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Deeper analysis and more impactful outcomes  

Our vision is to equip organisations with the clarity and predictive data they need to reduce serious injuries in high-hazard environments.

Over the years, we have consolidated our real-world expertise, independent research, and industry insights to offer an unparalleled approach to risk management. Our approach is more than just traditional consulting – we also provide clients with an expert SaaS system for diagnostic projects that we’ve built off the back of 10,000 incidents analyses since 2020. This product helps to fast-track the sharing of proven models that have been developed and applied over countless industrial projects.

As we look to the future, in 2025 our team will also launch its SCALE(R) investigation app. The app will share comprehensive accredited e-learning and coaching tools for safety professionals, leaders and organisations and help us create a new standard in which serious injuries become far and few in between.

2020

Analysis Framework

We start developing early versions of SIF incident identification and causal analysis for corporate trials.

2021

Incident Analytics

Our consulting and technology businesses incorporated, and our framework is applied to ‘low consequence high frequency’ investigations.

2022-3

SAAS Technology

We consolidate our expertise and digitise the incident analysis process for our customers.

2023

Validation Study

Federation University analyses and endorses our methodology against leading safety theories.

2024

Aggregate Data Study

We conduct a formal study of 5,000+ incidents (680 SIFs) to better understand broad themes of causation.

2024

Investigation App

We create an end-to-end incident investigation system (for training, causal analysis, and action planning).

The Incident Analytics team

Our team has unrivalled hands-on experience in 'high hazard' industries including mining, utilities, manufacturing, agriculture, oil and gas, food processing, and utilities. Applying our knowledge and expertise, we have helped many clients determine obstacles to operational reliability and enhance the development and execution of strategic improvement plans.

Alex Fernando
Director | Strategy and Risk Advisory

Alex Fernando is an experienced management consultant and Co‑Founder of Incident Analytics. He works extensively with high‑hazard industries to improve the effectiveness of critical controls through incident and control analytics, serious incident analysis training, independent assurance - utilising intelligent software platforms that provide insight into control performance.

Warren Smith
Director | Research and Data Science

With an extensive background in operations management, organisation development, HR management, leadership, and culture development, Warren Smith is dedicated to enhancing safety performance across industries. Over the past 20 years, he has worked with both large and medium-sized enterprises, guiding them towards pragmatic safety performance improvements.

Warren's expertise notably includes managing exposure to serious injuries and fatalities, leadership development, behaviour change, safety governance, systems alignment, and the exploration of human factors associated with error and reliability. His Bachelor of Arts degree provides a valuable social lens to workplace safety that informs a complete approach to risk management.

Dave Carson
Head of Technology

David  is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with more than twenty years of experience in the IT and software development industry. His career includes significant roles in developing software solutions for major legal and professional services firms on an international scale. In addition to his technical expertise, David brings entrepreneurial experience from his involvement as a director in three previously successful companies.

His dual expertise in technical and managerial aspects makes him ideally suited to oversee the development and scaling of the software and technical infrastructure for Incident Analytics. David's role is crucial in ensuring that the company’s SaaS offerings are robust, scalable, and capable of supporting our clients’ needs from start-up to full commercial production.

Liz Seaward
Technical Advisor

Liz is an experienced senior Health and Safety Professional with a strong HR and Organisation Change background. She brings significant experience working in both senior and operational roles within work health and safety, organisation development, HR and quality management systems. Liz was most recently involved with Federation University's VIOSH Graduate Programs in WHS / OHS.

Liz’s consulting work within work health and safety encompasses a range of industry sectors including councils, aged care, manufacturing, engineering and construction, warehousing, logistics and agriculture.

Advisory Board

Bryce Gammon

Bryce brings deep experience in helping organisations learn from unplanned events before they escalate into serious harm. 

Bryce has spent his career embedding safety into enterprise systems and everyday decision‑making. Not as a compliance activity, but as a core operational capability that drives better outcomes. His perspective will directly support our mission to help high‑hazard ndustries cut through data noise, expose hidden risk, and strengthen the controls that matter most.

Trish Kerin

Trish Kerin is an award-winning international expert and keynote speaker on process safety leadership. She was the inaugural director of the IChemE Safety Centre. She works with organisations globally to share and learn in process safety, leveraging off her engineering, operational and executive experience.

She is a Chartered Engineer, registered Professional Process Safety Engineer, Fellow of IChemE and Engineers Australia and a Senior Member of AIChE. Trish holds a Diploma in OHS, a Master of Leadership and is a Graduate of the AICD.

Anthony Deakin

Anthony is a highly credentialed Safety and Operational Risk Management professional, with extensive experience in strategy development, system design, technical risk analysis, program delivery and change management in mining and other high hazard industries. Anthony is widely regarded as a Thought Leader in the operationalising of fatality critical controls and risk management practices. He was a key contributor to the ICMM Health & Safety Critical Control Management guideline, contributing to a step change in the approach to preventing fatalities in the mining industry. 

Anthony is the Director of Glasshouse Consulting, leading teams to provide independent advice in the design and delivery of safety and operational risk management practices. Prior to moving into consulting Anthony worked for Rio Tinto where he held several senior roles including leading the design and deployment of their Critical Risk Management (CRM) and Process Safety Management (PSM)programs, which are cornerstones to their approach to eliminating fatalities and preventing catastrophic events.  Anthony is passionate about ensuring the safety systems and leadership practices support the safe and efficient execution of work at the front line.

Endeavour Energy engaged Incident Analytics to support a review of our fatal critical risk controls. Their structured, evidence based approach combined incident insights with advanced methodologies, giving us a clearer understanding of our risk profile and control effectiveness. Their ability to identify where controls may degrade or fail has strengthened our understanding of risk pathways and informed more effective mitigation strategies across the business. Working closely with our teams, they translated complex analysis into practical, actionable improvements, helping to build greater consistency and capability. This engagement has strengthened our approach to critical risk management and reinforced our commitment to reducing risk so far as is reasonably practicable.

Merrilyn Tinsley
Endeavour Energy

"Unitywater strengthened its approach to the management of high-risk activities through an in-depth review of all incidents that had serious or fatality potential.. we were able to identify what the critical risks were within the organisation.."

Source: Leading Positive Safety, Sentis

".. Warren guided us through a transformational safety management project at Aurizon. He is an enthusiastic facilitator who can bring a diverse group of people to work towards a common goal. Being a skilled educator, he ensured the team was well equipped to translate knowledge and insights to practical application"

Strategy and Innovations Leader
Aurizon Rail

"Their work was excellent and [their] critical thinking and challenging approach helped inform health and safety priorities including identifying opportunities to enhance our integration of work planning with critical risk management; strengthening our broader control and critical control assurance approach, enhancing leading indicators for critical risk and identifying opportunities for reducing clutter in our downstream processes"

General Manager HSEQ
UGL

"Warren is a very astute leadership coach, focusing on the end game through conceptual application and a high level of understating how business systems, people and culture must all come together for successful change within large corporations. As a result of this, Warren has helped businesses (including Australia Post Group) have success in change cultural programs."

Head of Continuous Improvement
Australia Post

"The SCALE® Process Model uses systemic techniques to provide a deeper understanding of how multiple factors contribute to the severity of an event aiding in reducing the incidence of serious injuries and fatalities."

Federation University
The science behind our process

SCALE® Analysis

Incident Analytics developed the SCALE® analysis technology to determine which incidents merit deep-dive analysis, and better understand the people, operational, and system factors that contribute to the conditions for unplanned events to occur. This methodology has been proven to  more accurately determine precursors to serious incidents and improve control effectiveness

Learn more about SCALE®

Severity

Is there potential for a serious incident and what was the specific high risk task context?

Controls

Which (critical) controls - if fully implemented - would have stopped this incident from occurring?

Antecedents

Which human, operational, and organisational system factors helped to set the scene for the incident?

Learning

Which of the contributing factors should be prioritised for remediation action?

Exposure

Which actions will have the greatest impact on exposure and reduce the potential for a repeat event?

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