Agenda

• 08:30 AM
  Registration and coffee
• 09:00 AM
  Welcome and opening remarks from the chair

  Mike Cosman, Partner, Cosman Parkes

• 09:20 AM
  Being a responsive regulator

  WorkSafe has a new strategy and outlined its focus on priority sectors. It has a number of tools at its disposal to intervene to obtain better health & safety outcomes. This session discusses how WorkSafe makes decisions about its interventions and how they work in practice.

  Tracey Conlon, Head of Regulatory Services and General Counsel, and Lisa Nickson, Deputy General Counsel, WorkSafe New Zealand

• 10:05 AM
  Table talk
• 10:10 AM
  Morning break
• 10:30 AM
  From the courts

  Grant will review the key developments and cases that have come before the courts in the past 12 months.

  Grant Nicholson, Partner, Anthony Harper

• 11:10 AM
  Conversation on Health & safety reform

  An opportunity to unpack and discuss the reform agenda.

  Mike Cosman, Partner, Cosman Parkes

  Grant Nicholson, Partner, Anthony Harper

• 12:00 PM
  Lunch
• 12:50 PM
  Case study: Taking a risk-based approach to wellbeing

  Dissatisfied with reactive interventions aimed at individual workers, NZ Post probed the risk factors behind wellbeing and designed a psychosocial risk framework that aligned with the existing critical risk programme. Pauline will share their journey to date; what they learned and how they are making it sustainable.

  Pauline Cox, Psychosocial Risk Lead, NZ Post

• 13:30 PM
  Taking your board with you on a safety improvement journey

  There is growing organisational maturity around risk management, but how do you know what information to provide to your board and senior leaders to provide reassurance, without creating a false sense of security? Rob Mair discusses:

  • Health & safety performance indices and how they can help shift focus away from injury rates   
  • Critical safety risk management due diligence
  • Role of the safety leader at the Board table

  Rob Mair, General Manager Health Safety and Wellbeing, Port of Auckland

• 14:10 PM
  Afternoon break
• 14:30 PM
  Incident investigation

  Stacey Fraser, Senior Associate, McElroys

• 15:10 PM
  Case Study: Beyond Compliance: Raising the Bar from the Inside Out

  Rachael Johnston, Health & Safety Lead, Comvita

• 15:50 PM
  Closing remarks from the chair
• 16:00 PM
  Conference close