Psychosocial Risk, Liability & Enforcement Masterclass

David is a director and co-founder of Edge Legal, specialising in industrial relations and work health and safety law. His advice carries a practical edge built over a career in senior executive management across telecommunications, franchising and agriculture, including a period as Chief Workplace Relations Officer at a peak employer organisation, where he led the rollout of Fair Work Act training to business.

David advises boards and executive teams on safety due diligence, runs comprehensive safety audits, and has managed the response to workplace fatalities in the mining and aquaculture sectors, working directly with regulators, families and media. He has tutored workplace law and human resources at the University of Tasmania and presents regularly at national HR and safety conferences.

For this masterclass, that means the psychosocial enforcement, officer due-diligence and performance-management sessions are led by someone who has actually stood in front of a regulator.

Rod is a director and co-founder of Edge Legal, specialising in people management, industrial disputes and advocacy. He advises boards and senior managers on complex and sensitive employment issues, and represents employers in the Fair Work Commission on bullying applications, industrial disputes and industrial action, as well as defending termination claims at hearings and full bench appeals, breach of industrial law claims and restraint of trade cases.

Before founding Edge Legal he was group head of an Employment and Safety group in a mid-tier firm, worked at a top-tier firm, and consulted to the mining industry, and he brings a background in workers compensation law. An accredited DISC trainer who has tutored workplace law at Murdoch University, Rod has conducted workplace bullying investigations for WA Government and WA Police.

For this masterclass, that makes him well placed to lead the ill and injured employee, workers compensation and performance-versus-claims sessions.