The Australian Health & Safety Business Podcast

Mar 20 2024 74 ep. 24 mins 50

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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.

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Ep 76 National Media new owners of the Workplace Health Safety Show

Mar 20 2024 19 mins

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 the biggest single gathering of buyers and decision-makers responsible for occupational health, safety, environment and workforce wellbeing

Ep 75 A professional surfer’s near-death experience inspires others to build resilience in times of need

Jan 25 2024 30 mins

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 his gift of storytelling was going to have a greater impact on our world.Tune in to hear from Brett about his journey towards life as a motiva

Ep 73 Awards Australia's Community Achievement Awards goes National

Dec 03 2023 26 mins

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 through established marketing, media and event management expertise.With it's Community Awards it looks to highlight unsung heroes within communities a

Ep 71 Barron Hanson, documentary filmmaker, builds a community happiness project in Nowra

Sep 18 2023 25 mins

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 that led him to eventually becoming a Vedic Meditation teacher. Some research into meditators in Washington in the 70's decreasing the crime l

Ep 70 Anne Savage, CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, explains why you should get tested

Aug 13 2023 26 mins

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 men should consider getting tested.The challenge is one of education for the community and getting it detected, if it is something present, at an

Ep 69 Meet Tammi Kirkness talks to us about the Panic Button, a best selling book around dealing with anxiety

Jul 24 2023 22 mins

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.Tammi's system was used for about year and then she got published with Murdoch Books who are a part of Allen & Unwin after being rejected by sev

Ep 68 Kristine Tuazon explains why now is the best time for safety careers.

May 28 2023 25 mins

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 worked in the industry since 2007 and run her own HR recruitment business Good People HR out of Melbourne since 2012. Kristine explains how flexible work settings

Ep 67 Maree Kinsella, CEO of IEC Group, expands the WHS Show to Brisbane

May 01 2023 23 mins

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, technology developments and safety trends.Taking place from 31 May to 1 June 2023 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, this year�

Ep 66 Graeme Cowan, renowned mental health author / speaker, and co-founder of RUOK uses a previous personal crisis to help others

Apr 26 2023 21 mins

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 on to sit on the board of the RU-OK day for 13 years.Graeme has now written 3 books that have been published in multiple territories and languages

Ep 65 Wayne McCoy explains how witnessing a workplace death changed his life

Apr 11 2023 24 mins

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.After receiving formal training Wayne moved to Darwin and fixed basic conditions in a warehousing situation that had extreme conditions. Wayne