From ‘What’ to ‘How’: The Coach’s Playbook for Driving Change in Safety

Whether you're weighing up options or navigating internal buy-in, The Breakthrough Series is here to help you shift gears and drive real change — with practical tools, real stories, and honest conversations to get you moving forward.

Hosted by

Andrew Barrett

Head Coach | Safety on Tap

Amanda Clements

Chief Operating Officer | Safety on Tap

Cut through the noise. Get clear on what matters.

Most H&S leaders know what needs to be done. The problem isn’t a lack of safety knowledge; it’s a lack of traction.

Driving safety performance in 2026 is actually a change management and influence challenge. The leaders who succeed aren’t just the ones with the best technical skills; they are the ones who can speak the language of the C-suite, build a compelling business case, and navigate organisational politics to get the resources they need.

About this Webinar

Join Andrew Barrett and Amanda Clements from Safety on Tap for a different kind of webinar. We invite you to bring your real-world blockers — whether it's a difficult stakeholder, a rejected budget, or disengaged operations teams — and we’ll work through them live.

You’ll walk away with practical tools and frameworks to help you build a compelling business case, navigate internal politics, and finally get the resources you need to drive real change.

Who will benefit

This webinar is ideal for Health & Safety Managers, Heads of Safety, and Leaders who feel "stuck" in the day-to-day grind and want to elevate their role from operational oversight to strategic leadership.

What you will learn

Strategies to position H&S as a value driver and speak the language of the C-suite.
Tactics to move the perception of your function from "compliance police" to a strategic priority.
Real-time coaching on how to overcome the blockers and politics holding your initiatives back.

Speakers

Andrew Barrett

Head Coach | Safety on Tap

About Andrew

Andrew has coached over 700 professionals from over 70 companies to improve organisational health & safety performance by improving their individual and team performance. He is a career health and safety professional starting from grad level to executive leadership.

For more than 20 years he and the Safety on Tap team have blended teaching, facilitation and coaching to help health and safety teams to become more relevant, valued, and effective. His work is always practical, so his clients become walking-talking case studies of real-world results they’ve achieved with his help.

He helps health and safety professionals ranging from the newest graduate to the Head of Safety, to become pro-level leaders in areas such as increasing their influence, improving communication, more effective change management, becoming more strategic, and taking a service-delivery approach to their work.

Amanda Clements

Chief Operating Officer | Safety on Tap

About Amanda

A recognised thought leader in her field often described as an 'out of the box' thinker, Amanda’s mission is to help great teams do extraordinary things.

With 20 years of experience in workplace health, safety, environment, quality and sustainability (HSEQ&S), Amanda has worked with thousands of stakeholders ranging from Boards and Executive teams to frontline workers and led large teams of HSEQ&S practitioners.

Amanda has held executive roles as the Head of Health, Safety, Quality & Sustainability at Kapitol Group, and Executive Manager, HSEQ at Probuild, as well as pioneering roles as the Group Health Manager - Strategy & Wellbeing at Mirvac and National HSE Manager - Strategy & Innovation at Downer Group.

Amanda is the COO at Safety on Tap, leading the customer experience design for all our clients.