Available April 2026
When organisations can't hear themselves, they can't improve themselves
Most organisations manage the distance between levels through control: stronger oversight, clearer expectations, and tighter accountability. But control deepens the divide.
Conversation offers a different path.
When dialogue is real, when people can speak honestly about how work happens, what makes it difficult, and what would make it better:
Weak signals reach decision-makers before they become incidents
Frontline intelligence shapes how work is designed
People stop protecting themselves and start contributing
The "us vs. them" fracture begins to heal
This book shows you how to make that shift.
What people say
“Organisations can have the best processes and programmes in the world and still not have great safety performance. It’s the thousands of conversations that create the fabric of excellence. You can’t copy this but in this book Daniel Hummerdal shows how you can begin to create it for yourself. If you want the people in your organisation to truly understand one another’s problems and step out of the constraints of the system this book is a must”
-John Green, Safety Transformation and Leadership Consultant
“This is the book I wish I had when I was first getting started in my career. Daniel’s ability to take complicated ideas explain them in ways that not only make sense, but lend themselves to application is second to none. I love how you can take this book and identify things you can start doing tomorrow. It’s definitely something I’ll be sharing with my leadership.”
-Ron Gantt, VP HSE, Beale Infrastructure
“Through engaging stories, Daniel shows how conversations unfold when approached with curiosity, humility, and courage. The book offers practical, relatable ways to engage others respectfully at work — and reminds us that meaningful organisational change begins with changing ourselves.”
-Paulo Gomes, EHS Systems and Assurance Lead, Boeing
The Author
Daniel Hummerdal is a safety leadership consultant based in Brisbane, Australia. He's worked with mining, construction, aviation, and utilities organisations across Australia, New Zealand, and internationally, helping them build conversational capacity.
His practice focuses on a simple but challenging question: How do organisations stay in honest contact with themselves?
An Invitation to Safety Conversations is his first book.
Workplaces hold extraordinary human potential to detect, assess, and create.
An Invitation to Safety Conversations shows how dialogue closes the distance between leadership and frontline employees, creating organisations where truth can travel, partnership becomes possible, and performance improve.