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Meet the Team
Sam Noble
Sam Noble is a well-regarded Health and Safety, and HR expert with a broad range of professional experience. Sam joins FEFO Consulting as Business Development & Safety Consultant working in Perth leading our Western Australian (WA) consulting services along with our product development and sales strategy.
Sam’s international experience enables him to effectively lead our operations across a range of sectors such as Defence, Aviation, and Resources. His expansive career has included work across UK, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. This international experience provides Sam great insight to support our Health and Safety Index clients and strategic Partners in a global market.
Top 3 Tips for a Critical Risk Management: A Year in Review
In the previous year, we have worked across several different industries to help organizations understand their material risks and ensure critical controls are effective to prevent fatalities and catastrophic events. Examples include:
Energy and Power
Retail
Manufacturing
Mining
Ports
Local Councils
Construction
Transport
and several more.
Importantly, each organization is different and needs vary. Notwithstanding this, there are common attributes that assist with enabling effective critical risk management outcomes. Here are the Top 3 Tips from the previous twelve months.
Partner Spotlight
We would like to recognize our Canadian Partner, Kasa Consulting who contributed to our success abstract selected for the upcoming 23rd World Congress. Our Abstract health and safety strategy, “Measure What Matters: Methods to Add Value”, also involved other Partners from around the globe to gain an international perspective, e.g. UK, Brazil, Europe, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Founded by Cam Mitchell, Kasa Consulting is a proven team of Canadian and International accredited Health & Safety consultants working across a range of industries include oil & gas, transport and construction.
“I was thrilled that Mark and his team asked me to participate in the World Congress Abstract. I believe a strong health & safety strategy is fundamental.
The idea of being able to contribute with a number of skilled individuals all over the world was extremely important.”
– Cam Mitchell, President, Kasa Consulting
For more information about our Abstract, refer to our blog.
Client Review
Over the last 18 months, FEFO Consulting have facilitated over 50 safety leadership training sessions with Ventia frontline leaders across Australia and New Zealand. Ventia, a leading company in infrastructure services and value the importance of building leadership capability.
Recently, Amelia Simony, Associate Director of FEFO Consulting, facilitated a number of these leadership training sessions. Through her dynamic and engaging approach, she empowered Ventia’s workforce with invaluable knowledge and practical skills, to improve frontline leadership and support the goal of building of high-performance culture.
We would also like to wish Ventia every success after being selected as finalists in the upcoming NSCA National Safety Awards Category 3 – Best WHS Training Program for this Leadership training delivered by FEFO Consulting being held in September 2023.
LinkSafe
How well is your organization managing contractor safety?
FEFO Consulting has developed a comprehensive Contractor Safety Maturity Assessment to help organizations measure, act and improve on areas that matter. For a demo of this tool, we have provided a FREE Contractor Self-Assessment with a sample of questions for you to access and obtain a complimentary report of your performance.
In partnership with LinkSafe, FEFO Consulting is supporting the LinkSafe Concierge process. FEFO Consulting can act as an extension to your team. Our team of consultants will be able to manage the pre-qualification and renewals of your contractors, administer the licence and credential checks, as well as provide assistance and support to contractors when required. LinkSafe Concierge gives you the confidence of a consistent approach to contractor management by having a team of certified safety consultants managing the process for you.
Motivational Speaker
Mark Berridge
“Embracing Uncertainty, Liberating Possibility”
Meet Mark Berridge, a remarkable individual with an unwavering passion for motivating people to achieve better outcomes in business and enrich meaning in life.
Mark’s expertise extends beyond personal triumphs, as he possesses a deep understanding of the intricacies of the corporate world. His international corporate career provided him with valuable insights and skills in leadership, strategy, and effective communication. With this knowledge, combined with his personal journey, Mark is exceptionally equipped to motivate individuals and teams to unleash their full potential, both in business and in life.
The Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner (OFSC) recently awarded one of our clients Baseline Projects their accreditation to bid for commonwealth construction work greater than $4 million.
The journey of helping a client through OFSC accreditation is tough! It is well recognised achieving OFSC accreditation is much harder than ISO45001 and similar industry certifications.
Despite the hard slog, it was incredibly rewarding seeing our client Baseline succeed. When I tell this story, the first response I get is often “…who is Baseline Projects?”. Both Aaron Meharg and Dave Vella are two young Directors of Baseline with bright futures. Their personal leadership to own, develop and execute health & safety on their construction sites was amazing!
Approx 6 months prior to achieving OFSC accreditation, Aaron, the Managing Director of Baseline Projects approached FEFO Consulting hoping to gain accreditation to bid for commonwealth funded construction work. I agreed to help Aaron with hesitation, knowing how difficult the OFSC requirements are to both develop and implement. We started with a blank sheet of paper and a few months later – boom! success 🙂
This success will not only help Baseline workers safety, this is also a huge financial boost for such a young company. Once Baseline obtained their safety accreditation, they were almost immediately awarded a multimillion-dollar contract with the Australian Defence Force.
FEFO Consulting learnt plenty along the way helping Baseline. For more information refer to our Success Stories for a free guide on how to achieve OFSC accreditation.
FEFO Consulting was contacted by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) to provide guidance to directors and officers on effective safety governance.
Balancing Safety Legal Compliance with Effective Leadership
Changes to National Heavy Vehicle Laws (NHVL) and Chain of Responsibility (CoR) requirements left many industry stakeholders confused. In parallel, several high profile Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) prosecutions and jail sentences of directors raised safety governance concerns with boards and directors.
Safety Governance
FEFO Consulting facilitated a simple webinar to cover:
• Legal obligations including WHS, the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) and the new Chain of Responsibility (CoR) changes • Safety Due Diligence Framework and six keys to effective safety leadership • Simple recommendations on how to demonstrate WHS/ CoR due diligence • Cultural and organisational blocks to achieving sustainable change.
Six Steps to Safety Legal Due Diligence
Six simple steps to assist leaders not only demonstrate legal due diligence, but also demonstrate desired safety leadership behaviours and effective outcomes.
Effective leadership
Identify entities and Officers
Define roles and expectations
Develop a Risk Appetite Statement
Map due diligence activities & incentives
Measure governance and verify critical controls are effective
FEFO Consulting was engaged to complete a review the Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) function of NSW Government Department of Planning & Environment. Various aspects of safety culture and teamwork were evaluated and reassessed after 12 months. The results demonstrated a remarkable step change and safety culture and team performance.
Challenge
Culture and Team Performance
• Team design did not align with stakeholders, activity & locations
• Job design not aligned to work
• Accountability, trust and morale was low
Solution
Case for Change & Team Re-design
• Safety team and function assessment
• Recruited 17 new roles, including a new WHS Director
• Right people, Right place!
Outcome
Performance Improvement
• WHS Function Overall Performance up 39%
• Greater operational presence up 50%
• Team Engagement & Motivation up 37%
• Team members willingness to call out unproductive behaviour up 36%
• Team role clarity up 27%
What we do
We help organisations simplify critical aspects of health and safety by strengthening controls and enabling high performance.
