Independent Risk and WHS Advisory Services
Clarity where accountability matters
Risk Systems Advisory provides independent risk and Work Health and Safety (WHS) governance advisory support to Boards and senior executives. The focus is on governance arrangements, system design, and executive oversight that genuinely support safe work and informed decision-making in practice.
Work is undertaken directly with leaders who carry accountability for outcomes and require clarity about how risk and WHS systems operate beyond policies, frameworks, and reports. Engagements are selective, strategic, and grounded in practical experience.
Risk and WHS Governance Advisory
Risk Systems Advisory works with senior leaders who:
Are accountable for risk and WHS outcomes
Require confidence in the systems they govern
Want assurance that reflects operational reality, not just reporting
Are navigating complexity, change, or regulatory scrutiny
Engagements are selective and typically involve Board or executive matters where independent judgement depends on a clear understanding of how risk systems operate in practice.
Understanding how risk systems operate in practice
Organisations often have risk and WHS systems in place — yet still experience uncertainty at leadership level.
Risk Systems Advisory helps leaders gain clarity on:
Whether their risk and WHS systems can be relied upon in practice
How governance and oversight arrangements function day-to-day
Where accountability is clear — and where it is not
How assurance supports, or undermines, executive confidence
Why systemic issues persist despite apparent compliance
The work focuses on understanding how systems behave under real conditions, not how they appear on paper.
Independent advisory support where accountability matters
Risk Systems Advisory provides independent advisory support across its core areas of practice:
Strengthening governance clarity and executive accountability for risk and WHS performance, including oversight arrangements, reporting structures, and decision confidence.
Supporting leaders to navigate regulatory scrutiny with clarity, preparedness, and proportionate system responses grounded in governance and operational reality.
Advising on the design, alignment, and maturity of risk and WHS systems to ensure they operate effectively in practice and support safe, informed decision-making.
Providing clearly scoped, practical WHS support where required, complementing governance advisory while maintaining organisational accountability.
How this is different
Risk Systems Advisory is not a compliance auditor, regulator, or delivery consultancy.
The advice provided is independent and informed by decades of experience designing, leading, and governing risk and WHS systems inside complex organisations — including periods of executive accountability, organisational change, and regulatory scrutiny.
This perspective allows leaders to receive insight grounded in lived responsibility, not theoretical models.
About the practice
Risk Systems Advisory is led by Mark Jentsch, a senior risk and WHS professional with extensive experience in leadership, system design, governance, and regulatory engagement.
After decades of directly owning outcomes within complex operational environments, Mark now provides selective advisory support to Boards and senior executives who require clear, practical insight into how risk and WHS systems function in reality.
The practice is intentionally independent, enabling trusted, confidential engagement and direct senior involvement in every engagement.
Next Steps
If you are a Board member, CEO, or senior executive seeking independent, system-level insight into risk and WHS governance, Risk Systems Advisory welcomes a confidential conversation.