If you’re serious about safety, there are now twelve more great reasons to attend the Melbourne Safety In Action trade show in March 2013. Responsible businesses can listen to a series of experts give informative and exciting free talks on a wide array of subjects, ranging from safety software to conflict management.

The Safety In Action trade show offers the opportunity to learn about innovation in products, services, and responsible safety procedures through live demonstrations, interactive experiences and a series of free seminars, all in the interest of helping make Australia a safer place to work.

On Tuesday, the seminars will focus on internal systems. Adrian Manessis from myosh will speak about The Benefits and Risks Associated with Safety Software. This talk should prove to be a great introduction for any company looking to implement myosh in to their safety infrastructure.

Levasque Peterson (Lander & Rogers) will walk you through Internal Review – Essential Steps to Protect Your Business and Barry Sherriff (Norton Rose) will explore effective techniques within HR strategy in Dealing Effectively with Others in OHS.

Those looking for a more technical guidance to effective and functional Safety Management Systems will find Ian Ackland’s (NCS International) talk The ABCs of Safety Management Systems – A Simple Approach very useful.

Wednesday’s talks focus around problem solving and conflict management. Steven Craig from Pegasus Management will explore hiring strategies in his talk How to Select and Manage Contractors to Mitigate Risk and Maximise a Safe Work Environment. From risk assessment to induction processes, this talk will provide advice for businesses looking to manage risk from the very beginning of contractor engagement.

Despite our best efforts, sometimes things do go wrong – and Melissa Kirby (Sharpe & Abel) uses her legal experience to discuss the stressful situation of disaster management. In her talk What to do When Disaster Hits: When Safety Products Fail, Melissa will go through real-life case studies and practical steps to manage difficult (and dangerous) situations in the best way.

As a workplace disaster survivor himself, James Wood will give us a first-hand account of his experience with workplace accidents in his talk Choices, detailing how the wrong choices in workplace safety nearly took his life. And to round out the day, Cristian Sylvestre (SafeStart) will explore strategies to keep workers focused on the task at hand and minimise dangerous distraction risks with his talk Keeping Peoples’ Mind
on the Job.

On Thursday, Michael Adeny continues on from the theme of concentration as a powerful safety tool by talking about managing fatigue from a psychological background. In Fatigue Management – Getting it Right for Your Organisation, Michael offers some simple, smart tips for keeping staff awake and safe.

Cristian Sylvestre will speak for a second time, this time about Building Safety Culture from the ‘Bottom Up’.

Motivating your workplace community to participate in safety culture and procedures positively is perhaps one of the most important parts of OHS, and this talk focuses on understanding basic personal behaviours to build meaningful safety strategies.

Those looking for a more technical, mechanics-focussed talk will find Frank Schrever’s (Machine Safety By Design) talk on Machine Safety – Australian Standards Development and Directions will focus on the latest updates to the AS 4024.1-2006 and how they’ll change safety management in Australia in the coming years.

Tying it all together for the final talk, Mousa Sharifi from the International Standards Certifications group will explain how to Create A Safer Workplace Using a Management System and help your organisation meet the requirements of Health and Safety Legislation, to help you predict, assess and control hazards.

The Safety In Action trade show offers a fantastic opportunity for workplaces to take responsibility for the safety of their staff and contractors by engaging with state of the art research and technologies, as well as this series of seminars, bringing the expertise of a range of industry professionals to the show.