About Us
40 years ago Occupational Safety and Health Associates – or OSHA Aust – was launched by a small team with a passion for providing the highest quality of health and safety training and consulting. Over the years OSHA has expanded and gained immense experience across a range of industry sectors.
However, the intrinsic passion for the highest quality of health and safety remains constant.
Rather than just do policies and procedures, we put PEOPLE back into work (& occupational) health and safety – WHS or OHS. And ‘work’ is something we DO, not just a place we go.
Our clients from across Australia and around the world tell us that they choose OSHA because of the breadth of our experience and our practical and effective approach. OSHA’s unique expertise lies in using health and safety as the ‘window to your organisation’. By working with your people – from the top to the bottom – about their perceived health and safety issues we are able to pinpoint other opportunities to improve the way the whole organisation functions. We believe health and safety concerns often indicate other more fundamental issues, so we explore the opportunities to add value to the whole organisation – not just through controlling hazards and risks to peoples’ health, safety and well-being – but through overall organisational health, productivity and morale.
Global clients that benefit from OSHA’s practical and realistic approach, include DuPont, ExxonMobil, Nufarm, Motorola, Aust Dept of Defence, Thales (Aust Defence Industries), FM Global, Goulburn-Murray Water, Fluor, Kodak, Boral, Dept of Justice (Vic), Esso, BP, National Rail Corporation, Mercer (Aust), Telstra, Thiess, Sumitomo (ABA), GSK, CSIRO.
OSHA is committed and passionate about helping people at all levels in an organisation, not only improve the standards of their working conditions, but moreover making their organisation more ‘fun’ to be part of.
Penny Eaton
Penny has a distinguished career spanning 24 years as an Occupational Health and Safety Training professional. Penny is an extremely experienced facilitator with an exceptional ability to connect with individuals from diverse workplaces. Penny captures her audience with her wide knowledge, her varied teaching methods and her vast knowledge of training materials. This combined with her life experience of working in the OHS industry makes for a perfect fit in developing the skills of your employees.
Penny’s expertise in training HSRs, supervisors and managers will lead to empowering them with the knowledge and skills to create safer working environments.
Penny’s initial career involved working in return-to-work programs for injured workers. It was there that she saw the essential need for prevention training for employers and their employees rather than the arduous and costly task of the rehabilitation of workers.
Prevention of work-related injuries is her focus in the delivery of her training. Penny has strong passion for providing exceptional Occupational Health and Safety training to a wide array of industries, with a view to enabling organisations to create and maintain safe and healthy work environments.
Dr David McIvor
With over 40 years experience David has assisted many Australian and international companies, to help them address their work safety, health and risk management needs. He has experience in manufacturing, transport & logistics, chemicals, construction, utilities – and many more sectors. David has a passion for providing the highest quality of health and safety training and consulting and strives to make work and workplaces safer for everyone.
He is the author of the “Working from Home Safety Handbook – An Employee Guide to Working Safely from Home” and Overuse Injuries – the RSI Phenomenon (on the causes and prevention of work-related musculo-skeletal disorders), now updated and available as an e-book “Overuse Injuries – the RSI Phenomenon REVISITED“.