Brett Read

Brett Read has twenty plus years of global consulting and coaching experience specializing in safety leadership and the development of high performance teams. 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. His experience spans leadership roles in the Australian SAS where he served as a Major and a Free-Fall troop Commander, and as an operations and business manager for two multi-national companies.

Brett is the creator of 4D SafetyŽ and 4D Tracker, a leadership software and dashboard, that drives safety performance to create injury free operations. 4D Safety enables organizations to measure, monitor and develop safety leadership capabilities.

Brett understands risk and human factors and what it takes to safely lead operations in high risk environments. This understanding was developed throughout his career and as a qualified senior sky-diving instructor responsible for running drop zone operations, as a qualified wreck and deep diver, diving on wartime wrecks in the Pacific. Today Brett competes 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 hazardous work environments.

Brett is an author and regular conference speaker in the areas of Safety Leadership and Sustainable Safety Culture Change. His passion is for safety performance improvement through leadership, team culture and organizational development strategies.