Workplace Health and Safety: Anatomy of a Crisis
Issues covered include: pre-accident risk assessment, workplace incidents, WHS litigation, pleas, defended hearings
Description
When a workplace crisis emerges a single misstep can send a company spiralling, and one questionable piece of advice from counsel can sabotage a client relationship. Avoid the pitfalls with this step by step guide to dealing with work health and safety incidents from pre-accident procedures to have in place to responding to an incident in the moment to dealing with the litigation aftermath. Gain the knowledge necessary to deal with each of these steps to provide maximum protection for your clients.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Substantive Law
2 units in Professional Skills
This seminar was recorded in NSW on 20 March 2019
Chair: Louise Rumble, Special Counsel, Holding Redlich
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Pre-Accident Risk Assessment: Policies and Standards to Have in Place
- What true and proper compliance with WHS obligations looks like: ‘101’ Safety
- Genuinely meeting duty of care in the workplace
- Don’t be fooled by the systems and paperwork – most of it is smoke and mirrors that won’t help
- The universal questions needing to be answered at the time of a serious incident
Presented by Adj. Assoc. Prof. Trevor Love, Principal Partner, AusSafe Consulting
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Responding to Workplace Incidents
- Overview of WHS obligations on organisations and individuals
- Requirements to provide notice of workplace incidents
- Responding to Regulator investigations
- Responding to other stakeholders
- Mitigating impacts of regulatory notices
- Considering the wider implications of incidents
Presented by John Makris, Partner, K&L Gates; Leading Workplace Health and Safety Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: WHS Litigation: Representations, Pleas and Defended Hearings
- Analysis of the charge and particulars
- Analysis of the brief of evidence
- Negotiating a plea deal
- Preparing for sentencing hearings
- Running a defended hearing: dos and don’ts
- Court of Appeal
Presented by Sebastian McIntosh, Barrister, 13 Wentworth Selborne Chambers