Health and safety

It is estimate that across the globe over 6,000 people die every day from work related accidents and diseases. Around four per cent of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) is also estimated to be lost due to direct and indirect costs, including compensation, medical expenses, property damage, lost earnings and replacement training.

Companies today are facing a range of opportunities and challenges:

• Regulatory change
• Cost of claims and insurance
• Proliferation of mobile devices and data
• Consumer pressure / licence to operate
• Behavioural change and leadership
• Bureaucracy and simplicity
• Duty of care
• Employee wellness and mental health
• Reliance on third parties / contracting

Having the right safety culture is critical in driving safety performance

While many businesses have focused heavily on improving safety outcomes, the approaches that have achieved success in the past may not be fit for purpose in the future. In some cases, companies have also realised that in their desire to comply with regulatory requirements they ‘can’t see the forest for the trees’ and are buried in process that doesn’t necessarily enhance safety outcomes.

“It is estimated that around four per cent of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) is lost due to various direct and indirect costs, including compensation, medical expenses, property damage, lost earnings and replacement training.”

Safety and Health at Work: A Vision for Sustainable Prevention
International Labour Organisation 2014

Improve workplace health and safety outcomes

We help clients protect their people and optimise the return on the health and safety investment. Improving health and safety performance and unlocking efficiencies requires a unique blend of skills and experience. Our multi-disciplinary team draws on our capabilities in strategy, leadership and culture, risk, legal, data analytics, technology and management consulting to help our clients achieve better health and safety outcomes.

We offer:

• Aligning culture to safety outcomes
• Transforming safety functions to deliver greater value
• Providing advice to Directors and Officers
• Harnessing technology and data to identify and target risk drivers
• Responding rapidly to significant incidents
• Workplace productivity

This helps our clients:

• Protect their license to operate;
• Optimise their ROI in health and safety;
• Comply with their regulatory obligations; and
• Most importantly, protect the people that they work with.