Update
Registrations now closed, we are now sold out in both Hobart and Launceston!
Thank you for your overwhelming support. If you missed out on your ticket this year - we look forward to welcoming you in 2027!
Be part of the conversations shaping safer, healthier workplaces across Tasmania.
Registrations are now open for the WorkSafe Tasmania Conference 2026, where we will bring together industry leaders, safety professionals, employers and workers for one of the state’s leading work health and safety events.
Each year, our conference creates a space to share ideas, challenge conventional thinking, and explore practical real-world solutions that can make meaningful difference in workplaces across Tasmania.
This year’s theme is ‘Working Safely in a Changing World’. This theme focuses on adapting work health and safety practices to address emerging risks associated with technological advancements including AI, evolving work models and practices such as remote and hybrid work arrangements among other things.
Why attend?
- hear from leading voices in work health, safety and wellbeing
- gain practical insights you can apply immediately in your workplace
- explore emerging trends and challenges across industries
- connect and share with other professionals who are passionate about making workplaces safer.
Following the success of previous events, which brought together hundreds of attendees from across the state, the 2026 conference promises to deliver another engaging and impactful program.
Whether you’re an employer, worker, HSR, or safety professional, this is your opportunity to be part of meaningful conversations that support safer and healthier workplaces for all Tasmanians.
Join us in working together towards safe and healthy work for everyone.
Our Keynote speakers
We are excited to welcome our amazing keynote speakers.
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Kim Seeling-Smith
An award winning Business Futurist who deciphers emerging trends across business, the workforce and leadership and helps organisations and individuals remain relevant, resilient and ready for anything
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Darren Flannagan
Darren shares his story of pain, trauma, hope and resilience. He attended the Beaconsfield gold mine collapse and operated over 70 explosives in a continuous 30 hour stretch, deep underground which helped rescue two men trapped nearly 1km below the surface.
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Theo Venter
Theo survived 22,000 volts and 1,200 amps through the heart, after he removed his insulated gloves at work. He made a decision that would impact on himself and his family in ways he could not have imagined. But why did Theo make what the safety industry would tell us was a poor decision?
Theo Venter
2026 WorkSafe Tasmania Conference Program
Tuesday, 28 July, Wrest Point Casino, Hobart
Thursday, 30 July, Launceston Conference Centre, Launceston
Time | Session Name | Presenter(s) | ||
08:00 | Registration desk opens and arrival tea and coffee | |||
Plenary Session | ||||
8:45 – 8:55 | MC welcome | Rick Fontyn, Conference Facilitator | ||
9:00 – 9:10 | Welcome to country |
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9:10 – 9:15 | Official conference opening | Honourable Guy Barnett MP, Deputy Premier | ||
9:15 – 9:30 | Regulator’s update | Liz Radcliff, WorkSafe Tasmania – Executive Director | ||
9:35 – 10:20 | Everyday AI: From Fear to Confidence – What AI Means for Work, Health & Safety and How to Use It Responsibly | |||
10:25 - 10:45 | Morning refreshments
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10:50 – 11:45 | Just Another Day | |||
Concurrent Sessions | ||||
Concurrent #1 | Concurrent #2 | Concurrent #3 | ||
11:50 – 12:20 | James Eracleous (Altius) – Leading Through Change: Using the SMART Model to Design Work that Protects Your Team. | Sharon Richens (Altius) – One Size Fits None: Building a Safety Strategy for Five Generations. | Dr Megan Woods (Flourishing Phoenixes) – Supporting the supporters: helping managers better support injured workers and return to work | |
12:25 – 12:55 | Tracey Groombridge (Lifeline) – Key indicators for a thriving workplace | Courtney Newman (Safety Forward) – Do you really know what’s happening on the ground? Why leaders don't get the truth about work. | Amanda Johnston and Alex Grigg (ARPA) – We Can’t Wait to Have You Back: Changing the Return-to-Work Conversation. | |
13:00 – 13:45 | Lunch
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Plenary Session | ||||
13:45 – 14:30 | Protecting Workers in a Rapidly Changing, AI-Driven World - Panel Discussion | PANEL MEMBERS | ||
14:35 – 15:10 | Can ICMM Critical Control approach be applied to psychosocial risk? | |||
15:15 – 16:15 | Dig a Little Deeper | |||
16:20 – 16:30 | Closing comments | Rick Fontyn, Conference Facilitator and Liz Radcliff, WorkSafe Tasmania - Executive Director | ||
| Afternoon refreshments | |||