LegalSAFE Conference 2024
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Mike Cosman, Partner, Cosman Parkes
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The next year promises to be one of challenge and change for all of us involved in the wider health and safety community -regulators, policy makers, businesses, workers, lawyers and health and safety specialists. We open the conference with our expert panel giving an overview of the national and international context, what initiatives and studies are in play and discussing possible scenarios, outcomes and how we might be able to influence them.
Mike Cosman, Partner, Cosman Parkes
Samantha Turner, Barrister, Stout Street Chambers
Chris Jones, Director Global Health, Safety & Wellbeing, Fonterra
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How can you influence boards to focus on achieving better outcomes? The recent Health and Safety Governance: A Good Practice Guide provides practical tools to help guide useful conversations. Chris Jones, one of the team behind the Guide, will outline ways you can use it to achieve useful change.
Chris Jones, Director Global Health, Safety & Wellbeing, Fonterra
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How to provide your Board with evidence that your critical risks are well managed? NZ Post responded to this challenge by setting up Critical Risk Assurance Teams, each one including an ELT member, frontline staff (employees and contractor partners), subject matter experts, and safety/wellbeing practitioners. Rex outlines this award-winning initiative along with the lessons learned: what has worked and what hasn’t.
Rex Middelbeek, General Manager Safety and Wellbeing, NZ Post
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The body of case law continues to build under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. In this session Grant Nicholson reviews the key developments and cases that have come before the courts in the past 12 months.
Grant Nicholson, Partner, Anthony Harper
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This case study will discuss:
Maritime NZ’s role and responsibilities
Its regulatory approach
Harm prevention – supporting Port Safety
How they use their regulatory tools and make prosecution decisions
Dealing with the regulator
Richard Monigatti, Manager Legal Services - Litigation and Operations, Maritime New Zealand
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Bullying and harassment is a serious and common work risk and under the Health & Safety at Work Act 2015 that organisations are expected to manage it as far as reasonably practicable. In this session Samantha will explore:
- What it is and its impacts
- Policies and procedures – what good looks like
- Health and Safety and HR – roles and responsibilities
- Recent case law
Samantha Turner, Barrister, Stout Street Chambers
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What started as a response to three improvement notices around the management of lead has evolved into a critical risk management plan that moves beyond compliance and puts the health of the workers at AW Fraser at the forefront. Matthew Bennett shares their journey.
Matthew Bennett, Health & Safety Manager, AW Fraser (winner of the Health category at the 2024 NZ Workplace Health & Safety Awards)
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Mike Cosman, Partner, Cosman Parkes
Understand your health & safety legal compliance obligations
LegalSAFE is NZ’s most trusted health & safety law conference, bringing together health and safety professionals, consultants and managers over three days in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. A livestream option is available on 22 October if you are unable to attend in person.
With presentations from some of New Zealand’s leading health and safety lawyers and industry case studies, LegalSAFE is your best opportunity to not just meet your compliance obligations, but to create healthier, safer workplaces overall.
LegalSAFE aims to provide practical solutions to your health and safety compliance questions.
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