Mining Weekly reports that the University of SA (Unisa) Centre for Blended-learning Studies will on 12 April host a neuroscience and safety and wellbeing in the workplace masterclass.  

It will be led by Nutricula Psychology psychologist Paul Potgieter.  The masterclass will follow the National Institute for Explosives Technology conference on 11 April, which will be hosted in collaboration with Unisa’s departments of industrial and organizational psychology, business management and mining engineering and Nutricula Psychology.  Potgieter is the co-founder of the Holistic Safety Programme, which is a scientific approach to worker safety and welfare that considers the impact of psychological and emotional wellness on safety performance.  The programme is funded by the Australian government and builds on research in neuroscience that has found that wellness is defined as whole brain functioning, which has significant impact on the implementation of safety measures.  A panel of experts representing various industry sectors will respond to the masterclass presentation.

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