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CSG February 2025 speaker: Helen O’Keefe, Director, HOK Talent Solutions

OHS employment trends

Presentation by: Helen O'Keefe, Director, HOK Talent Solutions

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We were privileged once again to have Helen O'Keefe share her knowledge and advice about the latest employment trends in the OHS sector at our first event for 2025.

This is of particular interest to our cohort, who no longer remain with an organisation for their entire career. Rather there is considerable movement between roles and industries, due to the transferable skills of the OHS professional. This presentation showed the scope of what's out there and how best to navigate it, including dealing with the impacts of AI.

As Managing Director of HOK Talent Solutions, Helen specialises in health and safety recruitment, which is why her insights are so valuable. Her knowledge is backed up by comprehensive analysis of the Australian health and safety job market that allows Helen and her team to identify the underlying factors influencing OHS employment trends. She shared some of that analysis with the audience.

Helen’s presentation included questions and discussion from the audience.

 

The presenter:

Helen O’Keefe is the founder of HOK Talent Solutions, which celebrates 10 years of dedicated service to the OHS community in 2025. Operating Australia-wide, Helen manages recruitment assignments across various sectors and her passion for the health and safety industry stems from her extensive experience in the field - from both a recruitment perspective and having worked alongside OHS peers in her earlier career. Prior to establishing HOK Talent Solutions, Helen held the position of National Recruitment Manager at the Australian Red Cross and served as an HR Manager for the pharmaceutical company Glaxo-Smith-Kline (GSK).

 
 

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The Rights
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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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