Alan Newey
- Culture Change
- Disability
- Inspirational
- Occupational Health And Safety
- Overcoming Adversity
- Resilience
- Risk Management
- Safety
- Strategy and Planning
- Work Environments
Alan Newey is Australia’s first Bionic Man, a survivor of a workplace accident. Having lost his right dominant arm to a conveyor belt accident, and spent many years in recovery and rehabilitation, he now presents to groups on the effects of his workplace accident and the impact on him and his family.
Alan speaks from the point of view of an injured worker and gives a real insight into what happens to you during and after such a life-changing experience.
Alan is extremely confronting on the issues and effects of a workplace accident, and his presentation not only addresses the sequence of events leading up to his accident, the flow on affect, but the issues surrounding OHS today and how “OHS is not just another thing I have to do”.
He has a Diploma of Occupational Health & Safety together with a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
- His workplace incident
- Prescription drug dependence
- Hospital to rehabilitation
- Workplace culture
- The effect on family and friends
- Worksafe investigation
- The effect on work colleagues
- Complacency in the workplace
- Coping with a workplace injury
- Light at the end of the tunnel
- The Human Side of Safety
Alan Newey is a warrior. Highly flexible, aiming to help. He talked to the team in a very natural manner and showed the link between the actions and consequences. His speech is very realistic and engaged everyone’s attention. I recommend him.
After Alan's presentation I have had many of our employees come and see me about hazardous situations that they may have previously walked by and done nothing about. Alan's presentation has gone a long way to opening up their minds to the possibility of an injury or incident occurring and for this we thank Alan very much.
Thanks for the investigation information and for a great presentation on Friday. Everyone wanted to stop me and talk about your presentation, WOW talk about having an effect!!! It was all positive stuff, it's not often our lot sit quietly for anything and you could have heard a pin drop during your presentation (which was a comment made by a few people). Things that stuck in people's minds, and they mentioned, were the things like how it's your responsibility not just that of the OHS committee; safety starts and stops with you; it's about the culture - just because it's always been done like that doesn't mean it's the right way.