Supporting Ongoing Leader Capability In Psychosocial Safety
Description
Join Sandra Keeley from TAL Insurance as she shares the organisation’s ongoing journey towards a leader-led approach to psychosocial safety. Sandra will explore TAL’s approach in setting up leaders at different levels to support psychosocial safety as ‘business as usual’. The session will discuss strategies for building the ‘burning platform’ for leaders to prioritise psychosocial safety in an environment with many competing demands, benefits and challenges when aligning health and safety processes with broader enterprise risk management approaches, and “what worked” to build leader confidence to discuss psychosocial hazards and control effectiveness with their staff.
Sandra Keeley
National Safety and Wellbeing Manager
Sandra Keeley is the National Safety & Wellbeing Manager at TAL Life Insurance, where she has worked in the role for over eight years. TAL is one of Australia’s leading Life Insurers, providing income protection to millions of Australians. With 15 years in the safety profession, Sandra is the first to say she is still on the safety journey, particularly when it comes to understanding psychosocial hazards and what genuinely helps reduce harm in today’s work environment. Her approach is practical and people centred, shaped by learning through trial, error and a strong belief in progress over perfection.
Before joining TAL, Sandra worked across waste services, high-voltage electricity and transport, shaping her view of safety in the realities of complex,
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Hyatt Regency Sydney
8-9 September 2026
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