Rob Fisher - From Compliance to Confidence: Making Proportionate, Risk Based NZGTTM Work in Practice

Rob Fisher is a pioneer in the practical application of Human and Organisational Performance, and all aspects of Operational Excellence and Process Safety. He has a globally recognised capability to integrate the science of error and make it understandable and usable in day-to-day life. He has been involved in developing multiple industry international standards for error management, incident analysis, and effective procedures.  Rob is a sought-after executive mentor, speaker, and trainer who engages and educates both locally and internationally.  Rob is the author of the best-selling book “Understanding Mental Models” and host of the popular “Essential Leadership Cycle Podcast”.

Rob's Talk: From Compliance to Confidence: Making Proportionate, Risk‑Based NZGTTM Work in Practice

The NZGTTM requires a paradigm change from the rules-based COPTTM approach to a proportionate risk-based approach shared across the supply chain. Understanding how humans and organisations succeed and fail is paramount to managing the systems created with the application TTM plans to protect the work required on and around NZ roads. Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) principles are only a start in improving performance sustainably.  We have to turn the what's of the NZGTTM into the how's and why's in order to create better and more reliable systems and performance.

Rob will talk about what he and his team at Fisher Improvement Technologies (FIT) have learned around the globe in the last 30+ years of integrating the concepts and principles into the practical application of systems, models, processes, and tools that make HOP an enabler for operational excellence,  management of risk and safety across over 400 clients.

Panel: Making the Shift – Practical Pathways into the NZGTTM

Following Rob Fisher’s keynote, we’ll host a focused panel conversation exploring how contemporary safety thinking can be practically applied in New Zealand’s temporary traffic management and infrastructure environment.

This panel will bring together senior leaders and practitioners from across the sector to join Rob to discuss how they are:

• Moving from compliance-focused safety to a risk-based, contemporary safety approach

• Applying concepts like operational excellence, work-as-done vs work-as-imagined, and human and organizational performance in real projects

• Addressing overlapping PCBU duties and complex delivery structures across asset owners, tier one contractors, and delivery partners

• Building confidence for executives and project leaders that they are putting attention and pressure in the right places

• Using practical tools and methods (not just theory) to improve safety, reliability, productivity, and resilience at the same time

Facilitated by Diane Ah‑Chan (NextEra), the panel will feature industry leaders and influencers including:

• Helen Sadgrove, GM Solutions(systems), Planning and Learning, Fonterra

• Rob Kirkwood, Head of Health Safety and Environment, Northpower

• Shaun McIntosh, Safety Lead, Partners and Projects, Auckland Transport

• Simon Hodges, Team Leader – Temporary Traffic Management, Christchurch City Council
  

Building on the foundations laid in Rob’s session, this discussion will give attendees:

• Clear examples of how risk-based practices are already being used in NZ and overseas

• Practical tools to take back to their own organisations and projects

• Insight into how different organisations can work together on shared risks in TTM and beyond

The panel is designed to be practical, and action-oriented linking Rob’s practical experience directly to New Zealand’s roads, projects, and governance structures, and helping attendees leave with confidence and a direction of the next logical step towards transitioning to the NZGTTM, not just new concepts.

Join host the Temporary Traffic Management Industry Steering Group for the Leaders Breakfast.
Light breakfast, tea and coffee complimentary