Tony Morris

Tony is a Partner in Ashurst Risk Advisory and leads our work health and safety risk capability.

With over 26 years' experience, Tony is considered an expert in workplace health and safety, psychosocial risk management, investigations and navigating health and safety regulations. He is considered an expert in brand, reputational risk, and consulting on future of health and safety regulation, engaging the workforce, and reskilling agile working models.

Tony is a WHS board and executive coach and advisor, and provides end-to-end consulting and advisory services, ranging from psychosocial risk management, major WHS system improvement and redesign to premium transformation WHS projects with solutions that include WHS technology, analytics, systems, investigations, assessments, and training through to safety leadership and culture.

Prior to joining Ashurst Risk Advisory, Tony was a Risk Advisory Partner at a Big 4 professional services firm, and before that, he co-founded and directed The Brief Group (2000-2013). The Brief Group was an WHS consultancy blending both legal and practical experience, focused on safety compliance and the design of management systems and processes, along with training aimed at building and maintaining good businesses. Tony has also been employed as a Senior Litigation Lawyer for the Safety Regulator (then WorkCover NSW), Police Prosecutor and Detective in the NSW Police Force.