myosh Webinars

Worried HOP will be heard as “less compliance”? Kym Bancroft shows how to make the case through due diligence, assurance and learning, with live chat and poll input from the audience.  Many safety professionals are interested in HOP (Human and Organisational Performance) but work in organisations where compliance and blame shape the conversation. In this myosh Academy episode, host Kristina Shields is joined by Kym Bancroft, Director of New View Safety and former Deputy Director-General and Regulator at WorkSafe Queensland, to explore how to implement HOP without making it an alternative to compliance.  Kym explains the “Trojan horse” idea: start with an entry point leaders already care about. She works through due diligence, assurance and operational learning, shares how a leadership walk program at a large water utility moved from counting walks to telling stories about work as done, and describes what happened when she decluttered a safety management system. Along the way the live audience shares the objections they hear, how their organisations respond when something goes wrong, and the first steps they plan to try.  Guests and host - Kym Bancroft, Director, New View Safety - Host: Kristina Shields, myosh Academy 

What’s the difference between a psychosocial hazard control that survives a regulator’s audit and one that doesn’t? In this episode, Skodel co-founder Ian Fagan joins myosh’s Kristina Shields for Part 2 of their psychosocial hazards series, breaking down how to turn hazard exposure-and-impact data into control measures that live in how work actually runs.  We cover the four categories of psychosocial hazard - work design, behavioural, governance and environment, and why each needs a different kind of control and a different owner. We unpack a $1.43 million fatigue management prosecution where the hazard “showed up in the roster every night,” and a case where a regulator halted a $100 million restructure over insufficient staff consultation. And we dig into why treating consultation as a control - not just a legal duty - might be the single most powerful (and most overlooked) thing you can do.  Who should listen: safety and HSEQ managers, WHS and HSE officers, HR business partners, and any operations or executive leader responsible for turning a psychosocial risk assessment into real, defensible action.  New episodes weekly. Subscribe and leave us a review - it helps other safety professionals find us. 

When production and protection pull in different directions, what do safety leaders do? Kym Bancroft and Dr Tristan Casey explain paradoxical safety leadership and how to make smarter trade-offs. 

‘Just copy the controls from the last one.’ If that's how your risk assessments go, you're colouring in, not controlling. In this episode, Mark Alston of Investigations Differently explains why so many risk assessments reduce no risk at all.  Mark shares five practical shifts: understanding that risk is the effect of uncertainty (what you don't know), involving the people who do the work, assessing credible scenarios, being honest about control effectiveness, and ditching the tool-worship. He also explains why a risk assessment done after the decision is really just a permission slip, and why writing one from your desk is now a legal risk.  Who should listen? Safety managers, HSE advisors, risk and compliance professionals and operations leaders, anyone who writes, reviews or signs off risk assessments and wants them to actually change something.  New episodes regularly. Subscribe and leave us a review, it helps other safety professionals find us. 

A completed checklist doesn't tell you whether risk is actually being managed. In this episode, former WorkSafe Queensland regulator Kym Bancroft and organisational psychologist Dr Tristan Casey unpack why compliance activity and compliance effectiveness are two very different things, backed by a live poll where 96% of the audience admitted their own compliance culture is mostly a paperwork exercise.  You'll hear their framework for surface, deep and adaptive compliance, a real case study of redesigning a burdensome risk assessment process through frontline worker consultation, and practical questions you can bring to your next audit or assurance review.  Who should listen:  Safety and compliance managers, internal and external auditors, risk and governance leads, and anyone carrying WHS due diligence obligations who wants their systems to hold up under real scrutiny, not just on paper.  New episodes weekly. Subscribe and leave us a review, it helps other safety professionals find us.   

Psychological injury claims are the fastest-growing category of workers’ compensation claim in Australia, and regulators are proving, case by case, that a policy sitting on paper isn’t enough to meet the legal duty. In this episode, Skodel’s Ian Fagan and Sam McKenzie, a former WorkSafe Victoria Lead Counsel, join myosh’s Kristina Shields to unpack what a psychosocial hazard actually is, why an Employee Assistance Program sits low on the hierarchy of controls (it mitigates harm after the fact, it doesn’t prevent it), and Skodel’s practical two-question method for assessing exposure and impact against any of the 17 named hazards.  We also walk through two real prosecutions, a small signage company where the director was personally fined alongside the business, and the first-ever Commonwealth conviction for a psychosocial risk failure, and the identify-assess-act-monitor system Skodel and myosh use together to turn compliance obligations into a genuinely defensible system of work.  Who should listen: Safety and HSEQ managers, WHS and HSE officers, HR business partners, and any operations or executive leader accountable for psychosocial risk in their organisation.  New episodes weekly. Subscribe and leave us a review, it helps other safety professionals find us.  Content note: this episode references a workplace fatality (suicide) as part of a real case study. 

You can do everything right in an investigation and still change nothing, if the recommendations are weak. In the finale of the Investigation Series, Mark Alston tackles the most neglected part of the whole process: turning findings into action.  We talk through the ‘holy trinity’ of useless actions, why a finding must name the risk to be a finding, goal-based recommendations, the hierarchy of control as a process, and how the value of a statistical life reframes the ‘too expensive’ conversation.  Who should listen  Safety managers, investigators and leaders who write or sign off investigation reports and want their recommendations to actually stick, and anyone who's followed the series to its conclusion.  New episodes regularly. Subscribe and leave us a review, it helps other safety professionals find us. 

‘Human error’ might be the most expensive phrase in safety, because it ends the conversation exactly where it should begin. In this episode, Mark Alston explains why investigations so often treat symptoms and miss the system underneath.  We talk through ‘work as normal’, why superficial findings only fix one worker or one machine, and a practical method for reaching systemic risk, including why you should interview leadership for a near-miss, and why the analysis timeline doesn't belong in the report.  Who should listen  Safety managers, investigators and operations leaders who want their investigations to deliver more than a tidy report, and anyone curious about systems thinking and Safety II in practice.  New episodes regularly. Subscribe and leave us a review,  it helps other safety professionals find us. 

The big lessons come from the big events, right? Not according to Mark Alston.   In this episode he argues the minor incidents we barely look at are our richest source of learning, if we stop tick-boxing them.    Mark shares the story of an incident that happened twice at the same mine, explains why 'failure to follow procedure' is a symptom rather than a cause, and walks through Event Insights: seven conversational questions that shift investigation from who failed to what failed.    Who should listen  Safety managers, investigators, supervisors and operations leaders who want more from everyday events, without more paperwork or blame.    New episodes regularly. Subscribe and leave us a review, it helps other safety professionals find us. 

Same mining site. Same electricity. Roughly three-and-a-half times the emissions, depending on which grid you're on. National averages hide it. Audit-grade reporting under ISSA 5000 won't.  In this episode, Edna Goh from eco-shaper joins the myosh Academy for the practical, operational session in our three-part series Managing What Matters. We work through three things: the data overlap between HSE workflows and greenhouse-gas accounting, the regional emissions reality that makes national grid averages dangerous, and the Critical Control Management framework, top event, hazard ID, critical controls, verification, escalation, applied to carbon hotspots.  You'll hear which HSE data sources already feed Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions accounting, why a mining site on the Victorian grid emits roughly 3.5× more from electricity than the same site in South Australia, and why the discipline that runs your safety risk program is the same discipline carbon risk now needs.  HSE, HSEQ and operational-risk leaders in mining, construction, infrastructure and energy. Carbon and assurance leads preparing for AASB S2 reporting. And sustainability leads who already work with HSE and want a workflow they can begin applying next week.  New episodes weekly. Subscribe and leave us a review, it helps other safety professionals find us.