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The launch of the new Health and Safety Governance Guide is a springboard for improved health and safety governance practice
A new Health and Safety Governance Guide to be published shortly by the Institute of Directors and WorkSafe is a further pivotal step in organisations striving to enhance their health and safety governance, and overall performance. This guide, developed using the findings from the Better Health and Safety Governance Project, represents a renewed vision, principles and tools for health and safety governance, and drawing from good governance practice in New Zealand. It is framed around the critical influence boards have on health and safety performance and the personal obligation directors have under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. With a growing focus on officer due diligence and the flatlining of national health and safety performance, this guide will be a “beacon” and encouragement for directors to lead with conviction and drive meaningful improvements in workplace health and safety, ultimately contributing to better outcomes for employees and needed productivity improvements.
The launch of the new Health and Safety Governance Guide is a springboard for improved health and safety governance practice. It is an opportunity for directors, business leaders, health and safety practitioners and regulators to ensure directors and boards play the role they need to for improved health and safety outcomes in New Zealand.
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Craig is an independent consultant providing governance, strategy and leadership advice in safety and risk management. The founder and Chair of New Zealand’s Community of Safety Innovation (an enterprise supported by the Business Leaders’ H&S Forum, NZ Institute of Safety Management and WorkSafe), he brings over 30 years’ experience managing safety in high-hazard industries. From nuclear submarines and highly radioactive waste, to high-pressure gas pipelines and oil rigs, Craig has written safety cases and managed safety for some of the world’s most hazardous operations.
As a strong advocate of challenging conventional safety thinking and author of the book Challenging the Safety Quo, Craig is known for bringing a pragmatic approach to translate health and safety management theory into workable solutions.
Around the Board table, he considers strong governance to be the foundation for successful business outcomes, which are inseparable from good health and safety outcomes. Governance provides the opportunity to set the vision and culture for a holistic approach that views safe, efficient, ethical and profitable outcomes as related properties of work done well.
Outside of work, Craig competes in Masters’ Athletics, squeezing events into the small gaps that arise between injuries.
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Francois is the Chief Executive of the New Zealand Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum – a coalition of more than 400 CEOs committed to building cultures that enable people and business to thrive.
Francois has worked at a system and leadership level of New Zealand health and safety since 2006 in May 2015, Francois worked in the health and safety regulator for almost 10 years, through the Pike River Mine tragedy, major reforms and was directly involved in the establishment of WorkSafe NZ. During that time, he established WorkSafe’s national programme team, including the significant interventions in construction, forestry, work-related health and agriculture.
Francois has spent his career working to effect change by connecting diverse groups and perspectives, reframing and redefining complex challenges and remaining anchored to the core belief that it is only by working together we will make progress
Chris is Director Global Health, Safety & Wellbeing at Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited and a member of the General Manager Safety Forum Steering Committee.
Previously he was Chief Safety & Wellbeing Officer for New Zealand’s Department of Corrections, is a member of the Senior Leadership Team for the New Zealand Institute of Safety Management, and is on the Steering Committee for the New Zealand General Manager Safety Forum.
Prior to Corrections, Chris held senior leadership roles in WorkSafe New Zealand, the country’s health and safety regulator, Network Rail, the UK’s railway infrastructure management company, and Nuffield Health, one of the UK’s largest health and wellbeing service providers.
Chris' formal education includes an MBA, an MA in Organisational Wellbeing, an MSc in Exercise & Nutrition Science, and a BA (Hons) in Health & Fitness Management. He is also a certified Clinical Exercise Specialist and Cancer Rehabilitation Specialist.CFInstD
Abby is a professional director with over 10 years’ experience as a full time independent director, having served on both listed and Crown companies.
With qualifications in both law and accounting, Abby’s executive career encompassed both disciplines, focusing on corporate finance and commercial transactions. She has experience in a number of diverse areas including mergers and acquisitions, treasury and structured finance transactions, telecommunications, management of large projects and strategy.
As a professional director, Abby has experience in a wide range of areas including strategic development and implementation, governance of significant transactions, stakeholder engagement, risk management, health & safety and ESG issues. She is an experienced Board and Committee chair.
Abby is currently a director of KMD Brands Limited and Freightways Limited. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of Chapter Zero New Zealand. Previous roles include Chair of Christchurch City Holdings Limited and of Z Energy Limited and as a director of Sanford; Transpower; TVNZ; Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa; Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) and the Local Government Funding Agency (LGFA). Abby is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors.
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Guy is General Manager, Governance Leadership Centre of the Institute of Directors. He is an experienced senior leader who has worked with public, private and not-for-profit entities in New Zealand, Fiji, Mongolia, Australia and the United States.
His previous senior roles include Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy and Organisation Performance at Te Puni Kōkiri; Deputy Secretary Natural Resources Policy at Ministry for the Environment.
Most recently, he ran his own freelance consultancy practice supporting public sector senior executives and their teams to deliver high quality decision-making, advice and policy implementation. In each of these roles, he engaged on a range of natural resource, environmental and other issues with iwi/hapū and other Māori interests.
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