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It is estimated that 45% of the population will experience diagnosed depression or anxiety within their lifetime – that was before COVID19. There is a real challenge in staying mentally fit in the current climate, but where there is a challenge, there is also a huge opportunity for companies to support their employees.

Most workplace initiatives are useful but have been too heavily weighted in the ‘reactive’ space, potentially allowing for those in the vulnerable category to sink to a level of helplessness that makes the path back to good health extremely difficult.

The next proactive wave in this space is to normalise the importance of mental fitness in the same way that physical fitness is prioritised, using proven science from the positive psychology field as well as areas of neuroscience, brain chemistry, and behavioural science.

This webinar will look at the need for more focus and strategic planning around proactive interventions that work progressively and consistently to prevent mental illness and concurrently assist those already diagnosed.

Session outcomes:

• Learn to normalise the importance of mental fitness in the same way that physical fitness is prioritised

Current circumstances have reminded us that being simply reactive with health management isn’t sufficient. To thrive rather than merely survive, a workforce needs to be proactive about personal health, mental fitness, and injury risk – all of which are inextricably linked.

An integrated approach to workplace health has never been more important. Not only is it more cost-efficient, but it also enhances the employee experience. By bringing together injury and illness prevention with health promotion, studies have shown that integrated programs are particularly effective in assessing ‘high risk’ workers with the least likelihood of engaging in traditional health and wellbeing programs.

This webinar will look at the value proposition of integrated programming and how it can maximise engagement and business outcomes, such as reducing absenteeism and worker-compensation costs, along with the key challenges for workplaces and how to overcome these.

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.

Session outcomes:

• Understand the link between personal health, mental fitness, and injury risk

Crystalline silica is an abundant mineral found in a wide range of materials such as sand, stone, concrete, mortar, glass, ceramic, bricks and engineered stone. Processes such as cutting, crushing, grinding or drilling can generate respirable crystalline silica (RCS). Occupational or cumulative exposure to RCS can result in serious, debilitating and potentially fatal health effects.

The focus on RCS within the Australian legislative framework has increased significantly in recent years following an increase in the number of workers within the engineered stone industry diagnosed with silicosis, and other RCS related health impacts. Whilst RCS is regulated as a hazardous chemical under the Model WHS Regulations and relevant OHS Regulations, industry-specific Codes of Practice are now coming into force within the various states and territories. For some states and industries, such engineered stone in Queensland, these codes are legally enforceable, whereas other recently published codes (such as the Victorian Compliance Code for Engineered Stone) currently only represent guidance.

The increased legislative focus on the engineered stone industry does, however, highlight the importance of proactive identification, assessment and management of the risks associated with RCS within the construction, infrastructure and resources sectors where there can be high potential for silica exposure.

Join us for this moderated Panel discussion where, using recent case studies and scenarios across numerous industries, we will discuss some of the challenges, complexities and practicalities of effective risk control for RCS. The presentation will also outline the proactive measures employers and PCBUs should be implementing to control RCS risks effectively in the face of increasing legislative governance.

Session outcomes:

• Understand the current Australian legislative framework surrounding the engineered stone industry

Why is investing in resilience training and development a smart business choice? In a recent survey of safety professionals across Australia and New Zealand, 76% of people reported that the stress associated with the impacts of COVID-19 had negatively affected employee safety in the workplace. But only 44% had discussed the possible implications and put in place a plan to support their people, beyond their already existing Employee Assistance Programs.

Everyone will be faced with change, challenge and stress at some point in their lives. While some people manage stressful periods effectively, others struggle to cope and find stresses impact their performance at work and at home. Now more than ever, individuals are feeling the effects of stress, distraction and anxiety.

It makes business sense to support your people at this time, but it’s clear that COVID isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. So how can you support your people to cope with the inevitable change, uncertainty and setbacks that lay ahead? The answer is resilience. People who demonstrate this skill bounce back from adversity, manage stress effectively, build trusting relationships, and show adaptability and agility to unpredictable or changing situations.

In this webinar, we’ll explore why supporting your people to actively manage their stress levels and make helpful choices to build their resilience will help them flourish in fast-changing workplaces. We’ll also explore the steps required by leaders to make a tangible change in their business.

Learning outcomes:

• Explore the benefits of including resilience as a core component of wellbeing and safety strategies

Given the dynamic and varied nature of COVID-19 restrictions currently in place, or being eased, across most states and territories, businesses have no clear visibility of when the current crisis and period of disruption will come to a finite end. In addition, altered models of operation, and infection control requirements, which have been embedded over the course of the pandemic are becoming ‘the new normal’, requiring businesses to review and adapt their systems, asset management frameworks and processes.

It is therefore incumbent upon the business sector to provide a platform for success, protect the value of their assets and remain compliant with their duties and obligations under the Australian health and safety framework, including the concept of having COVIDSafe Assurance for business operations, facilities and practices.

Join us for Managing Building Compliance through COVID 19 and Beyond. To be relevant and informative in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant dynamic regulatory environment, this webinar will be in the format of a facilitated discussion with an expert panel from Greencap’s Property Risk Audit (PRA) team, including Brad Paroz (Practice Manager), Chong Chee Goh (Principal Consultant) and David Hauser (Team Manager).

• Learn how to manage building compliance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant dynamic regulatory environment.

How conscious are your leaders of the safety behaviours they actually reward? According to a recent study of 8,212 participants across heavy industry, 89% of workers report that their leader struggles to display effective recognition for strong safety performance. In fact, only 1 in 10 workers hold positive perceptions of their leader’s recognising ability.

Ineffective recognition can have unintentional consequences and drive unhelpful safety behaviours that put workers at increased risk. In this webinar, we’ll explore the concept of effective recognition and how to leverage intrinsic motivation to create long-term, positive safety culture change.

• Explore the importance of recognition in influencing the behaviour of employees.

We all know a significant factor to achieving great safety outcomes in any organisation is dependent upon having employees confident enough to speak up about their concerns, and furthermore, when they do speak up, for leaders to listen, then act. But what does it take to create an environment that employees speak up?

For some answers to this, we look at what we have learnt and continue to learn from fMRI’s (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) research and combine it with practical everyday brain-friendly language – language that gives the brain more comfort. This session will unashamedly put the onus on leaders at all organisational levels to lead with the brain in mind.

Session outcomes:

• Understand some of the Brain Science

Research consistently finds that factors associated with work and the work environment can significantly increase the likelihood of employees developing physical and mental health conditions. Unlike physical hazards (e.g. exposure to noise or asbestos), which are only present for specific roles and industries, mental health risks exist in every industry and job.

Empirical studies in the organisational context show that the increased risk to develop mental ill-health is primarily a result of poorly designed work. So how can we design work that keeps employees well?

The SMART work design model, developed by Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow Professor Sharon Parker at the Centre for Transformative Work Design (CTWD), is a framework that can be used to design healthy, meaningful and motivating work that not only keeps employees well but helps them thrive.

Based on decades of research, the SMART work design model identifies five key themes that result in thriving organisations. Focusing on SMART work design enables organisations to design engaging and enriched jobs, helping to create significant benefits for individuals, teams and organisations across jobs and industries.

Traditional risk assessments are used by organisations to justify decisions already made and to ratify controls that are already in place. Risk assessments can become a ‘cut & paste’ exercise with little or no innovation discovered. Controls remain predominately focused on ‘Safety Work’ rather than the ‘Safety of Work’.

Utilising a Learning Teams approach to risk assessments, allows a facilitator to explore the work as normal, focus on assessing genuine risks and enable an environment that encourages a risk assessment team to innovate. This approach can be easily incorporated into organisations existing risk assessment processes.

Safety has traditionally been about the elimination of negative outcomes (incidents, injuries, errors, malfunctions). While this approach has lead to significant improvements it has also produced several problematic side effects: disengagement and disempowerment of people, increasing bureaucracy, loss of innovation and productivity. Furthermore, many organisations now struggle with plateauing safety records. Some industries even experience increasing injury and fatality rates despite unprecedented investments in safety.

Over the last 5 years, a growing number of organisations and thought-leaders have developed a set of ideas and practices that help organisations to overcome the current impasse. In this Webinar, attendees will be introduced to the assumptions, principles and practices that underpin Safety Differently in Practice, drawing upon the experiences and examples for organisations that are on the journey. The webinar provides attendees with insight as to how safety differently can be enabled at the operational, functional and strategic levels of organisations. Suitable participants are managers, supervisors, technical experts, safety professionals and safety representatives.