Join us at the NZISM Bay of Plenty Regional Conference, where health and safety professionals come together to connect, learn, and be inspired.
With an outstanding line-up of speakers and real-world insights, the conference covers the latest thinking in safety leadership, and practice - while providing plenty of opportunities to network and share experiences with peers from across the region.
With 6 local exhibitors demonstrating products and services too, it’s the not-to-be-missed annual event to add to your CPD.
Tickets
NZISM Members $50
Non-members $100
Light refreshments are included.
Desai Link, Group HSE and Risk Manager, Brosnan
Beyond the Incident: How legal causation can be a practical tool for better safety investigations
How do we know what really caused an incident? And how do we avoid turning a complex set of facts into an oversimplified “root cause”?
In this practical session, Desai Link will explain how legal causation can help health and safety practitioners conduct clearer, more effective workplace investigations. Using a real-life scenarios, Desai will show how one event can involve multiple incidents, including injury, property damage, and near miss potential, each requiring its own causation analysis.
Drawing from his book Beyond the Incident, Desai will introduce simple tools such as the “but for” test, risk-increasing events, proximity, and foreseeability. The session is designed to make legal causation accessible and useful for everyday safety practice.
Bio
Desai is a Certified OHS Professional and an admitted lawyer to the Supreme Court of Western Australia. With over 15 years' experience leading investigations in high-risk industries, Desai blends legal insight, systems thinking, and practical safety leadership.
He is the author of Beyond the Incident: Practical Tools, Legal Causation and Applied Workplace Investigation Practice, and co-host of the Circus of Safety podcast. Desai currently serves as Group HSE & Risk Manager at Brosnan and lectures in workplace safety law and investigations at Auckland University of Technology.
Jo Prigmore, National Manager - Occupational Health and Wellbeing, Fulton Hogan
Fulton Hogan’s challenge to keep safety simple
It’s been nearly 10 years since Fulton Hogan changed from a philosophy of Zero Harm to that of Living Safely with “People at the heart of everything”.
Jo will share what drove the change, what worked (and what didn’t) and how many people noticed the safety documentation that was removed in the process.
Bio
Jo is a passionate safety geek with a love for communicating with people. She strongly believes that if you can help someone make a safe choice, rather than just telling them, then there is a larger chance they will keep making safe choices when no-ones looking.
Scott McLeod, McLeod Cranes Ltd
Magic Glass
How do you see beyond your knowledge horizon?
Can you spot what's wrong?
Can your team?
Scott talks about Magic Glasses and his journey to create easy-to-understand insights into risk by sharing a set of glasses.
What are they, and how did they come about?
(And yes, you can do it too!)
Scott McLeod, McLeod Cranes Ltd
Give your risk register a voice
When was the last time you chatted to your risk register?
What does being able to chat to the risk register change?
Scott will share his approach, how you can do it - and what it brings to health and safety.
Bio
Scott McLeod is Managing Director of McLeod Cranes Ltd, McLeod Hiabs Ltd, and McLeod Transport Ltd, part of the McLeod family of companies based in Tauranga, New Zealand.
Scott worked across crane operation, dispatch, branch management, health and safety, and senior leadership before becoming MD of McLeod Cranes in 2012. His practical background continues to shape his leadership approach, with a strong focus on safe systems of work, lift planning, operator competence, and operational reliability.
McLeod has received several health and safety awards during Scott’s time in leadership. These include the 2012 Safeguard New Zealand Health and Safety Award for Best Health and Safety Initiative by a Small Business, the 2013 Site Safe Construction Health and Safety Leadership Award, and the 2015 Site Safe Construction Health and Safety Safety Innovation Award for large organisations.
Scott has also served in industry governance roles with the Crane Association of New Zealand, including Councillor, Vice President, President, and Immediate Past President. He was also a Director of Crane Training New Zealand Ltd and served as Chairman from 2015 to 2017. In 2021, Scott was made a Life Member of the Crane Association of New Zealand.
Helen Sadgrove
Useful, awkward and slightly dangerous: the art of safety governance
This session explores the practical role of the safety professional, whether advising governance or sitting in a governance role. It introduces adaptive safety governance as a way to stay curious, responsive and grounded when work gets messy.
Bio
Helen Sadgrove has the professional standing to be taken seriously, and the lived experience to know when the textbook answer will not survive contact with real work.
A Chartered Fellow of IOSH, Certified Fellow of NZISM, she has worked as a regulator, consultant, executive leader and governance adviser across complex health and safety work in NZ and overseas. Helen brings technical depth, practical judgement and a healthy suspicion of neat answers. Her style is sharp, grounded and human with a knack for cutting through the noise.