Bendigo Health & Safety Month

Schedule

Arrival and registration

7:00am to 7:30am

Breakfast

7:30 am to 7:55am

Ask WorkSafe

7:55 am to 8:45am

You're invited to discover WorkSafe's purpose to reduce workplace harm as Victoria's occupational health and safety regulator. This session will explore the basics of WorkSafe's role in harm prevention and enforcement. WorkSafe will address local issues, welcome questions from the audience and explain how to create safer workplaces.

How to support injured Victorians back to work

9:00 am to 9:50am

An interactive case study on a worker who has been injured at work and as a result has submitted a workers compensation claim for a mental injury. We will discuss an employer's Return to Work planning obligations, with a focus on how to balance both the mental injury and meeting obligations. This presentation will also provide the audience with the opportunity to ask questions about planning for a workers return to work.

Welding fumes and occupational hygiene

10.00am to 10.50am

Join WorkSafe's Occupational Hygienists as they discuss what the recent changes to welding fumes exposure standards mean. You'll also hear about what controls are available to help reduce your exposure to welding fumes.

We'll have time for any questions you may have at the end of the session.

Value of Health and Safety representatives (HSRs)

11.00am to 11.50am

Learn about the importance and value of health and safety representatives (HSRs) for your organisation. The session will focus on consultation, representation of employees on health and safety matters and the value of HSR's in this process.

We'll have time for any questions you may have at the end of the session.

Lunch

11.50am to 12.30pm

Location

All Seasons Resort Hotel
171-183 McIvor Hwy
Strathdale, VIC 3550