OHS Network Meeting

Schedule

• 06/03/2024
• 1000:00Introduction & Welcome1000:00

  Gary Workman  Executive Director  Apprenticeship Employment Network

• 1005:00WorkSafe Update1005:00 - 1100:00

  
  

  Courtney Borg, Mike Craig & Sonia Rumanovsky

  The WorkSafe team will cover topics including current campaigns: Speak-Up, Hazardous Manual Handling and Pain from Work is Never Ok.

  Other topics will include employers’ duty to keep apprentices safe and an explanation for the ILO role. 

• 1100:00Product Offer - Environmentally & Socially Responsible Apparel1100:00 - 1115:00

  
  

  Edwina Walsh  CEO  Assembled Threads

  Established in 2021, Assembled Threads is a social enterprise helping to solve long-term unemployment for disadvantaged groups by providing training and employment in garment manufacturing at an ethical wage.

  
  
• 1115:00OHS Stats and Benchmarking1115:00 - 1130:00
• 1130:00AEN Update & Round Table Discussion1130:00 - 1145:00

  
  

  Victorias Workplace Manslaughter Laws

  A stonemasonry business has become the first company convicted under Victoria’s workplace manslaughter laws after causing the death of a worker who was fatally crushed at a Somerton factory.

  
  

  Crystalline Silica

  From July 1 2024, the use, manufacturing, supply, processing and installation of engineered stone will be banned in Victoria. 

• 1145:00Other Business1145:00 - 1200:00
• 1200:00Networking & Lunch1200:00 - 1230:00

  
  

  Light lunch provided