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Brant ‘Bugsy’ North
Print'Choices and Consequences' – Brant ‘Bugsy’ North educates and inspires audiences across Australia and New Zealand, promoting personal accountability and the importance of safety in the workplace for all. In 1999, Brant North 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
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Testimonials for Brant ‘Bugsy’ North
Absolutely outstanding presentation by Brant North.
Cleanaway Daniels
Brant was great, really got the team thinking and enjoyed the story.
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Brant ‘Bugsy’ North's Biography
'Choices and Consequences' – Brant ‘Bugsy’ North educates and inspires audiences across Australia and New Zealand, promoting personal accountability and the importance of safety in the workplace for all.
In 1999, Brant North 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 behavioural 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 'Bugsy' North's story highlights the dangerous consequences of complacency on the job. Bugsy's workplace accident serves as a tragic reminder of the importance of being diligent and avoiding rushing tasks, even for experienced workers.
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.
To enquire about Brant to speak at your next event contact Helene Greenham directly – helene@platinumspeakers.com.au
Speaking Topics Include
Choices and consequences - The choices he made at the time resulted in the consequences he must now live with. If there is one key point he implores audiences to take away from the session, it is that the attitude of ‘it won’t happen to me’ doesn’t hold up.