A Reimagined Approach To 'Health And Safety Governance'

Chris Jones

Steering Committee Member | NZ General Manager Safety Forum

Chris is Chief Safety & Wellbeing Officer for New Zealand’s Department of Corrections, is a member of the Senior Leadership Team for the New Zealand Institute of Safety Management, and is on the Steering Committee for the New Zealand General Manager Safety Forum. 

Prior to Corrections, Chris held senior leadership roles in WorkSafe New Zealand, the country’s health and safety regulator, Network Rail, the UK’s railway infrastructure management company, and Nuffield Health, one of the UK’s largest health and wellbeing service providers. 

Chris’ formal education includes an MBA, an MA in Organisational Wellbeing, an MSc in Exercise & Nutrition Science, and a BA (Hons) in Health & Fitness Management. He is also a certified Clinical Exercise Specialist and Cancer Rehabilitation Specialist.

Francois Barton

Executive Director | Business Leaders' Health & Safety Forum

Francois leads the Business Leaders’ Health & Safety Forum — a coalition of business and government leaders committed to improving the performance of workplace health and safety in New Zealand. Its focus is to make workplaces safer by growing world-class CEO safety leadership in New Zealand, and by leveraging the combined skill, influence and resources of members. The Forum now includes over 390 member CEOs from across New Zealand organisations.

Prior to joining the Forum Francois established and ran WorkSafe NZ’s national programme team, which has delivered major safety campaigns in construction, agriculture, forestry and manufacturing. He previously held roles at MBIE – including being involved in early discussions that led to the development of the Canterbury Safety Rebuild Charter – and at the Department of Labour, where he was part of the team that set up the Forum in 2010.