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PP: 2555003/09535 PP: PROFESSIONAL AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH & SAFETY PUBLICATION JUNE 2019 Lendlease’s Chris Doyle: setting global standards in safety What are the real Mental health: Is industrial drivers of workplace more than just manslaughter wellbeing? change fatigue? really needed? The Safety Institute of Australia conducts certification of the health and safety profession with a program that acknowledges CONNECTthe capability and credibility of practitionersAND and GROW professionals. PROFESSIONALLY TheMake SIAAdvance Mentorship youryour Program career isnext andexclusive get tocertified moveour members. today Share your knowledge and experience or find an experienced mentor. l For more information visit www.sia.org.au/mentoring or contact us E [email protected] T (03) 8336 1995 @SIA_OHS Prof @SafetyInstituteofAustralia Safety Institute of Australia 03 3 contents 16 Lendlease: setting a global standard in safety: A holistic and concerted effort to improve OHS across Lendlease’s global operations has paid dividends, with significant improvements in safety outcomes. JUNE 2019 OHS Professional Published by the Australian Institute Features of Health & Safety (AIHS) Ltd. ACN 151 339 329 The AIHS publishes OHS Professional magazine, which is published quarterly and distributed to members of the AIHS. The AIHS is Australia’s professional 24 body for health & safety professionals. 8 With more than 70 years’ experience Kym Bills: a collaborative approach What are the real drivers of wellbeing and a membership base of 4000, the AIHS aims to develop, maintain and to growing the College of Fellows: in the workplace? There are a number of promote a body of knowledge that The new chair of the Australia Institute of Health important drivers of wellbeing in the workplace, and defines professional practice in OHS. & Safety College of Fellows on the evolution of the organisational leaders and managers play a critical Freecall: 1800 808 380 OHS profession, opportunities and challenges for role in driving improvements in workplace wellbeing Phone: (03) 8336 1995 practitioners Postal address PO Box 2078 Gladstone Park VIC 3043 Street address Unit 2/217-219 Mickleham Rd 10 26 Tullamarine VIC 3043 Alcoa: staying ahead of the OHS curve: Transforming OHS through technology: Membership enquiries OHS Professional speaks with Danny Spadaccini, The latest technology trends in the OHS function, and email: [email protected] director of EHS for Alcoa Alumina and Alcoa how OHS professionals can meet associated challenges Editorial Craig Donaldson of Australia, about the latest trends in OHS, and capitalise on digital transformation opportunities email: [email protected] implications for the profession and what Alcoa is Design/Production doing to stay ahead of health and safety challenges Anthony Vandenberg email: [email protected] Printing/Distribution 3 2 SpotPress 12 The 10 top pattern causes of death and Why industrial manslaughter is not needed: Advertising enquiries serious harm at work: Emeritus Professor Michael Introducing ideologically driven laws around Advertising Manager, Quinlan on the 10 top pattern causes of death and Robbie O’Rourke industrial manslaughter makes no sense when serious harm at work and what OHS professionals can Ph: (03) 9974 3315 workplaces are getting safer, according to John Darcy do about them Fax: (03) 9012 4215 E: [email protected] For the OHS Professional magazine Regulars media kit, visit www.AIHS.org.au. 14 Disclaimer: The opinions expressed More than just change fatigue: 4 CEO’s message within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect AIHS opinion or policy. Psychological health and safety are of increasing 5 From the editor No part of this magazine may be importance to health and safety professionals, reproduced in whole or in part without the 6 News permission of the publisher. Advertising according to Dr Peta Miller, who looks at emerging 30 Events material and inserts should not be seen as risks in the area and what OHS can do AIHS endorsement of products or services. 34 Book review Connect with us: @SIA_OHSProf @SafetyInstituteofAustralia Safety Institute of Australia sia.org.au June 2019 | OHS PROFESSIONAL 04 CEO’S MESSAGE Being there when the future arrives The Institute is set for a significant change, which puts the healthin health and safety, and reflects the transformation that we have already undertaken over the past four years, writes David Clarke seen as encompassed by safety, it’s not so All of these things require significant clear for those outside the profession. investment, and we do them for and on behalf After a long period of discussion and of the profession to help it evolve. They rely reflection with our members, we are transi- on the ongoing support of the profession tioning to become the Australian Institute itself and its willingness to grow and change. for Health and Safety (AIHS). This new This work will continue. name not only puts the health in health We know that’s a full agenda, but we also and safety, but some new branding and know we have to do more. Although we all like language also reflects the transformation to think of Australia as at (or near) the head of that we have already undertaken over the the pack when it comes to health and safety: last four years, and the forward-thinking • There are a million small businesses who approach we now take. do not use – or have access to – health and Will the work of the AIHS be different to safety advice or business standards. How Dave Clarke, CEO of the Australian that of the SIA? The AIHS will do every- can we help them deliver healthier and Institute of Health & Safety thing the SIA has done, and more. safer workplaces? Our primary focus is and always will be • Company boards are struggling with the the health and safety profession, and our wave of change in enforcement culture. t’s time for another change. journey to build capability, build status, How can we help them deliver healthier For more than 70 years, the Safety and give voice to the profession. We will and safer workplaces? Institute of Australia has been focused continue to: • Today, there are students at school who Ion the needs of the health and safety • ensure a strong underpinning evidence will have successful careers but never step community. Over time those needs have base for the profession’s work by into what we might consider a traditional changed, and we have changed with them. our stewardship of the OHS Body of workplace. How can we help them to We were originally formed in 1948 as Knowledge develop knowledge and awareness they will the Safety Engineering Society by a group • fight for better quality health and need to keep themselves healthy and safe? of students from the first Industrial Safety safety education, by supporting the Although our name is changing, our vision and Accident Prevention course conducted accreditation of higher education and for healthy and safe workers in productive by the Melbourne Technical College. By advocating for improvements in VET workplaces is not. To be true to this vision 1977, the building blocks of a profession health and safety training means using our combined knowledge and were forming, and we saw the need to be • work to create better role clarity and strength as a profession to take on the bigger more expansive as people from a range of definition across industry by promoting issues. This in turn can’t be done alone and backgrounds beyond engineers began to the use of a global capability framework requires the co-operation of governments, engage in safety roles. So we became the • work to build greater confidence in and employer groups and unions, and a greater Safety Institute of Australia. status for the profession throughout awareness of health and safety from civil The further evolution of roles, legislation business, by continuing to grow society. and language in the last 30 years has seen Certification It’s an exciting and dynamic time to be in the rise of focus on health, and the way we • improve the overall quality of training health and safety, and the Australian Institute conceptualise the work of the profession and development for all health and for Health and Safety will be thinking forward has now evolved fully as health and safety safety people and ensuring that our community of health throughout the practitioner’s and profes- • build on our emerging policy and and safety people will have a leadership role sional’s role. Even though for those in the advocacy work, to improve legislation in all of these emerging issues in the years to profession, the word health has long been and standards. come. n The OHS Professional editorial board 2019 CHANELLE GUS SAUNDERS, MICHAEL MIKE WILSON, RIA SMITH, RICHARD STEVE BELL, ANDREW MCENALLAY, Manager of TOOMA, Group HSE HSE director, COLEMAN, Partner, Herbert SUMMERS National safety, environmental Partner, Clyde director, Boral Sodexo Head Of HSE - Smith Freehills WHS manager property & health and safety, & Co Australia Hub, NSW/ACT, CPB environment Olam Australia Laing O'Rourke Contractors manager, Ramsay Health Care OHS PROFESSIONAL | June 2019 sia.org.au FROM THE EDITOR 0 5 5 Advancing and evolving the cause of OHS The OHS profession is changing and evolving at the coalface of business, and OHS professionals need to keep up to date with evolving challenges and trends in order to stay current and be effective in their roles, writes Craig Donaldson Doyle, who explains how the company has collaboratively with domain specialists overhauled its operations and significantly to provide the best possible targeted improved OHS. It is one of the group’s key advice. “The noble goal of reducing death, strategies for driving long-term value in the injury and disease, societal expectations of business, and it has experienced significant expertise and ethics, the changing nature improvements in safety results over the past of work, and the threat of litigation, will decade.