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Work Health & Safety Consulting

Practical, people-centred WHS advice tailored to your organisation’s needs.

Why Safety Consulting Matters Now More Than Ever

In today’s fast changing work environment, safety is more than a compliance exercise, it’s a strategic and ethical responsibility. With increasing regulatory complexity, heightened enforcement, and growing expectations around leadership accountability, organisations must be proactive, not reactive.

New and emerging risks, particularly psychosocial hazards, require a deeper understanding of how work is done and how people are impacted. Generic systems and tick-box approaches no longer deliver the performance or protection organisations need.

That’s where Work Health and Safety consulting makes a difference. By bringing expert, external insight and a practical, human-centred perspective, consultants help you navigate uncertainty, clarify responsibilities, and build safety systems that work in the real world. Whether you're managing high-risk operations, preparing for certification, or aiming to strengthen culture, Work Health and Safety consulting provides the structure, clarity, and confidence to move forward safely.

Our Work Health & Safety Services

Practical, people-first consulting grounded in real work.

Our Approach to WHS Consulting

At Work Safety Hub, we take a practical, human-centred approach to safety consulting. We don’t believe in generic solutions or off-the-shelf templates. Instead, we combine deep regulatory knowledge, real-world experience, and contemporary safety thinking to every engagement, tailoring our advice to your unique context.

Grounded in Contemporary Safety Science

Our work is informed by leading-edge frameworks such as Safety Differently, Human and Organisational Performance (HOP), and Resilience Engineering. These approaches shift the focus from control and compliance to understanding work, supporting decision making, and designing systems that help people succeed.

 

 

Focused on What Works in Practice

We work alongside your teams, from leadership to the frontline, to understand how work is actually done and where risks lie. This enables us to deliver practical, risk-based solutions that are more likely to be adopted and embedded.

Advisors, Not Auditors

We see ourselves as partners, not enforcers. We aim to empower your people, build internal capability, and support sustainable improvement, not just pass a compliance test.

Whether you're facing complex risks, cultural challenges, or system gaps, we help you respond with clarity, confidence, and care.

 

 

Curious How We Tailor Solutions to Your Industry?

Explore our sector experience to see how we support safety across diverse industries and risk environments.
Comprehensive consulting services tailored to your safety needs.

Safety Consulting Services We Offer

Systems & Compliance Advisory

From ISO frameworks to regulatory audits, we help you build, refine, and optimise safety systems that are both compliant and genuinely practical. Our focus is on creating systems that align with your operational realities—not just meeting standards on paper.

Whether you're aiming for certification, improving internal consistency, or strengthening due diligence, we ensure your systems are simple, scalable, and effective where it matters most: in the real world of work.

WHS Risk Assessments

We conduct structured, context-specific risk assessments tailored to your operations, workforce, and industry environment. Our approach goes beyond generic checklists, we work closely with your teams to identify real-world hazards, assess the effectiveness of existing controls, and uncover hidden risks that may impact safety performance.

The outcome is a clear, prioritised understanding of risk that supports informed decision making, stronger critical controls, and safer, more resilient operations across your projects and day-to-day activities.

Incident Investigation & Learning Teams

We facilitate modern, forward-looking investigations using techniques like Learning Teams and Work-as-Done reviews. These methods shift the focus from blame to learning,  helping organisations understand the system conditions and contributing factors behind incidents or near misses. By engaging those closest to the work, we uncover practical insights, highlight where systems need strengthening, and create space for honest reflection.

The result is not just a report but a meaningful learning process that drives continuous improvement, builds trust, and reduces the likelihood of recurrence, strengthening both safety performance and organisational resilience.

Critical Risk Reviews & Bowtie Analysis

We help organisations focus their efforts where it counts, on managing critical risks that have the potential for serious harm. Using structured, visual tools like Bowtie analysis, we map threats, controls, and consequences in a way that’s easy to understand and apply. This process helps clarify which controls are essential, how they function in practice, and where vulnerabilities may exist.

By engaging teams in the analysis, we build shared understanding, improve decision-making, and support a proactive approach to risk management. The result is clearer visibility of your most significant risks and stronger, more reliable control strategies that protect people and operations.

Contractor Safety Management

We design and implement end-to-end contractor safety management systems that ensure every contractor, regardless of their size or role, is effectively inducted, supervised, and aligned with your organisation’s safety standards. Our approach covers every stage, from prequalification and onboarding to on-site monitoring and post-project review.

We help you establish clear expectations, consistent communication, and robust verification processes so all parties understand and uphold safety responsibilities.

By improving visibility, accountability, and engagement, our systems reduce contractor-related risks, strengthen compliance, and support safer, more collaborative project delivery from start to finish.

Psychosocial Risk Support

We support organisations in identifying, assessing, and addressing psychosocial hazards in the workplace, such as workload pressures, role ambiguity, poor communication, and lack of support. Our approach goes beyond compliance with emerging legislation to focus on building psychologically safe environments where people feel valued, respected, and able to speak up.

Through tailored assessments, leadership engagement, and system-level interventions, we help you create conditions that reduce psychological harm, improve wellbeing, and foster stronger team dynamics. The result is a healthier, more engaged workforce, and a more resilient, high-performing organisation.

ISO 45001 Certification Support

We guide you through every stage of the ISO 45001 certification journey, from initial gap analysis and system development to implementation support and audit readiness.

Our process begins with assessing your current practices against the standard’s requirements, identifying areas for improvement, and designing a system that’s both compliant and practical for your operations.

We then support you in embedding these systems, engaging your teams, and building internal capability to ensure lasting impact.

As you prepare for certification, we provide mock audits, documentation reviews, and auditor liaison to give you full confidence on audit day. Whether you’re seeking first-time certification or maintaining an existing system, we make the process smooth, achievable, and value-driven.

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Industry-specific safety advice designed to meet your unique risks and operational realities.

Tailored Solutions for Your Sector and Risk Profile

Safety challenges vary widely across industries. That’s why our consulting is never one size fits all. We tailor every solution to your sector, operational environment, and level of safety maturity, ensuring advice that’s relevant, practical, and effective.

Construction & Infrastructure

We support builders, contractors, and civil projects with systems and strategies to manage high-risk work, complex subcontractor interfaces, and principal contractor responsibilities.

Renewable Energy

From wind and solar farms to battery storage, we provide guidance through the entire project lifecycle, including commissioning, energisation, and remote work challenges.

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Manufacturing & Logistics

We address plant safety, manual handling, contractor controls, and shift work risks, supporting both compliance and continuous improvement in high-output environments.

Healthcare & Corporate

We help organisations manage psychosocial risks, build due diligence capability, and align WHS with broader governance frameworks.

Whether you’re building foundational systems, preparing for certification, or transforming safety culture, we adapt our consulting to suit your unique risks and goals. Our advice is grounded in industry understanding and shaped by real-world experience—so you get solutions that actually work where work happens.

Support Across All Industries

While we specialise in high-risk sectors like construction, manufacturing, and renewables, our consultants work across a wide range of industries, adapting solutions to suit any organisational context.

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Client Success Stories

See how we've helped our valued clients enhance safety performance, meet compliance requirements, and strengthen safety culture through tailored practical solutions.

Practical support that turns expert advice into meaningful, lasting safety improvements.

From Advice to Action: What You Can Expect

At Work Safety Hub, we don’t just hand over a report and walk away. Our consulting is designed to drive real change, transforming insight into action and helping your organisation achieve lasting safety improvements.

Clear, Prioritised Recommendations

Every engagement delivers more than observations. We provide clear, risk-based recommendations prioritised by impact and feasibility so you know exactly where to focus your efforts first.

Support with Implementation

We help you put solutions into practice, not just talk about them. From designing practical procedures to running workshops, we support your team through every stage of implementation.

Leadership Engagement

Improving safety requires leadership alignment. We work closely with executives and operational leaders to build understanding, ownership, and a shared vision for safety improvement.

System Development and Refinement

Need a stronger foundation? We can design or refine your WHS management system to ensure it’s compliant, user-friendly, and tailored to your operations.

Sustainable Culture Change

By focusing on how work is done, not just what's written down, we help create safety systems that stick. The result is not just compliance but a more capable, confident, and engaged workforce.

With us, safety consulting becomes a catalyst for meaningful, measurable improvement.

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We don’t bolt on more safety paperwork—we build capability into how work flows

Building Safety Into Work, Not Around It

Because when safety is part of the job, it sticks

Most safety strategies layer on tasks and checklists that compete with the work itself. This creates friction, not freedom.

Our approach is different, we integrate safety directly into the way work is planned, led, and executed. Using principles from human and organisational performance (HOP), we help teams design and guide work in ways that build the capacity to fail safely, adapt under pressure, and recover quickly.

From planning phases to pre-starts to leadership walk-arounds, we work with your people to embed safety thinking into operational practice. The result is not just fewer injuries but more resilient teams, stronger supervision, and smarter decisions.

Safety becomes how things are done, not a separate checklist.

Blame fixes nothing—understanding everything makes all the difference

Learning as a System, Not Blaming Individuals

We turn incidents into insight and everyday work into a learning and improvement

Blame has no place in modern safety. Most organisations are fast-paced, possibly high-risk, and technically complex. Mistakes will happen, but rather than asking “Who’s at fault?”, we focus on “How did this happen?” and “Why did it make sense at the time?”

At Work Safety Hub, we help organisations shift from reactive, compliance-driven investigations to proactive learning systems. Using approaches like Learning Teams and Work-as-Done explorations, we uncover how work is really carried out, highlighting what’s working well and where systems may need redesign.

By focusing on system conditions rather than individual behaviour, we foster psychological safety and create space for people to speak up, share concerns, and contribute to meaningful change. This is how organisations build trust, resilience, and a culture of continuous improvement.

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