Work Safe Forums
The annual Work Safe Forums are presented by WorkSafe, the Commission for Occupational Safety and Health and WorkCover Western Australia.
The target audience for the forums is elected safety and health representatives – employees, managers and supervisors are also welcome to attend.
Contents
1. 2009 Work Safe Forums
The Perth 2009 Work Safe Forum will be held on 27 October at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre. The key note speaker will be Dr Alison Dale, from safety consultancy Sentis. She will speak about the inevitable plateauing of improvements to behaviour-based safety systems and the move to cognitive-based safety systems.
Plenary speakers include:
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Professor Steve Allsop, Director of the National Drug Institute of Australia and Adjunct Professor with the Centre for International Health, Division of Health Sciences at Curtin University. Steve will speak about drugs and alcohol in the workplace; and
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Mark Leverence, HS & E Manager at RCR Engineering. Mark will look into thought processes and motivating factors of peoples’ decision making processes.
The forum registration brochure will be available in early August 2009.
The 2009 regional forums were held at Karratha on 12 May at the Tambrey Tavern and Function Centre and at Bunbury on 26 May at the Lord Forrest Hotel.
2. Perth Work Safe 2008 Forum
The Perth forum was held on 23 October 2008, at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre. Around 570 delegates attended the forum.
Keynote speaker Professor Niki Ellis, occupational health expert from the University of Queensland spoke about the effects of working under continued stress on the safety, health and wellbeing of workers.
3. 2008 Speakers papers
- Come home healthy: occupational stress, well-being and productivity
Professor Nikki Ellis, Director, Centre for Military and Veterans’ Health University of Queensland and Stressbuster - Future challenges
Nina Lyhne, WorkSafe WA Commissioner - Workplace health and wellbeing - keeping employees health and active
Tahlia Maslin, Healthy Active Workplaces Project Officer, Department of Sport and Recreation - Wellness programs
Meredith McDermott, OSH Coordinator, Department of Consumer and Employment Protection - Learning from experience
Jane Ardern, Manager Education and Information Services, WorkSafe
Frank Carrano, Accident Awareness - OSH Risk assessment
Linda Thompson, Services Manager, RiskCover, Insurance Commission WA - Workplace violence and bullying
Sarah Jane Major, Senior Inspector, Manufacturing Team, WorkSafe - Working together – meeting osh challenges in the public sector
John Donovan, Director Policy and Planning, Office of the Director General, Department of Consumer and Employment Protection
4. Previous forums
Successful Work Safe Forums have been held in Perth each year since 2002.
2007 Perth Forum
The Perth 2007 Forum was held on Monday 22 October at the Perth Centre. The forum was WorkSafe’s main event during Safe Work Australia Week.
The forum featured a range of speakers with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in occupational safety and health. The 2007 program included a mix of plenary sessions and concurrent workshop sessions. Over 600 delegates attended on the day.
Regional forums
WorkSafe has also taken the forums to many of the state’s regional centres including:
2008 - Geraldton
2007 - Bunbury
2006 - Albany
2005 - Karratha and Geraldton
2003 - Kalgoorlie and Bunbury