enabling safety by design
with Michael Behm
in partnership with the Australian Institute of Health & Safety (AIHS)
Join us for this engaging master class event with professor,
Michael Behm
Organisations and safety professionals are increasingly interested in the ideologies established by Safety Differently and in the application for Safe Design. However, too often these concepts are seen to be at odds with each other, with one viewing people as the solution and the other viewing engineering as the solution.
Duties of the designer under the WHS legislation Under section 22 WHS Act prescribe that the designer must ensure structures are designed to be safe when it is used as a workplace during its lifecycle. This includes during the construction of the structure, the purpose for which the structure is designed, the maintenance, cleaning or repair of the structure and the eventual demolition at end of life. Designers must also consider the safety of people in the vicinity of the workplace.
This requires engineers to consider the potential risks involved in the life of a design, to ensure it is safe to build, operate, maintain, and demolish a structure/building/plant. This master class will address safety in the engineering design process, and introduce safety differently as the method to meet obligations and leverage user-centred design to innovate and provide design solutions to operational conditions. It will include the implementation of risk management processes described in ISO 31000.
what will participants learn:
The similarities in the safe design and safety differently practice
The broad definition of ‘design’ as a foundation principle for safety differently being the upstream influences to understand what goes right
How the work design process can be enhanced by learning from what goes right
What leaders and safety professionals can do to build an enhanced safety management system based on the synergies presented in this master class
How to harness to safety in design methods to meet and exceed regulatory obligations
master class details
This master class will be conducted as a live interactive video event with a maximum of 30 participants. This is a 3 hours session.
$295 AUD
Wed 26th May
11am - 2pm (AEDT)
master class participants will receive:
Presentation of themes derived from identified issues by participants
Video recording of the session
Presentation material
Access for six months to a master class web portal containing workshop materials and relevant case studies, change strategies, journal articles, book references, links to e-resources, and tools to collaborate with other participants beyond the master class.
ongoing development & support:
On completion of the master class, you will be provided with access to the Art of Work Enabling Safety through Design portal.
The portal will provide you with further resources for building your own Safety through Design strategy including templates, assessments, thought leadership articles, presentations and case studies.
presented by
Michael Behm
Michael Behm is a professor of Occupational Safety at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and Coordinator of the Working Commission on Safety and Health in Construction at the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, in the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Public Health from Oregon State University. Mike has been a Certified Safety Professional since 1995. He was a safety and health professional for 10 years with Lenox China and Saint-Gobain Corporation. Mike serves on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Construction Sector Occupational Research and Prevention through Design (PtD) Councils. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology, Singapore focusing on safe design aspects of urban greenery systems, and a Visiting Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Mike’s philosophy on work is that each person has a significant role in arranging the conditions where they and their workmates can be successful.
Kelvin Genn
Kelvin Genn is Art of Work’s Managing Director. He is a strategic systems thinker with experience in Human Factors and organizational re-engineering. He developed his systems thinking approach working in the Royal Australian Air Force for 10 years. Following this, for 10 years, he led a systems and risk management program across Asia Pacific and Europe with Compass Group Plc, the world’s largest support service company with more than 750,000 employees.
More recently he was working for (SKM) Sinclair Knight Merz as the Global General Manager for Safety and Wellness delivering safety for major project construction in mining, energy and infrastructure.
As a Board Member for NSW Health, Kelvin worked as the NSW Health Director for Clinical Quality and Patient Safety. He has also worked with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to develop the national accreditation system for all health care providers across Australia. He was responsible for shaping the state and national agendas for clinical health care safety and quality through the provision of expert advice to the NSW Health Management Board and the NSW Minister of Health. Currently, he holds board positions with the Food Safety Information Council and is also a committee member with the Safety Institute of Australia.
learn more about the upcoming master class from Professor Michael Behm himself.
registration
master class registration: $295 AUD*
AIHS and Lighthouse Members: $265.50 AUD*
due to the online format of the interactive workshop, numbers are strictly limited to 30.
*prices exclude GST.