Safetysure is a Brisbane WHS Consultancy. We help Queensland businesses meet their duties under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld), reduce risk to workers, and build safety systems that hold up in practice and under audit. Our team works across government, construction, healthcare, resources and energy, defence, manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, ports, recycling, and retail, and we travel to high-hazard sites throughout Queensland and interstate. If you are searching for a WHS consultant in Brisbane, this page sets out what we do, how we work, and the legislative obligations our services are built around, so you can decide whether we are the right fit before you pick up the phone.
Brisbane and South East Queensland focus
Our regional office is located in South Brisbane, and we work with businesses across the city and the wider South East Queensland region, including Ipswich, Logan, the Bayside, the Gold Coast, and the Sunshine Coast. That local base matters for the kind of work we do. Brisbane’s industrial profile, from the growing Olympic construction projects, port and river precincts through the food, manufacturing and recycling operations in the south and west, brings specific hazard exposures, and the subtropical climate adds heat stress and indoor air quality challenges that businesses here manage every summer. Our consultants know these conditions first-hand rather than reading them off a national template.
What a Brisbane WHS consultant actually does
A work health and safety consultant helps a person conducting a business or undertaking (a PCBU) understand and discharge its safety duties. Under section 19 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld), a PCBU must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of its workers and of other people affected by its work. That single duty sits behind almost everything a competent consultant does.
The phrase “so far as is reasonably practicable” is the part that trips most businesses up. It is not a fixed checklist. It requires you to weigh the likelihood and degree of harm against what is known about the risk and the cost of controlling it. A good consultant helps you make and document those judgements defensibly, rather than handing you a generic template and leaving you to guess.
Section 19(3) goes further and names specific things a PCBU must provide so far as is reasonably practicable, including a safe work environment, safe plant and structures, safe systems of work, safe handling and storage of substances, adequate welfare facilities, the necessary information, training, instruction and supervision, and monitoring of worker health and workplace conditions. Useful WHS consulting maps directly onto those obligations rather than to a sales brochure.
Officers carry their own duty. Section 27 of the Act requires an officer of a PCBU to exercise due diligence to ensure the business complies with its WHS duties. Due diligence has a defined meaning: keeping WHS knowledge current, understanding the operation and its hazards, ensuring appropriate resources and processes are available and used, ensuring information about incidents and risks is received and acted on, and verifying that all of this is actually happening. Directors and senior managers who want to meet section 27 are a core part of who we advise.
What our Brisbane WHS consultants offer
We deliver the full range of work health and safety consulting, and we also bring two specialists that most general WHS firms do not: occupational hygiene and psychosocial risk management. You can see the full list on our safety consulting services page.
Brisbane WHS Consultant audits and compliance reviews
We audit safety management systems against the WHS Act, the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld), the relevant codes of practice, and the requirements of AS/NZS ISO 45001:2018. Safetysure is certified to ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and ISO 14001, so our audit methodology reflects the standards we are certified against rather than a generic checklist. You receive a findings report with prioritised, practical recommendations and a corrective action plan you can track. For more on the different audit types and how to choose an auditor, see our guide to choosing a WHS auditor and our WHS audit services.
Risk assessment and risk management
We help you identify hazards, assess risk, and apply the hierarchy of control properly, with elimination and engineering controls preferred over reliance on administrative measures and personal protective equipment. We document the reasoning so the control decisions stand up if a regulator or a court ever asks why you did what you did.
Safe work method statements and high-risk construction work
If your work includes high-risk construction work, section 299 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld) requires a safe work method statement to be prepared before the work starts. The statement must identify the high-risk construction work, state the hazards and risks, describe the control measures, and describe how those controls are implemented, monitored, and reviewed. We prepare and review SWMS that meet that standard and are written to be genuinely usable on site.
Principal contractors should note that their obligation under section 312 is to take all reasonable steps to obtain a copy of each SWMS before the relevant work starts. The duty to assess, monitor, and review the way that work is carried out sits elsewhere, principally in the broader duties under section 19 and the construction provisions of the Regulation. We help principal contractors set up systems that meet both the obtain duty and the wider obligations, rather than treating section 312 as the whole of the job.
Psychosocial risk management
Psychosocial hazards are now an express part of Queensland WHS law. We help businesses identify psychosocial hazards, assess and control them, and meet their obligations under the Regulation and the Code of Practice on managing the risk of psychosocial hazards at work. Our psychosocial programme is led by Katie Lu, and the work ranges from hazard identification through to advisory support for leadership teams. See our psychosocial risk management guide, our psychosocial health consultant page, and our psychosocial risk assessment service for more.
Occupational hygiene
We assess exposure to airborne contaminants, noise, dust including respirable crystalline silica, and other physical and chemical agents, and we interpret monitoring data against workplace exposure standards. Occupational hygiene is a distinct discipline that most WHS firms outsource. We have it in-house, which matters when an exposure question and a compliance question are really the same question.
Incident investigation
We conduct structured investigations that look past individual error to the systemic and organisational causes regulators and courts increasingly expect to see addressed. The output is an investigation report that supports learning and, where needed, defensible decision-making.
Emergency planning and other services
We also prepare and review emergency response plans aligned with AS 3745, deliver WHS training and induction support, and provide ongoing retained advisory arrangements for businesses that want a consultant on call rather than a one-off report.
Industries we work with
Our Brisbane WHS consultants bring sector experience rather than generic safety knowledge. We are most useful in high-hazard, heavily regulated environments, because that is where the gap between a paper safety system and real-world practice does the most damage. The list below is ordered roughly by where regulatory pressure is most intense in 2026, with psychosocial duties, the silica and exposure-limit transition, and enforceable codes of practice all reshaping what compliance now requires.
- Construction. Tightening silica exposure limits and the move to enforceable workplace exposure limits make this one of the most actively regulated sectors; we prepare and review SWMS, support principal contractors, and audit safety management on civil and building projects.
- Healthcare. Psychosocial duties and high-exposure clinical environments keep the sector under close scrutiny; we work with health services on clinical and non-clinical hazards, from manual handling and hazardous substances through to psychosocial risk.
- Government. Public-sector duty holders face heightened psychosocial obligations and public accountability; we advise departments, agencies, statutory bodies, and government-owned corporations, including officer due-diligence support for boards and senior officers.
- Resources and energy. Silica, dust, and the move to enforceable exposure limits keep this sector under sustained pressure; we bring deep mining and resources experience, including regulatory and statutory familiarity that few general WHS firms can match.
- Education. Psychosocial risk, student and worker duty of care, and contractor management are growing compliance areas; we support schools, universities, and training providers across campus safety and their obligations.
- Warehousing and logistics. Rising scrutiny of plant and pedestrian interaction and multi-PCBU labour arrangements drives demand; we assess mobile-equipment risk and the systems that keep fast-moving operations safe.
- Ports and maritime. Complex, high-consequence operations and chain-of-responsibility duties define this sector; we understand stevedoring, suspended loads, and waterfront safety systems.
- Defence and manufacturing. Plant safety, hazardous substances, and complex contractor arrangements drive demand; we bring frontline experience in both defence and manufacturing environments.
- Recycling and waste. Mobile-plant interaction, fire loading, and silica and dust exposure make this a heavily regulated environment; we assess these hazards in recycling and waste-processing facilities.
- Retail. Multi-site consistency and the newer psychosocial and harassment-prevention duties are the main pressures; we help retailers manage standards, manual handling, and customer and worker safety across locations.
Why businesses choose Safetysure
Safetysure is led by a principal consultant with more than thirty years of frontline work health and safety experience across mining, defence, manufacturing, and government, including senior roles and recognition for international mine safety work. We are certified to ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and ISO 14001, and each of our consultants brings genuine sector experience rather than generic safety knowledge.
Three qualities define our Brisbane WHS Consultants work. The first is accuracy, every legislative reference in our reports is verified against the current primary source rather than reproduced from memory. The second is practicality, our recommendations are designed to operate on site, with controls a supervisor can realistically implement, not merely provisions that satisfy a regulator. The third is multidisciplinary breadth: with work health and safety, psychosocial risk, and occupational hygiene capabilities under one roof, you engage a single adviser with a complete view of the risk rather than coordinating several who each see only part of it.
Frequently asked questions
What does a WHS consultant in Brisbane cost?
It depends on scope and the seniority of the consultant required. The main drivers are site complexity, the number of locations, the hazard profile, and whether you need a one-off piece of work or ongoing support. For businesses that prefer predictability, we offer retained arrangements billed monthly across a fixed term rather than by the hour, which spreads the cost and gives you a consultant on call. We quote a fixed price once the scope is clear, so you are not exposed to open-ended hourly billing. Contact us for a quote based on your actual project needs.
Do I legally need a WHS consultant?
No. The law does not require you to engage a consultant. It requires the PCBU to meet its duties under section 19 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld), and it requires officers to exercise due diligence under section 27. Many businesses engage a consultant because building and maintaining that capability in-house is harder and slower than it looks, and because an independent review carries weight that self-assessment does not.
Do you only work in Brisbane?
We are based in Brisbane and South East Queensland, and we travel regularly to sites across regional Queensland, and we also work from Sydney and Melbourne. If your operation is outside Brisbane in regional Queensland or interstate, that is usually not an obstacle for us.
Can you help with psychosocial and mental health risk specifically?
Yes. Psychosocial risk management is one of our core specialisms, led by Katie Lu, and it is now an express part of Queensland WHS obligations. Our psychosocial health consultant page sets out what this involves.
Where can I find information on WHS regulations?
You can access the Work Health and Safety Regulations here. You can access the Work Health & Safety Act here.
Talk to a Brisbane WHS consultant
If you want a clear, accurate view of where your business sits against its WHS obligations and a practical plan to close the gaps, we would be glad to help. Call Safetysure on 1300 087 888, email admin@safetysure.com.au, or use our contact page to discuss your needs and request a quote.
Safetysure S1, Level 2, 12 Browning Street, South Brisbane QLD 4101
Phone: 1300 087 888 Email: admin@safetysure.com.au
Hours: Monday to Friday, 7am to 7pm (24-hour emergency call-out available)
Safetysure is based in South Brisbane and provides work health and safety consulting across Greater Brisbane. Its consultants attend sites throughout Brisbane City and the inner suburbs, and across the Logan, Ipswich, Redland, and Moreton Bay local government areas, from North Lakes and Chermside in the north to Mount Gravatt, Wynnum, and the Ipswich corridor in the south and west.
Beyond the capital, Safetysure supports clients across the rest of South East Queensland, including the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, and Toowoomba.
You can find out what we do here.