Events & Webinars

Date	Title	Organisation	Link	Location	Detail
December 5, 2024	Workshop Safety	Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia	Link	Online recording – free account required before viewing	The IPWEA Fleet webinars are designed to introduce the fleet community to relevant topics by providing an overview of best practice, a practical example from a Fleet Manager presented as a case study, and information from an industry partner.
October 17, 2024	Maintenance Management Systems	Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia	Link	Online recording – free account required before viewing	The IPWEA Fleet webinars are designed to introduce the fleet community to relevant topics by providing an overview of best practice, a practical example from a Fleet Manager presented as a case study, and information from an industry partner.
October 5, 2024	What is Energy Based safety?	Construction Health & Safety NZ	Link	Online recording	CHASNZ launched its Energy Wheel program earlier this year and there has been huge interest in the resources it created. It wanted to continue to provide even more guidance, therefore its next webinar’s theme is ‘What is Energy Based Safety?’ presented by Jon Harper-Slade, GM Health and Safety Innovation CHASNZ. Jon pioneered the establishment of CHASNZ Trust and is an executive leader specialising in health, safety and environment (HSE).
August 27, 2024	Safe and Sustainable: The Impacts of CSRD on WHS	NZ Institute of Safety Management	Link	Online recording	The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is reshaping the landscape of safety reporting, pushing organisations to go beyond their internal safety protocols and dive deep into the dynamics of their entire value chain.
August 22, 2024	CoR – Managing Shared Responsibilities with Contractors	Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia	Link	Online recording – free account required before viewing	The IPWEA Fleet webinars are designed to introduce the fleet community to relevant topics by providing an overview of best practice, a practical example from a Fleet Manager presented as a case study, and information from an industry partner.
July 25, 2024	Overview and update on the Female Analyst Working Group in the UK	Faculty of Asbestos Management of Australia & New Zealand	Link	Online recording – $30 non-member fee applies	Colette Willoughby presented to the 2021 BOHS FAAM conference on some very personal experience as working as a female analyst in the UK. The revelations contained within this covered the past 60 years, and the fear is those who found the strength to share their experiences are only the tip of the iceberg.
July 22, 2024	Webinar: Mental Health with Sid Bhandari	Construction Health & Safety NZ	Link	Online recording	Mental health is as important as physical health. This could be one of the most important webinar’s this year. Join us for an in-depth discussion on Mental Health in the Workplace: Where to Start?
June 20, 2024	Practical benefits of operational learning in health and safety	Construction Health & Safety NZ	Link	Online recording	Brent Sutton, the founder of Learning Teams Inc. Brent works in the commercial, government and education sectors to improve health and safety outcomes through operational learning and strategies to drive improvements in operational excellence using HOP (Human and Organisation Performance) principles.
June 20, 2024	Panel Discussion – Tackling Asbestos Contaminated Mulch	Faculty of Asbestos Management of Australia & New Zealand	Link	Online recording – $30 non-member fee applies	Asbestos contamination in mulch remains a topical issue and this challenge continues to extend across borders. In response, the Faculty of Asbestos Management of Australia and New Zealand (FAMANZ) is convening a highly anticipated panel discussion with industry experts to address the concerns and learnings around asbestos-contaminated mulch in Australia.
May 16, 2024	Safety Culture: Measuring the Unmeasurable	Construction Health & Safety NZ	Link	Online recording	Dr. Fred Sherratt has over ten years’ construction industry field experience, as well as over ten years’ experience in academia. A Chartered Builder and Chartered Building Engineer, she is currently Associate Director of Research at the Construction Safety Research Alliance. Fred’s research has always prioritised construction workers with a focus on their occupational safety, health and wellbeing.
April 24, 2024	Contractor Safety Management	Construction Health & Safety NZ	Link	Online recording	Sue Bottrell is a practicing lawyer in safety and is a leading legal expert in the management of contractor safety. She was the first safety professional in Australia to become a Certified Chartered Generalist OHS Professional Member of the Australian Institute of Health and Safety. During the webinar Sue will discuss the purpose of prequalification, whether we are trying to make it do more than it can and how to draft an effective one. She will also discuss the vexed question of the collection of documentation during prequalification.
February 15, 2024	An AI Based Smart-phone System for Asbestos Identification Webinar	Faculty of Asbestos Management of Australia & New Zealand	Link	Online recording – $30 non-member fee applies	The webinar “An AI Based Smart-phone System for Asbestos Identification” will provide a summary of the research paper of the same title that was co-authored by with a team from the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia.
Anytime	Webinar 1 – Effective Prequalification	Construction Health & Safety NZ	Link	Zoom link
Anytime	Webinar 2 – Onboarding	Construction Health & Safety NZ	Link	Zoom link
Anytime	Webinar 3 – Monitoring	Construction Health & Safety NZ	Link	Zoom link
Anytime	Webinar 4 – Performance Review	Construction Health & Safety NZ	Link	Zoom link
Anytime	Asbestos Awareness Webinar	SureSafety	Link	Microsoft Teams – $100 per person ex GST fee applies	This webinar covers the requirements of the HSW (Asbestos) Regulations 2016 and Asbestos ACOP, ensuring workers that could be exposed to asbestos during construction, plumbing, electrical or demolition understand the health risks and the dangers of Asbestos. Understand where you can find asbestos-containing material (ACM) and how to safely handle, remove, decontaminate and dispose of asbestos.
Anytime	Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 Awareness Webinar	SureSafety	Link	Microsoft Teams – $80 per person ex GST fee applies	This webinar ensures that any person at work would understand the key terminologies, duties and requirements of each duty holder under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and associated Regulations. This webinar focuses on supervisors, managers, subcontractors and workers to understand the key compliance requirements in the organisation.
Anytime	Hazardous Substance in the Workplace Webinar	SureSafety	Link	Microsoft Teams – $80 per person ex GST fee applies	This webinar covers Regulation 4.5 of the Health and Safety at Work (Hazardous Substance Regulations) 2017 as it outlines the obligations you have to ensure your workers have the knowledge and practical experience to work safely around hazardous substances/chemicals. Firstly, employers must provide information, training and instruction to every worker who uses, handles, manufactures, or stores hazardous substances.
Anytime	Personal Protective Equipment (PPE/RPE) Training Webinar	SureSafety	Link	Microsoft Teams – $80 per person ex GST fee applies	Have you formally trained your workers on PPE/RPE or have you just issued them with safety gear? This seminar provides the worker with knowledge and understanding covering the regulatory, technical and managerial aspects of PPE to ensure that all workers are trained and competent to use, clean, replace and store PPE and RPE in the workplace.
Anytime	Hazards and Risk Management Webinar	SureSafety	Link	Microsoft Teams – $80 per person ex GST fee applies	This webinar is suitable for any person required to identify and manage risk within the workplace regardless of industry type. We cover Risk management under identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks followed by the application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events to minimise the risk of harm to workers so that they can go home healthy and safe.
August 16, 2021	Good Practice in Local Exhaust Ventilation	Health & Safety Association of NZ and WorkSafe	Link	YouTube	Management of airborne risks is gaining increasing awareness with businesses in New Zealand. With this has comes a growth in the implementation of controls to reduce the ongoing exposure to workers. Minimising airborne exposure at the source through engineering controls is a very effective way to protect workers and Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) is a common engineering control.
Anytime	Māori cultural values in improving the perception of risk in workplaces	Health & Safety Association of NZ	Link	YouTube	Kia Tūpato, examines the use of Māori cultural values in improving the perception of risk in workplaces. A case study has revealed heightened awareness levels of risk, improved safety behaviours and increased morale by Maori workers using the norms of kia tūpato, ako and manaakitanga.
Anytime	Emerging themes in the 2021 health and safety legal landscape	Health & Safety Association of NZ	Link	YouTube	Olivia Lund (Duncan Cotterill) will discuss emerging themes for the 2021 health and safety legal landscape, Case law update, key developments in relation to fines, orders and reparation and potential learnings from the Whakaari/White Island prosecutions.
Anytime	Working in and around vehicles programme	Health & Safety Association of NZ, WorkSafe & Shopcare	Link	YouTube	Hear about the Vehicle Programme of Work in combination with Shopcare and WorkSafe NZ.
Anytime	Safely Managing Dangerous Goods and Chemicals	Health & Safety Association of NZ and Responsible Care	Link	YouTube	HASANZ hosts Ken Clarke from Responsible Care NZ, who has seven years in the Chemical industry, 30 years as operational firefighting, hazardous substances, health and safety management, and training development roles. A number of areas were covered relating to the Safe management of chemicals, affectionately known as Hazardous Substances and Dangerous Goods. – “Chemical Stewardship.”
Anytime	Best Practice Thermal Management	Health & Safety Association of NZ, NZ Occupational Hygiene Society and NZ Occupational Health Nurses Association (NZOHNA)	Link	YouTube	A joint webinar with NZ Occupational Hygiene Society, NZ Occupational Health Nurses Association (NZOHNA) and HASANZ. It covers effects of the thermal environment on people, risk assessments, case studies, effective monitoring and controls.
Anytime	Mentally Healthy Work Programme	Health & Safety Association of NZ and WorkSafe	Link	YouTube	Dr John Fitzgerald, Lead – Mentally Healthy Work at WorkSafe NZ presented on new programme at WorkSafe NZ.
Anytime	Counterfeit Respirators – Can you tell the difference?	Health & Safety Association of NZ	Link	YouTube	This webinar looks to provide information to businesses to help identify non-certified masks and therefore help to ensure workers are not unknowingly being provided with PPE that does not protect their health.
Anytime	Best Practice Management of Dust and Silica	Health & Safety Association of NZ, NZ Occupational Hygiene Society and NZ Occupational Health Nurses Association (NZOHNA)	Link	YouTube	A joint webinar run by HASANZ, the NZ Occupational Hygiene Society (NZOHS), and the NZ Occupational Health Nurses Association (NZOHNA) best practice management of dust and silica in the workplace. This is of particular relevance to people working in the manufacturing, mining and construction sectors.
Anytime	Q&A Session with Pam Mitchell	Health & Safety Association of NZ	Link	YouTube	Q&A session focusing on approaches and practical tools for Directors and Senior Management. How to recognise signs of people under stress.

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