The organisation was facing concerns regarding workplace interactions, particularly;

• Councillors and workers; and
• Councillors and other key stakeholders

There was a need for a structured, evidence-based approach to assess an address psychosocial risks.

FEFO Consulting shared findings from the Psychosocial risk review to enable the organisation to:

• Eliminate or minimise the risks identified
• Develop a targeted strategy to improve workplace interactions and behaviours.

By leveraging the insights from the Psychosocial Dx and the evidence gathered through interviews, FEFO Consulting provided a data-driven assessment of workplace interactions and risks.

This comprehensive approach allowed the organisation to understand the risks associated and contributing factors leading to psychosocial risks and the impacts to their workforce, e.g.
• Cognitive and Task Demand (51) / Praise & Recognition (53) were the lowest scoring Dimensions
• As a result, Engagement (33) and Burnout (47) were the lowest scoring Worker Outcomes.

Data driven insights not only supported legal compliance, but also clear strategies for action and methods to effectively verify effectiveness of controls.

A leading Australian engineering supply company was struggling with injury management and workers’ compensation, with claim performance lagging 89% behind industry benchmarks.

While claim costs remained stable, the organisation needed to enhance safety measures and claims management strategies to reduce risks, prevent high-cost claims, and improve financial sustainability.

With FEFO Consulting’s support, the engineering supply company achieved:

• A 59% improvement in claim performance since FY 2022-23, significantly reducing risk.
• Stable claim costs despite significant business growth, demonstrating effective risk management.
• No open premium-impacting claims, highlighting the success of proactive claims management.
• A trajectory to outperform industry benchmarks by FY 2025-26, further strengthening financial stability.

The renewable energy company specialising in EPC solutions for high-voltage and renewable energy projects, faced the challenge of achieving FSC accreditation in less than six months. Often achieving FSC accreditation takes years, not months! This required aligning client systems with FSC strict requirements across all levels of their organisation and end-to-end project stages.

The Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner granted accreditation, enabling this client to bid for Commonwealth-funded construction projects valued over $4 million and secure an existing project to realise an immediate Return on Investment (ROI).

This accreditation not only created a strong foundation for health and safety practice but also provided a commercial competitive advantage to secure future federally funded construction contracts.

– Decentralised approach to manage risk
– Material risks across the Group unknown
– Expectations on critical controls unclear
– Limited visibility of critical control effectiveness.

A clear set of material risks were provided with supporting critical controls and performance criteria to assist with future verification activity and assurance. As a result, the following improvements were generated:
– 41 new critical controls identified
– 16 critical controls changed to ensure they are verifiable
– On average 4 new critical controls identified / material risk.

H&M Civil deliver high risk work in complex settings that require the right selection and management of safety products, e.g. gloves, height safety equipment and other specialist Personal Protective Equipment. (PPE).

Hand and finger injuries were often the most frequent body part injured. Hand and finger injuries are often preventable through proactive strategies to select and apply the right safety products.

As a results, we were able to match the right safety products with activity being performance to ensure items were fit-for-purpose. Leveraging the buying power of Paramount Safety, we also saved money and added real value. A WIN-WIN!

Boral operated multiple business lines across Australia with high levels of variation between procurement categories of both goods and services.

FEFO Consulting developed a clear set of safety requirements for Source to Contract (S2C) and Procure to Pay (P2P). This helped standardise Boral processes, systems and technology solutions, while also enabling effective business and site level risk controls.

Baseline Projects was a small construction company with limited resources and revenues less than $2M / year.

The Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner provided Baseline Project with accreditation, allowing them to bid for commonwealth funded construction work >$4M.
This not only established a great health & safety foundation for Baseline, but has also put them in a fantastic commercial position to win work!

The workforce was considered high risk due the sedentary nature of work, demographic profile and a history of traumatic events. Senior leaders were highly engaged recognising they needed assistance to better understand the organisational mental health risk profile. This would then allow them to make informed risk-based decisions.

As result, FEFO Consulting helped the organisation build a clear foundational understanding of their unique risk profile to target specific areas of focus, e.g. traumatic exposures, support networks, group conflict, sleep and job design.