Breathe easy: Occupational health and hygiene forum brings together a range of industry experts to discuss topics around air quality, silica, asbestos, radiation, and issues around inhalable toxins that can affect workplace health and safety.

This forum is open to anyone with an interest in making workplaces healthier and safer in these regards from an occupational health and hygiene perspective.

• Keynote on indoor air quality and ventilation
• Silica
• Diesel exhaust
• Radiation including inhalable carcinogens
• Asbestos

• Keynote - Professor Dino Pisaniello, School of Public Health at the University of Adelaide
• Tracey Bence, President of Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists
• Dr Matthew Govorko, Cancer Council of WA
• Dr Martin Ralph,  Regional Inspector - WorkSafe Mines Safety  
• Pierina Otness, Senior Toxicologist, Department of Health
• Joshua Caccetta, Director - Property and Risk Management, Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage
• Samuel Jackson, Director, Thuroona Services

This event will be opened by Hon. Bill Johnston, WA’s Minister for Mines and Petroleum, Energy, Hydrogen Industry and Industrial Relations. Former ABC broadcaster and conversation specialist Geoff Hutchison will facilitate an afternoon panel on lung carcinogens in the workplace.

Take the learning beyond the podium into the breaks and connect, collaborate and share ideas with other industry professionals.

Occupational health and hygiene industry members, health and safety representatives, statutory officers and other health and safety professionals who have a role or interest in health and safety and prevention in WA workplaces are encouraged to attend. 

• In person event
• Attend online

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The Psychosocial hazards forum brings together a range of industry experts to discuss topics around mental health and psychosocial hazards that can affect workplace health and safety.

This forum is open to anyone with an interest in making workplaces healthier and safer in these regards.

• Toughness in the workplace: Where are we now?
• Managing psychosocial risks in the workplace
• Mental health and suicide: How to investigate with a trauma informed lens
• Supporting colleagues and bystanders - panel session  
• What is a risk management-based approach?
• Psychological safety in small business

• Keynote - Dr Dean Laplonge, Factive Consulting
• Jordan Jackson, Inspector of Mines - Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Kath Jones, Inspector of Mines - Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Owen Whittle, Secretary, UnionsWA
• Lorna MacGregor, CEO, Lifeline WA
• Damien McVeigh, Program Manager, Mates in Mining
• Dr Marcus Cattani, Senior Lecturer and Post Graduate Course Co-ordinator OHS at Edith Cowan University
• Professor Tim Bentley, Director, Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety Centre (MARS) at Edith Cowan University
• Assoc Professor Ben Farr-Wharton, Deputy-Director of The Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Centre at Edith Cowan University
• Sally North, Acting WorkSafe Commissioner

Channel 7 broadcaster and conversation specialist Tim McMillan will MC the event and facilitate an afternoon panel on supporting colleagues and bystanders.

Occupational health and hygiene industry members, health and safety representatives, statutory officers and other health and safety professionals who have a role or interest in health and safety and prevention in WA workplaces are encouraged to attend. 

The free in person event is nearing capacity. You can always register to participate via Webex, whether for the entire day’s program or just join for the sessions that most interest you (you will receive the program prior to the event with approximate session times).

• Attend online

This forum will focus on issues specific to the agricultural industry, and is open to anyone with an interest in how to make workplaces healthier and safer, whether as a health and safety professional or a hands-on worker.

• Practical advice on breaking down the new Work Health and Safety laws for WA
• Electrical and chemical safety without the bull
• Psychosocial hazards in the agricultural sector
• Handling and storing agricultural chemicals and pesticides

• Dr Terence Chia, WorkSafe - Senior Inspector Scientific Officer – Human Factors and Ergonomics
• Holly Freeman, SafeFarms WA Executive Officer
• Julii Gaunt, WorkSafe – Inspector, Regional and Primary Industries
• Dave Gossage, agricultural safety consultant
• Erin James, Dangerous Goods at Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
• Tim Manning, Health, Safety and Environment Head at CBH Group
• Sally North, Acting WorkSafe Commissioner
• Pat Roberts, Senior Electrical Inspector, Building and Energy at Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety

Take the learning beyond the podium into the breaks and connect, collaborate and share ideas with other agricultural industry people.

Agricultural and farm operators, health and safety representatives, statutory officers and other health and safety professionals who have a role or interest in health and safety and the prevention of fatalities in the WA agricultural industry are encouraged to attend. 

• In person event
• Attend online