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WorkSafe Health and Safety Month – Traralgon event 8 October

Arrival and registration
7.00am to 7.30am

Breakfast
7.30am to 7.55am

Ask WorkSafe
7.55am to 8.45am
You're invited to discover WorkSafe's purpose to reduce workplace harm as Victoria's occupational health and safety regulator. This session will explore the basics of WorkSafe's role in harm prevention and enforcement. WorkSafe will address local issues, welcome questions from the audience and explain how to create safer workplaces.

How to support injured Victorians back to work
9.00am to 9.50am
An interactive case study on a worker who has been injured at work and as a result has submitted a workers compensation claim for a mental injury. We will discuss an employer's Return to Work planning obligations, with a focus on how to balance both the mental injury and meeting obligations. This presentation will also provide the audience with the opportunity to ask questions about planning for a workers return to work.

Manual handling basics: Do's and don'ts of risk control
10.00am to 10.50am
If you want to learn how to prevent injuries due to hazardous manual handling in your workplace, this session is for you. Using a case study, we’ll explain how to use the hierarchy of control to develop better risk controls. We will explain why training or reminding people to lift properly isn't effective, tell you what to do instead and answer any questions.

Value of Health and Safety representatives (HSRs)
11.00am to 11.50am
Learn about the importance and value of health and safety representatives (HSRs) for your organisation. The session will focus on consultation, representation of employees on health and safety matters and the value of HSR's in this process.
We'll have time for any questions you may have at the end of the session.

Lunch
11.50am to 12.30pm

National Outdoor Education Conference (NOEC) 2024

Outdoor Education Australia, together with co-host Outdoors Victoria, will host the National Outdoor Education Conference (NOEC) 2024 from Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 December.

This biennial Conference, held nationwide for 46 years since 1978, is the largest for outdoor education and recreation in Australia. It is the first time NOEC has been held in Victoria since 2007. The event will be held at the beautiful Federation University Australia’s Gippsland Campus.

You can expect inspiring keynote presenters, a hall of over 30 exhibitors, including equipment businesses, NFPs, and government agencies brimming with resources, ample networking opportunities, and carefully crafted professional development sessions and workshops that will inspire innovation and empower you to thrive in a dynamic and changing environment.

We plan to create a comprehensive program that covers a range of important topics across FIVE different streams:

-Outdoor education discovery: Profiling the latest developments
-The restorative nature of the Outdoors: Growing community health & wellbeing
-Indigenous connections & diverse communities: Embracing different perspectives
-Action on climate change: Embedding sustainable practices & being climate-ready
-Strong foundations: Building quality operations & supporting thriving teams

The Power of Perspective with Ben Crowe

Thursday 3 October | 7pm |  GPAC Main Theatre

In his talk, Ben interweaves counter-intuitive principles and stories from his experience with some of the world’s most successful business leaders, coaches and athletes. 

These stories illustrate how a deep focus on Authenticity, Vulnerability & Connection can create not only an amazing culture and competitive advantage, but also help the audience work towards building more confidence and navigate life’s biggest distractions both in and outside work.

As Nike’s former International Director of Sports Marketing, Ben has worked with some of the worlds most famous individuals, including Andre Agassi and NIKE CEO Phil Knight. Most recently, Ben has worked with AFL team Richmond FC and Ash Barty through their most successful times and with business leaders at Meta, Toyota and Lexus.

Now, Ben explains the power of purpose using stories from some of the worlds most successful organisations, teams and athletes, and explains how a counter intuitive focus on gratitude, humility and humour can help achieve peak performance, avoid the distractions that typically sabotage performance and balance achievement with fulfilment.

As a renowned expert in connection and storytelling, Ben will take you on an inspiring and unexpected journey to discover the quirky and counter intuitive principles behind successful teams and leaders – unpacking authenticity, vulnerability, connection and storytelling.

Join Ben and unlock the power of perspective.

Full Price$40
Group of 5+$30
Student$20
Access*$15