Midday Masterclass- Minimising Chronic Unease, a Directors Dilemma

Date and Time

Thursday May 15, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NZST

Location

Site Safe Hamilton: 2/103C Greenwood Street, Frankton, Hamilton.

Fees/Admission

Free of charge for members
Non-member $30+gst

Description

In today’s high-risk business environment, organisations carry a heavy responsibility for ensuring strong governance and assurance. With increasing complexities in health and safety, how can you be confident you’re making the right decisions?

This Midday Masterclass with Brett Murray from Site Safe, will challenge the way you think about risk, leadership, and accountability. Through real-life case studies and discussion, explore critical lessons and practical strategies to help you navigate health and safety obligations in your workplace.

What you will learn:

• Practical steps to reduce chronic unease in governance

• Importance of robust assurance for directors and managers

• Simplifying legal jargon to ask smarter assurance questions

• Lessons from the Pike River case study
• Mental health and its board-level impact

About Brett Murray:
Throughout his 20 years in the health and safety field, Brett has been committed to helping make workplaces safe, healthy and rewarding environments to New Zealanders. His oversight of many of New Zealand’s most serious and complex industrial accident investigations has given him a deep appreciation of the challenges faced by high-risk industries.

In 2010, Brett headed the investigation into the Pike River mining disaster and in later went on to establish and lead WorkSafe New Zealand’s High Hazard Unit. In his role as General Manager of Operations, Brett was the senior operational executive on the governance group that oversaw the development of the 2015 Health and Safety at Work Act.

Since 2018 Brett has been the Chief Executive of Site Safe, the country’s largest membership health and safety organisation. Brett brings a deep practical understanding of the challenges of effective health and safety management, both at system and human performance levels.

Have any burning questions? Please email your questions prior to the event to events@waikatochamber.co.nz. Brett will ensure these are covered in his presentation.

Registrations are required to attend.

Please note - lunch is not provided. You are welcome to bring your own lunch to the session.

For enquiries or to cancel your registration email events@waikatochamber.co.nz

Midday Masterclasses are proudly sponsored by Everest People

Printed courtesy of www.waikatochamber.co.nz/ – Contact the Waikato Chamber of Commerce for more information.
PO Box 1122, Hamilton, Waikato 3240 – 07 839 5895 – info@waikatochamber.co.nz