Date: |
09 Mar 2026, 12.00PM – 1.00PM |
duration: |
1 hr |
Location: |
Online |
Cost: |
Free event |
Drawing on incident analysis, international benchmarking, and cross-functional risk review, the framework embeds structured triage, triggered action response planning, and critical control governance into business-as-usual operations. The result is a proactive, risk-based approach that strengthens safety, operational resilience, and climate adaptation across a complex legacy rail network.
Presenter Bio:
Theresa Labuschagne is a safety, health and environmental risk and change leader, with a key role in strengthening enterprise-wide SHE critical risk governance and operational resilience across KiwiRail.
With over two decades of experience across multiple industries (including healthcare, manufacturing, nuclear, mining-exploration, and now rail operations), she is known for facilitating collaborative, cross-functional risk reviews that move organisations from reactive compliance to proactive, human-centred risk ownership.
Shaped by significant personal and workplace events and loss, she lives with a ‘glass half full’ perspective and often uses storytelling to influence risk, culture and change in ways that make complex systems relatable and meaningful.
Theresa is a Certified Professional with the NZ Institute of Safety Management and the Health and Safety Association of New Zealand, a Chartered Manager with the Chartered Management Institute United Kingdom, a Certified Practicing Manager with the Institute of Managers and Leaders Australia / New Zealand, and joined the RTSA in 2025. More recently, Theresa was recognised in the 2024 and 2025 Australasia Fleet Management Association Fleet Risk Manager of the Year awards.
This presentation outlines KiwiRail’s evolution from fragmented, reactive responses to severe weather events toward a nationally coordinated, enterprise-wide Severe Weather Events Management Framework.
Drawing on incident analysis, international benchmarking, and cross-functional risk review, the framework embeds structured triage, triggered action response planning, and critical control governance into business-as-usual operations. The result is a proactive, risk-based approach that strengthens safety, operational resilience, and climate adaptation across a complex legacy rail network.
Presenter Bio:
Theresa Labuschagne is a safety, health and environmental risk and change leader, with a key role in strengthening enterprise-wide SHE critical risk governance and operational resilience across KiwiRail.
With over two decades of experience across multiple industries (including healthcare, manufacturing, nuclear, mining-exploration, and now rail operations), she is known for facilitating collaborative, cross-functional risk reviews that move organisations from reactive compliance to proactive, human-centred risk ownership.
Shaped by significant personal and workplace events and loss, she lives with a ‘glass half full’ perspective and often uses storytelling to influence risk, culture and change in ways that make complex systems relatable and meaningful.
Theresa is a Certified Professional with the NZ Institute of Safety Management and the Health and Safety Association of New Zealand, a Chartered Manager with the Chartered Management Institute United Kingdom, a Certified Practicing Manager with the Institute of Managers and Leaders Australia / New Zealand, and joined the RTSA in 2025. More recently, Theresa was recognised in the 2024 and 2025 Australasia Fleet Management Association Fleet Risk Manager of the Year awards.
