Epigroup
A WHS consultancy applying psychosocial risk management to the practical realities of high-risk industry — not as a standalone programme, but as part of a broader safety framework
Epigroup is an Australian WHS consulting firm headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, with a network of safety professionals operating nationally. Its service scope spans psychosocial risk management, safety culture and transformation, critical risk management, training and communication, and talent sourcing for safety functions. Within that broader WHS remit, psychosocial risk is a primary practice area — and the one most directly relevant to HR and people leaders navigating positive duty obligations and WHS regulatory requirements for psychological health and safety.
Epigroup’s approach to psychosocial risk reflects its origins in traditional WHS consulting rather than organisational psychology or clinical practice. It frames psychological hazards using the same hazard identification, risk assessment and control logic applied to physical safety risks — which aligns directly with how Australian WHS legislation, Safe Work Australia guidance and ISO 45003 require psychosocial risk to be managed.
This grounding in physical safety methodology, applied to psychological hazards, is what differentiates Epigroup from organisational development consultancies that approach the same territory from a culture or leadership change perspective.
What they do
Epigroup’s psychosocial risk services span assessment, strategy and capability uplift. Assessment services use both quantitative surveys and qualitative methods including interviews and focus groups to identify psychosocial hazards, understand their severity, frequency and duration of impact, and map them against WHS compliance requirements. Strategy and transformation engagements address the governance, accountability and work design changes required to implement effective controls — moving organisations from hazard identification to sustained risk reduction. Training and communication services include custom-built programs delivered in-person, online or as e-learning and virtual reality solutions through the firm’s in-house digital studio.
On the technology side, Epigroup does not operate a proprietary platform. For ongoing data collection and monitoring, it implements third-party tools including FlourishDx, positioning itself as the consulting and implementation capability that sits around a specialist platform rather than competing with one. For organisations that want both consulting expertise and platform capability, this creates a natural pairing — though buyers should understand they are engaging two separate commercial relationships rather than a single integrated vendor.
Epigroup’s industry depth in resources, construction and heavy industry is the most distinctive aspect of its psychosocial risk practice. FIFO workforces, remote site environments, high-consequence work and the specific psychosocial hazard profiles of mining and energy operations require a practitioner who understands both the regulatory framework and the operational context. Generic wellbeing or organisational psychology consultancies rarely carry that combination. Epigroup’s WHS lineage means its consultants approach psychosocial risk from within a safety management system framework, which is where regulators are increasingly expecting to see it addressed.
Key differentiator
The firm’s breadth across safety disciplines — psychosocial risk, critical risk management, safety culture, training, and safety talent sourcing — means that psychosocial risk engagements can be connected to broader safety management system reviews, leadership capability programs and operational risk frameworks rather than running as standalone initiatives. For organisations seeking to integrate psychological health into their existing WHS systems rather than managing it as a separate HR or wellbeing programme, this integration is operationally useful.
Epigroup won the WA Work Health and Safety Excellence Award for Best Solution to a WHS Risk in 2023 — an industry recognition specific to WHS practice rather than the broader mental health or HR space. It holds CCIWA Mental Health First Aid Skilled Workplace certification and has partnered with the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry to extend psychosocial risk services to businesses across WA.
The WA market context matters for understanding Epigroup’s positioning. Western Australia’s resources and construction sectors operate under some of the most demanding WHS environments in the country — high-consequence work, FIFO arrangements, male-dominated workforces with elevated suicide risk, and regulatory scrutiny that has intensified as psychosocial risk obligations have expanded. Epigroup’s base in Perth and its sector relationships reflect a practice built in that environment, which gives it credibility with large-resource, infrastructure-focused employers that a generalist organisational psychology consultancy is unlikely to command.
Australian market context
Epigroup operates in a segment of the psychosocial risk market that sits between software-led diagnostic platforms and organisational development consultancies. It is a practitioner-led consulting firm, not a technology product, and its value is most clearly articulated in complex or high-risk environments where psychosocial risk assessment requires both technical WHS methodology and sector-specific knowledge. The firm’s national reach via its consulting network means it is not exclusively a WA provider, though its primary market presence and sector relationships are concentrated in WA’s resources and construction industries.
Considerations
Epigroup’s primary sector depth is in resources, construction and heavy industry. Organisations in healthcare, financial services, public sector, or professional services environments will find the firm’s methodology rigorous and WHS-aligned, but should assess whether its sector experience aligns with their specific workforce context before engaging. The consulting-led model means engagements are bespoke and typically project-based — organisations seeking a subscription product, a self-serve platform, or a standardised programme should consider software-led alternatives in this category. The absence of a proprietary platform also means that organisations seeking a single-vendor relationship for both consulting and ongoing measurement will need to manage a multi-vendor arrangement.
Who it suits
Epigroup is best suited to medium and large organisations in high-risk industries — particularly resources, construction, energy, manufacturing and infrastructure — where psychosocial risk is understood as a WHS compliance obligation and where the workforce profile includes FIFO arrangements, shift work, remote site operations or other conditions that create specific psychosocial hazard exposures. WHS managers, HSE leaders and risk functions are the primary buyers, though HR and people leaders are increasingly involved as psychosocial risk sits across both WHS and P&C responsibilities.
Organisations that want consulting expertise to complement a specialist platform, or that are building psychosocial risk capability into an existing safety management system, are a natural fit. Organisations seeking a technology platform, a clinical service or a generalist wellbeing programme are not.