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Hospital Safety
during the
Pandemic

CSG March 2021 Presenter: Christina Rennick, General Manager Health, Safety and Wellbeing, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne

Hospital safety during the pandemic

Presentation by: Christina Rennick, General Manager, Health Safety & Wellbeing, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne

Presentation package now available (members only)

When the Covid-19 crisis exploded just over a year ago, the demand for special safety measures in our hospitals was massive, sudden and urgent. Christina Rennick, General Manager Health, Safety and Wellbeing at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital, gave a presentation via Zoom on 9 March about how her workplace responded.
The hospital has a big and complex structure, a workforce of 7,000, and a large number of patients and visitors to protect. Beyond implementing large-scale basic requirements for Covid protection, the safety team had to develop new rules and systems, learn from experience and adapt. This has been ongoing as knowledge of the coronavirus unfolds and the situation in the community changes.
Christina spoke not only about physical safety measures, but also the need to monitor and manage the wellbeing of people in the hospital system during this time.

The presenter:

Christina Rennick has worked in the Occupational Health and Safety field for over 25 years. She has been in her current role as General Manager Health, Safety and Wellbeing at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital for nearly six years. Before that, she was with Mercy Health and held different roles in a number of other organisations, starting out in the health industry then later returning to it. Christina started her career as an Occupational Therapist and, with the ergonomic work she still undertakes, has retained her registration. She is also a Committee member of Central Safety Group.

 
 

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The Rights
& Wrongs of
Safety Comms

CSG March 2025 event - Dr Tristan Casey, Director, New View Safety, Dr Tristan Casey, Director, New View Safety


The rights and wrongs of safety comms

Presented by: Dr Tristan Casey, Director, New View Safety
Topic: The rights and wrongs of safety comms


How: CSG Hybrid Lunchtime Presentation -via zoom or in person

Date: Tuesday 11 March 2025, noon
Non-Members welcome to attend

The rights and wrongs of safety comms
Effective communications are a key part of creating a safe workplace, but what works and what doesn’t? Some valuable insights and answers will be provided by Dr Tristan Casey in his 11 March presentation to Central Safety Group.
Dr Casey, an Implementation Scientist (Workplace Health, Safety & Wellbeing), conducted a detailed study on safety communication, in the field, as a joint project between Queensland’s Griffith University and the nation-wide Protech employment group.
He will discuss some basic principles of safety communications and also give an outline of the project. It involved an in-depth survey of a large cross-section of workers placed by Protech, then an analysis of the results to produce some useful practical recommendations.
Rob D’Elsini, Protech’s WHS Business Partner, will also contribute to the presentation by sharing his experience of applying some of the research outcomes. Rob will outline a number of the study’s ideas and systems for safety communications that Protech have put into practice and discuss their effectiveness.

About the Speaker:

Dr Tristan Casey, Director of New View Safety, is a seasoned scientist-practitioner with experience across private consulting, academia and government.
Tristan has a doctorate in Industrial and Organisational Psychology from the University of Queensland, and has developed numerous award-winning training programs, measurement tools and academic publications.
He is an endorsed Organisational Psychologist with over 15 years’ expertise in the practical management of health, safety and wellbeing.
He is a keen advocate of the positive links between safety, wellbeing and overall job performance.

Date: Tuesday 11 March 2025
Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Where: Regus Yarra Room, 50th floor, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne. Our thanks to Helen O'Keefe for providing the venue.
How: In person or online via Zoom - the link will be sent out on the afternoon of Monday 10 March
N.B. A video recording of the session will be available on the website exclusively for financial members.
Cost: Financial members* free. Others $15
RSVP: COB Monday 10 March 2025. Online using our RSVP form
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The Zoom event link will be emailed on the afternoon of Monday 10 March 2025.

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