{"id":2228,"date":"2026-08-13T06:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:45:44","slug":"appointment-of-hse-manager-manufacturing-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/case-study\/appointment-of-hse-manager-manufacturing-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of HSE Manager, Manufacturing Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>At a Glance<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sector &#8211; Manufacturing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Location &#8211; Geelong, VIC<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Workforce &#8211; 540 employees<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Service &#8211; HSE Recruitment &#8211; Permanent<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Engagement &#8211; Permanent Recruitment<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>The Challenge<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A manufacturing organisation with <\/span><b>540 employees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had an HSE function operating in pure reactive mode, incident response and paperwork, with no proactive safety culture work, despite a rising trend of near-miss reports over the preceding year that leadership had not acted on.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Our Approach<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Civitas screened HSE Manager candidates specifically for evidence of shifting a function from reactive to proactive safety culture in a prior role, not just incident-management competence.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Solution<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The appointed HSE Manager had <\/span><b>led a comparable reactive-to-proactive safety culture shift at a previous manufacturing employer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, starting with a full near-miss data review in the first month.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Measured Impact<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Near-miss reporting increased by an estimated 40% as trust in the reporting process improved<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Recordable injury rate reduced by an estimated 20% within the first year<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Proactive safety walk-throughs implemented across all shifts<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Improved safety culture survey results across the workforce<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Client Reflection<\/b><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More near-misses being reported was actually the good news, it meant people finally trusted the system.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><b>Why This Matters<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A rising near-miss trend that leadership doesn&#8217;t act on is one of the clearest early warning signs in manufacturing safety, this appointment shows what a genuinely proactive HSE Manager changes once given the mandate to act on that data.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Related Civitas Service<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/clients\/hse-recruitment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HSE Recruitment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Glance Sector &#8211; Manufacturing Location &#8211; Geelong, VIC Workforce &#8211; 540 employees Service &#8211; HSE Recruitment &#8211; Permanent Engagement &#8211; Permanent Recruitment The Challenge A manufacturing organisation with 540 employees had an HSE function operating in pure reactive mode, incident response and paperwork, with no proactive safety culture work, despite a rising trend&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-study"],"acf":[],"post_author_name":"","post_authors_type":"","post_authors_from_team_members":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civitastalent.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}