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The submissions for the humanising occupational health and safety challenge continue to roll in. Daniel McConville of McConville OHS & Risk Solutions is the latest.

If you want to humanise the occupational health and safety profession consider emailing through your answers to these questions.

How did you get into Health & Safety?

I was working on a contract and renegotiated just prior to the contract finishing.  With the change, my position became redundant and I was asked to take on the OHS role. After almost 20 years working in a kitchen, I enjoyed the less ‘physical’ stress.

What drives you?

Seeing employers doing the right thing is a big driver. That keeps giving me hope that we are changing the culture and thinking, one employer at a time.

Craig Schopp is an occupational health and safety (OHS) consultant from South Australia, who runs his own business, Choose Safety, and has accepted the humanising OHS challenge.

How did you get into Health & Safety?

Initially picked safety up as an extension of process engineering and quality management, then found safety to be a better fit with my personal ethics. Looking back now, I realise that a lot of the process improvements we were implementing had a safety improvement too, but this was not really the main intention of the work.