The Australian Health & Safety Business Podcast

Workplace Health & Safety Show is Australia's largest showcase of products, equipment, technology, and services to reduce worker illnesses, injuries, and fatalities. Supported by the Australian Institute of Health & Safety, the Shows is the biggest single gathering of buyers and decision-makers responsible for occupational health, safety, environment and workforce wellbeing at Austral...

In 2016, professional surfer, Brett Connellan was attacked by a great white shark at Bombo Beach, NSW. Floating towards death's door, he began to fight back and reached for life. After just 5 months he made it back into the waters, but found his gift of storytelling was going to have a greater impact on our world. Tune in to hear from Brett about his journey towards life as a motivational spe...

Established in 1989, Awards Australia is a Corporate Social Responsibility market leader. Specialising in awards recognition programs on a state and national level, clients and the community receive win/win opportunities and outcomes through established marketing, media and event management expertise. With it's Community Awards it looks to highlight unsung heroes within communities all around...

Once Barron hit 18, he could not leave Nowra fast enough. Over the next few years he travelled the world ending up in New York as a documentary film maker. The fast pace of New York soon caught up and it's there that he discovered meditation that led him to eventually becoming a Vedic Meditation teacher. Some research into meditators in Washington in the 70's decreasing the crime levels...

PCA are Australia’s leading community-based organisation for prostate cancer research, awareness, and support. Anne Savage, who is the CEO of the Foundation, joins us in this episode to explain the role the foundation and which groups of men should consider getting tested. The challenge is one of education for the community and getting it detected, if it is something present, at an early stage. I...

Tammi is a renowned author, speaker and life coach. After Tammi lived with a mild level of anxiety all of her life, but it wasn't until she had a panic attack in front of a new partner, that she developed a system on how to deal with it. Tammi's system was used for about year and then she got published with Murdoch Books who are a part of Allen & Unwin after being rejected by several...

With over 2000 jobs currently advertised on Seek for Safety roles, there's never been a better time to enter the industry, or re-invent your role within the industry. Kristine is really passionate about recruitment having worked in the industry since 2007 and run her own HR recruitment business Good People HR out of Melbourne since 2012. Kristine explains how flexible work settings and compan...

The Workplace Health & Safety Show 2023 will bring Australia’s industry leaders and innovators together in Brisbane, for the first time, to present a series of live, interactive seminars covering the latest in regulatory amendments, technology developments and safety trends. Taking place from 31 May to 1 June 2023 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, this year’s comprehensive se...

Graeme in the early 2000's was a successful HR recruiter in the internet boom. The the dot.com era went bust this drove Graeme into a depressed state for about 5 years. As a result of that experience he wrote Back from the brink and went on to sit on the board of the RU-OK day for 13 years. Graeme has now written 3 books that have been published in multiple territories and languages and spend...

18 years ago Wayne was working for GMH Holden in Adelaide and witnessed a tragic workplace accident that resulted in a death. This was a turning for Wayne to devote his life to making workplaces safer and launched him into a career in safety. After receiving formal training Wayne moved to Darwin and fixed basic conditions in a warehousing situation that had extreme conditions. Wayne's skill w...

Brad's company Corehesion understands the work performed in heavy industries is complex and diverse, requiring management of production operations, employees, contractors, finance, maintenance, engineering, health & safety, risk, regulatory compliance and much more. Corehesion combines a suite of specifically designed applications with an expert team of industry professionals to create cl...

Corrina has built about an amazing training marketplace through a history of saying Yes first and working out the details later. It's all worked in her favour. Starting out in the RTO world, she delivered mainly First Aid and Fire Training courses to customers trying to get on top of their  compliance. An opportunity came up that allowed her to go out on her own and several years into she&apo...

Since getting back home to Emerald Central Queensland Jody recommenced looking for help with his Mental Wellness project. Jody had worked with BMA to get this project ready for mine site/camp role out but am also very interested in seeing if or how it can fit into business workplaces and their surrounding townships. He has been trying very hard to reconnect friends, family and community with local...

Outback Mind was founded by Aaron Schultz in 2019 and became a health promotion charity - The Outback Mind Foundation in 2022. After more than 20 years managing male teams across construction, mining and manufacturing industries, Aaron recognised a lot of men struggle, no matter what role we have in life and that there was a huge need to provide guys with support and ongoing wellbeing solutions th...

Julie Armour is a Human factors, health & safety risk consultant who has been working in this field for over 35 years, running her own consulting business for almost 30 years. This has led to extensive experience in human factors risk and HSE management which has been demonstrated in academic, clinical, recreational, and industrial environments. Experience stemmed from an initial master’s degr...

Changing the way people are employed in Australia MACFORCE Australia is a recruitment company with heart, focused on changing the way people are employed in Australia, particularly across the mining, construction and civil sector. We support candidates to find suitable work placements with our reputable clients, with our processes underpinned by our values of quality, integrity and compassion. Mor...

After immigrating from Ireland to Melbourne as a safety professional in 2011, Cathal decided to hit out on his own. In this interview we discuss what it's like to run your own show and how engaging a safety professional can really add value to companies that know where they want to grow! E-mail: cathal@custodiansafety.com.au Website: www.custodiansafety.com.au LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin....

Trent is a safety professional who originally started on the tools. About 5 years ago, Trent received a call early on a Saturday morning that his father had been killed in a car accident whilst on the job working for for Sydney Trains as a contractor for Multi Civil and Rail Services (MCR).  Trent and his family were understandably devastated. Trent as a safety professional went to work gathering...

Tim Lowery is the MD of Specialist Hazmat Services, or SH Services, dedicated to mainly friable asbestos and lead work but also does clean ups of meth labs. Tim emigrated from NZ at age 20, worked in Demolition and early on got exposed to Asbestos. This was a driver for Tim to go into business and make a difference. He’s now on a mission to raise the professionalism in an industry that some consid...

John Toomey is one of Australia’s most sought-after speakers on a variety of Human Wellbeing subjects. He is widely respect right across the world for his Speaking, his Writing and his guidance on Workplace Wellness and Leadership issues. Original from the Central Darling Downs in Queensland, John lives in Melbourne’s inner bayside region. He speaks with incredible presence and connection and a de...

Mike Tyrrell, CEO of Survival First Aid Kits, is on a mission to underline the importance of every workplace and home having access to First Aid. The business was originally started in the 1980's by his Dad and Uncle when his Dad found Mike injured and didn't know what to do. Fast forward to the 90's are Survival were speading the mission of First Aid through hardcopy training books...

Peter has had a long career in health and safety training. Originally starting out in the army, he progressed to training and the assessing the military into working for a private training company doing a similar role. Dealing with civilians had it's challenges and he moved from private training into a Work Safe Inspector in Queensland and then the ACT. After a sudden heart attack in his mid-...

A chance purchase of a start up rehab provider 22 years ago has created a long term successful business for Karen and her customers. Karen's Work Options is a workplace and vocational rehab provider helping businesses protect against the risk of workplace accidents and incidents. Tune in to hear how Karen has recently spotted an opportunity in the market and how agility rewards those willing...

Working at Master Builders gave Rachael an insight that many tradies aren't across the legal requirements of safety. This led her, and her husband, to create Safer Outcomes, a documentation system to small to medium sized businesses manage their legal responsibilities when it comes to safety. Can your business afford the fines if you get caught without the required safety documentation? Tune...

The thing that strikes you about Sue is her passion for health and safety. Her ContractorSafe business helps companies sort out how they deal with contractors. Many, she believes, over complicate the relationships and responsibilities of company to contractors which ultimately ends in additional costs and bureaucracy. Sue's approach is to give Principal Contractors better legal and commercial...