John McIlrath (COHSProf), the Director and Senior Consultant at Safety First Professionals is a Chartered OHS Professional through the Australian Institute of Health and Safety.

Having held many senior safety positions over the past 14 years in Safety, Health and Environment Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Mining, Defence, State Government, Utilities, Extractive Industries, Construction Materials sector, Agriculture, Heavy Automotive and Fabrication as well as Food production industry.

He is skilled in Heavy Equipment, Safety Management Systems, Construction, Management, and Contractor Management.

John is a strong Safety Management professional with a Graduate Diploma of Occupational Hazard Management from Federation University Australia, Ballarat.

Safety First Professionals provides services across a broad range of areas of health and safety.

Our staff have over 25 years experience managing compliance and accreditation obligations in a variety of Transport, Manufacturing, Mining, Farming, Agribusiness, Utilities, Defence, Construction and Regulatory functions. Providing health and safety consultancy advice and developing safety documentation for businesses.

Our clients range from sole operators up to medium-sized businesses with multi-location operations.

We proviede physical safety and documentary audits on systems in line with ISO45001,  Plant Risk Assessments, Task Risk Assessments, NHVAS Audits, CLOCSA audits and preparation of operational documents.

We are committed to developing safer workplaces through our consultative approach and partner with software providers and can tailor management systems that meet the organisational requirements.

Specialists in general Workplace Safety, OH&S, Mobile Plant, Heavy Equipment, National Heavy Vehicle Road legislation, NHVAS (Mass, BFM, Maintenance Management) Audits, Chain of Responsibility, Risk Management (Risk Assessments), Emergency Management, Non-Accredited Training, Incident Investigations, Documentary Audits, Physical Safety Audits, Traffic Management.

SFP is based in Bendigo, central Victoria, and can provide our services to business of all sizes and industries Australia wide.