Preventing harm before it happens.
A practical safeguarding program for sporting clubs and organisations of every size.
Sporting organisations want to keep people safe. The hard part is knowing where your gaps are, what the standards now require, and what good actually looks like for an organisation your size. Before Harm helps you find out, fix what matters, and make it stick.
Map
Half-day mapping session on site.
We walk through your set-up, your policies and how things actually work day to day. We listen to your concerns and your questions, and use a custom tool to map what’s working, what isn’t and what’s missing. Longer for larger organisations.
Fix
Prioritised report and action plan.
What’s missing, what’s urgent and what good looks like for an organisation your size, with practical templates you can put to use straight away.
Embed
Half-day implementation planning session.
We work with you to plan the path from gaps to confidence.
Short, medium and long term goals set by priority, each with an owner and a date.
Our approach
Prevention first. We help you find and reduce risk early, and put response systems in place so that when something goes wrong, it is picked up quickly and handled well. Helpful, expert and practical, always on the side of a safe sport.
Scaled to your organisation
Community clubs
A focused map of the essentials, a template-based action plan, and a session to plan how you roll it out.
State and regional bodies
A full map across your policies, people and complaint pathways, a tailored report, and an implementation planning session with your leadership.
National organisations
An independent integrity and safeguarding review, a board briefing, and staged implementation, including readiness for the updated National Integrity Framework policies by 30 April 2027.
Who delivers Before Harm
Deb Graham
Founder, Performhigh
Deb leads Before Harm. A former Commonwealth Games gymnast and AIS scholarship holder, Deb brings lived experience of elite sport and deep knowledge of the Australian sporting landscape. Deb holds a Diploma of Neurodiversity and the IOC's Certificate in Mental Health in Elite Sport, and designs programs built to be implemented, not filed.
Dr Peter Collins
Integrity & Safeguarding Specialist
Peter is an independent integrity and governance specialist with a doctorate in ethics from the University of Oxford. Over 25 years he has advised boards, chief executives and integrity agencies, including work with Cricket Australia following the ball-tampering scandal, across Australian football and national sporting organisations, and with organisations implementing the Royal Commission’s recommendations on child sexual abuse.
Is your sport ready for 2027?
Updated National Integrity Framework policies must be adopted by 30 April 2027. Start with a Before Harm mapping session. Tell us a little about your organisation and we’ll be in touch within two business days.
Please don’t include details of a specific incident in this form. If a child is in immediate danger, call 000.