Brett Read

Background

About Brett Read

Brett Read is a specialist in safety transformation, strategic safety management, Leadership and high-performance team development. Brett is co-author of the Amazon #1 bestselling book, Safety Performance Reimagined and is the creator of 4D Safety® and 4D Tracker, a leadership software and dashboard, that drives safety performance to create sustainable organizational performance. 4D Safety enables organizations to measure, monitor and develop safety leadership capabilities. His experience spans leadership roles in the Australian SAS where he served as a Major and as an operations and business manager for two multi-national companies. Brett understands risk and human factors and what it takes to safely lead operations in high-risk environments. This understanding was developed in leadership roles in Special Forces, as a qualified senior sky-diving instructor responsible for running drop zone operations, and as a qualified wreck and deep diver, diving on wartime wrecks in the Pacific. Brett has competed in various levels of Motorsport including tarmac rally and is also an accredited Motorsport Event Commander and Competition Manager. Brett’s experience has enabled him to develop a detailed understanding of the leadership practices required to create injury free operations in high-risk work environments. He has twenty plus years global consulting and coaching experience specialising in safety leadership and the development of high-performance teams in a range of industries including oil & gas, mining and construction. He has pioneered new thinking and research-based approaches to safety performance which has enabled clients to achieve consecutive years of Lost Time Injury (LTI) free operations. Brett is an author and regular conference speaker in the areas of Safety Leadership, Sociotechnical Safety and Sustainable Safety Culture Change. His passion is for safety performance improvement through leadership, team culture and organizational development strategies.