Agenda

• 08:30 AM
  Registration and coffee
• 09:00 AM
  Welcome and opening remarks from the chair

  Mike Cosman, Partner, Cosman Parkes

• 09:10 AM
  Health & Safety under the microscope

  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

• 10:00 AM
  Influencing up: A guide to good governance

  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

• 10:40 AM
  Morning break
• 11:00 AM
  Case study
• 11:40 AM
  From the courts: case law update

  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

• 12:20 PM
  Lunch
• 13:15 PM
  Case study

  Richard Monigatti, Manager Legal Services - Litigation and Operations, Maritime New Zealand

• 14:00 PM
  Bullying, harassment and incivility

  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

• 14:45 PM
  Afternoon break
• 15:05 PM
  Case study: Beyond compliance to create a healthy work environment

  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)

• 15:50 PM
  Closing remarks from the chair

  Mike Cosman, Partner, Cosman Parkes

• 16:00 PM
  Conference close