Events
No Network Meeting – Returning February 2026
Please note there are no Workplace Safety Network (WSN) Network meetings held in January. Members are welcome to circulate questions to the group for feedback.
Network Meeting – Power, Culture & Psychological Safety
PRESENTATION:Â Â Kristyn Haywood, Leadership Educator, Executive Coach & Founder, People For Success Topic: Power, Culture & Psychological Safety. In April 2023, amendments to the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 introduced a positive duty for employers to manage psychosocial risks, requiring the same level of diligence as physical hazards. Yet legislation alone will not protect workers.…
WSN SITE VISIT – Lindt Chocolate Factory
The Workplace Safety Networking Group Meeting for August will be a site visit at Lindt’s manufacturing site in Marsden Park, NSW. Lindt & Sprüngli have been enchanting the world with chocolate for 180 years. It all began with the opening of David Sprüngli’ s small confectionery in Zurich. The business grew quickly thanks to Sprüngli’ s entrepreneurial spirit and…
Workplace Safety Network (WSN) – Annual General Meeting and Christmas Function
The Workplace Safety Network Steering Committee cordially invites you to the 2025 Annual General Meeting & Christmas Luncheon to be held at 12:30 pm, Wednesday 10th December 2025 at the Revesby Workers Club Christmas Lunch Menu At the AGM a feedback on this year’s events will be provided, both negative and positive, suggestions on how we can…
Network Meeting – Amendments to the Workers Compensation & Work Health & Safety Laws in NSW
PRESENTATORS –Â John Makris, Partner & Salim Doura, Associate, Kingston Reid Topic:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The proposed amendments to the Workers Compensation & Work Health & Safety Laws in NSW and their potential impacts About the speakers: John Makris, Partner John has over 28 years experience working in regulatory workplace health and safety, environmental and heavy vehicle compliance,…
Network Meeting – Chain of Responsibility
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Network Meeting – Making Safety Simple: WHS Regulation is Complex, Our Role is to Make it Simple
PRESENTATOR: Shailendra Tripathi, Senior Director Health Safety & Wellbeing, Optus Topic:       Making Safety Simple. WHS Regulation is Complex, Our role is to make it Simple How Complex is WHS Regulation: How complex the WHS Regulation is? Some examples will be discussed. How to build a WHS management system which is simple? A simple WHS management…
Network Meeting – What can the discoveries of neuroscience teach us about improving safety performance
PRESENTER: Â Cristian Sylvestre, HabitSafe Topic:Â What can the discoveries of neuroscience teach us about improving safety performance Safety performance, whichever way we look at it, has been stagnant for more than 15 years in Australia, US, UK and other countries. This is even though we manage safety better and do more for safety…
Network Meeting – Workplace Implications of Medicinal Cannabis
PRESENTATOR: Bryce Dick, Managing Director, The Drug Detection Agency (TDDA) Topic:       Medicinal Cannabis in the workplace  In this presentation Bryce will discuss the challenges that companies face when dealing with these drugs. The presentation will hopefully enlighten you as to: What you need to consider and do. Recent caselaw that has supported the employer when…