Tech Predictions: Accelerating From Crisis

Presented by Cameron Stevens (Director of Safety Innovation, Pocketknife Group)

What’s covered? 

In the wake of profound disruption, the future is now in focus. By forcing us from our routines, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted us to re-examine the ways we work and how we manage health and safety.

Success in 2021 will depend on our ability to anticipate what’s next and double down on our willingness to harness disruption and drive meaningful change.

This webinar will explore the Safety Innovation Academy’s 2021 safety tech predictions to support WHS Professionals in the design of a future-fit safety management strategy for the year ahead.

Encouraging a Culture of Safe Production

Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)

What’s covered? 

A healthy dose of performance pressure is crucial for maintaining optimal levels of production. However, problems arise when levels of production pressure increase to the point that the focus on production starts to overshadow the importance of safe behaviours. Recent Australian data has found that 28% of workers report experiencing pressure from their direct supervisor to prioritise production over safety. Of those, 40% report experiencing this pressure on a weekly basis*. In an environment where supervisors prioritise production over safety, it’s not a question of if an incident will occur, but when and how serious.

This session will explore the challenge and implications organisations face when leaders struggle to balance the reality of production demands with a focus on safety. We will also provide practical recommendations for organisations seeking to address this issue and achieve a culture of safe production.

Session outcomes:

• • Explore the impact of production pressure on safety behaviour and safety climate
  • Explore how to improve leaders’ safety leadership skills to balance safety and production pressure for optimum business outcomes

The Road to The New Normal – Safety, Psychology & Risk

Presented by Anthony Gibbs (CEO, Sentis)

What’s covered? 

Understanding why your people don’t engage with your safety tools, the risks associated with the return to a ‘new normal’ and what you can do about it.

The uncertainty created by current events, including COVID-19, has led to increased stress, distraction and anxiety in the workplace. And while we may find ourselves on the road to a ‘new normal’, many organisations still need to navigate change, challenge and uncertainty on a daily basis. There’s no more important time than now for workers to be able to recognise hazards and make helpful choices around safety. But with increased distractions at work and at home, such as threats to job security and ambiguity of what’s next, workers are at increased risk of incident and injury. So, how do you ensure that your people make conscious safe choices every day, even in times of challenge and uncertainty?

In many organisations, workers adopt a ‘tick and flick’ approach to risk assessment tools and processes. This compliance behaviour stems from unhelpful attitudes around the risk assessment process and can be challenging to address. To shift behaviour, we need to unpack the attitudes leaders and workers have around risk assessment tools and processes. Only with helpful attitudes and a positive mindset around safety will we see workers truly engage in the risk identification and management process, particularly during challenging periods.

In this webinar, we’ll explore the impact of hindering attitudes towards risk assessments and how leaders can influence more helpful attitudes. We’ll explore leadership strategies and techniques to shift worker attitudes, and also dive into the organisational processes that can contribute to unhelpful attitudes within the business.

Asbestos in Construction – Closing the Gaps - Greencap 19 November 2020

Moderated by Malcolm Fabiny
Speakers: Zayne Baggot, Cassandra Fernandez, Joe Stanek, Jo Morris

What’s covered? 

It is not uncommon for a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) to encounter asbestos during normal day-to-day work that has, or has not, been previously identified. This is more evident during the demolition or refurbishment of a building, structures, or plant.

Asbestos is a naturally occurring carcinogenic mineral that was manufactured into over 3,000 products and widely used in the construction industry in Australia until 2003. Over time, these products can deteriorate due to natural aging, weathering, day to day operations, and other environmental factors.

Asbestos has continually been removed from buildings and plant as sites have been developed, refurbished or demolished to the standard of the day and the constraints of the building operations at the time. Without total demolition, you cannot be guaranteed that the asbestos has been entirely removed.

State Regulations (WHS and OHS) require that asbestos is identified on-site, a register prepared, labelled, managed, and removed by a licensed removalist prior to any work likely to damage the asbestos-containing materials (ACM) and prior to demolition or refurbishment. As the number of licensed asbestos assessors and competent persons across all jurisdictions of Australia increases, some state regulators are paying close attention to the standards of their work. Some of these individuals have had their competency challenged, resulting in prosecutions and/or the requirement for retraining.

Join us for this moderated panel discussion covering the difference between management and demolition surveys, competent persons, if it is reasonably foreseeable that asbestos might be present at your workplace, and if there are steps to avoid unexpected finds/exposure.

The presentation will also outline some of the legislative governance and the panel will share from their diverse experiences as active practitioners and from a  leader in the advocacy of asbestos awareness and education.

Incident Reputation Management for Safety Officers

Presented by Ben Hamilton and Cameron Morse (FTI Consulting)

What’s covered? 

Managing the response to a crisis incident requires a multifaceted approach. Beyond the immediate practical response, there is also a need to manage communications with a myriad of internal and external stakeholders.

Drawing on their combined experience in managing communications for crisis events in multiple industry sectors, FTI Consulting’s Ben Hamilton and Cameron Morse will provide an overview of best practice crisis communications, and detail the importance of having a robust, up-to-date and regularly tested crisis communications plan.

How Safety Professionals Can Increase Impact

resented by David Provan (Managing Director, Forge Works)

What’s covered? 

There are eight important considerations for OHS professionals looking to increase their impact and drive stronger health and safety performance within their organisation.

For safety professionals and safety teams, staying close to what matters in your role is crucial to being effective and bringing about change that can help improve the safety of work, now and in the future. This webinar will show you where to start.

Session outcomes:

• • Gain an understanding of the role safety professionals should play within an organisation and identify the skills needed to achieve this
  • Learn to shift the focus toward the work being done, rather than the safety processes
  • Discover methods to drive stronger safety performance and increased stakeholder engagement in safety.

Safety Experience Training – Simulation of Hazards and Risks

Presented by Matthias Krope (Youngwoo Ind)

What’s covered? 

This webinar will focus on different training and learning methods for workers at construction sites, industry business or any other field where high-risk activities or dangerous situations can occur. The focus will be on experiential safety awareness training methods with a sensory impact.

On average, we retain about 10% of a written text, 20% of what we record acoustically, 30% of what we see, 50% of what we see and hear in combination, and 90% of what we tell and really do.

Matthias Krop will demonstrate how Youngwoo simulates everyday risks and hazards in a safe training environment that actively involves workers.

“We will show results from our clients, how injury rates on complex construction sites have been reduced significantly by using practical safety training units. Sharing references from the field where safety training simulators for high-risk activities like confined space, electrical safety, working at height or lifting have been installed can be food for thought and open discussions.”

“This fresh approach can help other companies on the market, when facing challenges in effective safety training with e.g. high fluctuation of personnel, external temporary workers that need to be trained in a short time (outages), bridge language barriers and improve the safety awareness and safe work behaviour.”

Session outcomes:

• • Understand how the implementation of practical elements can change your previous training and learning method
  • Learn how practical safety modules can support the reduction of incidents and increase the workers’ awareness, concentration and motivation during training
  • Give food for thought on different ways for effective Training and Education and get an insight of reference safety training parks installed in your region

Creating a Compelling Safety Vision for Safe, Productive Work

What’s covered? 

The ability to create, promote and maintain a clear vision for safe, productive work is a core safety leadership competency. Yet, in a recent study of 535 leaders representing four high-risk industries, only 12% rated themselves as highly effective at sharing a safety vision, while almost one in four rated themselves as ineffective. Further, evidence shows that creating and communicating a compelling safety mission and vision is a hallmark of organisations with a strong, positive safety culture.

Leaders who can communicate a safety vision well assist their team to see how the vision can practically be implemented through their day-to-day operations. They encourage employees to continuously embrace the vision and, as a result, see improved engagement and safe work performance from the team.

In this webinar, we’ll explore the science of creating an inspiring vision and how to make a business-wide safety vision relevant for your team’s reality. We will also explore ways leaders can inspire teams to buy into the vision and ultimately take ownership at a team level to keep the vision alive.