2025 Sugar Industry Safety Conference Presentations

Enforceable undertakings – Key Learnings for a sugar business – Jacob Watson – HSE Manager, Mackay Sugar

Blackwoods & Incident Zero: Leveraging human behaviour and biophysics to deliver safety innovation – Cale Hutchins and Ryan Hodder

Assessing health and safety performance in shiftwork operations – Jim Huemmer – Shiftwork Solutions

Use of Lead in Laboratories – Managing the Risk until Elimination is Possible – Kerri Payne, Wilmar Sugar and Renewables OHS Coordinator

Emerging Trends in sugar industry workplace accidents – Andrew Soter, WorkCover

CONSOLIDATED PLASTICS Safety in Sugar Industry Power Point Presentation – Engineering, Plastics, Products

Keynote Address – “Achieving your new potential” – Kerri Pottharst – Australian Olympic Gold medallist – Beach Volleyball – Sydney 2000 Olympics

Tully Sugar Case Study – Innovative solution for safe access to perform maintenance in the bottom half of a sugar mill’s shredder elevator – Matthew Cumming, Shift Engineer

Duties in a contractual chain -– Mark Lalor, Acting Operations Manager, Agriculture Unit, Workplace Health & Safety Queensland. Work Health & Safety Regulation 415 – Brief overview of lead risk notifications before and after the regulation change.

High Risk Work Verification of Competency – Wilmar Sugar and Renewables EHS Training Coordinator, Tara Cesconetto