Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work

Monday, 1 July 2024
Description

Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories

* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules

Chair

Judy Tomas, GM Commercial, Contracts and Compliance, Mission Australia Housing

Practice Management & Business Skills
Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work
  • Identifying psychosocial hazards and assessing the risks
  • What psychosocial hazards are
  • Common psychosocial hazards
  • How they can arise
  • Responing to and managing those risk in the workplace
  • How risks can be identified
  • Responding to risks: responding to individual issues as well as issues that are identified
  • The regulatory environment: the risks and why these matters need to be addressed
  • Explaining the positive duty under WHS legislation and FWA and the duties owed

Presented by Lucy Shanahan, Partner, Kingston Reid; recommended Lawyer in Employment Doyles Guide 2021

Presenters


Judy Tomas, GM Commercial, Mission Australia Housing
After more than three decades working in the legal profession, Judy Tomas is currently General Manager, Commercial Contracts & Compliance for Housing at national charity, Mission Australia. She leads the contracting and compliance function and works with the Board on corporate governance to deliver wellbeing and housing outcomes for vulnerable Australians. Judy is also company secretary for a small not for profit focussing on older men’s wellbeing. Her career has included legal roles with top tier firms, including partnership and she has also spent more than 10 years in house in both for profit and not for profit environments. She is a member of the senior management team at Mission Australia. Apart from her legal qualifications, Judy is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has an MBA from Macquarie University.


Lucy Shanahan, Partner, Kingston Reid
Lucy helps clients create a better future for their businesses by helping them successfully navigate their most difficult and complex employee issues and industrial challenges. She is an experienced investigator and is regularly engaged to facilitate and report on complex and sensitive employment-related investigations. A highly experienced litigator, Lucy assists clients on a range of contentious employment and industrial relations issues. These include applications relating to bargaining and industrial action, unfair dismissal and bullying claims, actions by senior executives, and post-employment restraint matters. She has appeared in the Federal Circuit Court and Federal Court in multiple adverse action and harassment claims. Clients value Lucy’s intrinsic ability to contemplate a myriad of strategic legal issues whilst guiding them through the day-to-day employment matters that come with running often complex, multi-faceted businesses with many employees in multiple jurisdictions. She takes pride in building exceptional relationships with her clients, and knowing them and their businesses inside and out. Her advice is practical, timely and concise, and reflects her deep expertise as well as her focus on remaining on top of legislative and regulatory changes that may affect her clients. Her successful practice is focused on the financial services, government, electricity, retail, transport and health industries. Lucy is highly regarded for her strong communication skills and engaging presentation style. She has extensive experience as a trainer and presenter and is often called upon to help train, inform and educate at client and industry forums.

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Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work

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