Agenda

CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Monday 29th March 2010

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8:30 Coffee and Registration

9:00 Speed Networking
Get to know your peers right from the start in this relaxed and informal speed networking session. Bring your business cards!

9:15 Opening Remarks from Chair

SELF INSURANCE REGULATORY AND BUSINESS UPDATE

9:20 Application of a Consistent Legislation for the National Workforce

• The harmonisation agenda: Implications for self insurers
• Consistent approaches and expectations for performance
• National standards for RTW, frequency, claim expectation and duration

Senior Representative, Safework Australia (invited)

10:00 New Trends in Self Insurance

• Future directions - barriers and concerns
• Outsourcing of claims management: Implications for quality and performance

Denise Fishlock, Manager, Workers Compensation, Asciano

10:40 Morning Tea 

11:00 Regulatory Update and State of Play

• Recent changes to state legislation impacting on self insurers
• Harmonising good law
• Will the new laws be applicable in a real sense rather than in principal - how it applies and how well it will apply

James Johnson Partner, Compensation, Sparke Helmore Lawyers
Paul Cutrone, Partner, OHS, Sparke Helmore Lawyers
 

NATIONAL AND STATES UPDATE

• National update on self insurance
• Justifiable regulation - concerns and issues for state jurisdictions
• Effectiveness of self insurance administration
• Reducing the regulatory burden for effective and easy use across state lines

11:40 National Overview
Robin Shaw, President, National Council of Self Insurers

12:00 Queensland Focus
Bill Nevin, Chair, Association of Self Insured Employers of Queensland

12:10 Tasmania Focus
John Kirwan, Immediate Past Chair, Tasmanian Self Insurance Association

12:20 NSW Focus
Denise Fishlock, Chair, NSW Self Insurers Association

12:30 Discussion

12:50 Lunch

TRANSITION TO SELF INSURANCE AND THE ORGANISATIONAL FRAMEWORK

1:50 Is the Self Insurance Option for You?

• How will self insurance impact your organisation: Reviewing organisational capacity and capability
• Building the financial case: Key elements including benefits to the bottom line, transition costs and change management
• Implications for OHS programme - changes to accountability, design and management
• Risk and risk tolerance: Pricing, experience and catastrophe
• Issues for tail claims

Mark Hurst, Principal, Finity Consulting

2:30 Embedding the Systems Required of a Self Insurer in the Organisational DNA

The self insurance scheme cannot exist in isolation. This session considers the interface between the self insurance scheme, the management and board and the HR department. It looks at the financial and management systems and processes that must be in place from the inception to enable an effective self insurance journey.

3:10 Afternoon Tea

MANAGING COMPLIANCE

3:30 Compliance: Practitioner and Legal Perspectives
Dean Stone, President, Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Licensees Association (Comcare Self Insurers)

4:20 Self Insurance V Employer Based Injury Management

• Is self insurance the best approach
• Finding a consistent philosophical approach
• Selling the sizzle – Not the steak
• The ASIEQ experience
• A practical guide to employer based injury management

Bill Nevin, Manager, Xtracare Workers Compensation Unit, Xstrata

5:00 Closing Remarks from Chair and End of Day One

CONFERENCE DAY TWO
Tuesday 30th March 2010

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8:30 Registration and Networking

9:00 Opening Remarks by Chair

COMPENSATION & OHS INTERFACE

9:10 The impact of compensation on work and health outcomes

• Evidence that receipt of compensation is a predictor of poor work and health outcomes following injury
• Particular aspects of compensation schemes that may have more or less impact on outcome
• Implications of differences between state workers’ compensation schemes
• Changes to scheme design that can positively impact work and health outcome
• Changes to other regulatory behaviours, including behaviours of self-insurers that can positively impact work and health outcome

Dr Alex Collie, Associate Professor and Acting CEO, Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research (ISCRR)
 

RISK MANAGEMENT AND AUDITING

9:50 Creating Value Through Effective Risk Management

• Dimensions of risk management: Perception, communication and control
• The new standard ISO 31000:2009: Principles, framework and processes for managing risk
• Measuring and benchmarking OHS outcomes, objectives and continuing improvement
• Anticipating risk

John Kirwan, Principal Consultant, Kirwan and Associate, Immediate Past Chair, Tasmanian Self Insurance Association

10:30 Morning Tea

10:50 Enterprise Risk Intelligence (ERI) - linking compliance frameworks, risk, events, and claims management

• Compliance obligations, event management, enterprise risk management or claims management?
• The line is blurring between the four disciplines as ERI merges compliance obligations, event management, claims management and enterprise risk management frameworks
• This presentation will explore some best practice examples of ERI in operation as an emerging concept in business management

Andrew Howarth, CEO, RMSS

11:30 Critical Incident - Scenario - Review and Response
Delegates are presented with two critical incident scenarios to plot the strategy for response and the management of the claim.

12:30 Lunch
 

STRATEGIES FOR EARLY INTERVENTION FOR SELF INSURERS

1:30 Formalising a Proactive Early Intervention Plan

• Implications of early intervention for claims management: Tangibles and intangibles
• Strategies for identifying potential claims
• Investing in preventative strategies
• Training line managers and workers to look for, recognise and report risks
• Rapid response and review
• Key steps and milestones along the way

Filanthy Nalpantidis, Health and Injury Management Leader, CSL

2:10 Using Technology to Manage and Mitigate Risk

• Telemedicine to manage health and injury incidents in remote and rural workplaces
• Enabling continuing and quality access to medical care
• Monitoring progress and enabling rehabilitation
• Reducing cost of claims and managing RTW

Dr Andrew Jeremijenko, Chief Medical Officer, Tele Dr

2:50 Afternoon Tea

Injury Management and RTW

3:10 Disability and Impairment - Spotting the Difference

• Impairment as an objective construct
• Assessing disability: What does the impairment/loss mean to the individual?
• Understanding the difference to help focus the injured workers attention on positives to overcome the injury

Dr Jill Reddan, Consultant Psychiatrist, Medconsultants, Member, General Medical Assessment Tribunal Q-COMP

3:40 The RTW Assist programme
Sonia Minniecon, Manager-Return to work Assist and Awards Unit Q-COMP

4:20 Mini Workshop: RTW: New Trends and Strategies

• Evidence based research on occupational health, wellness, injury risks in a changing workforce
• Presenteeism, absenteeism and barriers to RTW
• Assessing and managing rehabilitation in a way that encourages and enables workers toward quick RTW
• Dynamics between manager, injured worker and occupational physician: Implications for effective RTW and lower claim costs
• Tailoring rehabilitation to the individual need and situation to optimise RTW outcomes

Australian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

5:00 End of Conference

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