Office of Industrial Relations
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
Program
Construction Safety Showcase
Creating safer workplaces through the positive side of safety
7.30am
Registration
8.00am
Introduction - Safety and WIIFM (What’s In It For Me)
Clinton Huff, Master of Ceremonies
8.10am
Welcome
Peter Russo MP
Member for Sunnybank
8.20am
Safety Management and culture: the need for a new approach
Lindsay LeCompte, Executive Director, Australian Constructors Association
Despite significant improvements in recent years, there are still too many fatalities and serious injuries in our industry.
Lindsay will speak about the action being taken by Australia’s leading construction companies to take the industry down a
path where a culture of safety is the norm.
Daniel Hummerdal, Safety innovation Leader, Thiess
Construction Safety
Showcase
Safety is a highly valued outcome and something positive. However, safety has become associated with the opposite:
incidents, injuries and illnesses. Safety could (and should) be about creating better workplaces. Daniel will give a
presentation that challenges mainstream ideas around safety and outline ways for organisations to start working on the
positive side of safety.
‘Creating safer workplaces through
the positive side of safety’
He will address the roles and related skills needed by all of those involved in safety from the boardroom to the worksite,
safety in design, the introduction of lead indicators and new technologies being rolled out for use by all workers.
8.45am
9.15am
Let’s talk about success: aligning safety and production
Communication and mutual respect: lessons from a mid-tier company
Joe Warnick, Safety Advisor and Paul Fullwood, WHS Compliance Manager, Condev Construction
Joe and Paul will share their journey of developing a positive safety culture in a mid-tier company and how the company’s
values of family, passion, and adapting to change supported their unique yet simple initiatives. They will show how
culture can be changed, without extensive resources, provided there is the will.
9.35am
Building a healthy workplace - Lendlease’s wellbeing journey
Jeremy Mansfield, Sustainability Manager, Queensland/NT, Lend Lease Building
After seeing the findings from a global review of the organisation’s workplace health needs, leading international
property and infrastructure group, Lendlease, realised they needed to do more to ensure their employees’ good health.
In response, Lendlease launched a new framework to guide the business on their health and wellbeing mission in late
2014. Since its launch in October 2014, Lendlease’s approach to health and wellbeing has been paying dividends. The
health and wellbeing mission doesn’t end there, and the next step is a focus on continuing to better integrate health and
wellbeing into all aspects of the organisation.
10.00am
Morning tea
10.20am
Interactive workshop: learning from what goes right
Daniel Hummerdal, Safety Innovation Leader, Thiess
This workshop will assist participants to understand how positive attitudes to safety helps engage workers and creates a
high performing workplace.
The format will be collaborative group exercises and discussions with the goal of finding practical ways to engage
employees for high performance. 11.25am
Doing safety differently: a real life case study
Peter Danckert, Project Director, Laing O’Rourke
Peter will demonstrate how Laing O’Rourke turned around the safety culture and performance on its APLNG project. The
presentation brings the ‘Next Gear’ principles to life by sharing real project experiences.
11.45am
Closing reflection: what you will do to make a difference?
Clinton Huff, Master of Ceremonies
12.00pm
Networking and close
Brisbane Technology Park
25 August 2015
Welcome
Welcome to Workplace Health and Safety Queensland’s Construction Safety Showcase.
Paul Fullwood joined Condev Construction in 2007 and holds the role of Compliance Manager. This role covers
health, safety, environmental and quality systems management and means he is involved in every contract under
construction by Condev.
Over the last year, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland has held a number of forums with participants from the construction
industry to help develop safety leadership capacity and work towards creating a positive safety culture.
Paul sets high standards of himself and others, is a positive communicator who looks to assist and support
others and is able to readily absorb and apply new concepts. This approach has given Condev a reputation to be
proud of.
At today’s event you will hear from some of those who are demonstrating effective safety leadership and achieving great outcomes by
involving and inspiring others.
The Construction Safety Showcase is brought to you through the Safety Leadership at Work program. Join Safety Leadership at
Work to learn from others, share your experiences and develop your safety leadership skills through events, forums and online
communication.
We hope you enjoy today’s line-up of expert speakers and leave inspired to continue the safety leadership journey in your workplace.
Paul Fullwood
Paul’s career spanning more than 30 years has included a range of colourful occupations include circus clown,
watchmaker, boilermaker, film technician, leasing manager and safety officer.
WHS Compliance
Manager, Condev
Construction
Speaker profiles
Clinton Huff
Master of Ceremonies
Operations Manager,
Shamrock Civil
Clinton is a construction industry professional with over 40 years’ experience managing and leading significant
projects throughout Queensland.
Joe Warnick has held the role of Safety Advisor at Condev Construction for 18 months. Joe’s journey to be a safety
advisor is quite unique - he wasn’t looking to be a safety advisor, the role found him.
Starting his career as an apprentice Diesel Fitter for Main Roads in Rockhampton, Clinton’s aptitude and
uncanny ability to lead others saw him move into General Manager for RoadTek Queensland in 2009. This role
saw him accountable for over 2,750 employees and the management of approximately 75 civil construction
and rehabilitation projects on a daily basis amounting to an annual turnover of $1 billion.
While working as a labourer, Joe’s work ethic, problem-solving, great safety awareness and ability to think outside
the square was noticed. As the company grew there was a need to expand the safety team and Condev committed
to developing someone internally who was passionate about their work, was trusted and had the right values.
Clinton’s current role as Operations Manager at Shamrock Civil involves providing direction, strategic
development and implementing operational performance measures for a diverse array of projects in the road,
rail, bridge and airport infrastructure sectors. Clinton is committed to the continuity and improvement of the
health and safety of Shamrock Civil’s workforce, which has the potential to deliver meaningful productivity
benefits and safety improvement initiatives for the industry.
Joe has since put his mark on the way that he does safety. It is not conventional but he has seen a great
movement in the way that safety is a priority from management to the workers on site.
Joe Warnick
Safety Advisor,
Condev
Construction
Lindsay LeCompte is executive director of the Australian Constructors Association (ACA) and General Manager
of Construction and Infrastructure at The Australian Industry Group.
Jeremy is the regional Sustainability Manager (QLD/NT) for Lend Lease Building and has 23 years’ experience
in the construction industry with significant knowledge and experience in sustainability as well as project
and construction management roles in the design, planning and delivery of major building and infrastructure
projects. Jeremy’s role is to maintain a leadership position on sustainability within the region and provide
oversight of implementation of sustainability initiatives at project level and maintain key stakeholder
relationships.
Prior to his appointment to his current roles, Lindsay was Chief Executive of the NSW and ACT Chapters of the
National Electrical and Communications Association and has also held a number of senior positions in the
NSW government including General Manager of the building regulator in the Department of Fair Trading.
Lindsay LeCompte
Lindsay is a Director of the Construction and Property Services Industry Skills Council and Australian
Construction Industry Redundancy Trust, as well as holding appointments on a range of other industry
advisory committees.
Executive Director,
Australian Constructors
Association
Jeremy Mansfield
Sustainability
Manager,
Queensland / NT,
Lend Lease Building
Daniel Hummerdal works as Safety Innovation Leader at Thiess, and is based in Brisbane. After an initial career
as a commercial pilot, Daniel studied psychology. Since then, he has worked as an accident investigator with
the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration, as a Human Factors consultant with Dedale (France), and been
engaged in industrial safety research in Sweden, France and Australia. Now, his goal is to help organisations
to find better ways to organise safety. Daniel is also the founder of www.safetydifferently.com.
Peter is currently the Project Director of the Northern Water Treatment Plant, a $570 million contract as part of the
Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) project. Some of the measures Peter implemented include:
•establishment of a pro-active, solution orientated and pragmatic leadership style
•improved relationships between all stakeholders
•effective communication between all teams
•improved productivity through ‘lean’ methodologies and transparent daily reporting of status and risk
Daniel Hummerdal
Peter Danckert
Safety Innovation
Leader, Thiess
Project Director,
Laing O’Rourke
•improved overall rate of progress through program optimisation, improved productivity, mitigated delivery
risks, additional resources, and the introduction of a night shift.
Peter is an accomplished and driven professional with proven leadership and technical competencies across
environmental, process, civil and balance of plant engineering disciplines. He is a leader in Laing O’Rourke’s Oil
and Gas sector and its northern region business unit where he has been based for the last 5 years.
Peter is passionate about bringing people and organisations together in a synergetic environment where their
combined value offering can be increased in a truly win-win outcome.