A safety management hub for Sadleirs — built around how you actually work.
A single web-based hub where leaders and field teams will see risk at a glance, run assessments, manage incidents and processes, and oversee contractor safety. Stage 1 will deliver strong foundations plus a live Risk Module — a tangible early win that establishes the patterns for everything to come.
Where would you like to start?
Each door takes you to a different part of the proposal — the full narrative, the live evaluation, or the early Risk Register prototype already running in a protected environment.
A multidisciplinary team for complex safety problems.
Opposite combines organisational psychology, human factors, and human-centred design. We specialise in turning complex safety and operational requirements into systems that are simple to use and robust enough for real-world conditions.
Hi Sadleirs team.
Thank you for the opportunity to help shape the next stage of your safety system. This proposal sets out how we'll move from today's tools and spreadsheets toward a single Safety Management Hub for Sadleirs, bringing together risk assessments, dashboards, incident management, process deployment, and contractor and supplier management over time.
Stage 1 focuses on strong foundations plus one high-value module: risk assessments and a practical risk dashboard. Our aim is to give you an early, tangible win that fits how Sadleirs operates today, while laying down patterns and architecture we can confidently build on in later stages — including an AI-enabled safety assistant.
— Dr Nicholas Duck
Our four lenses on human work
We have designed and delivered digital safety tools, internal platforms, and secure assessment systems that balance adoption, assurance, and technical rigour. Four interlocking disciplines shape everything we do:
Human Experience
Make complex requirements understandable and workable for real people in real jobs.
Human-Centred Design
Design tools, workflows, and interfaces that reduce cognitive load and feel intuitive.
Human Enablement
Support adoption through clear guidance, training assets, and engagement.
Human Factors
Improve safety and reliability by designing with human limitations and operational reality in mind.
The problem we are seeking to fix.
Sadleirs' safety system today is spread across spreadsheets, documents and disconnected tools. The result is a system that exists on paper but is hard to live in — invisible to leaders, painful for end users, and slow to deploy across the business.
A safety system that is fragmented, not lived.
Across the business, the same information lives in different places, in different formats, owned by different people. This makes safety slow to navigate, hard to deploy, and largely invisible to leadership in real time. Stage 1 is designed to start fixing these specific issues — directly and visibly.
Fragmented systems
Risk, incidents, documents, training and contractor information live in separate spreadsheets, shared drives and standalone tools — with no central source of truth.
Poor usability for end users
Frontline workers and supervisors face clunky forms, duplicated data entry and tools that don't reflect how work actually happens — so adoption stays low and quality suffers.
Difficulty deploying systems
New policies, SOPs and forms are slow to roll out across sites and roles. Updates get lost in inboxes; older versions stay in use; acknowledgement is hard to evidence.
Limited visibility for leaders
Sadleirs' leadership team cannot see live risk, action close-out or compliance status without manual collation — making proactive decisions difficult.
Audit & regulator readiness
Pulling together evidence for ONRSR, internal audits or critical control verification takes days, not minutes — and the trail isn't always complete.
No clear path to AI
Without consolidated, structured data, useful AI capability — summarisation, search, suggested controls — cannot be added later without rebuilding from scratch.
Each of these is addressed directly by Stage 1's foundations or the Module 1 Risk build — and the rest are sequenced into Modules 2 through 6 on the roadmap.
A single safety hub, made tangible early.
The future state is a one-stop shop for safety at Sadleirs — a single web-based hub (mobile-friendly) where leaders and teams can see, manage and improve safety across every operation. Early in Stage 1, we make this concrete.
A tangible picture in Stage 1.
Early in Stage 1, we will create a simple visual concept of the Safety Management Hub using Sadleirs' structure and colour palette — based on the building blocks already captured in your SMS spreadsheet.
This will be a visual map of the future modules, showing the overall hub layout (Risk, Events, Processes, Contractors, Reporting), an example risk dashboard with the priority views Sadleirs' leadership and operational teams need, and how a user might move from a dashboard tile into a specific risk, incident, or contractor record.
This will give Sadleirs' leadership team a concrete sense of where the investment leads, not just how we'll get there.
What the hub does.
The end-state hub brings six core capabilities together in one place — covering the full lifecycle from frontline capture to leadership oversight, with an AI layer waiting in the wings.
Foundations plus a live Risk Module.
Stage 1 will lay down the architecture, design system and workflow patterns for the whole hub — and will deliver Module 1 (Risk Assessments & Dashboard) as a tangible early win that fits how Sadleirs operates today.
Platform Foundations
Module 1 · Risk Assessments & Dashboard
Progressive rollout
Design-led, workflow-first.
We will design around Sadleirs' real work before we build. Each phase will have a clear outcome before the next begins — so you will always know what you're getting, and when. Stage 1 will run across four phases over roughly 22 weeks.
From Stage 1 to an AI-enabled safety system.
To help with medium-term investment decisions, here is how we see the journey over the next 12–24 months. Stage 1 (this proposal) sits at the top. Each module below will build on the foundations we will lay now — without rebuilds.
When the time is right.
The architecture we put in place will support an AI layer that can answer "what is our current risk profile for X operation/site?" in plain language, summarise incidents and actions for leader-ready briefs, suggest relevant SOPs and controls when a new risk is logged, and help author and refine risk assessments based on your own content. We won't build this in Stage 1 — but we will design Stage 1 so that it can be added without rebuilding the core.
A clear, time-boxed investment.
We propose a time-boxed fixed price for Stage 1 (Foundations + Risk Module). The breakdown below sets out Opposite's effort and cost, plus SafetyCulture's quoted annual licensing for Sadleirs' workforce.
What's included & excluded
Clear scope boundaries so there are no surprises.
Working assumptions
What we will rely on from Sadleirs and our partners.
SC Evaluation summary.
A live summary of the joint SafetyCulture × Opposite evaluation across 25 requirements. Headlines here, narrative summaries beneath each chart, and full row-by-row detail available on demand.
| # | Requirement | SC Rating | CommentSC platform position & assumptions | Opposite-led DevelopmentPath forward where development needed | Indicative costCombined |
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Psychology, design and engineering — working together.
Our project team blends organisational psychology, human-centred design, technology, and process expertise. Teams are intentionally mixed to integrate these disciplines rather than deliver them in sequence. Joined by senior SafetyCulture partners who own the platform side of the joint delivery.
A clear split of contributions across the joint delivery.
Opposite leads the human, experience, and design layer. SafetyCulture provides, adapts, and runs the platform. The two lanes meet in the middle — and Sadleirs gets a single, integrated system.
Built for real operations.
Three projects that demonstrate the patterns we'll apply to Sadleirs — digital safety for fleet, modular AI-ready platforms, and secure assessment systems with strong audit trails.
Stage 1 will give Sadleirs tangible early wins.
This approach is designed to give Sadleirs a live Risk module and dashboard, a clear visual picture of the full Safety Management Hub, strong workflow-led foundations that will reflect how you actually operate, and a credible 12–24 month pathway to an AI-enabled safety system.