It’d be fair to say, that Senior Health & Safety Advisor, Lisa Moore, is well known as being the warm and friendly ‘face of safety and wellness at WesCEF’. But it’s likely that many aren’t aware of how Lisa started out with WesCEF, 30 years ago or just how much she has contributed to, in her time.

Lisa’s history with WesCEF started in 1996 when she was studying Applied Science – Laboratory Techniques at TAFE.

At the time, Albert Romano, now Covalent’s General Manager Refinery Operations, was her lecturer and offered Lisa an opportunity to join the seasonal Lab team at the Bayswater Soil and Plant Laboratory. From the seasonal stint, Lisa became a permanent team member and so her journey with CSBP began.  

Lisa spent three years with the Soil and Plant Lab team, regularly joining Ferts’ Agronomy field trips into WA farming regions as part of the trials and testing program. 

She then transferred into the Kwinana Laboratory – with the focus moving from just Ferts to include the Chemicals businesses as well. 

In these early years Lisa was a regular star of the Wesfarmers Annual Report – until she was ‘bumped’ around 2011, ending her run of stardom.

During her Lab stint, Lisa’s then manager Cameron Schuster recognised her energy and extroverted personality as well as her natural tendency to focus on safety. He suggested with some further studies, she could move into Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S). 

Moving into Safety

After seven years in the Kwinana Lab and juggling part time studies with full time work, Lisa completed her qualifications in OH&S and it wasn’t long before she was successful in applying for a Safety Advisor role within the Fertilisers business. 

“The Ferts business was predominantly male, but the Ferts Manager at the time, Warren Jones, was great – he made me feel supported as a younger team member, as a female employee and as a safety representative – even though I was only recently qualified on the topic.” 

Later, Lisa moved into a Safety Advisor role within the SCN team, supporting the then Sodium Cyanide Manager, Michael Rodriguez (now Manager of Engineering at Covalent). 

This was a particularly interesting period for Lisa as the business was moving into SCN solids production at the same time as focusing on decontamination on site to further protect team members.

“The SCN decontamination project was a huge project from a safety perspective and it was during my time at SCN that workplace hygiene became of greater focus to me as well. I learned so much about site hygiene which covered risks associated with both production and process operations, including inhalant and absorption risks, noise testing and dust monitoring.”

In 2008 Lisa attended the International Cyanide Conference in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, in Minnesota, USA, (aka the home of the Peanuts comics and Snoopy character).

Typically attended by an engineer, Lisa was the first Safety Advisor to go, given the Conference’s focus being on SCN antidotes, application response times and emergency response processes. 

“It was reassuring to know that WesCEF was already at the forefront of emergency response to SCN exposure. AGR still attends this conference and Health & Safety Advisor, Samy Shihata recently attended in 2025.”

Stats Man, introducing new Policies and Procedures and Kleenheat merger

From SCN, Lisa moved into AAN where she, once again, worked with Albert Romano. 

“It was never boring in my role – each team I joined was always so interesting. As part of delivering on safety I had to learn about each team I worked with and really understand how their teams operated, so I was continuously adding to my overall knowledge of each business.”

Despite safety being a serious topic, the Safety team would often try to be creative and even use humour to help team members visualise workplace risks and hazards and focus on putting safety practices in place. 

“In 2005, one of our safety campaigns was focusing on injury statistics – we dressed up a mannequin in a PPE uniform and called him ‘Stats Man’. Each month we’d stick the stats to the body parts of the mannequin displaying how many injuries there had been that month and carry or transport him around, displaying him all over site.

Stats Man was a good discussion instigator – allowing for natural conversations amongst team members around personal and physical safety and how to avoid injuries moving forwards.”

Lisa also lead the introduction of the WesCEF Drug & Alcohol Policy. This was a surprisingly challenging deliverable given the unexpected response from some team members. 

“It was a challenge as despite most team members being responsible, it was seen by some as ‘cracking down’ on what people did out of work hours and a lack of trust by the workplace in their responsible employees. So we needed to educate teams on what ‘being fit for work’ meant, and also convey that it was a necessary Policy to have in place as it meant WesCEF was meeting industry standards for workplace safety.”

Another site wide project Lisa was involved in was introducing the Permit to Work Lock Out system. This required physically attaching locks to isolation points to physically isolate systems. This took time to install, slowed down some processes as a result and sometimes meant more people were required to manage a process.

“This project was really challenging – but it provided a great learning experience in that if we can communicate the intent and the need and take the team on a journey of understanding, they will come on board.

Jim Bolton was in the Safety team when I first started and his advice was to “understand the customers’ needs and never pretend to know the answers to their questions, as they’ll see right through that. Just tell them you’ll find the answer and always get back to them in a timely manner” – which was great advice to carry forward introducing safety practices.” 

Lisa also spent time with the newly acquired Kleenheat business, both at KPF and the LPG Operations at Beach Street. Li Unewisse, the then head of Safety, tasked Lisa with merging Kleenheat safety systems and processes with WesCEF’s. 

Wellness and the emergence of psychosocial wellbeing and SP3
In 2015, after having her son James, Lisa returned from maternity leave to a part time role, splitting her time between Kwinana and the Murdoch office, looking after safety statistics and any project work that was required. 

During this period Lisa lead the Wellness@WesCEF initiative which focused on providing education in both physical and mental health, via webinars and workshops.

“This was a great project to be a part of as it kicked off organic conversations around men’s and women’s health. Many team members lead their own initiatives off the back of topics discussed and we saw people checking in on their physical and mental health and taking action to really look after themselves. 

Sometimes we would partner with a health initiative and it was amazing to see teams across WesCEF demonstrate comradery, creativity and fun, team work and a strong competitive streak in their efforts to improve their health. 

It’s good to see that wellbeing and mental wellness has grown into its own focus area – now often referred to as psychosocial wellbeing, in many workplaces.” 

Lisa was also in the team when the SP3 or Safe Person, Safe Process, Safe Place strategy was developed and launched across WesCEF. 

“SP3 was a real collaboration and I think that is why it has lasted as long as it has and why it still resonates with our workforce.”

Lisa currently focuses on psychosocial elements in the workplace and continues to contribute to project work across WesCEF, which has most recently seen her working with the Ferts’ regional Sales & Agronomy team.

“I’m fortunate being part of the Safety team, in that I’ve been able to work in all of the different businesses, whilst working with a great group of talented safety professionals.  This has provided me with great diversity as well as learning and development opportunities. 

I’ve always been surrounded by good people and managers and even had a mentor in WesCEF’s CFO Alex Willcocks while she was based at Wesfarmers, which I really appreciated as a positive, and calming, female, role model.”

Life outside of WesCEF

When she’s not wearing her Safety hat, Lisa and her family are Perth Wildcats members so attend all the games, as well as her son James’ basketball games on the weekend.

Lisa has a three-year old granddaughter Poppy who she sees regularly and is looking forward to meeting Poppy’s sibling, who arrives in mid-2026.

In the last year the family acquired a pet pink and grey galah, Charlie-bird, or Miss Charlie as they discovered, and the household have enjoyed teaching Charlie to talk and do tricks.

Lisa is currently planning a long awaited family Euro-trip in spring of 2026.

Thank you to Lisa for sharing just a snapshot of what you’ve been involved in over the years and your learnings – and for being a positive force for WesCEF team members living the SAFE Person, Safe Process, Safe Place strategy.