Category: Past Events

14^th November 2024 – NZISM Workshop – Machine Guarding

14^th November from 8am – 12:30pm at the Plymouth Hotel

Guest speakers include Hamish Baker from TEG Risk; Joe Bain from Motivated Design & Analytics and Lou Ochsner from Pact Group. Check their profiles on the registration webpage.

This will be an informative session to challenge the thinking and approach for machine guarding. What are the legal considerations? What about examples in practice? What should be looked at during checking, maintenance and auditing? How can tech & AI help?

Equipment operation occurs in most business and workplaces, so do we have the effective tools (and thought process) to improve the safety considerations for the user experience.

How do we affectively assess the interface and interactions between the user and the equipment, and what challenges and innovations are there to ensure people are kept from unintentional harm.

Registration is open to both members ($50) and non-members ($75) – for a 4 hour workshop we’ve worked hard to keep the event costs to a minimal AND morning tea will be provided.

Register here: Upcoming Event: Taranaki Branch: Machine guarding workshop – New Zealand Institute of Safety Management

If you work with organisations (and their people) that would benefit from understanding and applying better practices to machine or equipment guarding and user interfacing then please share this opportunity!

• Contractor Management/Totika
  • How prequal helps and howe it doesn’t ( some more myth busting)
  • Contractor Management and pre supplier selection

• The Energy Wheel – an effective way of managing safety risk in the workplace
  • Why we aren’t very good at seeing and responding to hazards in the workplace
  • How to increase our awareness of hazards by utilising the energy wheel
  • Practical ways to use these tools in your workplace

• How sprains and strains are creating a burden on your workers lives and business productivity
  • The link between physical and mental wellbeing
  • What you can do to prevent and manage sprains and strains in your business

Tickets Available https://www.eventbrite.com/e/besafe-taranaki-trust-chasnz-workshop-tickets-925443044057?aff=oddtdtcreator

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/viewing-health-safety-through-a-different-lens-tickets-875631737097

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/drug-alcohol-impairment-at-work-a-discussion-panel-tickets-749570695127?aff=oddtdtcreator

Invite: The true state and cost of New Zealand’s health and safety performance

with economist Shamubeel Eaqub

Kia ora All

I am pleased to invite you to our New Plymouth Forum  to hear the insights from our inaugural State of a Thriving Nation report.

This report will be released in late August, and will help us to understand the state of the country’s health, safety and wellbeing performance – in context of the current economic cycle and international comparisons. 

We have engaged economist Shamubeel Eaqub to pull this together, considering health and safety leadership practices and how they impact on business decisions, the economic cycle, and the upcoming general election.

Join Shamubeel and myself to hear the insights from this report, the cost of our health and safety performance to the New Zealand economy, and the work government, regulators and business leaders need to do to improve outcomes for our people, businesses and economy.

Thank you to EMA Auckland, Silver Fern Farms, Nelson Chamber of Commerce, BeSafe Taranaki, Port of Tauranga, H.W. Richardson, and Chapman Tripp for hosting these events with the Forum. 


New Plymouth – Friday 13 October
11am-1pm
Novotel, Cnr of Hobson and Leach Streets, New Plymouth

https://www.forum.org.nz/events-and-courses/state-of-a-thriving-nation-forum-roadshow/.

Francios Barton

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/using-safety-ii-for-critical-control-reviews-and-due-diligence-reporting-tickets-645657397657

Novotel Hotel – 15th June 2023

7.00am – 7.30am Coffee & Scones

7.30am – 9.00am Moni Hogg

Leading Wellbeing: Mindset and practices

Dr Hillary Bennett will be presenting around how our leaders/managers influence the culture of  psychological safety  in their teams supporting people to thrive at work

In this Webinar, BeSafe Taranaki is going to explore the difficulties that we all face when our Management of Change (MOC) fails.  The reasons behind why we have failures in this area and tools that we can bring onboard that can help mitigate these risks.

We have 3 presenters that will talk about what has happened in their workplaces, the reasons why the incidents happened and learned outcomes.

Justine Peterson will carry this forward by providing some tools that we can take onboard and use breakout rooms, so we are all able to discuss and put our ideas forward.

Cutting through the COVID noise – focusing on what matters

This informal and interactive session is an opportunity to hear how various business leaders across NZ and in Taranaki are making sense of the current Omicron surge.

Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum Executive Director Francois Barton will share perspectives from NZ and Australian leaders on how businesses are preparing and responding to increasing rates of positive cases.  You will also hear how local Taranaki businesses are supporting their people whilst keeping their businesses operating.

Omicron marks a transition from an exclusive public health crisis, to a health-induced business continuity challenge.  This shift is critical to grasp for how we communicate and assure our workers, their families as well as our clients and suppliers.

Please review the invitation as there are links to some pre reading

You’re invited to join a Microsoft Teams meeting

Title: Covid Presentation – Francois Barton – Richard Ellis – National Road Carriers
Time: Tuesday 1^st March  10:30:00 am New Zealand Daylight Time

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This forum is for our member companies on the 2nd December and 7.30am – if you have not received you invite please contact besafe@besafe.org.nz

Presenter Craig Marriot – General Manager HSEQ – First Gas

Craig has 30 years’ experience managing safety in high-hazard industries. Following a career in the UK nuclear industry he moved to Taranaki in 2008. Since then he has worked here in NZ and consulted internationally, supporting organisations ranging from a fertiliser manufacture in the US, to a government educational foundation in Qatar.
Craig is a strong advocate of challenging conventional safety thinking and author of the book Challenging the Safety Quo. He is known for bringing a pragmatic approach to translate health and safety management theory into workable solutions. Craig is the General Manager HSEQ at Firstgas Group.

Title: Engage Webinar – Craig Marriot
Time: Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:30:00 am New Zealand Daylight Time

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