Built by people who lived through bad compliance processes
Founded in Sydney in 2024 to give Australian HR and WHS teams the infrastructure that psychosocial compliance actually requires.
Why we started ReFresh
Harrison Kennedy and Priya Mehta spent years working inside Australian organisations where the response to psychosocial WHS obligations was a shared folder of generic policy templates, a spreadsheet that was last reviewed two years ago, and a compliance calendar reminder that nobody acted on. When regulators strengthened the psychosocial hazard provisions under Model WHS Law, those organisations were suddenly exposed.
The problem was not a lack of intent. HR teams understood the obligation. The problem was tooling. The gap between "we need to be compliant" and "we have a defensible, current compliance record" required hours of manual policy writing, constant regulatory monitoring and document management work that existing HR platforms did not support. So we built the infrastructure layer that was missing.
ReFresh launched in 2024. Today it is used by HR and WHS teams at organisations across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland to manage their psychosocial compliance programmes from first assessment through to audit evidence.
The team
A small team combining WHS compliance expertise, employment law and software engineering.
Harrison Kennedy
CEO and Co-Founder
Harrison spent years building WHS management systems inside large Australian corporates, with deep familiarity with psychosocial-hazard duty-of-care obligations. As CEO and Co-Founder, he is focused on making the compliance layer more accessible to mid-size organisations.
Priya Mehta
Head of Compliance and Co-Founder
Priya spent years in workplace-law practice advising on WHS obligations before moving into product. As Head of Compliance and Co-Founder, she brings statutory literacy to how ReFresh maps regulation to actionable compliance tasks.
Tom Whitfield
CTO
Tom built document-processing and workflow automation systems for enterprise HR tools before joining ReFresh. As CTO, he led the architecture for the AI-drafting engine and the regulation-change pipeline.
Claire Okonkwo
Head of Customer Success
Claire brings an enterprise HR implementation background, having guided Australian organisations through HRIS rollouts and workplace-policy change programmes. As Head of Customer Success, she owns pilot onboarding and early-customer outcomes at ReFresh.
What we believe
Three principles that shape every product decision we make.
Regulation-first, not features-first
Every feature in ReFresh exists because Australian WHS law requires something of employers. We start from regulatory obligation and build backwards to the workflow, not the other way around.
Clarity over comprehensive
Compliance tools that surface everything surface nothing useful. ReFresh shows you what matters for your specific obligations, not every possible hazard and regulation in the Australian WHS system.
Auditable by design
Every action in ReFresh produces a record. The platform is built from the ground up for the moment when someone external asks to see your compliance evidence. That moment should not require emergency document assembly.
Talk to our compliance team
We are happy to answer questions about how ReFresh applies to your specific WHS obligations before you commit to anything.