Rob Fisher – From Compliance to Confidence: Making Proportionate, Risk-Based NZGTTM Work in Practice
The Temporary Traffic Management Industry Steering Group (TTM ISG) is hosting an industry Leaders Breakfast featuring Rob Fisher, focused on how proportionate, risk-based approaches to safety can be applied in practice within New Zealand’s temporary traffic management environment.
The introduction of the New Zealand Guide to Temporary Traffic Management (NZGTTM) represents a fundamental shift away from rules-based compliance toward a shared, risk-based approach across the supply chain. This session explores what that shift looks like in practice, and how organisations can move beyond compliance toward more effective, reliable safety outcomes.
About the Session
Understanding how people and organisations succeed, and sometimes fail, is central to managing risk in complex systems like temporary traffic management. While Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) principles provide an important foundation, they are only the starting point.
In this session, Rob Fisher will focus on turning the intent of the NZGTTM into practical application, exploring the how and why behind proportionate, risk-based decision-making. The session draws on more than 30 years of global experience integrating HOP concepts into real-world systems, processes, and tools across infrastructure and high-risk industries.
Attendees can expect a practical, grounded discussion that supports:
- Better decision-making aligned to risk and context
- More reliable systems that reflect how work is actually done
- Increased confidence across the supply chain when applying the NZGTTM
Panel discussion: Making the Shift – Practical Pathways into the NZGTTM
Following the keynote, a facilitated panel discussion will explore how contemporary safety thinking is being applied across New Zealand’s temporary traffic management and infrastructure sector.
The panel includes highly experienced and respected panelists joining Rob Fisher:
- Helen Sadgrove, GM Solutions(systems, Planning and Learning, Fonterra
- Shaun McIntosh, Safety Lead, Partners and Projects, Auckland Transport
- Simon Hodges, Team Leader – Temporary Traffic Management, Christchurch City Council
Facilitated by Diane Ah-Chan, CEO, Nextera
The discussion will focus on practical experience and real-world application, including:
- Moving from compliance-focused approaches to proportionate, risk-based safety
- Applying concepts such as work-as-done versus work-as-imagined and operational excellence
- Managing shared responsibilities and overlapping PCBU duties across complex delivery environments
- Using practical tools and methods to improve safety, reliability, and confidence
- The panel will be facilitated by Diane Ah-Chan (NextEra) and will include senior leaders and practitioners from across the infrastructure, client, and health and safety community.
Drawing on more than 30 years of global experience, Rob will share practical insights into turning the intent of the NZGTTM into action.
Event details
Event: Rob Fisher – From Compliance to Confidence: Making Proportionate, Risk-Based NZGTTM Work in Practice
Date: Tuesday 10 March
Time: 7:30am – 10:30am NZDT
Location: Beca - 124 Halsey Street, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010
Numbers are limited to 80 pax.
This event includes a Leaders Breakfast, with light breakfast, tea, and coffee provided; dietary requirements required upon registration.
