Event Overview:

The Australian Institute of Health & Safety invites you to join our upcoming webinar, Control Effectiveness in Practice: Challenges and Emerging Thinking presented by Incident Analytics on 14 July 2025.

Assessing the effectiveness of controls remains one of the most persistent challenges in safety management. This session will explore why many control systems systematically misrepresent true exposure reduction, and how biases in risk classification can distort where attention and resources are focused.

We’ll examine how real-world implementation conditions are often overlooked, and how current control architectures can over-rely on behavioural controls, potentially masking underlying system weaknesses.

Join us as we unpack these challenges and explore emerging thinking on how organisations can more accurately understand and strengthen the effectiveness of their controls in practice.

Key Learnings:

• Control design vs failure
• Implementation reality
• Human factors and the role they play 

Event Details:

Date: Tuesday 14 July, 2026.
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm AEST (Canb, Melb, Syd)
Cost:  AIHS Member: Complimentary | Non Member: $33 (incl. GST)
Format: One hour Zoom webinar

Event Speakers:

	Warren Smith Director/ Research and Data Science - Incident Analytics With an extensive background in operations management, organisation development, HR management, leadership, and culture development, Warren Smith is dedicated to enhancing safety performance across industries. Over the past 20 years, he has worked with both large and medium-sized enterprises, guiding them towards pragmatic safety performance improvements. Warren's expertise notably includes managing exposure to serious injuries and fatalities, leadership development, behaviour change, safety governance, systems alignment, and the exploration of human factors associated with error and reliability. His Bachelor of Arts degree provides a valuable social lens to workplace safety that informs a complete approach to risk management.
	Alex Fernando - Director/ Strategy and Risk Advisory - Incident Analytics Alex is a seasoned management consultant that has worked across a diverse array of high-risk industries in Europe, Asia, and Australia. His background spans petrochemical, manufacturing, transport, oil and gas, agriculture, utilities and mining sectors. He has led safety improvement initiatives across many key areas from serious injury prevention, leadership and governance, and workforce development. Alex holds a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours, Bachelor of Science, and an MBA from Monash University. His education and professional experience provide a unique perspective on safety and risk management. He is a key asset that delivers practical, impactful change for clients and drives the Incident Analytics' mission forward.

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