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Ladies and gents - your expert panel for the NZHSP Safety Summit 2025 - 27 March 2025, Christchurch. Seriously, how amazing is this?! Scott Weatherall - Surf Life Saving Jo Prigmore - Fulton Hogan Shane Strode-Penny - WorkSafe NZ Technical Specialist (retired) Melissa Dunstan - Independent Consultant DeAnne Brabant - Partner, Shieff Angland Lawyers Jen Dransfield - Naylor Love 🤯 Mind blown... More info, tickets and sponsorship opportunities: https:www.safetysummit.co.nz Secure your early bird tickets today. Just half of the early bird release remain. Don't miss out.

It hurts too much to work in NZ. Our fatality and injury rates are too high compared to Australia and UK, whom we modelled health and safety legislation on. On average, we have over one work fatality per week. Its distressing to learn that every week one New Zealander will not go home from work. We can and must do so much better. I wrote a report for the Business Leaders' Health and Safety Forum on this. https://lnkd.in/g4EV-aqx New Zealand’s health and safety performance is getting gradually better, but it is not good. Fatality rate has fallen by 35% over the past decade and minor injury rate has fallen by 37%, but serious injury rate has increased by 18%. NZ’s fatality rate is 60% higher than Australia and 500% higher than UK. NZ’s serious injury rate is 35% higher than Australia and 330% higher than UK. What explains this underperformance? It is not the structure of our economy that explains the difference. NZ fatality rates are higher in every industry compared to Australia. Its not just the industries or types of work that hurt. There are big differences within industries across NZ. Why are our provinces hurting workers more? Taranaki shines among provinces, anecdotally linked to rigorous health and safety culture linked to the oil and gas sectors. It could be that we have less heat from private insurance and lower rates of unionisation. ACC has many redeeming features, so we should not look to dismantle it. But how could it be more active in shaping better behaviour? It is not the regulation. It is very similar to Australia and UK. But we practice regulation differently in how we do it and how we oversee it. Our practice is upside down. We spend too much effort on the heavy end of oversight, and not enough on-site visits, inspections and inspector numbers etc. WorkSafe’s new strategy encouragingly looks to address this. In UK and Australia, there’s someone who watches the system and tries to make the whole system work better. This is a gap in NZ and not the responsibility of MBIE, WorkSafe, ACC, or anyone else. There are no easy answers. But I hope we are working towards enabling all players – businesses, workers, industry and business groups, trainers, and other government agencies – to know and play their parts effectively, recognising the range of different types of controls and impacts across the system. We have to care and do more, because better is possible. UK and Australia are living proof.

A Health & Safety Conference Built For You - Early Bird Sales Now Open Join Safety Summit 2025 to network with peers, learn from experts, and become a leader who makes a real difference in your workplace. Meet some of your speakers - Dr. Megan Tranter Recognised global voice in HSE leadership. She is among the few women who have held top EHS roles (VP/SVP level) at Amazon, PepsiCo, Novartis, and Netflix. Megan has extensive experience in global strategy development and implementation, risk management, cultural change, and Board and CEO-level engagement and coaching. James Laughlin A sought-after High Performance Leadership strategist. He hosts global leaders in his high performance leadership programme and is the mental skills coach for Canterbury Rugby. James is the founder and host of the Lead on Purpose podcast where he interviews world leaders, pro athletes, Fortune 200 CEOs and more. Astella Philpott Want to know how to successfully implement organisational change? Meet the Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer at Smart & Wise limited. Astella specialises in leadership, change management and communications, she has been responsible for managing change within multi-million dollar projects delivered to over thousands of employees and bringing her knowledge the Safety Summit 2025. Michael Philpott ⚓️ Business Storytelling Expert. Keynote Speaker. Executive Speaker Coach. Professor of Practice at the University of Canterbury, Communications & Training Specialist. Having spent over two and half decades working within leadership development, Michael is the sought after high-performance coach to thousands of executives and leaders. Matt Jones Father of five, mentor and volunteer, Matt's passionate about helping health and safety professionals and business owners discover what they are truly capable of. Matt will be sharing his personal story and promises to deliver value-loaded, actionable insights for the modern health and safety practitioner. How to get involved: 🎟 Book your ticket now and save with our early bird pricing. ♻ Spread the word, share this post and invite your colleagues. 🙌 Join us in March 2025 in Christchurch. Link in comments. #SafetySummit #NZHSP

Early Bird & VIP Tickets: Now Available! You Spoke. We listened - late last year we reached out to over 3,500 Health & Safety professionals across New Zealand, and you told us you're looking for a conference that truly meets your needs and provides exceptional value. That passion has enabled NZHSP to secure world class keynote speakers and gain sponsorship from some of the foremost solution providers in the market. https://lnkd.in/dE-E-DWq Visit the Safety Summit 2025 site for more info and grab yourself and your mates a limited-release early bird ticket. p.s there are more announcements on the horizon! #safetysummit2025 #safetysummit #NZHSP