In late August the Safer Together team hit the Warrego Highway for our second and final Regional Roadshow for 2025. The Roadshow concept, designed by our Engage and Embed Team to engage with member company representatives, deepen member understanding of Safer Together products and programs, support our members in the deployment of these programs, and to raise the profile of Safer Together in the region, has been a success on all counts.
The Roadshow commenced in Roma to an at-capacity audience, something repeated across the week.
The numbers don’t lie:
- 20 face-to-face sessions across 4 locations (Roma, Chinchilla, Dalby and Toowoomba) over 4 days.
- 275 attendees.
- 42 companies represented across the week.
- 12-member company delegates represented their Working Groups by presenting sessions.
- 4 community venues hosted all day sessions.
Member-company subject matter experts delivered sessions on topics identified by Safer Together Working Groups by their relevance to industry activities across the Surat Basin, and as areas in which our members have requested implementation support.
Repeated across each location:
- Member Orientation Session from our Engage and Embed Team.
- Psychosocial Safety, Heat Stress Management and Fatigue Management. Implementation Support Workshop from our Health Working Group
- From Data to Culture: How IVMS Can Support Safer Roads and Better Work – Implementation Support Workshop from our Land Transport Working Group.
- Hand and Finger Safety and Innovation Sharing – Implementation Support Workshop from our Rig Site Safety Working Group, and
- A Member Engagement Evening.
We would like to say thank you to the following member company representatives for facilitating the following sessions:
- Paul Whyte (NACAP) for and Meisha Kershaw (4cRisk) for presenting our Health Working Group sessions.
- James Moffatt (SLB), Dave Pearce (Shell), Tracey Fields (Arrow Energy) and Ariel Hawker (FKG Civil) for presenting the Land Transport Working Gorup sessions.
- Dave Machin (Ensign Australia), Simon McPaul (Morpheus Energy) and Brendan Lyn (Arrow Energy) for presenting the Rig Site Safety Working Group sessions.
We would like to acknowledge the following Member Engagement Evening sponsors, and the following Senior Leaders for attending each evening, and taking the time to listen, learn and share. These evenings remain a highlight of the Roadshows; providing members with the opportunity to discuss current safety challenges faced by frontline workers in our industry, to consider and share emerging issues, and to brainstorm what role Safer Together can play in supporting the frontline workforce to mitigate these issues:
- Roma - Thank you to Santos for their sponsorship, and to Pierre Coetzee (Enerflex) and Joanna Groves (InGauge Energy) for hosting the evening.
- Chinchilla - Thank you to OnSpec DAQ and Monadelphous for their sponsorship, and to Johnathon Copland (Shell), Jamie Gabb (Monadelphous) and Ben Schurman (OnSpec DAQ) for hosting the evening.
- Dalby - Thank you to Arrow Energy and FKG Civil for their sponsorship, and Anton Verdel (Arrow Energy) and host Jamie Gabb (Monadelphous) and Scott Monaghan (NACAP for hosting the evening.
- Toowoomba - Thank you to Australia Pacific LNG and MPC Kinetic for their sponsorship, and to Dan Clark (APLNG) and Marco Waanders (National Mobile Camps) and Andy Gainsforth (General Petroleum Oil Tools) for hosting the evening.
We would like to acknowledge the commitment demonstrated by our operator company Senior Leaders attending sessions and the Member Engagement Evening in each location; sharing stories, asking questions, and listening to contractor company delegates about how contractors and operators can streamline process and better work together to improve safety for workers in our industry by simplifying, standardising and/or sharing.
The Safer Together team, along with Working Group representatives have recorded a list of practical input, suggestions and feedback obtained from our member’s field-based representatives collated from all the Roadshow sessions and have since fed this back through to our Working Groups to inform areas for focus, improvement and 2026 work-planning.
We are Stronger and Safer Together.
To register your interest for our 2026 Roadshow sessions – register your interest now!
Members can download the presentation materials for each session here: