WHS and Psychsocial Safety

We have received several awards from industry and clients for our WHS work. We specialise in working with our clients to improve compliance and understanding of the performance of their safety management systems, but more importantly improve safety outcomes and safety culture for the benefit of their people. 

We focus on listening and understanding your business and your people, the unique challenges you face and we can benchmark with similar organisations to identify industry best practice and ideas from Australia and overseas.

Practical Work Health and Safety solutions are our specialty. We are not academics and do not build theoretical systems and try and squeeze our clients into them. Rather we work to understand your business and develop practical solutions that will deliver benefit but also can be implemented by your people (not more consultants) and will therefore be enduring.

Our consultants will work with all levels of your organisation, to understand your business and culture and develop practical workplace health and safety solutions that are proven to work, simple to communicate, evidence based and effective for both your people and your business. As a result, the improvements will be enduring and successful.

 We are not an RTO and our focus in not on a one size fits all solution or a piece of paper. Our training assists and challenges the workforce to create their own local answers to contemporary problems, against global best practice, and we recognise that local involvement in solution creation is critical for learning, cultural reform and continuous self-improvement, hence training packages are modular, contextualised, and contain a large proportion of group-based workshop activities, supported by on the job coaching and mentoring. 

Our consultants have over 30 years’ experience in their industries and area of expertise. They understand the hazards and risks, how to mitigate them and how to document them. Using tools such as ICAM and Bow Tie, they will develop risk assessment SOPs and tools,  and coach and mentor your teams through the safety risk assessment process and assist them understand, document, implement and assess controls.

Psychosocial is a rapidly developing area of WHS compliance and worker injuries. There are specific regulations around psychosocial risks that have been developed over the last few years. This means employers need to identify and eliminate or minimise psychosocial risks (such as fatigue, stress, lateral violence, bullying, harassment, racism, work design etc) so far as is reasonably practicable. We have several specialists in this area and have conducted risk assessments, investigations and surveys in several organisations using the latest tools and methodologies from Australia and overseas.  

We have numerous clients we have assisted with various WHS services including 

• Aboriginal Affairs NSW - Developed and delivered contextualised WHS Due Diligence training.
• Adecco -  specilaised project WHS compliance and improvement. 
• Department of Agriculture and Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - provide workplace health and safety audit, safety risk assessments, risk management and advice services to the Departments.
• Home Affairs - Review in relation to issues relating to mental health risk identification and management processes, and the cumulative effects of WHS incidents. The final report was briefed to the Minister and included 85 recommendations requiring implementation across both Home Affairs and the ABF.
• Air Force -  Program Managed the Air Force Safety Always Program (and inittial pilot in ACG) to review, benchmark, simplify, improve and ensure compliance and reporting of all Air Force safety management systems (in all Air Force Units and locations) coach, train and mentor staff and managers and develop contextualised training, to achieve an enduring reduction in accidents and exposures and foster a generative safety culture. 
• Space Command - conducted a workplace health and safety risk assessment of the organisation and develop a broad WHS framework, encompassing the overall WHS state of the Command.
• Office for the Arts - conducted a workplace health and safety, facilities management and disabilities access audit of the National Collection Institutions (Australian Museums, Galleries and Libraries)