- Better Work Tasmania events are live-streamed and recorded. If you can’t make it to an event, you can catch up with the videos linked here.
Abrasive blasting
Ageing workforce
- Discussion panel on ageing workforce issues
- Longer working lives and strategies
- Mental health issues and the public sector
- The ageing workforce and workability
Alcohol and drugs
Airborne contaminants
- Asbestos awareness for new worker
- Managing exposures in construction work: Sydney Metro
- Workplace carcinogens
Animal handling
Asbestos
Better Work Tasmania general
- About Better Work Tasmania
- Elise Archer introduces 11th Better Work Tasmania session: mentally safe and healthy workplaces
- General information about Better Work Tasmania
- Networking opportunities with Better Work Tasmania: Lion Group
Biological hazards
Bushfires
Carcinogens
Code of practice
Communication, consultation and collaboration
- Communicating work health and safety
- Improving business performance
- Practical ways to communicate safety
- Improving business performance
Confined spaces
Construction
- Blue Hats – a Tasmanian Mental Health Program in the Construction Industry
- Construction WHS: VOS construction
- COVID-19 Best Practice Guidelines for the Building and Construction Industry (BCI)
- Crane safety in the construction industry
- Improving construction workers' health and safety
Contractor management
- Contract management: VOS construction
- Contractor management in the public sector
- Construction work health and safety: VOS construction
Culture and leadership
- Creating the right safety climate: Tassal Ltd
- Culture and design at work (construction sector)
- Culture and leadership: emotional intelligence
- Importance of leadership in creating positive work health and safety cultures
- Leading teams: cluster approach
- Leadership, culture and individual achievement
- Leading indicators and worker wellbeing
- Respectful behaviour
Dangerous goods
- Dangerous goods overview: WorkSafe Tasmania
- Global harmonised system (GHS)
- Implementation of GHS: University of Tasmania
- Major hazard facilities (MHF)
- Major event management at LPG storage facility
Design of work
Diving safety (diving work)
- Work health and safety in the fisheries sector overview: Tasmanian Seafood Industry Council
- Diving safety: critical points
Electrical risks
Emergency management
Falls from heights
Fatigue management/fatigue
- Tools to improve transport safety: University of Tasmania
- Tools to improve harvesting and haulage safety: University of Tasmania
- Use of wearables in fatigue safety
First aid
Fisheries
- Creating the right safety climate: Tassal Ltd
- Diving safety: critical points
- Fisheries sector overview: WorkSafe Tasmania
- Huon Aquaculture: alcohol and drugs approach
- WHS in the fisheries sector overview: Tasmanian Seafood Industry Council
Forestry
- Analysis of forestry work accidents in Australia: University of the Sunshine Coast
- Forestry log haulage: registered code of practice
- Overview of forestry sector: WorkSafe Tasmania
- Overview of work health and safety in forestry sector: Arbre Forest Industries and career hub
- Tools to improve harvesting and haulage safety: University of Tasmania
Global harmonised system (GHS)
Hazard substances/hazardous chemicals safety
- Asbestos awareness for new workers
- Major event management at LPG storage facility
- Workplace carcinogens
Health and wellbeing
- Bullying in the workplace
- Chronic health disorders and workplaces: Menzies Institute for for Medical Research
- Health, wellbeing and leading performance indicators: Monash Business School
- Health and wellbeing in the cricket world
- Leading indicators and worker wellbeing
- MyWellbeing at ReturntoWorkSA
Health care
- Caring for people with obesity
- Health and community services: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation
- Health and community services: Neroli Ellis
- Key messages for infection prevention and control
- Managing violence and aggression
Heights
- Comment from WorkSafe Tasmania
- Horse racing falls research findings: Menzies Institute of Medical Research
Herbicide
Hit by moving object
Horse and stable safety
Industry sector overviews
- Forestry sector: Arbre Forest Industries and career hub
- Health and community services: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation
- Health and community services: Neroli Ellis
- Mining sector: Australian Mines and Mineral Association
- TasPorts work health and safety
- Transport sector: Tasmanian transport association
Infection control
Lead work
Legal matters
Learning/education
- Welcome/overview of learning and induction platforms: Ginna Webster, Secretary, Department of Justice
- WorkSafe Tasmania WHS learning modules: General, Retail & Hospitality
- Tasmanian Fruit Industry Worker Induction Program: Dr. Michael Tarbath
- Head 4 Work: Robert Greenwell TCCI
- Primary Employers Tasmania's AgCard: Clare Peltzer
Loading/unloading freight
LP gas cylinders
Major hazard facilities
- Major hazard facilities (MHF): WorkSafe Tasmania
- Major event management at LPG storage facility
- Risks and challenges and approaches to work health and safety: Nyrstar
Manual tasks
Mental health and wellbeing
- Blue Hats – a Tasmanian Mental Health Program in the Construction Industry
- Building programs to provide mental health support in the workplace
- Bullying in the workplace
- Complex claims involving mental health: Wesfarmers Group
- Creating mentally healthy workplaces
- Integrating mentally healthy workplaces: a strategic approach: Dr Niki Ellis
- Integrating mental health support with performance management: OzHelp
- Mental Health Champions in the Workplace – options for implementation
- Mental health first aid for workplaces: University of Melbourne
- Mental illness: what to look out for and what to do
- MyWellbeing at ReturntoWorkSA
- Overcoming stigma of mental health: mining sector
- Overcoming stigma of mental health: rural sector
- Overview of best practice integrating mental health and wellbeing: Prof Tony LaMontagne
- Overview of workplace mental health and best practice approaches: Dr Angela Martin
- Organisational approach to mental health
- Psychological health and the impact on workplaces
- What does a mentally healthy workplace look like?
- What works for mindfulness training: University of Tasmania
- People at Work (PAW) Paul Kilby (WorkSafe Tasmania), Aislin Campbell and Natalie Dunton
Mobile plant
Mines
- Overcoming stigma of mental health: mining sector
- Overview of mining sector: Australian Mines and Mineral Association
- Management of principal mining hazard: WorkSafe Tasmania
Outdoor work
Overhead and underground power lines
Performance monitoring
- Analysis of forestry work accidents in Australia: University of the Sunshine Coast
- Health, wellbeing and leading performance indicators: Monash Business School
- Overview of public sector work health and safety: WorkSafe Tasmania
- MyWellbeing at ReturntoWorkSA
Plant and equipment
PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)
- Complex PTSD
- Future challenges
- Personal journey with PTSD
- PTSD treatment guidelines
- PTSD: making it real
- Skills based interventions
- What PTSD looks like across workplaces
Public sector
- Claims overview: WorkSafe Tasmania
- Integrating mental health support with performance management: OzHelp
- Mental health issues and the public sector
- MyWellbeing at ReturntoWorkSA
- Overview of public sector work health and safety: WorkSafe Tasmania
Quad bikes
Regulator views
Return to work
- Successful return to work learnings
- MyWellbeing at ReturntoWorkSA
- Complex claims involving mental health: Wesfarmer Group
Rural sector
- Mental illness: what to look out for and what to do
- Overcoming stigma of mental health: rural sector
- Safe Farming Tasmania program
- Primary Employers Tasmania's AgCard: Clare Peltzer
- Tasmanian Fruit Industry Worker Induction Program: Dr Michael Tarbath
Silicosis/silica dust
- Managing exposures in construction work: Sydney Metro
- Workplace carcinogens
- Silicosis: New lessons from old disease (Prof Graeme Zosky)
- Environment, exposure standards and airborne monitoring ( Richard Jackson)
- Engineering control measures to reduce exposure (Dr Martin Stirling)
- Respiratory protection and fit testing (Mark Reggers)
- Health Surveillance programs (Chris Davey)
Slips, trips and falls
Sports
Spray painting and powder coating
Supply chains
Systems management
- Communicating work health and safety
- Creating the right safety climate: Tassal
- Culture and design at work: construction sector
- Leading indicators for work health and safety, wellbeing
- Leading teams: cluster approach
- Importance of leadership in creating positive work heath and safety cultures
Tractors
Traffic management
Transport sector
- Health heads in trucks and sheds
National Transport Commission part 1 and part 2 - Overview of WHS in transport sector: TTC
RAW – Workplace Alive & Well - Safe handling of mixed freight
- Successful return to work learnings
- Transport sector: Tasmanian Transport Association
- Tools to improve transport safety: University of Tasmania
- Use of wearables in fatigue safety
- WorkSafe Tasmania