COVID-19 forced organisations to rethink HSW on the fly, revealing the inadequacies of the HSW systems on which Australian and New Zealand businesses rely.
In the last two years, HSW visionaries who recognised that blindly following the system wasn’t going to cut it, adopted agile new practices – practices that were simpler, more flexible, more connected to business and only focused on critical risks, practices that have proved to be substantially more suitable for our fast-paced and complex working world.
In the aftermath, HSW professionals began to ask themselves: “Why didn’t we make these changes before?”
To help the profession continue its transformation momentum, EY conducted interviews with HSW leaders across Australia and New Zealand. We asked these seasoned professionals what worked during the pandemic and how this can become business as usual for HSW management in Oceania. As we explore in How can we transform health, safety and wellbeing to be future fit?, their collective experience suggests we need a very different approach to HSW.