PATRIZIA CASSANITI

The Reality of what tragedy looks like
Health, Mindset & Wellbeing Speaker | Australia

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PATRIZIA’S SHOWREEL

BIO

Patrizia is an International award-winning work health and safety advocate with a compelling and confronting life story. In 2021, she won the Gold Stevie award as Maverick of the year, been recognized as Top 100 Women in Construction and was honoured to be the NSW Woman of the Year for the Canterbury/Bankstown District

About the Keynote:

She shares the crucial lessons everyone in construction, manufacturing and engineering need to hear to shift out complacency and create a safe working environment for themselves

Her devastating story is of a tragedy that was never an accident, but an incident waiting to happen, all because of complacency that took her 18-year-old son’s life.

Be prepared for an emotional and inspiring journey with this powerful and potentially life-saving session where the usual ‘she’ll be right mate’ or 'it won’t happen to me’ situation will make you evaluate your daily work practises and make your family the reason why you work safe every day.

About Patrizia:

She has had extensive coverage on the media and has helped develop an App together with SafeWork NSW, that allows workers to speak up anonymously. Her safety advocacy led her to complete a CERT IV in Work Health and Safety to educate herself, so she can reign new laws in her son’s honour, by bringing tougher penalties and greater consequences for unsafe work practices. Her foundation, Touched by Christopher Ltd, raises money to help families who have lost a loved one in construction, financially, so that they can grieve without the everyday burden.en, top-tier, senior strategic creative leadership experience.

“Thank you for doing what you do”

I watched you on Monday at our Craigieburn Truss Factory. This is our most challenging site. Big Tough Mucho Factory workers in a very low socioeconomic environment... its a tough hood. Of the 50 in the room there would have been 10 tissues and 50 stunned faces. The impact was significant.
Thank you for doing what you do. You are saving lives I have no doubt about that.
Look after yourself, I have hugged my daughter more in the last week than before... and that's a lot.
Mark Cooper | General Manager | Dahlsens Building Centres Pty Ltd
“Wow. What a Statement”

You have encourage and strengthened my perspective on safety and what it means to everyone onsite. Coming home safe from work, is a human right NOT A PRIVILEGE. Wow. What a statement.
Even though through Mirvac’s HSE efforts for a safe work place are probably the best I have come across in the 20 years working in the building industry, I can see how complacency can creep in.
After todays talk, it feels like a new chapter, a new drive for me as a supervisor and the responsibility I have to all the workers that come to my site every day.
Thank you once again, I wish you and the organisation the best for the future and to spreading this extremely sad but encouraging message to our industry.
Daniel | Mirvac Residential Melbourne | Sep 2023
"WOW …that was worth more than 1000 toolbox talks. "

John | Head of Operations | Penrith City Council.