Interactions with workplace and safety regulators can have significant legal, operational and reputational consequences for employers. Whether responding to an investigation, managing a compliance issue, or navigating a regulatory inquiry, the way an organisation engages with regulators can materially influence outcomes.
Join the ARC Legal team for a practical webinar exploring how employers can effectively engage with employment, work health and safety, and other workplace regulators. Drawing on real-world experience, this session will provide practical guidance on managing regulatory interactions with confidence while protecting your organisation’s interests.
Key topics include:
- Understanding the role and powers of workplace and safety regulators
- Preparing for and responding to inspections, investigations and requests for information
- Managing communications with regulators during compliance activities
- Common mistakes employers make when dealing with regulators
- Balancing cooperation with the protection of legal rights and privilege
- Practical strategies for achieving constructive and professional regulatory relationships
This session is designed for HR professionals, business owners, people leaders and in-house counsel seeking practical tools to navigate regulatory engagement and minimise organisational risk.
Webinar speakers
Lindsay Carroll
Chief Legal & Industrial Relations Officer
Australian Retail Council
Lindsay Carroll
As the Chief Legal & Industrial Relations Officer at Australian Retail Council, Lindsay (she/her) oversees one of the largest in-house team of workplace relations advisors and lawyers orientated to the retail and quick services industries. Lindsay is a leading workplace relations specialist and regularly provides advice on the full spectrum of workplace relations and work health and safety in Australia.
Compliance with workplace laws can be challenging but with an unwavering focus on delivering practical support to NRA’s members and clients, Lindsay’s team consistently achieves solid outcomes for the retail industry. Lindsay is also an experienced work health and safety lawyer with experience in work health and safety management system review, incident response and management and in defending criminal prosecutions arising from safety incidents.
Lindsay started her legal career with global law firm, Norton Rose Fulbright and prior to joining the NRA, was a trusted advisor to the mining, oil and gas, and construction sectors in an employer association to the resources industry.
