Date: |
06 Nov 2025, 8.30AM – 3.30PM |
duration: |
7 hrs |
Venue: |
Engineering New Zealand |
Address: |
Level 6/40 Taranaki Street Wellington |
Cost: |
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The Engineering a Safer Future Symposium celebrates and explores the essential contribution of engineering to safety across industries and disciplines. This full-day event brings together engineers, researchers, industry practitioners, and safety leaders to share groundbreaking ideas, real-world case studies, and transformative research that prioritises safety from the ground up.
Through a programme of expert presentations, interactive workshops, and discussion, attendees will gain insights into how engineering is driving solutions to today’s most urgent safety challenges.
The symposium will feature:
- Jon Harper-Slade on Energy-Based Safety: A Scientific Method for Enhancing Hazard Recognition and Preventing Serious Injuries.
- Rob Holland and Nicky Turnbull presenting a case study on how Health & Safety by Design workshops are achieving industry-wide change.
- Kongting Lee on Organisational Drivers for Safer Manufacturing Workplaces.
- Ashok Kandel discussing Welding Fumes and Their Impacts.
- Dirk Pons leading a practical Bowtie Analysis workshop showcasing this powerful risk assessment tool.
- Tony Catterson on Guarding for the Future: Innovations and Updates in Machinery Safety Standards.
- Phil Bruneau presenting an Analytical Framework for Future Resource Adequacy: Assessing the Risk of Rolling Blackouts in New Zealand.
- Joe Bain on Engineering Safety in New Zealand – Emerging Trends and the Future Outlook.
- A closing panel discussion Is a revolution coming? with Jeff Sissons, Joe Bain, and Rob Holland.
The day runs from 9.00am to 3.45pm, followed by a casual networking event from 4.30pm. Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea will be provided, with a student poster exhibit and judging session included.
Whether you work in design, research, construction, manufacturing, or policy, this event offers fresh perspectives and practical strategies to help you champion safety in your field.
View the timetable and stay upto date through the NZSES Website - https://www.nzses.org.nz/symposium
Engineering doesn’t just shape our world—it protects it. Join us at the Engineering a Safer Future Symposium to discover how innovation is driving safer systems, buildings, environments and communities.
The Engineering a Safer Future Symposium celebrates and explores the essential contribution of engineering to safety across industries and disciplines. This full-day event brings together engineers, researchers, industry practitioners, and safety leaders to share groundbreaking ideas, real-world case studies, and transformative research that prioritises safety from the ground up.
Through a programme of expert presentations, interactive workshops, and discussion, attendees will gain insights into how engineering is driving solutions to today’s most urgent safety challenges.
The symposium will feature:
- Jon Harper-Slade on Energy-Based Safety: A Scientific Method for Enhancing Hazard Recognition and Preventing Serious Injuries.
- Rob Holland and Nicky Turnbull presenting a case study on how Health & Safety by Design workshops are achieving industry-wide change.
- Kongting Lee on Organisational Drivers for Safer Manufacturing Workplaces.
- Ashok Kandel discussing Welding Fumes and Their Impacts.
- Dirk Pons leading a practical Bowtie Analysis workshop showcasing this powerful risk assessment tool.
- Tony Catterson on Guarding for the Future: Innovations and Updates in Machinery Safety Standards.
- Phil Bruneau presenting an Analytical Framework for Future Resource Adequacy: Assessing the Risk of Rolling Blackouts in New Zealand.
- Joe Bain on Engineering Safety in New Zealand – Emerging Trends and the Future Outlook.
- A closing panel discussion Is a revolution coming? with Jeff Sissons, Joe Bain, and Rob Holland.
The day runs from 9.00am to 3.45pm, followed by a casual networking event from 4.30pm. Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea will be provided, with a student poster exhibit and judging session included.
Whether you work in design, research, construction, manufacturing, or policy, this event offers fresh perspectives and practical strategies to help you champion safety in your field.
View the timetable and stay upto date through the NZSES Website - https://www.nzses.org.nz/symposium
Presenters
New Zealand Society for Engineering Safety
