Perth startup Tap into Safety helps companies train staff on workplace safety and monitor staff mental health

Most of us should be able to expect to get home in one piece after work. Unfortunately, accidents happen – though the work-related fatality rate in Australia has decreased by 49 percent from a peak of over 300 in 2007, statistics from Safe Work Australia found $46.2 billion was lost to partial incapacity, $6.5 billion was lost to long absences, and $4.1 billion was lost to fatalities as a result of work-related injuries and diseases in 2012-13.

Aiming to help companies tackle the issue of workplace safety is Perth-based company Tap into Safety.

The startup was founded by Susanne and Geoff Bahn in 2014 after their decades spent looking at health and safety in the workplace from different angles: Susanne worked for more than a decade in consultancy and for nine years researching, while Geoff spent 18 years as a management trainer improving productivity and safety processes.

From these combined experiences, the cofounders saw the need for a new workplace safety solution in the space that went beyond the simple induction presentation and quiz sheet.

“I did years of research looking at how adults learn and how can we improve the safety induction and make sure it’s actually delivering behavioural change rather than just compliance,” Susanne explained.

“More mature organisations these days are wanting to move beyond compliance; they don’t just want to tick the box, they actually want to stop injury, and an induction doesn’t do it because it doesn’t really teach anything.”

Seeing this, the Bahns began work on developing Tap into Safety. The process took around 18 months, but such was the demand for the solution that they had clients on board and using it before version one was properly finished, Susanne said. Read more

Gina Baldassare - Startup Daily - 10 Jan 2018