Victorian Trades Hall Council
HSR Conference 2024
This year's HSR Conference will be held on Tuesday 22 October, 8:30am - 2:45pm. The topic is OHS Skills for Active HSRs.
This is a free event and is a WorkSafe Victoria approved course of training under s69 of the Victoria OHS Act 2004. This means that HSR's are legally entitled to attend the conference on paid time. However, you must give your employer at least 14 days’ notice of your intention to attend in order to ensure that you receive paid leave. This means that you must notify your employer by COB Monday October 7.
The venues for 2024 are:
Melbourne at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre at 1 Convention Centre Pl, South Wharf.
Bendigo at Bendigo Trades Hall, 34-40 View Street, Bendigo.
Morwell at the Italian Australian Sporting Club, 499-501 Princes Drive, Morwell.
Wangaratta at the The Gateway, 29-37 Ryley Street, Wangaratta.
Warrnambool at Lady Bay Hotel, 2 Pertobe Road, Warrnambool.
Conference Program
8:00am
Doors open. Get your name ticked off and pick up your conference bag. Coffee and tea will be available.
8:30am - Session 1
Luke Hilakari, Secretary VTHC
The Hon. Danny Pearson MP, Minister for WorkSafe
Joe Calafiore, CEO WorkSafe
9:20am - Dr Lisa Heap
Dr Lisa Heap is a labour lawyer and a researcher with a keen focus on work health sand safety, regulation of work and gender inequalities. She'll be talking to us about OHS skills that can be applied in workplaces.
10:00am - Morning tea
10:30am - Session 2
We'll be hearing from 3 HSRs from a variety of industries. They'll share their stories of the skills, resources and tools they used to make their workplaces safer.
11:25am Breakout Session 1
In the first session, we'll have an opportunity to debrief the preceding sessions and recap some of the key rights and powers HSRs enjoy to better enable them to be active HSRs and represent their DWGs to establish controls. There will be plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion.
12:15pm - Lunch
1:15pm - Breakout Session 2
Building on first session, we will have an opportunity to reflect HSRs' own workplaces and the type of skills they can use, before moving on to discussion.
2:45pm - Certificate Collection
Certificates of Attendance will be available for collection in the foyer.
For more information & to register, click here
