Leigh led the front end, designing solutions with architects and negotiating deals with builders. His guiding principle—a maxim passed down from his father—was deceptively simple: treat every person as you would your grandmother. That ethos, combined with steadfast integrity, set the stage for a company culture built on trust and mutual respect. Under Leigh’s leadership, Safetyline transformed from a regional fabricator into a commercial fenestration specialist with national reach. Today the company operates offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, maintains an offshore support team in Malaysia, and has shipped louvre and ventilation systems to every Australian state, as well as to New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Sales managers who once walked the streets of Sydney delivering samples now coordinate international logistics for remote island installations—it’s a testament to how far the business has come in under two decades. Despite its geographic breadth, the core of Safetyline remains steadfastly personal. Leigh’s grandmother-treatment principle has fostered extraordinary loyalty: over fifty full-time employees, an average staff tenure of seven years and multiple multi-generation family units on the factory floor. It’s not uncommon to find fatherand-son, husband-and-wife, or parent-and-in-law teams working side by side. This web of familial connections ensures meticulous attention to detail—if one team member spots a potential quality issue at the production line, they know exactly whom to alert. Leigh extends the same courtesy to suppliers and THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE AUSTRALIA
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