About Safety Centrics
International OHS and risk specialists supporting mining, construction and industrial teams. Safety is Life. Everyone Protecting Everyone.
Why we exist
SafetyCentrics was founded to help organizations shift from safety programs driven primarily by regulatory requirements to a sustainable business approach grounded in doing the right thing.
Compliance provides an essential foundation. Lasting safety performance grows when protecting people becomes part of how a business makes decisions, allocates resources, manages risk and holds itself accountable—every day, at every level.
We help leaders connect that commitment with practical operating discipline: clear ownership, effective critical controls, trusted reporting and a workforce equipped to understand and act. This approach supports the preservation of life, operational integrity, business continuity and long-term performance.
Our purpose is to make care for people a lasting business value, expressed through everyday decisions and actions.
Founder & leadership
International OHS, Risk & Operational Readiness Leader
James White is an occupational health, safety and operational risk leader with more than 22 years of direct HSE experience across mining, underground services, and heavy and infrastructure construction. His work spans Canadian and international operations, greenfield and brownfield developments, and transitions from projects into operations.
He has held senior health, safety, risk and business transformation roles with organizations including Newmont Mining, Glencore Xstrata and Barrick Gold. He has led teams implementing operational risk controls aligned with ICMM guidance, supported heavy mobile equipment risk profiling and led the deployment of global fatigue management standards. He has also served as a corporate representative and strategic participant in EMESRT.
James connects strategic leadership with practical execution, working with executives, operational leaders, contractors and frontline teams to strengthen critical controls and clarify accountability. His approach emphasizes open communication, trusted partnerships, workforce involvement and measurable follow-through across culturally diverse operating environments.
Registered in Canada as an Applied Science Technologist (retired), James holds technical diplomas in Mining Engineering Technology and Occupational Health and Safety from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, together with the Canadian Risk Management designation, with studies completed through Simon Fraser University.
Why SafetyCentrics?
Our difference is the connection between these three: experienced OHS leadership, practical operational assurance and communication people can understand and apply.
Engage senior OHS and operational risk support for an agreed assignment. Your proposal names the engagement lead, participating specialists and their responsibilities.
For you: clear access to the people accountable for the work.
Draw on experience across exploration, construction, commissioning and operations to examine contractor interfaces, readiness gaps and ownership during transitions.
For you: attention to the handovers between teams and stages.
Connect governance and procedures with control ownership, field verification and the conditions under which work actually happens. Our FSI Behavioral Alignment System brings leadership, controls, trust, intervention and ownership into the review.
For you: priorities grounded in exposure and control performance.
Link leadership expectations with practical worker learning, crew discussion and company-branded visual campaigns. Scope language and communication needs around the people doing the work.
For you: materials and conversations that support understanding and action.
Start with a focused review, commission defined project support or agree a fractional leadership assignment. Set deliverables, included capacity, timing and fees before work begins.
For you: a scope you can assess and a commitment you can plan.
Use prioritized findings, assigned actions and management coaching to support implementation. Agree review points and practical handover so your team can carry the work forward.
For you: useful outputs connected to responsibility and follow-up.
Need clarity on a specific exposure, extra leadership capacity or help putting expectations into practice?
Talk to the Safety Centrics Team →Independent consultants
Independent consultants may participate on behalf of Safety Centrics for an agreed assignment. The proposal identifies the participating specialists, their responsibilities and the Safety Centrics point of contact, so clients understand who will deliver the work.
Define the technical needs, operating environment and specialist experience required for the assignment.
Confirm scope, reporting lines, confidentiality and review responsibilities before participation begins.
Work to the agreed client requirements, with a named lead and clear responsibility for outputs and follow-up.
Share your specialisms, operating experience, location and availability. Participation is subject to mutual agreement and assignment requirements.
Selected areas of experience
Identify high-consequence exposures, clarify control ownership and examine the evidence used to verify performance.
Examine mobilization requirements, interfaces and readiness for work across complex project environments.
Connect leadership visibility, trusted reporting and crew discussion with practical action.
These are areas of professional experience, rather than client testimonials or claims of guaranteed results.
