Safety Specialists · Construction, Industrial & Warehouse · Queensland & Australia-wide
When projects grow, subcontractor numbers climb or your workforce is doing high-risk work every day, WHS has to keep up. KLB gives construction, industrial and warehouse businesses experienced WHS capability without building another senior role.
We can support your existing team, provide senior oversight or run the function for you.
Based on the Gold Coast, working across Queensland and Australia-wide.
BUILT FOR CONSTRUCTION
The WHS systems that worked on smaller jobs can start showing gaps once you take on larger contracts, more subcontractors, stricter client requirements or multiple active sites.
Documentation becomes harder to control. Internal WHS personnel get stretched. Corrective actions stay open longer. Site practices start drifting away from what the system says should be happening.
KLB works with construction and industrial businesses that need stronger WHS control without adding unnecessary process. We can strengthen existing systems, provide senior oversight to your team or step in to manage the WHS function on your behalf.
We’ll make sure your WHS reflects how your projects actually operate, not just what is written on paper. That gives management clearer visibility and helps address issues before they affect client confidence, audits or project delivery.
CONSTRUCTION WHS CAPABILITY
Construction WHS is rarely about fixing one document. Risks, contractors, systems, actions and project requirements all need to work together.
KLB can support a specific WHS requirement, strengthen your existing team or provide broader oversight across the function, depending on what your project and business need.
Build, review and maintain WHS management systems using ISO 45001 principles as the foundation. We adapt the approach around your business, project, client and governance requirements so responsibilities, controls and processes are clear and the system reflects how the work is actually delivered.
Develop and review risk assessments, safe work method statements (SWMS) and supporting controls for the work being performed, including high risk construction work. We help make sure documentation reflects the actual risks, responsibilities and work methods involved, rather than relying on generic paperwork that does not match the project.
Strengthen contractor compliance from onboarding through to ongoing project delivery. KLB can support documentation reviews, verification, monitoring and follow-up actions, giving your team greater visibility over whether contractors continue meeting WHS requirements after they arrive onsite.
Use audits and site inspections to identify gaps between your WHS systems, project requirements and what is actually happening onsite. KLB can then help prioritise findings, manage corrective actions and follow issues through to close-out rather than leaving your team with another list of unresolved actions.
Respond to significant incidents with a structured investigation process that looks beyond the immediate event. KLB can provide ICAM investigation support to identify contributing factors, establish corrective actions and help strengthen the systems and controls intended to prevent the same issues occurring again.
Add experienced WHS leadership where your internal team needs additional direction, oversight or capacity. KLB can support or manage existing WHS personnel and represent your business in relevant client, contractor and project discussions, helping keep requirements, actions and expectations clear across the project.
Not sure which level of support you need? Speak with KLB about your current project or WHS function.
INDUSTRIAL & WAREHOUSE WHS
Warehouses, manufacturing sites and industrial facilities carry a different kind of risk from a construction site. The work is repetitive, the workforce is large and often casual or shift-based, and the hazards are there every day rather than for the length of a project. Without someone keeping the system alive, controls drift.
KLB helps industrial businesses get on top of the risks that matter most:
THE COMMERCIAL CASE
KLB gives construction businesses access to experienced WHS leadership without the cost of adding another permanent senior HSE management role.
We can provide senior oversight, manage your existing WHS team or take a broader role across the function, giving you the level of support your business needs.
You retain access to senior WHS capability while reducing the fixed employment costs and long-term commitments that come with another permanent management position.
Keep Experienced WHS Oversight
Maintain senior WHS leadership across your projects and team without relying on another permanent management position.
Reduce Fixed Employment Overheads
KLB personnel do not add superannuation, annual leave, sick leave or long service leave liabilities to your business.
Scale Support With Your Workload
Increase support when projects, risks or workloads grow, then adjust the engagement when your requirements change.
Get More Than One Person’s Capability
Draw on KLB’s broader WHS experience and network rather than relying entirely on the knowledge and availability of one internal position.
See whether additional internal recruitment or an embedded KLB engagement makes more sense for your business.
EMBEDDED WHS SUPPORT
Many consultants arrive, audit, invoice and leave. KLB works differently. We embed in your business: we meet your supervisors and project managers every week, attend client meetings, keep the system moving and stay on call when something goes wrong. Most of our work comes through word of mouth, and most of our clients have been with us for years.
KLB can work at the level your business actually needs, then scale that support as projects, workloads and internal capability change.
Add experienced WHS capability when your internal team is stretched, a project requires specialist input or workload has increased beyond current capacity.
KLB can work alongside your existing WHS personnel, project managers and leadership team without disrupting the structure you already have in place.
Best suited to: Busy project periods, capability gaps, specialist requirements and temporary increases in workload.
Keep your current people in place while adding stronger senior direction, accountability and oversight.
KLB can help set priorities, review systems, guide WHS personnel, monitor actions and give management greater confidence that the function is moving in the right direction.
Best suited to: Businesses with internal WHS personnel that need more experience, structure or management support.
For businesses that do not want to build a full internal WHS department, KLB can take a broader operational role across the function.
That can include coordinating systems, contractor compliance, inspections, actions, reporting, incident support and ongoing WHS requirements, giving management one experienced point of contact across the work.
Best suited to: Businesses that need ongoing WHS leadership but do not want the cost and fixed overhead of building the entire capability internally.
CONSTRUCTION, INDUSTRIAL & INFRASTRUCTURE EXPERIENCE
KLB is led by Kurt Bartlett, who has spent more than 16 years running WHS on some of Australia’s most demanding projects.
That work spans helicopter lifts, tower climbs, cranes, confined spaces, HV isolation, remote islands and environmentally sensitive sites, along with projects under OFSC requirements and NV1 security clearance. It has taught us that WHS cannot be separated from how the work is actually delivered, so we build systems that support delivery rather than adding another layer of paperwork.
We have worked with Sky Aus, Metrotel, Koinonia, FRS (Fire Rated Systems), Ceragon and Kevlar. When a contractor on one of our clients’ projects had a serious incident, the client’s own customer asked for KLB to run the ICAM investigation. That’s how most of our work arrives: by referral, from people who have seen us work.
Credentials: Diploma of Workplace Health and Safety · Exemplar Global Lead Auditor (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001) · ICAM Certified · Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
WE HAVE WORKED WITH
Our services
Construction projects rarely need one WHS service in isolation. KLB can support individual requirements or bring multiple services together under one relationship, reducing the need to coordinate several separate specialist providers.
WHO WE WORK WITH
Our clients typically have between 10 and 50 people. They’re big enough to carry real WHS risk and real client expectations, but a full-time safety manager is hard to justify. Large companies with their own WHS teams and budgets rarely need us. The businesses in between do.
Based on the Gold Coast, KLB supports construction and industrial businesses across South East Queensland and Australia-wide, including WHS consulting in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast, and WHS audits in Brisbane.
No. KLB uses ISO 45001 as a base approach for how WHS systems are structured and managed, but your business does not need to be pursuing certification.
The framework can still be used to strengthen responsibilities, risk controls, consultation, monitoring and continual improvement while adapting the system to your project, client and operational requirements. KLB can also support businesses where formal ISO certification is required.
Yes. KLB can review your existing WHS capability against the requirements attached to a tender, client or project and help address gaps before submission or mobilisation.
This may include management systems, contractor processes, risk documentation, evidence of implementation and project-specific requirements. KLB’s team also has experience working in environments governed by OFSC requirements.
Yes. Bringing KLB in before mobilisation allows us to review the project requirements, existing WHS systems, contractor arrangements, risk assessments, SWMS and other documentation before work begins.
It is generally easier to address gaps during planning than once workers and subcontractors are already onsite.
Yes. You do not necessarily need to replace your existing system to work with KLB.
KLB can review what is already in place and adapt its approach around the systems, project requirements and platforms your business uses. We can adjust our processes to fit whatever platform your business already operates within.
Yes. KLB provides services Australia-wide and can access additional HSE personnel nationally when a project’s scope or location requires it.
This can suit construction businesses operating across multiple projects, remote locations or jurisdictions that need greater WHS capacity without building separate internal resources for every location.
KLB’s team has experience on projects governed by Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner requirements and can apply that experience when supporting relevant construction environments.
The exact scope of support will depend on your project, accreditation status and what needs to be addressed.
No. Engaging an external WHS consultant can help your business manage its systems, risks and processes, but WHS duties themselves cannot simply be transferred to another party.
Under the model WHS laws, duty holders retain responsibility for the matters they can influence or control, even where another business has been engaged to assist with WHS management.
This will depend on the engagement, but useful starting information can include your project scope, existing WHS systems and documents, client or principal contractor requirements, internal WHS structure, contractor arrangements and any known issues or upcoming milestones.
The goal is to understand what you already have before recommending additional systems, resources or support.
Both. Many of the same risks show up in industrial and warehouse settings, such as mobile plant, machinery, dust, noise and contractor work, but they’re there every day rather than for one project. We tailor the system to how your site actually runs.
No. Businesses of 10 to 50 people are exactly who we work with. They carry real WHS obligations but rarely need a full-time safety manager, so we provide the expertise they need, when they need it.
Yes. Queensland has a specific code of practice for respirable crystalline silica in construction and in manufacturing construction elements. We can assess exposure risks, review your controls and make sure monitoring, health checks and records are in place where they’re required.
Request a consultation
"*" indicates required fields
