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Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
* 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
Michael McAuley, Barrister, Second Floor, Selborne Chambers
Practice Management & Business Skills
Managing the Wellbeing and Psychosocial Risks of Personal Injury Lawyers in 2024
- Current legal and moral landscape for workplace psychosocial risk management: steps to identify psychosocial risk factors for personal injury lawyers
- Primary, secondary and tertiary intervention strategies to minimise psychosocial hazards and enhance mental health
- Smart work design factors that contribute to thriving work and workplaces
Presented by Sue Chennell, Director, Shared Safety and Risk
Presenters
Sue Chennell, Director, Shared Safety and Risk
Sue Chennell started professional life as a Physiotherapist and quickly moved into working with elite sports teams and professional athletes where maximising individual and team performance was always the goal. When sore thumbs drew her into injury prevention and ergonomics, Sue quickly saw that the workplace was not dissimilar to the sports field. Creating healthy and safe workspaces and people not only amplify human potential but also that of teams and organisations more broadly. Fast forward 17 years in the health and safety industry and as Director of the bespoke consultancy Shared Safety and Risk, Sue’s passions still lie in people. Observing, collaborating with and coaching individuals, teams and her clients to solve problems and integrate health and safety management into the day to day. Sue’s other passions are the ocean, the environment, taking the odd (calculated) risk and adventuring with her young family. As a skilled people manager, Sue has built an experienced, mature yet dynamic team of associate WHS consultants committed to Shared Safety Risk’s collaborative approach.
Michael McAuley, Barrister, Second Floor Selborne Chambers
Michael McAuley has practised as a barrister since 1984. Prior to Michael’s admission to the Bar, he was Personal Assistant to the Deputy General Manager and Solicitor for the Government Insurance Office, and subsequently Commercial Lawyer. Following Michael’s admission to the Bar he has practised principally, but not exclusively, in personal injury law, including cases involving emergency worker posttraumatic stress disorder. Michael has also appeared from time to time in criminal matters and before the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). Michael appeared on behalf of the plaintiff in Day v Perisher Blue Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 110; [2005] 62 NSWLR 731, a major case on legal ethics. There, it was held that a pre-trial conference conducted by a legal practitioner acting on behalf of an insurer in which multiple witnesses attended and discussed amongst themselves the evidence which they intended to give at trial, seriously undermined the trial process, and was improper. Michael practices from Second Floor Selborne Chambers. Michael has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Sydney.
