OHS Network Meeting

Schedule

• 06/03/2024
• 10.00am Introduction & Welcome

  Gary Workman  Executive Director  Apprenticeship Employment Network

• 10.05am WorkSafe Update10.05am- 11.00am

  
  

  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. 

• 11.00am Product Offer - Environmentally & Socially Responsible Apparel11.00am- 11.15am

  
  

  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.

  
  
• 11.15am OHS Stats and Benchmarking11.15am- 11.30am
• 11.30am AEN Update & Round Table Discussion11.30am- 11.45pm

  
  

  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. 

• 11.45am Other Business11.45am- 12.00pm
• 12.00pm Networking & Lunch12.00pm- 12.30pm

  
  

  Light lunch provided