Workplace Legal, Safety and HR

Workplace legal, HR and safety capability that helps your organisation move forward

Optimise your HR & legal departments

Many businesses reach a point where the HR function is carrying more than it can realistically manage. An investigation, restructure or WHS incident can quickly consume all available capacity, while strategic workforce priorities get pushed further down the list. 

Hiring in-house counsel isn’t always the answer. Recruitment takes time, specialist expertise can be difficult to find, and one hire rarely provides the breadth of capability a growing organisation needs.

Recruitment. Employee relations. Awards. Performance management. Workplace investigations. Safety. Workforce planning.

Source helps you identify where your people capability is under pressure, then provides the right combination of HR, workplace legal and safety support to strengthen your organisation.

Whether that’s practical resources, specialist advice or ongoing capability, you get support that grows with your business.

How Source helps you build stronger people capability

You get access to experienced HR, employment law and workplace safety practitioners who can step in when people matters become more complex.

Instead of trying to solve difficult issues in isolation, you’ll have direct access to specialists who can help you navigate workforce challenges with confidence.

Our support includes:

Employment contracts, HR documentation and policy development
Fair Work compliance, awards, complaints, performance management and disciplinary processes
Terminations, restructures and redundancies
Workplace health and safety, regulator response and workers compensation
Recruitment, workforce planning and capability development

How the engagement works

Understand your people challenges

We start by understanding your workforce, existing HR capability, operational pressures and areas of people risk.

Build the right support model

Every organisation is different. Your support might include practical resources, specialist HR advice, workplace legal guidance, project support or an ongoing managed service.

Access the right capability

Whether you need help with an investigation, award interpretation, workforce planning or workplace safety, you’ll have access to expertise that fits your organisation.

Strengthen capability over time

As your workforce grows and regulations change, your support evolves with you, helping your organisation manage new challenges with confidence.

People risk is part of enterprise risk

Workforce challenges rarely exist in isolation.

Employment decisions create legal obligations. Workplace incidents affect compliance. Governance expectations shape people practices. Privacy responsibilities influence employee data.

Source connects HR capability with legal, governance, compliance and privacy expertise, helping organisations manage people risk as part of a broader legal and enterprise risk strategy.

Frequently asked questions about our fractional support

We already have a HR Manager. Why Source?

Most HR Managers we work with are carrying a significant workload with limited specialist support. Source provides additional capacity and expertise, helping internal teams stay strategic while we support complaint management, employee relations, award and agreement interpretation and other complex matters.

Can you help with workplace health and safety?

Yes. Source includes workplace safety specialists who support incident response, psychosocial safety, workers compensation, regulator engagement and ongoing safety compliance.

What about underpayment and award compliance risks?

Complex awards and enterprise agreements require specialist interpretation. Source helps organisations navigate these obligations and reduce the risk of costly compliance issues.

How does the HR and legal overlap work?

Many people issues have both HR and legal implications. Because Source combines both disciplines, matters can be managed by one team without additional providers, extra costs or repeated briefing.

100+

professionals

Experts across legal, HR, risk and compliance

4 offices across Australia

We are based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth

15+

years of experience

Helping growth and medium-sized enterprises

Built for organisations strengthening their people capability

If your HR team is spending more time reacting than planning, it’s usually time to build additional capability around the business.

Source is a strong fit if:

HR responsibilities are outgrowing internal capacity
Workforce issues are becoming more complex
Leaders need greater confidence in employment decisions
Compliance and workplace obligations are increasing
Existing HR resources need specialist support
Your organisation wants to strengthen capability without adding unnecessary overhead

In your words

Our clients explain what it’s like to have expert support built into their business – flexible, practical, and always on their side.

“The team at Source have been absolute lifesavers! They are always available, offer a customised support model based on the specific needs of our business and they are as timely as they are efficient in providing the information we need. Their key strengths have been their suggestions on improvements to our HR model as this has benefited our business in the short term and will continue to benefit in the long term as well as the wealth of knowledge they bring to our business in every interaction we have. I would happily recommend Source to any business looking to outsource their Human Resources– they are a joy to work with!”.