Videos

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Child safety in home workplaces

Your home business can be as dangerous as any other workplace – how are you protecting your kids?

Talking mental health with former Olympian Hayley Lewis

Hayley shares her story during Safe Work Month 2020 and talks all things mental health, resilience and reflects on the highs and lows of her career.

Intelligence-enabled workplace health and safety

For those at the forefront of work health and safety, Associate Professor Maureen Hassall explores some of the threats, opportunities and emergent risks associated with intelligence enabled WHS, and how advancements in technology may be optimised to improve WHS.

Achieving mentally healthy workplaces through early intervention

In this session, Dr Lorraine Stokes and Ngaire Graham explore how to create a culture of early intervention in order to achieve a mentally healthy workplace. You’ll find out why it’s a challenge when intervention doesn’t happen early enough and learn how to recognise the early warning signs of psychological distress and implement strategies to reduce the risk of harm to workers.

Managing the challenges of health and safety in a multigenerational workforce

In this presentation, Dr Simone Ryan will discuss the biology, physiology and psychology of ageing and explore ways to design an age friendly workplace. She will discuss how to develop and build action plans to help retain the ‘ageing’ workforce along with their expertise, while implementing strategies to encourage younger employees to adhere to safe work practices early on in their career. Using a case study, Simone will guide you to understand better ways to manage the work environment, the individual, and their work/life balance.

Managing the mental health impacts of remote and isolated work (panel discussion)

How individuals and workplaces responded to and were impacted by COVID-19, and key learnings for remote and isolated workplaces.