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Event Details

Friday, 21 October, 2022 - 10:30 to 17:00
Australian Central Standard Time (ACST)
SA Branch

Location

The Sanctuary
Adelaide Zoo
1 Plane Tree Drive
Adelaide SA 5000
Australia

Cost

Standard  Rates
AIHS Individual & Corporate Members (conference only)  $240+GST
AIHS Individual & Corporate Members (conference & dinner) $370+GST
Non Member & Join AIHS (conference only) $390+GST
Non Member & Join AIHS (conference & dinner) $520+GST
Dinner Only $150+GST
Student (conference only)  $75+GST
Student (conference & dinner)  $205+GST

Contact

Event Organising Body: 
Australian Institute of Health & Safety
Event Organiser: 
Australian Institute of Health & Safety
Phone: 
(03) 8336 1995

Type

Conference

The Australian Institute of Health & Safety invites you to join us for the 2022 Annual South Australian AIHS Branch Symposium which will be held on Friday 21 October 2022 located at the Adelaide Zoo

The Symposium will commence at 10:30 and will run until 17:00. A light morning tea will be served on arrival.

A separate annual Branch dinner event will be held after SALUS 2022 preceded by drinks amidst the animals for which all attendees at the Symposium are warmly invited to book in at a discounted rate.

There will be a broad focus for the SA Learning and Update Symposium for 2022 (SALUS22). It will include keynote speeches by the new SA WHS Minister the Hon. Kyam Maher and by distinguished WHS lawyer and AIHS Fellow and Lifetime Achievement awardee Michael Tooma. 

Other major topics at SALUS 22 include an introduction to the new AIHS CEO, Julia Whitford; addressing workplace bullying as a WHS issue by Professor Michelle Tuckey; research on improving WHS in the transport industry by A/Professor Anjum Naweed; Major construction projects & WHS Issues by Melissa Ekberg, Civil Contractors Federation SA; anxiety, workplace performance and WHS by Professor Petrina Coventry; Managing safety of workers with disability by

Neil Burgess, Diligent Safety Consulting; a WHS legal update by Luke Holland and Daria McLachlan; and insights from WHS leaders by Andrew Barrett.

Those who can are warmly invited to also book into the separate annual drinks and dinner event that follows with guest speaker Alex Thomas who will speak about WHS in the agriculture and rural sector.

Kym Bills, Chair

Event details
Date: Friday 21 October 2022
Time: 10:30 
-  17:00 (ACDT) 
Venue: Sanctuary conference facility, upstairs before the entrance Adelaide Zoo, 1 Plane Tree Drive, Adelaide 5000
Cost:     
Standard  Rates
AIHS Individual & Corporate Members (conference only)  $240+GST
AIHS Individual & Corporate Members (conference & dinner) $370+GST
Non Member & Join AIHS (conference only) $390+GST
Non Member & Join AIHS (conference & dinner) $520+GST
Dinner Only $150+GST
Student (conference only)  $75+GST
Student (conference & dinner)  $205+GST


Program

Click here to download a copy of the program 

10:00  Registration & light morning tea
   
10:30  Opening by Kym Bills, Chair: Welcome & Introduction: venue safety, Acknowledgment of First Nations; Reminder of lost lives, injuries & health impacts of inadequate workplace health & safety; sponsors; SALUS overview
   
10:45 

New AIHS CEO Introduction, Presented by Julia Whitford, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Health and Safety

   
11:10

Ministerial Keynote: The Government’s WHS priorities 2022-2026, Presented by SA WHS Minister & Attorney General Hon. Kyam Maher

   
11:35 

Risk Management of Workplace Bullying as a WHS Safety Hazard, Presented by Prof Michelle Tuckey UniSA.

   
12:00

Keynote: WHS legal responsibilities and ‘New View’ safety metrics, Presented by Michael Tooma, Managing Partner Clyde & Co.

   
12:25   Lunch break and Networking in foyer 
   
13:15

Research on improving WHS in the transport industry, Presented by A/Prog Anjum Naweed CQUni/HFESA

   
13:40 

Major construction projects & WHS Issues, Presented by Melissa Ekberg, Civil Contractors Federation SA

   
14:05 

Anxiety, workplace performance and WHS, Presented by Professor Petrina Coventry

   
14:30  Afternoon tea and networking in foyer
   
15:00 

WHS Legal Update, Presented by Luke Holland & Daria McLachlan Sparke Helmore

   
15:25 

Managing safety of workers with disability Neil Burgess, Diligent Safety Consulting

   
15:50

Organisational Learning and Change - The Linchpins of WHS Impact Andrew Barrett, Chief Connector SafetyonTap

   
16:15 Ignite student summary WHS research presentations (CQUni, Flinders, UniSA, UofA) and Augusta Zadow awardees
   
16:50  Overview and Close of SALUS22: by Kym Bills, SA Branch Chair
   
17:00 End of Symposium

 

Thank you to our breaks sponsor