Agenda 2010 Day One

Day One: Wednesday, 17 February 2010

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

08:15 Registration and refreshments

09:00 Chair's opening remarks

Policy, regulation, strategy and performance

09:15 Panel discussion:

Creating a more efficient workers compensation system through harmonisation of workers compensation laws

• What is the timeframe for full harmonisation?
• What are the major barriers to harmonisation and how will they be overcome?
• How will harmonisation work and what are the timeframes for adoption of new regulation?
• What challenges will different industry sectors face and what assistance will be provided?
• Will the role of WorkCover change and if so how?

Robert Gotts, Director, Office of Industrial Relations,
Chief Minister's Department, WorkCover ACT and ACT Representative, Safe Work Australia Council and Heads of Workers Compensation Authorities
Chris White, Director of Legislation, WorkCover WA
Laurene Hull, Executive Director, NT WorkSafe
Greg Tweedly, Chief Executive, WorkSafe VIC

10:15 Developing a national Workers Compensation framework: the challenges

• Analysing previous attempts
• Identifying the major constraints on the drive for a national regulatory framework

Kevin Purse, Senior Research Fellow, Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia

11:45 Morning networking refreshments

11:30 Analysing the future landscape for workers compensation in Australia

• What will be the impact of impending regulatory change?
• What should we be aiming for?
• How will the industry adapt?

12:00 The Great Debate:
Should businesses absorb responsibility for community health by helping to fund the Federal Government's proposed preventative health measures?

• How should the Federal Government's proposed preventative workplace health measures be funded?
• Would tax incentives encourage the implementation of health and wellbeing programs in the workplace?
• Should there be legislative change to make employee health and wellbeing programs a legal requirement?
• Would you be prepared to pay for workplace health measures for your staff or should individuals have to take responsibility?

Dr John Lang, President, The Health and Productivity Institute of Australia
Jarrod Moran, Workers Compensation Officer, ACTU
Jaye Radisich, CEO, Council of Small Businesses
Gary Brack, CEO, Australian Federation of Employers and Industries

13:00 Networking lunch

17:00 Networking drinks

18:30 Coaches depart for the Summit Dinner

19:00 The National Workers Compensation Summit Dinner - Venue: Watersedge - Ground Floor, Pier One, 11 Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay

19:45 Life before injury, the accident and aftermath

• Living life with injury and the lessons I learnt

David Crawford, Ambassador, Spinal Cord Injuries Australia and Robert Goldrick, Corporate Partnerships Manager, Spinal Cord Injuries Australia

22:00 Night ends