11 am AEDT1 hr
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Safety in the Workplace: Understanding Your Responsibilities
Suzanne Dove, Brayden Jones
Live + Q&A · Work health & safety · Mental health & wellbeing
Professional services firms sell their people's time and judgement, so most of what's listed here is about managing people and managing risk.
People and workplace
Workplace relations is the biggest subject, much of it in short lunchtime briefings from employment law firms and HR advisers: enterprise agreements, warnings and performance improvement plans, flexible work requests, and changes to the Fair Work Act. Leadership and culture, mental health and wellbeing and work health and safety, including psychosocial hazards, round it out.
Governance and risk
Directors' institutes and governance bodies run sessions on board governance, from chairing a board to reading the financials. Risk institutes and firms cover risk and resilience, compliance, insurance and cybersecurity.
Running the firm
There are also sessions on AI in professional work, business planning, hiring, and exit and succession for owners of firms.