Bring yourself up to speed by attending this intensive webinar and learn what to expect from a WorkSafe investigation and how ‘mental health’ fits into health and safety. Understand how to minimise H&S risks for co-directors and officers, plus get that all important update on key cases in 2024 that you need to be aware of, including their implications, to ensure you are armed with the knowledge to best advise your clients. 

Presenters

Ms. Helen Pryde, Special Counsel, Buddle Findlay
Helen has expertise across all legal issues relating to health and safety and employment, including WorkSafe investigations and prosecutions, performance management, disciplinary matters and processes (with a particular expertise where issues may overlap with criminal law), restructuring and redundancy, restraints of trade, medical incapacity, and dealing with personal grievances. Helen has significant dispute resolution experience and regularly represents clients at mediation and in court. She is also an accredited mediator and undertakes independent investigations into workplace issues.


Ms. Kirsty McDonald, Partner, Duncan Cotterill
As an employment and health and safety partner based in our Auckland office, Kirsty focuses on providing strategic and pragmatic advice to clients. She covers the breadth of employment-related issues for clients across all industries, such as redundancies and restructuring, disciplinary and performance matters, personal grievances, industrial relations, restraints of trade, protection of confidential information, workplace investigations and the employment aspects arising from commercial transactions. Kirsty is an experienced advocate, representing clients in the Employment Relations Authority, the Employment Court and the District Court. She is also heavily involved in the health and safety space regularly acting for clients facing prosecution.