Healthy Work Design forum
Join us for breakfast to hear from industry experts about the latest evidence around work health and chronic disease and best practice approaches to good work design.
The Forum includes case studies demonstrating the integration of health, safety and wellbeing, information on the new Code of Practice for Managing the risk of psychosocial hazards, and the latest research on work related injury and illness.
Date: Wednesday 22 March 2023
Time: 6.15 – 9am
Location: The Marquee, Victoria Park, 309 Herston Road, Herston, Brisbane
Cost: $33 – includes breakfast
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 6.15am | Registration, breakfast, tea and coffee, networking |
| 6.45am | MC welcome Michelle Koripas, Director, Work Health Design Unit, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland |
| 6.55am | Opening address |
| 7.05am | Are you prepared? New Code of Practice ‘Managing the risk of psychosocial hazards at work’ Sam Popple, Director, Psychological Health Unit, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland |
| 7.25am | Shining the light on workplace health conditions Dr Elizabeth Pritchard, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University |
| 7.55am | Designing work to generate healthy and productive work Professor Sharon K. Parker, Organisational behaviour, Curtin University |
| 8.25am | Case study – Integrating health, safety and wellbeing |
| 8.40am | Panel session (Q&A) Michelle Koripas, Sam Popple, Dr Elizabeth Pritchard, Sharon K. Parker and Ben Saal |
| 9.00am | MC event close |
*Program subject to change
Michelle Koripas, Director, Work Health Design Unit, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
Michelle is the Director of the Work Health Design Unit at Workplace Health and Safety Queensland. She leads a team specialising in the application of work health design principles for improved health, safety and well-being outcomes within the spheres of human factors and ergonomics and work-related chronic disease prevention.
Michelle is a qualified ergonomist with over 25 years of experience in health, safety and culture change. Her passion for improving workplace culture is driven by a deep care for people.
Sam Popple, Director, Psychological Health Unit, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
Sam is the director of the Psychological Health Unit at Workplace Health and Safety Queensland. Sam is an organisational psychologist registrar working in the growing field of psychological health and psychosocial hazard management. Sam leads a diverse team that provides specialist psychological knowledge and expertise to help minimise Queensland’s work-related psychosocial risk.
Sam’s previous career was as an intensive care nurse and educator. She is a staunch feminist with a keen interest in the swelling evidence of disadvantage for women at work.
Dr Elizabeth Pritchard, Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Dr Elizabeth Pritchard is a Research Fellow with the Healthy Working Lives Research Group from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.
A former occupational therapist, Elizabeth has recently led both the qualitative study exploring the factors influencing truck driver health from the perspective of drivers and their family, and the pilot intervention targeted to managers in the transportation industry.
Professor Sharon Parker, Organisational Behaviour, Curtin University
Sharon is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Curtin University and the Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design at the Future of Work Institute (Curtin University), which she previously founded as an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow.
Sharon is passionate about improving the quality of people’s work and she engages regularly with business and government representatives. She has worked as a researcher and consultant in a wide range of public and private organisations, and has delivered numerous keynote talks/executive education for practitioner audiences.
Ben Saal, General Manager Health, Safety and Environment, Powerlink Queensland
Ben is the General Manager HSE at Powerlink Queensland. Powerlink Queensland is a leading Australian provider of high voltage electricity transmission network services, providing electricity to five million Queenslanders and 238,000 businesses.
Ben leads a team who support the safety, health, wellbeing, electrical safety and environmental management of Powerlink’s people who are all contributing to or performing a range of high-risk construction and maintenance operations.