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National Health & Safety Conference31 May - 1 June 2017 SKYCITY Convention Centre

Auckland

BETTER CONVERSATIONS

2017Health

&Safety

Conference

Join us at New Zealand’s largest Health & Safety Conference.

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

Real Workplace Training

Management

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Better ConversationsThe journey towards a high-performing health and safety culture is dependent on the ability to deliver a clear, authentic message. Communication may be up to senior executives and officers, or down to workers on the shop floor, or across to contractors and other business partners. Either way, those responsible for the health and safety of their people need to have the skills and tools to effectively and convincingly get their message across. Simply having the technical and compliance knowledge is no longer enough.

That’s why the 2017 Safeguard National Health & Safety Conference is built around Better Conversations. Over two days we will help you get more out of employee engagement, participation and safety leadership, and will discuss how you can become a more effective communicator, influencer and leader within your own organisation.

Take two days out of the office to have a Better Conversation with your peers, to empower you with the tools and techniques to have a better health and safety conversation back in your own organisation.

DAY ONE WEDNESDAY 31 MAY 2017

information | innovation | inspiration

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National Health & Safety Conference31 May - 1 June 2017 SKYCITY Convention Centre

Auckland

8.00AM Registration & Coffee

9.00AM Welcome from the Organisers9.15AM Welcome from the Platinum Sponsors, WorkSafe

New Zealand

9.20AM Lessons from failure Instead of using hindsight to look for an accident’s

“causes” and someone to blame for the “failure”, a Human Performance view acknowledges that accidents will happen because work is performed by imperfect humans, and instead asks workers and managers to look at how work is actually carried out, with a view to assisting businesses minimise harm, save lives and save money.

Dr Todd Conklin, Organisational Human Performance Consultant; Former Senior Advisor – Human Performance Improvement, Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)

10.10AM WorkSafe NZ Address Nicole Rosie, Chief Executive, WorkSafe New Zealand

10.50AM MORNING TEA

11.20AM 15 Minutes of Information: The HSW Act – one year in Stacey Shortall, Partner, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts

11.35AM Better board conversations Under the HSW Act, boards and officers have an

increased level of responsibility for health and safety, which requires them to have not only a compliance focus but an engagement focus. The challenge is ensuring that the leadership mindset and practices at the board table supports this focus. This session discusses what you can do to enable your board to ask more meaningful health and safety questions and ultimately have a more powerful conversation.

Dr Hillary Bennett, Director, Leading Safety

12.15PM Six little words ‘See it. Sort It. Safe As.’ Frucor changed those six

words into an effective safety engagement initiative. The Frucor team will explain how the workforce played an active role in the co-creation of the programme, and how success was built on developing an authentic emotional connection to safety.

Andy Cook, National Health & Safety Manager; Sulia Ngungutau, Senior Operator and Louie Patii, Storeman, Frucor Beverages

1.00PM LUNCH

2.00PM The H&S professional’s guide to effective communication

At its heart health and safety is about people, not process or compliance. This requires those responsible for health and safety to be effective, efficient communicators. Frances will draw on her experience as a communications professional to give you some practical insights on how to craft simple, compelling messages, delivered through the right channels and with the right audience in mind.

Frances Martin, Communications & Engagement Consultant, Business Leaders’ Health & Safety Forum & Forestry Industry Safety Council

2.45PM STRETCH SESSION – Sponsored by Vitality Works

DAY TWO THURSDAY 1 JUNE 2017

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2.50PM 15 Minutes of innovation: the next generation of safety technology

Dr Andrew Harris, Director – Engineering Excellence Group, Laing O’Rourke (Australia)

3.05PM AFTERNOON TEA

3.35PM Better conversations in practice What happens when you give the power to manage

health and safety back to the workers? When you encourage your H&S Advisors away from compliance management and towards coaching? Contact Energy has taken a worker-centred, learning-based approach to managing health and safety. This session examines the risks, challenges and rewards of such an approach.

Tania Palmer, General Manager HSE, Contact Energy John Skudder, Learning Leader, Contact Energy Dr Todd Conklin, Organisational Human Performance

Consultant

4.30PM END OF DAY 1

7.00PM New Zealand Workplace Health & Safety Awards (separately bookable)

7.45AM Networking Breakfast

9.00AM Welcome back

9.10AM Ministerial Address Hon Michael Woodhouse, Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety

9.20AM International Keynote: From deficits to possibilities - changing the conversations we have about work

Many safety programmes are based on the assumption that safety will emerge when all deviations have been eliminated. From this perspective, the most important contribution safety professionals can give is to point out and correct when things or people deviate or otherwise do something wrong. This approach has a series of problematic effects for the way we engage people in the workplace.

Daniel Hummerdal, Director of Safety Innovation, Art of Work (Australia)

10.10AM Informed conversations about work-related health: ‘how do you know?’

Safety performance is approached in a systematic manner with regular scrutiny at leadership level, while health risk is often approached in an ad-hoc fashion lacking insightful performance measures, which prevents informed conversations about performance with officers and leaders. Here is the regulator’s perspective on why a systematic approach to work-related health risks is critical, with suggested questions businesses should be able to answer about their health risk management performance.

Chris Jones, Manager – Strategy, WorkSafe New Zealand Chris Eastham, HSSE Health and Wellbeing Manager, Z Energy

10.40AM MORNING TEA

11.10AM Building a mentally healthy workplace A mentally healthy workplace is more than just an

absence of causes of harm – it’s a place that actively promotes positive behaviours and talks authentically about mental health at work. Discover what you can do to encourage mental wellbeing at work.

Shaun Robinson, Chief Executive, Mental Health Foundation

11.40AM International Keynote: Lessons from an ‘intrapreneur’

Andrew leads Laing O’Rourke’s global centre of excellence, which aims to transform the company’s capabilities through innovation, R&D and enhanced technical performance. Much of this is centred on identifying, developing and deploying new technologies across a traditional and risk averse business. Much of this technology has safety application. Andrew will explore some of the lessons from being an entrepreneur within a business, and will show the value of innovation and experimentation in safety.

Dr Andrew Harris, Director – Engineering Excellence Group, Laing O’Rourke (Australia)

12.20PM 30 minutes of Inspiration: putting the fun back in safety engagement Fanie Nel, National Health & Safety Manager, Viridian Glass

12.50PM LUNCH

1.50PM STRETCH SESSION – Sponsored by Vitality Works

1.55PM Collaboration & conversation How best to help create tailored, cost-effective

improvements to reduce rates of fatality and severe injury and be of long-term benefit to business? ACC outlines its new approach, centred on collaboration and conversation to create effective initiatives and programmes.

Mike Tully, Chief Customer Officer, ACC

2.25PM A bigger picture The most effective way to achieving healthier, safer

workplaces often lies beyond your own four walls. It involves working in partnership with other PCBUs, industry partners and broad collaborations. Fulton Hogan share their story of how they are working with others outside their organisation along their health and safety journey, and will encourage you to do the same.

Leeanne Walters, General Manager Health, Safety, Quality, Environment & Sustainability, Fulton Hogan

2.55PM Closing Keynote: Great to Great - a personal story Much has been written about the journey from good to

great, but very little about great to great. This session will highlight the key principles that ensure you can move from great to great.

Gilbert Enoka, All Blacks Mental Skills Coach

3.40PM Closing thoughts and wrap up

3.50PM CONFERENCE CONCLUDES

information | innovation | inspiration

WORKSHOP 1 (9.00am-12.30pm) WORKSHOP 2 (1.30PM-5.00PM)

Learning from what goes right How can organisations learn from investigating what goes right? This workshop will take participants through the basic methodological questions and practices of learning from normal work, such as:

• What do you look for when nothing goes wrong?

• Who should be involved?

• How often should such investigations take place?

Workshop attendees will improve their skills in asking exploratory questions to engage with frontline field experts, and broaden their knowledge of how safety can be understood and improved.

Daniel Hummerdal, Director of Safety Innovation, Art of Work (Australia)

The Human Performance safety modelSafety is not the absence of events but is the presence of defences and capacity. Dr Todd Conklin specialises in the Human Performance theory of safety. This workshop expands on his keynote address and goes into greater depth on the concepts of pre-accident investigations, post-incident learning teams, and a greater alignment between workers and health and safety management.

• How you can drive the post-incident process to generate long-lasting lessons?

• How can shift your internal safety culture to empower workers?

• The ‘servant-leadership’ model of safety performance.

Dr Todd Conklin, Organisational Human Performance Consultant; Former Senior Advisor – Human Performance Improvement, Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)

Optional Post-Conference WorkshopsFriday 2 June - SKYCITY Convention Centre

Meet your international keynotes:

Each workshop is $395 +GST to attend. Visit safeguard.co.nz to register.

Dr Todd ConklinOrganisational Human Performance Consultant (USA)

Todd is an internationally recognised expert in

organisational culture and behavior and human performance. He works with organisations that perform high-risk, high-consequence activities to ensure the interface between the organisation’s work control systems and the organisation’s workers are crafted in such a way as to maximise safety performance and prevent unexpected events.Todd was previously senior advisor, environmental safety, health and quality at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US.

Dr Andrew HarrisDirector - Engineering Excellence Group, Laing O’Rourke

Andrew Harris is a Professorial Fellow in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Sydney, and the Australian director of Laing O’Rourke’s engineering and innovation consultancy, the Engineering Excellence Group. Andrew Received his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2002 and is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers and Engineers Australia. Throughout his career he has worked at the interface of academia and industry.

Daniel HummerdalDirector of Safety Innovation, The Art of Work (AUS)

Daniel Hummerdal is the Director of Safety Innovation at Art of Work and is recognised as a leading safety thinker and practitioner. He has worked as an accident investigator with the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration, as a human factors consultant with Dedale (France), and been engaged in industrial safety research in Sweden, France and Australia. Daniel has most recently been Safety Innovation Leader for Thiess based in Brisbane and prior to this corporate role he was safety practices leader at Sinclair Knight Merz. Daniel is passionate about finding innovative ways to help organisations to improve how work is organised. He is also the founder of www.safetydifferently.com