Expert speakers include:

  • Zara Hart
    Health and Safety Specialist – BBS (OSPREY)
    CHEVRON AUSTRALIA
  • Cath McTigue
    HSE Director Australia West
    WORLEY PARSONS
  • Mick James
    Project HSE Manager FMG T155 Project
    PORT HEDLAND
  • Greg Chrisfield
    Chief Sustainability Officer
    AUSENCO
  • Bruce Vernon
    General Manager – Health and Safety
    CROSSLANDS RESOURCES

Aligning Project Teams and Safety Cultures through a Unified Approach to Zero Harm

Understand the Safety Criteria Set by your Desired Project Partners and Improve your Chance of Winning the Next Big Project

As the Australian energy & resources sectors are seeing an explosion in work it is putting strain on construction companies that build the supporting infrastructure to be built quickly and without delays. Like any construction site there are safety risks associated that not only cause major delays in the project, but damage reputations and financially implicate project teams.

Many project owners are now setting pre-selection criteria that states contractors need to be at a certain level of safety to be considered for the project.

The key is for all project owners and contractors to adopt the top down approach and develop a workplace culture that focuses on safety leadership and behavioural based safety strategies that can align with ease and allow a smooth transition into each project.

The Facts: Work Related Lost Time Injuries and Diseases in WA 2009-10 preliminary data suggests

  • One worker is injured every thirty minutes seriously enough to take one or more days or shifts off work
  • One in 65 workers (covered by workers’ compensation) experienced a lost time injury/disease during 2009-10p
  • On average a person is killed in WA as a result of a traumatic work-related incident every 18 days
  • 21 traumatic work-related fatalities were recorded in Western Australia during 2010-11.
  • On average, 3,896 workers are being hurt each year to the extent that they require 60 or more days off work.
  • In 2008-09, the average number of days lost for severe LTI/Ds was 269 days.
  • In 2009-10p, there were 16,595 lost time injuries and diseases of one or more days/shifts lost recorded in Western Australia. This equates to an incidence rate of 1.55 per hundred workers.
  • One in 90 women experienced a work-related lost time injury or disease requiring an absence of one or more days/shifts in 2009-10p3

Benchmark Against your Competitors and Learn from the Project Owners

Ensure you get all employees and project teams to view safety in the same way and in a continuous, unconscious manner. The results of which will be a unified approach to working towards zero harm, reducing incidents, increasing productivity & profitability and enhancing the relationships with your teams.


will cover:

  • Managing the Legislative Changes in WA
  • Assessing your Organisational Culture to Determine Future Safety Strategies
  • Introduction to Behavioural Based Safety in Construction
  • Developing a Greater Knowledge of How to Instil a Behavioural Safety Culture
  • Effective Safety Leadership Strategies
  • Effective Strategies to Manage Human Error Factors
  • Implementing and Enhancing Safety Culture through Effective Communication Strategies
  • Setting Effective Change Management Processes to Ensure all Project Teams Commit to New Safety Procedures
  • The Use of Safety Circle and the Incident Review Board as a Mechanism of Behavioural Change in Contractors
  • Continuously Increasing Commitment to Safety Leadership
  • Instilling a Culture of Behavioural Safety Across all Internal and External Project Teams
  • Building a Risk Aware Culture to Develop a Greater Understanding and Enhance Employee Compliance
  • Key Metrics to Measure Business Performance and Impacts of the Safety Culture
  • Ensuring a Framework for Compliance and Safety is Set from the Start to Ensure Achievements are Met Selecting and Developing Competent Leaders to Drive the Safety Culture
  • Working Towards Zero Harm through Effective Leadership and Cultural Development

Through two days of detailed case studies you’ll learn the take home solutions that were employed by the experts currently managing the major construction, energy and resources projects throughout Australia.

Attending Industries:

  • Energy and Resources
  • Mining
  • Oil & Gas
  • Construction Contractors
  • EPCM’s
  • Sub-contractors
  • Specialist Safety Consultants
  • Safety Equipment Providers
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