Client Stories - Good Sense

Client Success Stories

We work with leading North American companies across the sectors we serve—helping them build complex and transformative projects safely.

Safety Amid Complexity & High Stakes

We provided the full range of jurisdiction-specific safety expertise needed across the crucial marine-construction component of this project.

The Woodfibre LNG export terminal on Howe Sound near Squamish, British Columbia, is a nationally important project. It’s Canada’s second major entry point into global markets for liquified natural gas.

Good Sense was brought in by U.S.-based Pacific Pile and Marine, a heavy civil and marine engineering firm. Pacific Pile and Marine was hired by the primary (EPC) contract holder for the project. This was an example of our on-demand service model. We provided the full range of jurisdiction-specific safety expertise needed across the crucial marine-construction component of this project.

Our personnel and safety management services were designed with full appreciation of this project’s complexity. We understood the need to consistently hit carefully orchestrated milestones and the high stakeholder scrutiny.

Are you involved in a complex and high-stakes energy or industrial-scale project? Let’s talk about how an outsourced safety model could better meet your needs.

Due Diligence Assurance for Project Owners

We assessed, managed, and reported back to the owner on safety performance and coordination by the general contractor and sub-trades. This provided assurance that all appropriate steps were being taken.

Fortis Inc.’s Tilbury LNG is a decades-old facility in Delta, a Vancouver suburb. It mainly supplies liquefied natural gas for domestic use and as a transportation fuel. An ongoing multi-phase expansion will increase liquefaction capacity to meet growing demand for lower-carbon marine fuel.

Good Sense partnered on this work with a Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) member-owned company. It was contracted to act as the owner’s safety representative for the expansion project.

In this important oversight role, we assessed, managed, and reported back to the owner on safety performance. We monitored both the general contractor and the various sub-trades. This provided assurance that all appropriate due diligence steps were being taken.

Do you want to check health and safety off the list of things keeping you up at night as a project owner? Let’s talk about how we could help you sleep more soundly.

Sustaining Health & Safety Leadership

Our work involved gap analysis including inspections, audits and recommendations. We also developed a tailored training program for management and some sub-trades.

The Richmond Centre project in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond is part of a trend: redeveloping malls into mixed-use hubs with plazas and other public amenities.

Good Sense was hired by Axiom Builders, a major developer of multi-family and mixed-use projects in British Columbia. Axiom serves as construction manager for property owner Cadillac Fairview.

Axiom was committed to sustaining its health and safety leadership. It faced challenges arising from a particularly large number and diversity of sub-trades on a site in a rapidly densifying urban area.

Our work involved gap analysis including inspections, audits and recommendations. We developed a tailored training program for management and some sub-trades. Our field team applied relevant on-the-ground experience to all of these tasks.

Are you looking to close gaps holding you back from the safety leadership you target? Let’s talk about how our real-world experience can help you get there.

Navigating Multi-Jurisdictional Operations

We conducted site visits, managerial surveys, board engagement and other research to clearly understand this client’s business model and safety risks.

British Columbia-based Taproot Community Support Services provides diverse services in more than 70 locations across several provinces. This includes a range of disability programs, youth services, and family support. It needed a health and safety management system that reflected its complex business, social, and regulatory environment—one spanning multiple jurisdictions, services, and client needs.

The research done by Good Sense included site visits, managerial surveys and engagement with board members. This gave us an understanding of Taproot’s business model, safety risks and multiple legislative frameworks. Based on that, we built a management system and ongoing training and supports suited to this employee-owned enterprise’s unique needs.

Are you unsure if your safety management system is cutting through the complexity of your operating environment? Let’s talk about what works best in your unique setting.

Bringing the Right Qualifications On-Site

We provided senior safety expertise and on-site personnel for this electricity grid expansion. Our team brought direct experience working within the local steelmaking industry.

Northeastern Ontario is reinventing a legacy industry and positioning itself to succeed in fast-changing global markets. One key ingredient is ready access to electricity. Good Sense was hired by U.S.-based Black & Veatch, which had won a lead (EPC) contract from the Public Utilities Commission to expand the electricity grid in the Sault Ste. Marie area.

We provided senior safety expertise and on-site personnel with direct experience in the local steelmaking industry. We focused on safety-related management of the many sub-trades and contractors required on Black & Veatch worksites.

Grid expansion will help sustain the region’s vital steel manufacturing sector, which is switching to electric arc furnaces. It will also improve readiness for mining in the adjacent Ring of Fire mineral deposits.

Are you working in an environment where safety performance depends on proper management of many players? Let’s talk about how to better ensure everyone is working in tandem.

Making a Safe Cross-Border Expansion

We supported a solar-module manufacturer’s expansion by building out a full safety management system for its growing U.S. operations and helping it put the right programs and people in place.

Heliene is a customer-first manufacturer of solar electricity modules. With operational roots in Ontario, it expanded into and built a larger manufacturing footprint in Minnesota.

Good Sense supported Heliene’s expansion by building out a full safety management system for its growing U.S. operations. We assisted in putting the right programs and people in place. Our engagement included site inspections, employee interviews and a health and safety staffing plan.

Heliene celebrated the opening of its third manufacturing line in Minnesota in June 2025. This brought its total U.S.-made module manufacturing capacity to 1.3 GW of electricity annually.

Are you considering expansion into entirely new jurisdictions? Let’s talk about how you can make sure your safety track record doesn’t get held up at the border.

Targeted Support for Internal Safety Teams

We were hired to support the internal health and safety team responsible for an integrated energy company’s exploration and production activities in Western Canada.

Husky Energy is a storied name in the Canadian oil patch, with a decades-long track record of tackling some of the country’s most challenging and complex energy projects.

Good Sense was hired to support the internal health and safety team responsible for Husky’s range of exploration and production activities in Western Canada. This includes surveying, road and leased-site construction, drilling, wellhead completions and pipeline and facility builds.

With a mandate focused on due diligence, contractor compliance and stakeholder engagement, we audited and onboarded contractors. We did field inspections and investigations. We helped Indigenous contractors strengthen their health and safety and quality systems. We also provided internal training.

Is your internal health and safety team looking for support to further elevate performance? Let’s talk about the targeted areas where we could add value.

Making Safe Spaces Even More So

We undertook a holistic health and safety gap assessment across a large library branch network, addressing requirements extending into areas such as workplace violence and harassment.

With 12 branches across 10 municipalities and hundreds of thousands of patrons, Greater Victoria Public Libraries is one of the most important community and learning institutions in the provincial capital. While libraries might be thought of as natural safe spaces, this doesn’t happen by accident.

GVPL contracted Good Sense to do a holistic health and safety gap assessment across its branches. This was part of its effort to meet or exceed safety requirements extending into areas such as workplace violence and harassment, and emergency response.

We developed a health and safety management system suited to these distinctive environments. The system accounts for not only staff but also volunteers and the public. We also created emergency preparedness programs and ongoing staff training.

Are you interested in a holistic look that includes some of the softer workplace safety considerations? Let’s talk about audits and other tools that will give you a full picture.