IRSQ Lunch Seminar - Where do the ‘industrial relations’ and ‘work health and safety’ boundaries start and finish for psychosocial hazards at work?

Amendments to the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Qld) and the new Code of Practice: Managing the Risk of Psychosocial Hazard at Work, commence on 1 April 2023. Join the Society to hear from Sam Popple, Director, Psychological Health Unit with the Office of Industrial Relations about these new and important changes and to consider where do IR and WHS boundaries start and finish for Psychosocial hazards at work.

GUEST SPEAKER

Sam Popple

Director

Psychological Health Unit, Office of Industrial Relations

Sam is the director of the psychological health unit at the Office of Industrial Relations.  

Sam is an organisational psychology registrar working in the growing field of psychosocial risk management within Queensland’s work health and safety regulator, OIR. 

Sam’s previous career as an intensive care nurse educator provided the bedrock for her passion in the wellbeing and welfare of staff, initially as a way to enhance patient outcomes – ‘look after your staff and they will look after the patients’.  

As a registered psychologist in psychological health this has broadened out to the protection of workers from the broad suite of psychosocial risks that can often play out differently across different industries.  

Sam has a keen interest in the growing evidence of the difficulties that working women experience.

This session is complimentary for IRSQ members.

Non-members, attendance is $40.00.

Registrations close Wednesday, 19 April 2023