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Brief overview
This workshop provides managers with a practical knowledge of
responsibilities to enable them to better understand their duties within the hierarchy of health and safety legislation.

Who should attend
• Managers and supervisors
• All employers
• Anyone with responsibility for staff

Workshop content
• Legal requirements for health and safety
• Employer/employee obligations
• Establishment of employee participation
• Role and duties of health and safety representatives
• Rehabilitation and contractor management

Productivity improvements
On leaving this workshop you will have a good knowledge of the skills needed to manage health and safety effectively, develop sound internal systems and build the right organisational attitudes and culture.

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Employers’ Association Health & Safety Adviser

Brief overview
You will review and build upon the skills, knowledge and competencies developed in Stage 1 and the role of the representative. The main focus will be on specific hazard identification and control including the use of Approved Codes of Practice, using accident data to identify trends and internal self-assessment or audits, in order to prevent injuries.

Workshop content
• Revision of Health and Safety Representative Training Stage 1
• Gathering and interpreting accident and injury data
• Health and safety management systems internal audit or selfassessment
• Hazard identification - body mapping, critical health and safety
hazards
• Reading a material safety data sheet (MSDS)
• Hazard management - control of specific hazards in your
workplace
• Identifying applicable codes of practice
• Compliance with relevant codes of practice

Productivity improvements
On leaving this course you will be able to
• Understand the legal responsibilities of employers and employees
in the workplace
• Gather and interpret accident and injury data
• Conduct an internal audit or self-assessment
• Identify critical health and safety hazards
• Comply with relevant codes of practice

Duration 2 Days

Presenter Employers’ Association Health & Safety Adviser

JOIN US ON
Thursday, 26 July 2012
The Ascot Park Hotel, Invercargill
8.45am – 2.30pm

AT THE FOURM YOU WILL
• Learn from leading speakers
• Gain up-to-date knowledge on current topics and practices
• Have the opportunity to network to build partnerships and connections, exchange information and ideas

IS HEALTH AND SAFETY A COSR OR A SAVING?

Find out as we introduce speakers to unravel this question

Get to hear and meet people who are achieving great results in their own unique environments
We present legal counsel for both Prosecution and Defence who will each explain their perspective of the health and safety laws. Then we get to put them “on the stand” where you can put your argument forward in a question and answer session and hear what they have to say

Other speakers will keep you informed on the current thinking and trends associated with Health and Safety practices within NZ.

FORUM REGISTRATION FEES
Contact the Employers team to join today to take advantage of the special membership rates below. Fees are per person, and GST exclusive

EMPLOYERS’ ASSOCIATION MEMBERS
Earlybird by 2 July | $220
20% discount on 3rd additional attendee | $180
After 2 July | $265

NON MEMBERS
Non Member | $350

REGISTER TODAY
E | info@osea.org.nz P | 0508 656 757 W | www.osea.org.nz

Two-day workshop
Day one: 8:00am – 5:00pm (approximate
Day two: 8:00am – 5:00pm (approximate)

Aimed at anybody who is responsible for the day-to-day supervision of staff and interested in finding out what they can do differently to lift team performance and consequently positively impact their business results.

You’ll learn proven communication, management, delegation, motivational and training principles, which will enable you to set clear goals and expectations, communicate effectively, give and receive quality feedback, improve staff performance through quality on-the-job training, manage performance issues as and when they arise and delegate work effectively amongst staff.

Facilitators: Claire Harvey & Kathy Jamieson

NZIM How to Manage + Lead Successfully


PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE
This programme will provide practical advice, tips and techniques to help supervisors, team leaders and managers develop the skills and processes necessary to succeed in today’s work environment.

The focus is on the most common challenges that are faced when we manage and lead staff.

DESIGNED FOR
Business owners, supervisors, managers, team leaders and anyone with responsibility for managing and supervising employees in the workplace.

LEARNING CONTENT
How to show leadership and manage change
• Understand what leadership is, why it's important and how to demonstrate it
• Introduction to engaging your people and how to bring them along with you
• How to manage change and minimise resistance to it

How to improve team effectiveness
• Introducing a model for team effectiveness
• How to set team goals
• A template for clarifying team roles
• Understanding and working with different communication styles within the team
• Learning team problem solving methods

How to manage performance and performance problems
• How to set effective and clear performance expectations
• Learn to manage performance as a process
• Learn how to manage performance and behavioural problems

How to coach and motivate others
• Creating a culture of self-motivation
• Designing jobs that motivate
• Key skills for successful coaching
• Practise applying different coaching models


This programme is also a valuable in-house training solution and may be customised to your organisations specific learning outcomes -please contact us for a training proposal.


Duration | 2 days

Facilitator | Karen Gibbons from Christchurch

Karen is an experienced writer and facilitator of training and development courses. Her passion is to help people learn new skills and techniques to help them be more effective in their work.

Karen has worked in the field of training, human resources and organisation development since graduating in 1995 from the University of Canterbury with a Masters in Applied Psychology.

Her 16-year career has included three years working as an Organisational Development Specialist for AIB Bank in Dublin, four years working for a HR and Employment Law specialist plus running her own Business Performance Consultancy business.

Karen takes the time to really understand client’s learning needs, and is very effective at identifying the gap between current performance and desired performance and develops solutions that are targeted, tailoured and relevant to the organisations needs. Karen’s facilitation style is warm, approachable, inclusive and fun.

Karen is the New Zealand master trainer and accredited user of the Facet5 Personality Tool.

Investment
$ 860.00+GST for NZIM and/or Employers' members
$ 1075.00+GST for non members

This programme has qualified for the NZTE Capability Development Voucher Scheme. Please enter your voucher details when making your booking. We will verify your voucher with the Issuing Regional Partner before confirming your place on the course.

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Find out the Minister of Finance’s thoughts post Budget and get an idea of what to expect over the next 12 months.
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Changes in legislation in 2010 means that there is a clear distinction between a trial and probation period. All employers are now able to make use of the “grievance free” trial period however, there are some limitations on its use and some very clear procedural guidelines to be followed to ensure that such a clause can be relied on when a relationship does not work out.

Come along to this session to learn about your options for new employees and the requirements to implement these options.

Duration 1 & 1/2 Hours

Presenter Employers’ Association Legal Advisor

Brief overview
All persons irrespective of their place within an organisation. The target group is experienced health and safety representatives and other people involved with health and safety.

This two-day course is an advance on the skills and knowledge obtained from the Stage 1 and Stage 2 courses.

Note : Elected health and safety representatives must have completed Stage One and Stage Two Health and Safety Training as a prerequisite for this training.

Although there is no prerequisite for other participants, it is assumed that all participants will have a level of health and safety knowledge similar to that covered in Stage One and Stage Two training.

Workshop content
• How improvements in health and safety link to productivity
• Interpreting injury claims information
• Measuring what matters
• Calculating the costs of workplace injury
• Sources of injury information in the workplace
• The role of the representative in promoting improvements in health and safety

Productivity improvements
On leaving this course you will be able to
• Develop systems to measure health and safety processes
• Identify and report on links to productivity due to improved health and safety practices
• Collate various sources of injury information from within the
workplace for reporting purposes
• Determine injury causal factors from incident reports and provide detailed feedback to health and safety committee meetings for
further action
• Promote improvements within workplace to reduce costs of workplace injuries

Duration 2 Days

Presenter Employers’ Association Health & Safety Adviser

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Brief overview
One of the best ways to gain free publicity is through the media. But it can be fraught with danger.

This workshop will show you how to gain advantage for your business through effective public relations.

Who should attend
Marketing managers, company spokespeople, business owners and communication staff.

Productivity improvements
In this workshop you will learn
• What is public relations and why do you need it
• How to get the media interested in your story
• How to write a press release and prepare a press pack
• Interview techniques
• What to do when it all goes wrong

Duration 1 Day

Presenter Lynnaire Johnston from Dunedin

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