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Governance, Regulation & Contracts

  • Author: PIARC
  • Time: 90 minutes
    08:00 UTC or 15:00 UTC
  • July 7, 2026
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Course overview
This session tackles the governance gap between high-level legislation and on-site standards. It explores how regulations, governance, and contracts can enable or undermine worksite safety.
Focusing on contracts as the key tool for behavioural change, it examines how procurement models, risk allocation, and payment mechanisms directly shape on-site outcomes. The session uses case studies from multiple jurisdictions to show how misaligned incentives cause systemic failures and what actually works.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the governance void and its consequences for on-site practice
  • Understand how contractual incentives drive (or undermine) safety outcomes
  • Learn the characteristics of mature procurement and contracting models
  • Evaluate their own jurisdiction’s approach to risk allocation in contracts
  • Take away practical contract clauses and procurement criteria they can adapt

Interactives Elements

  • Scenario challenge: Three short contract scenarios are presented (e.g., lump-sum vs. performance-based). Attendees vote on which they think delivers the best safety outcome, with the evidence-based answer revealed and discussed.
  • Live poll – incentive audit: Attendees answer questions about how their own contracts currently allocate risk and incentivise safety. Results are aggregated and compared with findings from the report.
  • Case study spotlight: A real (anonymised) case study from the report is presented with the outcome hidden. Attendees discuss in small breakout groups what they think happened and why, before the actual result is revealed.
  • Contract clause toolkit: Attendees receive a downloadable set of example contract clauses from the project findings, with a guided walkthrough during the session.
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