The Australian Health & Safety Business Podcast
Brendan Torazzi, director of OHS.com.au, is building Australia's first online health and safety marketplace. In this monthly (ish) podcast he interviews the personalities that shape health and safety culture around the country.
Episodes
74 episodes
Ep 76 National Media new owners of the Workplace Health Safety Show
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 76
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19:45
Ep 75 A professional surfer’s near-death experience inspires others to build resilience in times of need
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 hi...
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Episode 0
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30:27
Ep 73 Awards Australia's Community Achievement Awards goes National
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 thro...
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26:41
Ep 71 Barron Hanson, documentary filmmaker, builds a community happiness project in Nowra
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 th...
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Episode 71
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25:34
Ep 70 Anne Savage, CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, explains why you should get tested
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...
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26:38
Ep 69 Meet Tammi Kirkness talks to us about the Panic Button, a best selling book around dealing with anxiety
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....
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Episode 69
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22:01
Ep 68 Kristine Tuazon explains why now is the best time for safety careers.
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 worke...
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Episode 68
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25:55
Ep 67 Maree Kinsella, CEO of IEC Group, expands the WHS Show to Brisbane
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, technol...
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Episode 67
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23:38
Ep 66 Graeme Cowan, renowned mental health author / speaker, and co-founder of RUOK uses a previous personal crisis to help others
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...
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Episode 66
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21:24
Ep 65 Wayne McCoy explains how witnessing a workplace death changed his life
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.
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Episode 65
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24:29
Ep 64 Brad Waldon from Corehesion develops software to help Heavy Industry run efficiently
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...
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24:01
Ep 63 Corrina Lindby loves to say Yes to all sorts of compliance requirements
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 Traini...
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27:10
Ep 62 Jody's deep understanding of safety mining brings an app with a twist into workplaces
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...
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Episode 62
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27:43
Ep 61 Outback Mind promotes Pre-habilitation is better than Rehabilitation.
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 ...
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Episode 61
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25:06
Ep 60 Julie Armour - practical safety wins over theory ever time!
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 H...
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Season 2
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Episode 60
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28:38
Ep 59 Macforce Health & Safety Labour Hire giving ex-offenders a new start
Changing the way people are employed in AustraliaMACFORCE 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.<...
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Episode 59
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25:46
Ep 58 Meet Cathal Uniacke and how Custodian Safety Services makes an impact
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 va...
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Episode 58
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24:35
Ep 57 Trent Head shares his story of losing his father whilst working as a contractor at Sydney Trains
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 57
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27:16
Tim Lowery, Friable Asbestos Removalist, talks about the clean up efforts in Northern NSW after the floods
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...
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Episode 56
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27:15
AFL Performance Coach John Toomey explains how the business world is awakening to wellness
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.
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31:30
Survival - National first aid supplies with a real mission & branding twist
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 M...
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29:42
Meet Peter Blayney from Bluetron - the godfather of Verification of Competencies!
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 civil...
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37:27
Karen's Castledine Work Options is a 22 year old Rehab provider pivoting for further success
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...
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26:46
After working at Master Builders, Rachael Vickers gets inspired to help tradies!
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 thei...
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Season 2
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Episode 51
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25:35
Lawyer Sue Botrell explains how many companies are overcomplicating Contractors
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 compan...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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28:57