The Australian Health & Safety Business Podcast

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 in the school system.

Mike's uncle is an architect and with Mike's long term buddy Jordan who is a marketing aficionado the usability, innovation and strong brand of Survival really shines through.

More info
https://survivalfirstaidkits.net.au/

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-40's, Peter was forced to re-evaluate his future and Bluetron was born. His career in training and the advent of the Work Health and Safety Act saw an opportunity to develop a system that would verify work competency for users of plant and equipment. Fast forward about 10 years and Bluetron has developed one of the most robust VOC (Verification of Competency) systems in the marketplace.

Find out more here:
https://www.bluetron.com.au/

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 to take some calculated risks.

More info
www.workoptions.com.au

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 in to see how Rachael's unique and simple approach is having a positive affect on hundreds of businesses and thousands of worksites.

More info
https://saferoutcomes.com.au/

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 protection in the event of an incident by providing best practice contractor safety management systems and expert legal advice to;

1. clarify legal liability
2. demonstrate due diligence,
3. correctly allocate responsibility for managing contractor safety and
4. improve safety outcomes.

More info
https://www.contractorsafe.net.au/

With the onset of COVID in 2020, Dr Garry Marling took the opportunity to rethink how he could deliver his safety services. An idea from his son, helped him land on launching Culture Radar which helps heavy industry with high risks, use the culture piece to rethink how safety messages can be delivered effectively. In this interview, Garry explains how positive ROI can be delivered for mid-sized companies willing to make some simple changes.

More info here:
https://www.cultureradar.com.au/

Yasser Zaki has had a really interesting career working in the disability sector. First working for Government, then a large provider, in 2015/16 he branched out to start his own enterprise Tender Loving Care.

Rather than be like many other providers, he's developed a unique approach that really puts customers first. He has also developed an enterprise that provides a pathway for employment for some of the clients he works for.

Find out more about how Yasser has developed his unique approach in this podcast.

W: www.tenderlovingcare.com.au

It's been no easy feat but CEO of CSI, Jason Jennings, has worked with key stakeholders to launch a new course designed at educating workforces as to the dangers of Silica Exposure.

The course called 10830NAT Course in Crystalline Silica Exposure Prevention was almost 15 years in the making and CSI was successful in gaining support from ASQA (Australian Skills Quality Authority) as there was a clear gap in the marketplace.

Jason was also successful in building and launching another program called 10894NAT Course in Workplace Impairment Prevention which educates workplaces about impairment issues such as fatigue, drugs, alcohol and mental health.

More info
https://csisafety.com.au/

David took over SIA (Safety Institute of Australia) back in 2015 with the view to raising the bar of health and safety professionals in Australia. 

Now rebranded to the AIHS (Australian Institute of Health and Safety) he has an active membership base of professionals around Australia. AIHS operate as a not-for-profit investing all proceeds into making this association better and better.

On his agenda of changing the way the industry operates are:

- Certification of the right types of courses
- Implementation of CPD points
- Ongoing networking and educational events to help improve the status of safety professionals around Australia

Check AIHS out here:
https://www.aihs.org.au/

Rusty has lived most of his life surfing big waves and new the joy it can bring you.

Not so long ago he turned his efforts to the Veteran Surf Project and got Federal Department funding to help veterans with PTSD Surf, Thrive and Recover.

Find out all the great work Rusty is doing in this episode.

More info
https://www.veteransurfproject.org/