PBF Speakers

Rollo Craib

Workplace

“Encourage safer choices in the workplace.”

Rollo’s working career began at the age of 15 spanning the hospitality, transport, oil and gas and agriculture industries. Over the years, he experienced many varied workplace safety systems and cultures. Rollo made the decision to invest in his own business managing and driving heavy haulage trucks across Australia.

Drawing on his previous workplace safety experiences, Rollo implemented his own approach to ensure safety at work was always a focus and compliant. Unfortunately, this did not protect him from sustaining a permanent injury.  Rollo was riding his motorbike on a Saturday morning when he was hit side on by a car, being driven by a distracted driver. As a result, Rollo lost his leg and sustained significant spinal damage.

As part of PBF Australia’s Injury Prevention workplace team, Rollo shares his experience of adopting different workplace safety systems, along with his own story and experiences of a serious incident resulting in permanent life altering injuries.  Engaging with his audience, Rollo’s presentations aim to initiate constructive conversations regarding workplace safety cultures, to encourage safer choices in the workplace.

Greg Willmott

Workplace

“Work hard and enjoy life but make sure you’re getting enough sleep.”

Greg grew up on a farm, learning from an early age that work was hard and hours were long. This mentality continued throughout his life, in particular when supporting his young family.

In the lead up to his incident Greg was only getting 4 hours sleep per night. He always felt tired but was used to it, so continued to push himself. Early one morning Greg’s fatigue finally caught up with him. He fell asleep at the wheel, his car left the road and collided with a tree. Greg was only 2km from his destination.

Sustaining life threatening injuries, overtime Greg made a decent recovery. However he lives with quadriplegia from his C5/6 spinal cord injury. Greg shares his personal story so that others can see how important healthy sleep patterns are, and avoid the risk of fatigue related incidents.

Marco Sanmartino

Workplace

“An injury is a lifelong commitment that I don’t want you to have to live with.”

On the 7th February 2016, Marco’s life changed forever when he almost lost his life due to an accident at work. Marco was experienced, loved his job and was deeply committed to his duties. Even this high level of dedication towards his occupation did not prevent him from getting injured.

His plans and dreams were tossed away in a split second; left in shattered pieces. Marco sustained catastrophic injures to his right hand, arm, shoulder and neck. The drilling rig he was working on trapped his hand and ripped his arm out of its socket; permanently tearing the nerves out of the spinal cord and causing massive internal bleeding. He was hospitalised for 4 months and will forever carry his disability and all the long term physical symptoms of paralysis.

Marco doesn’t want others to carry the same physical and mental scars and hopes that we will look after each other. Team work is important; we need to guide and look out for each other, as someone’s careless actions can permanently change the life of another.

Marco is a charismatic speaker who brings awareness of safety to the audience through his personal story.  He wants you to remember that it’s everyone’s responsibility to be safe at work, so that we can all go home to our families at night.