myosh Webinars

Employers are facing a significant increase in serious mental health concerns within their workforces due to the ongoing impact of the COVID pandemic, and the extended lockdown and stay-at-home public health orders currently in place across many States and Territories.

Whilst working from home is an important safety measure at this time, the stress and anxiety caused by isolation and other associated stressors are giving rise to different safety concerns for workers from a mental health perspective.

In this webinar, Harmers’ Executive Counsel, Emma Pritchard and Jenny Inness, will provide guidance on:

• Guidance for employers on sensitive and appropriate conversations to ascertain the health and wellbeing of your workers

• Work health and safety obligations

• Guidance for employers on when employers can: Implement reasonable adjustments to accommodate mental health issues; Issue reasonable and lawful directions to manage sensitive mental health issues; Obtain independent medical assessments about fitness to work; Issue directions to take leave to manage mental health concerns

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 shows 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!

Organisations invest considerable time and effort to observe and learn about how work is being undertaken, in order to improve safe work outcomes. This combined effort, involving leaders, workers, Health and Safety practitioners, other functional specialists and administrative support can be broadly described as Work Interactions. The collective noun Work Interaction is intentionally used to capture a range of practices that aim to promote engagement, learning and behavioural and organisational change.

This webinar will cover the latest research into the broad area of Work Interactions and the insights gained from twelve Australian and overseas WHS practitioners who are actively seeking to enhance Works Interactions and share their experiences. The conversation will then move to how the learning and benefits gained by both those who initiate and participate can be enhanced, as well as an invitation to participate in the ongoing collaborative research work.

Organisations invest considerable time and effort to observe and learn about how work is being undertaken, in order to improve safe work outcomes. This combined effort, involving leaders, workers, Health and Safety practitioners, other functional specialists and administrative support can be broadly described as Work Interactions. The collective noun Work Interaction is intentionally used to capture a range of practices that aim to promote engagement, learning and behavioural and organisational change.

This webinar will cover the latest research into the broad area of Work Interactions and the insights gained from twelve Australian and overseas WHS practitioners who are actively seeking to enhance Works Interactions and share their experiences. The conversation will then move to how the learning and benefits gained by both those who initiate and participate can be enhanced, as well as an invitation to participate in the ongoing collaborative research work.

Safety professionals and organisations all over the world are having conversations about Safety Differently. But what is Safety Differently, different from? What challenges is Safety Differently a response to? And what does it look like in practice?

This webinar provides some answers to these questions through an exploration of the key principles of Safety Differently.

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Accurate and timely reporting of safety incidents is a crucial component of a positive safety culture. These invaluable learning opportunities allow us to adapt, make improvements and prevent future injury. Yet, recent Australian data has found that on average, 31% of incidents go unreported and in some organisations, this figure rises as high as 53%*. And it’s not just frontline workers failing to report; leaders and managers also underreport at alarming rates.

In this webinar, we explore the three key drivers of underreporting and how to strategically address each one to drive improved safety outcomes, along with key takeaways to push your safety culture in a positive direction.

Session outcomes:

• Explore insights from a global research study of 12,460 participants across industry

COVID-19 has changed businesses and will continue to change the way they operate in the coming future, even after the pandemic ends. Despite the situation being unlikely to return to ‘normal’, the priority for all businesses is to return to work as quickly as possible and with optimum health, safety and hygiene conditions for their employees and clients.

Businesses planning to restart their operations will face significant challenges to safeguard their employees and clients from health and safety risks related to the spread of COVID-19. Organisations will also need to be able to protect and build trust with their employees and clients, as well as promote transparency and credibility to the society in order to reoperate efficiently.

Bureau Veritas Australia has developed a methodology: SafeGuard Assurance Program to meet the requirements of all business sectors of the economy as they gradually reopen for business.

• Validation of the guidelines – which your facilities are assessed against

Engaging contractors is essential to the operation of many businesses and can underpin the success of an organisation’s activities, business model, brand, and culture. However, these services come with inherit risks.

It is imperative that persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) and shared duty holders implement robust governance frameworks, management systems, pre-qualification processes, and compliance strategies that facilitate the successful procurement and engagement of contractors. This then enables an organisation to deliver services and business activities in a manner that aspires and aims to ensure work is undertaken without risk to health and safety.

This Contactor Management webinar will provide you with practical advice on how to demonstrate due diligence, limit your liability, and how to recognise when it may be desirable to take greater control over a contractor’s safety arrangements.

This moderated presentation and discussion includes case studies that showcase practicable and sustainable approaches to contractor management and how this has assisted business and shared duty holders to operate safely, efficiently and with agility in today’s regulatory and economic environment.

The case studies also cover recent learnings from sudden changes to business operations and requirements during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Research has indicated that traditional approaches to safety training (including manual handling training) are ineffective at changing worker behaviour and reducing injury risks. However, the Sports Science model of using wearable technology and data analysis to identify injury risks, then providing individualised training and feedback has been proven to effectively change behaviour and reduce injury risks.

In this session, we’ll review the research and methods behind successful sports-based injury prevention programs, and demonstrate how the same methods can be used to protect workers from injury in a cost-effective and sustainable way. We’ll also explore the use of data analysis and smartphone technology to:

• identify specific injury risks for individual workers