Brassbear Solutions

OSH Harmonisation

A number of the States – including WA, Victoria and NSW – have now written to the Federal Minister for Workplace Relations regarding their intentions to delay the implementation of harmonisation of work health and safety laws. However, the harmonisation will certainly arrive, and when it does organisations will need to be prepared. We’ve been asked multiple questions about the subject, so the...

Insurance – Generation i Leaders of the Pack...

The ‘Generation i Leaders of the Pack Luncheon’ was held in Perth on the 8th November. This was a great event for younger insurance professionals, or those new to the insurance industry, to gain some insights into the challenges and opportunities that exist in insurance, and financial services more broadly. I was there to share some stories and offer some potential options for career development,...

Business Continuity Management

For those of you based in WA, and looking to advance your competence in business continuity management (BCM), then look no further than the 5-day ‘Business Continuity Institute’ (BCI) Certificate Course and Examination. This will be running on either sides of a weekend here in Perth, with confirmed dates of the 23rd to the 25th November and the 28th to 29th November 2011. The course is based on the...

Risk Profile: Hamish Nelson (Geotechnical Engineer...

Hamish explains to me that geotechnical engineering is concerned with ‘where structures meet the ground’. We’ve arranged to meet at J B O’Reilly’s on Cambridge Street near Subiaco to break bread, admittedly in the form of Guinness, and talk risk. He already understands that I’m not a geotechnical engineer. If that was at any time unclear, the reality becomes apparent immediately. He painstakingly...

Learning & Development

'There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm' - W Cather

Brassbear Solutions provides customised client training programs in risk management, crisis and business continuity management and occupational health and safety. All programs are developed from identified client need, but utilising existing packages and intellectual property so that clients do not have to ‘reinvent the wheel’. Instead, clients can benefit from Brassbear Solutions’ existing skills, knowledge and attitude. This includes experienced trainers with the ‘Certificate IV in Training and Assessment’ who focus on their own specialities to deliver unique workforce learning, training, presenting, lecturing and assessment opportunities.

Risk Management Solutions

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. - W Buffett

Brassbear Solutions helps clients to effectively manage their risks. Risk management is a comprehensive process, supported by appropriate frameworks and strategies, that can be used to identify, analyse, evaluate, treat and monitor those risks that could prevent an organisation from achieving its objectives. In application, risk management reduces uncertainty and is critical for clients looking to ensure their organisational assets and services are effectively protected and optimised.

Brassbear Solutions helps clients address their strategic and operational risks by utilising an ‘organisation’ or ‘enterprise-wide’ approach.

OHS Solutions

'Safety is something that happens between your ears......' - J Cooper

Brassbear Solutions helps clients to identify their OHS exposures, develop and implement proactive strategies. In part, these strategies are targeted at improving legislative compliance and achieving financial and organisational efficiencies through the management of incidents and claim drivers.

Workers’ compensation is often an organisation’s largest insurance spend, and perceived as an overhead that cannot be managed. In fact, workers’ compensation experience is an output from an organisations OHS culture, performance and investment.