Breaking Down Silos: Integrating HR and Health and Safety for Effective Psychosocial Risk Management
Description
Effective psychosocial risk management depends on HR and Health and Safety working as one function, not two. Join Laura Anderson as she shares CBH Group’s journey to build a streamlined, collaborative investigations approach as part of a broader integrated psychosocial safety program — where psychosocial hazards are managed through the same framework as physical safety risks, with common-language hazard classifications, shared investigation processes and integrated reporting. The session covers how CBH strengthened cross-functional ownership and data sharing while protecting confidentiality through a trauma-informed, person-centred approach. Laura will offer practical insight into using investigations as organisational learning — shifting from reactive case management to proactive prevention.
Laura Anderson
Manager – Health and Wellness
Laura Anderson is the Manager – Health & Wellness at CBH Group, where she leads programs across occupational health, psychosocial risk management, injury management, fitness for work, and employee wellbeing. Over the past four years with CBH, she has played a key role in developing the organisation’s approach to psychosocial safety, including psychosocial investigations, leadership capability programs, and the integration of Health & Wellness, Safety, and HR functions to better support employees and leaders.
A Clinical Exercise Physiologist by profession, Laura grew up in New Zealand before relocating to Western Australia a decade ago. Prior to joining CBH, she worked extensively across the mining and oil and gas sectors as a health coach, helping individuals and organisations improve health, wellbeing,
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Hyatt Regency Sydney
8-9 September 2026
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