About this Event
IMPORTANT: When completing your registration form, please ensure you tick all the sessions you will be attending.
Schedule
7.00am – 7.30am: Arrival and registration
7.30am – 7.55am: Breakfast
7.55am - 8.45am: Ask WorkSafe
You’re invited to discover WorkSafe's purpose to reduce workplace harm as Victoria's occupational health and safety regulator. This session will explore the basics of WorkSafe's role in harm prevention and enforcement. WorkSafe will address local issues, welcome questions from the audience and explain how to create safer workplaces.
9.00am – 9.50am: How to support injured Victorians back to work
An interactive case study on a worker who has been injured at work and as a result has submitted a workers compensation claim for a mental injury. We will discuss an employer’s Return to Work planning obligations, with a focus on how to balance both the mental injury and meeting obligations. This presentation will also provide the audience with the opportunity to ask questions about planning for a workers return to work.
10.00am – 10.50am: Managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace
Join us as we discuss psychosocial risks in different work contexts, including how an employer can identify, assess and control these risks.
We'll help you to understand your responsibilities as an employer and ensure your employee’s health and safety.
We'll have time for any questions you may have at the end of the session.
11.00am – 11.50am: Value of Health and Safety representatives (HSRs)
Learn about the importance and value of health and safety representatives (HSRs) for your organisation. The session will focus on consultation, representation of employees on health and safety matters and the value of HSR's in this process.
We'll have time for any questions you may have at the end of the session.
11.50am – 12.30pm: Lunch
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
GMHBA Stadium, 370 Moorabool Street, South Geelong, Australia
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