WE ARE YOUR WHS
INNOVATORS
How did we get here? Sheesh it’s one hell of a story
Origin-wise, our family is from agriculture, specifically cattle farming and horses, in the Great Southern. Surrounding us were predominantly wheat and sheep farms.
In 2019, I was a Personal Trainer in Perth when I suffered a life-changing entanglement injury. My leg was hanging on by a 20-cent piece size attachment, an open compound fracture, and I underwent titanium rod placement from knee to ankle, muscle graft, and multiple skin grafts. Although it wasn't a workplace incident, it changed my view of hazard and risk perception. While in hospital, a nurse told me I would need to seek a new career, and I ended up in Primary Education. I won't lie, I didn't love it, but I completed my degree anyway.
When I completed my course in 2011, 250 graduates didn't get jobs because the teaching system was too full. I frantically applied for any job and patiently waited in my small country town for any kind of work. I was hired by Orica Mining, the world's largest supplier of explosives, on my very first day of my new mining job. I was also offered a teaching job, but I turned it down and have never looked back, finding passion in heavy industry and its people.
In 2017, after completing my Graduate Diploma of Occupational Health and Safety, I started Fostering Safety to gain my own experience with small local businesses in my area. Since then, it has always been ticking along in the background, especially serving as an outlet for me as a stay-at-home Mum to keep my skills sharp.
In 2022, our family made the progressive decision to undertake a stereotypical household role swap. I returned to work full-time, and my husband became our stay-at-home Dad. This has been a significant risk that has ultimately paid off in terms of work-life balance with a young family.
Moving forward, we are excited about the future of Fostering Safety and its ability to meet any requirements your business may have while remaining flexible in our approach to engagement.
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Kirsten Borgas
Director
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Kirsten
PRINCIPAL
With over 10 years of heavy industry experience in commercial construction and mining, Principal WHS Consultant Kirsten is passionate about building understanding and culture around safety through practical training and systems.
Working with industries of all kinds, she believes in transparent communication between all levels of your business to establish buy-in of systems to ensure business excellence, stability and sustainability.
Kirsten is currently learning and working in the neuroscience space to bring businesses better leadership, management and psychosocial strategies.
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Caitlyn
HSEQ ADVISOR
Caitlyn is firecracker and knows her stuff! With a background in administration and customer services, document control and building end-user focused systems with reducing safety clutter in mind.
Caitlyn has a passion for finding new and digital ways of conducting business, with a personal sustainability goal. Caitlyn is currently on an education journey in Work Health and Safety including Occupational Hygiene and Human and Operational Performance.
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Trish
QUALITY EXCELLENCE SPECIALIST
Trish is an experienced Quality Consultant with an exceptional focus for Quality Management Systems (QMS). Trish brings a wealth of knowledge and experience of developing, implementing and maintaining to international standard accredditation by gearing systems to AS/NZS 45001, AS/NZS 9001 and AS/NZS 14000.
Trish's broad work history in construction, education, disability and currently the arbor industry make her an excellent communicator and consultant with businesses to reach practicable outcomes. Trish is also skilled in management, training, human resources, quality and safety. She is a powerhouse professional in program and project management with a Diploma of Business, Diploma of Quality Auditing and Certificate of Attainment in Quality Management Systems.
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Cait
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE SPECIALIST
Our Operational Excellence Specialist Caitylyn helps companies to streamline their procedures so that they operate more efficiently and increase profitably.
Caitylyn is interested in helping your company strive to keep from being wasteful in your business processes and helps provide an objective view on your organisation’s structure and processes. Caitylyn can guide and develop company reports, templates, change management plans and assist with process training gap analysis to help get the most from your staff.
