From the boardroom to the paddock.
As the National HR & WHS Manager for corporate farming operations Proterra Investments, Sam's job was to report farm risk to the directors in Sydney - and keep them out of jail if things went pear-shaped on the ground across multi-state operations.
When the corporate operation sold, a buyer asked Sam to help manage his people and safety. That work became People in Paddocks.
The discovery that changed everything.
At one point, Sam managed 19 dyslexic workers. 18 had never told their boss of their reading or spelling challenges. Some of these workers were being misread as disinterested when they were quietly struggling with written instructions, licensing exams and lengthy text messages they couldn't easily decode.
That's the reason everything we build - the consultancy and the platform - starts from one question: can every worker actually read, understand and use this? If the answer is no, it isn't safety. It's paperwork.
Getting the best out of people.
Today People in Paddocks is both a hands-on HR & WHS consultancy and a technology company behind PIPA, the worker-facing platform used daily by 98% of the workers on the farms it's rolled out to. Together they do one job: make safety understandable for every worker, so we get closer to our vision of farming without fatalities.