Ep 57 Trent Head shares his story of losing his father whilst working as a contractor at Sydney Trains

The Australian Health & Safety Business Podcast

Trent is a safety professional who originally started on the tools.
About 5 years ago, Trent received a call early on a Saturday morning that his father had been killed in a car accident whilst on the job working for for Sydney Trains as a contractor for Multi Civil and Rail Services (MCR).
Trent and his family were understandably devastated. Trent as a safety professional went to work gathering evidence and found there were numerous internal safety policy and procedure breaches as well as breaches under the WHS Legislation. The 3 major parties involved, Sydney Trains, MCR and SafeWork NSW, despite the evidence, denied and disagreed with the evidence despite a damning report from the Rail Regulator supporting Trent's view.
Why was this the case? What really happens in these situations where systems of large enterprises are 'too big to fail'. Tune in for this thought provoking episode.