A Four-Step Approach to Humanising Safety with Tim D’Ath, 4/9, 2025
- Sep 4, 2025
- 2 min read
What?
SÄKU was happy to start the autumn season with special guest Tim D’Ath!
At the end of 2024, Tim’s book “Humanising Safety” was published. The book is trying to bridge the cap between traditional views of health and safety and new ones. It does so without making the combined approach too complicated and maintaining a focus on the practical side of things.
During this exclusive webinar, Tim presented a compilation of his book as seen below, providing us with real examples/cases from businesses he’s worked with.
Defining safety in the context of your organization
Traditional vs progressive safety approaches (opportunities and potential traps)
The psychology of workplace safety: Embracing the human condition and its contribution to safety
A four step approach to humanising safety:
Understand your people: Case study
Make safety simple
Involve end-users in the design of safety programs: Case study
Crowd sourcing for safety solutions
Bringing it all together: Practical take-aways
As always, the audience also got the chance to ask their questions.
The webinar was held in English.
About Tim D'Ath
Tim D'Ath has a long and sector wide experience as a safety and cultural transformation leader, working with high performing teams in both corporate and high-risk operational environments. Some sectors include maritime, aviation, construction and utilities. Tim’s specialty is working with and conveying how HSE professionals can add a more human-centric perspective to safety, health and risk management. He is based in Melbourne, Austraila.
Tim is also the founder of Humanising Safety, a company dedicated to transforming safety cultures by putting human experience at the forefront. Their mission is to empower organisations, safety professionals, and leaders to build safety programs with the direct involvement of the frontline through a unique approach and expertise in humanising safety.
Material
Presentation
Tim's presentation can be downloaded by clicking HERE.
Mentimeter
Five Mentimeter questions were asked during the webinar. Please feel free to get inspired by the questions and use them in your own organizations. The questions were:
1. Can you provide your definition of safety in one sentence?
Have a look at the result HERE
2. Which elements of different safety models do you find value in?
3. How frequently do you use AI tools in your work?
Have a look at the result HERE
4. What methods have you used to simplify safety and make it more relatable to end users?
5. Which methods of engaging end users in safety programs do you think would be most effective?
Contact information
If you want to get in touch with Tim, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and/or through his email:
Tim D’Ath: timdath@live.com.au
Recording
A recording of the webinar can be seen on SÄKUPlay (Youtube) below.