Brant North Travels from Brisbane, QLD
Topics
- Inspirational
- Motivational
- Occupational Health And Safety
- Resilience
- Risk Management
- Safety
In 1999, Brant was working at an underground longwall coal mine in Central Qld when he was trapped by a moving conveyor chain. During his eight-hour ordeal, Brant had to have both legs amputated – which was followed by weeks of delayed physical trauma, including kidney and lung failure.
Just over 12 months later, Brant represented Australia in the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games – competing in both volleyball and basketball. Today, he is a husband, and father to eight children. For the past 13 years, Brant has travelled across Australia and New Zealand, sharing his experience and the learnings from his accident to industry sectors. Brant’s strong message of personal ownership of safety continues to hit home with workforces, further supporting attitudes and behavioral changes towards safe work.
Beyond an inspirational story of resilience, the learnings and contributing factors of Brant’s accident continue to be relevant in workplaces across the world today. To date, Brant has presented to over 10,000 people – delivering an engaging, powerful and motivating reminder to think, act and believe in safety.
Brant’s story can make a positive change on your workplace health and safety by ensuring that the learnings from his accident continue to support incident prevention.
