Upcoming Events
- ACC Connect Session
Date: Thursday, 3rd April Time: 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Venue: Energyworks, 231 Connett Road East, Bell Block, New Plymouth
Come and listen to Mike Baldwin, ACC Relationship Manager, as he presents key updates on the current ACC programme. This is a valuable opportunity to learn how ACC can support you and your organisation with ACC-related queries.
Key topics include:
- ACC General Information
- Key Statistics
- Experience Rating
- Recovery at Work
- My ACC for Business Update
- Integrated Care Pathways Musculoskeletal (ICPMSK)
- Employer Reimbursement Agreement (ERA)
- Q&A Session
We look forward to welcoming you to this informative session and encourage you to take advantage of this chance to ask your questions directly to an expert.
Please register to : lois@besafe.org.nz
- Effective Governance by Example
20th March 8.00am – 10.00am
The Devon Hotel Devon Street East, Strandon
BeSafe Taranaki are proud to host this BeEngaged session on how key leaders apply governance to health and safety in their respective organisations.
Join our panelists to discuss leadership commitment and their role of senior leadership in fostering a culture of safety and ensuring that health and safety is integral to the organisation’s governance framework.
Panelists:
Simon Craddock – CEO, Port Taranaki Ltd
Simon joined Port Taranaki as CEO in October 2021. He has over 20 years of experience in professional services, engineering, aviation, and governance. Simon has held senior management positions at Air New Zealand and worked at Deloitte and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare. He is known for his expertise in corporate strategy, operations, and performance improvement.
Paul Goodeve – CEO, Clarus
Paul Goodeve has been at the helm of Clarus as Chief Executive since 2016 and has a wealth of experience in both regulated and non-regulated transmission and distribution energy infrastructure. His leadership has been pivotal in developing and implementing Clarus’ strategic business plan and driving forward key renewable energy projects. Paul is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Directors. He currently serves as a Director of the Gas Industry Company and on the board of Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum.
Campbell Mattson – Director, Location Homes & North Taranaki ITM
Campbell is the Managing Director of Location Homes. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the construction and development industry and is known for his leadership in building and design. Campbell has been actively involved in addressing post-COVID-19 economic and mental health challenges in the construction sector and is a current board member for Construction Health and Safety NZ (CHASNZ) and founder, past Chair of Building Wellness Taranaki. The recent purchase of saw milling and frame and truss manufacturing operations have placed Campbell even further towards the very pointy end of personal safety and risk management.
Register for this event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/effective-governance-by-example-tickets-1266394222209?aff=oddtdtcreator
Members: $30.00
Non-Members: $35.00 - BeSafe Trustee Meeting
BeSafe Trustee Meeting 21st May 2025, venue to be advised.
- BeAligned Working Group Meeting 26th March
BeAligned Working Group Meeting
26th March 8am – 9.00am via Teams
Past Events
- Safety Message Christmas 2024
- Reducing Strain Injuries
28th November – Reducing Strain Injuries
New Plymouth Injury Safe are hosting this session led by Alison Richmond on how to reduce strain injuries through correct movement & manual handling.
28th November 12:30pm – 3:30pm at Energyworks. This event also has limited numbers, so register early here: Reducing Strain Injuries
- ICAM Training
5th/6th November and 3rd / 4th December – ICAM Training
Two training delivery date options are available:
Tue 5 – Wed 6 November 2024 West Lounge, TSB Hub, Waihi Rd, Hawera
Tue 3 – Wed 4 December 2024 Southern Lounge, TSB Hub, Camberwell Rd, Hawera.
Each two day course runs from 0830 – 1630 hours each day.
All course materials will be provided by Impac.
The cost will be approximately $1095 plus GST per plus catering. Spaces are quickly filling up!
Register by contacting Jill Manaia: jill.manaia@stdc.govt.nz
- Machine Guarding Workshop
14th November 2024 – NZISM Workshop – Machine Guarding
14th 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!
- BeAligned Webinar – Learning from Everyday Work
Presenter Rob Kirkwood – 20th November 10.00am – 11.00am
Lois Eggers invited you to a Microsoft Teams Meeting:
Learning from Everyday Work
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
10:00 am – 11:00 am (NZST)
Meeting link: Learning from Everyday Work | Microsoft Teams | Meet-up-Join: BeAligned Webinar – Learning from Everyday Work
- Taranaki Apprentice Challenge November 8th 2024
- BeAligned Webinar PPE & Respiratory Fit Testing
Safety in the workplace is more critical than ever, ensuring proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Respiratory Fit Testing is key to protecting ourselves and others. This Webinar is an opportunity to learn about new innovations and to ask questions about any concerns you may have.
Lois Eggers invited you to a Microsoft Teams Meeting:
BeAligned Webinar – PPE & Respiratory Fit Testing
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
9:30 am – 10:30 am (NZST)Meeting link: BeAligned Webinar – PPE & Respiratory Fit Testing | Microsoft Teams | Meet-up-Join
- A Consultation with Minister van Velden
- Southern Express Site Tour 20th June 10.00am to 12.00pm
- BeSafe Taranaki Trust & CHASNZ Workshop
- 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
- Contractor Management/Totika
- 16th April @ 8.00am – The Devon Hotel Strandon
- BeEngaged Webinar 21st February
- Wood Training Fire Safety Demo 29th January
Fire Safety Demo 29th January 9.00am to 11.30am by Wood Training at their BellBlock Site
- Drug & Alcohol – Impairment at Work – A Discussion Panel
- BeSafe Taranaki & The Business Leaders Health & Safety Forum – October 13th 2023
Invite: The true state and cost of New Zealand’s health and safety performance
with economist Shamubeel Eaqub
Kia ora AllI 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 Plymouthhttps://www.forum.org.nz/events-and-courses/state-of-a-thriving-nation-forum-roadshow/.
Francios Barton
- 2023 Apprentice Challenge 20th October
- BeSafe Taranaki Trust Leaders Workshop 11th June at The Devon 7.30am to 10.00am
- Using Safety II for Critical control Reviews and Due Diligence Reporting
Novotel Hotel – 15th June 2023
7.00am – 7.30am Coffee & Scones
7.30am – 9.00am Moni Hogg
- Todd Energy McKee Site Tour 21st June 8.00a.m.
Hosted by Todd Energy
Site Tour on 21/6/23 at their McKee Site 8.00am
People may want to car pool as you need to allow 50 minutes to get to site with current roadworks. Please let me know if you would like to car pool and I will organise accordingly.
The address is 1334 Otararoa Road, Tikorangi
Please travel via Princess St in Waitara, then Inland Road North, then Otaraoa Road
The Facility is located in Section 5 of the map, in yellow.
We encourage following the speed limit at all times, including corner speed limits.
There are a couple of corners which have caught drivers out of the years!
There is ample parking in the carpark over the road from the facility.
If anyone has mobility issues we can organise carparking at the top carpark, on the same level has the facility.
- Protecting Mental Wellbeing at Work & Mental Wellbeing by Design Process
- Switch On Safety Leadership Program – Presented by Brian Ropitini
- Psychological Wellbeing – Dr Hillary Bennett
- Powerco – keeping your workers safe around Overhead & Underground Assets
You’re invited to join a Microsoft Teams meeting
Title: Powerco – keeping your workers safe
Time: Thursday, 23 February 2023 9:30:00 am New Zealand Daylight TimeJoin on your computer or mobile app
Click here to join the meeting - Engage Session 6th March at 7.00 am 2023 – Dr Hillary Bennett
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
- Dialog Fitzroy Site Tour November 2022
We had an amazing couple of hours touring the working site at Dialog Fitzroy on Wednesday. Most certainly we all came away with a much better appreciation of the absolute hard work that goes into creating all those pipes we see around our industrial sites. The Dialog Fitzroy Production Planners must be on the go 24/7! Thank you, Richard Ellis, for an illuminating morning.
- 2022 Taranaki Apprentice Challenge
Taranaki Apprentice Challenge 2022 Champions – Pepper Construction - BeAligned Site Tour – Dialog Fitzroy – 23rd November 2022
On the 23rd November there will be a site visit to Dialog Fitzroy. This will start with a short meeting, with coffee, ( we will have facilities that people can login to this meeting) followed by a tour of the working site. We will have the opportunity to search for hazards/risks that may not already be controlled. Hosted by Richard Ellis
Please wear your PPE..
- BeAligned Site Tour – Energyworks 21st March 2023
Geoff Bourke is hosting a tour of his working site on the 21st March 2023, all members of our Beligned Working Group are very welcome. We will have a short meeting prior, then a tour with the challenge of finding any hazards/risks that are not already monitored. “A fresh set of eyes”
- Webinar – Management of Change – 8th August at 10.30am
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.
- Safety in Design Webinar – Thursday 5th May @ 10.30am
- Living with Covid Webinar – 1st March at 10.30am via Teams
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 1st March 10:30:00 am New Zealand Daylight Time
Join on your computer or mobile app
Click here to join the meeting - Traffic Light Forum – A “round table” on COVID-19 Management under the Traffic Light system
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
- BeEngage Webinar 21st October 2021 – “The world of safety is changing, with disruption by new thinking and new approaches. Why is this? And what should we do about it? In this webinar we will explore the drivers for these changes, what they mean for safety in New Zealand and how we can lead the charge to better outcomes.”
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
Join on your computer or mobile app
Click here to join the meeting - Breakfast Wellness Session
Stress and the Client/Builder relationship 1st November 2021
http://www.buildingwellness.co.nz/ - BeSafe Taranaki Trust AGM
BeSafe Taranaki Trust AGM will be held on the 22nd August 2024 at 7.00am – 10.00am at the Devon Hotel
Francois Barton NZ Business Leaders Health & Safety Forum – State of the Nation 2024
Kerry Williamson – BeAligned 2024
Frances Boyce – BeEngaged 2024
Frances Boyce – BeSafe Taranaki Trust future Strategy
- Engage Invitation for 21st July 7.00am @ The Novotel : The State of our Roads throughout the Taranaki Region…. & our driving Behaviour
- BeSafe Trustee Meeting
The next meeting is to be held on the 25th October 2023 at 8am – OMV Headquarters
- BeAligned Working Group Meeting
24th August 2023 @ 8.00 am via Teams
- People and the Workplace Post Covid 19
