Sample Assist today announced the appointment of Anna Grimshaw as Principal Consultant, Occupational Health.
Anna will lead the Sample Assist Occupational Health Consulting Service. She will support customers to manage Occupational health programs using GroundCtrl, Sample Assist’s digital occupational health management platform.
Anna brings more than three decades of experience across occupational health, occupational hygiene, and health surveillance. She has supported national and international organisations. She has led health and hygiene programs across complex, multi-site operations in regulated environments.
Most recently, Anna was Health and Hygiene Superintendent at GM3 from 2022 to 2025. She managed health and hygiene programs across two coal mines and two coal preparation plants.
Anna holds a Master of Science in Occupational Health and Safety from the University of Wollongong. She is an ISO 14001 internal auditor.
GroundCtrl connects employers, workers, and medical providers in a unified, secure, private, all-in-one digital occupational health platform. It supports workforce medical compliance by helping organisations automate and manage occupational medicals. It uses Sample Assist’s signature Digital Employment Medical Passport to support the occupational medical lifecycle in regulated industries.
This appointment reflects Sample Assist’s continued investment in delivering the latest innovations in digital health. It strengthens our integrated offering of technology and consulting. GroundCtrl provides the digital infrastructure. The Sample Assist Occupational Health Consulting Service supports our customers to maximise value from GroundCtrl through structured implementation to ensure real time governance and compliance.
“Anna brings deep capability in occupational health and a clear focus on practical delivery,” said Heath Cooper, Founder and CEO of Sample Assist. “She will help our customers strengthen governance, improve consistency, and lift audit readiness. Her work will also accelerate the rollout of GroundCtrl as a specialist platform for occupational health and workforce medical compliance.”
Anna Grimshaw said, “Occupational health management is complex, resource intensive, and critical for regulated organisations. I look forward to helping customers realise measurable benefits through automated medical booking management and standardised digital workflows that strengthen compliance and reduce administrative burden.”
GroundCtrl is designed for mining and heavy industry. It replaces fragmented, manual occupational health processes with a unified, secure platform. It helps organisations standardise workflows, strengthen evidence capture, and improve reporting so compliance outcomes are consistent and audit ready.
To learn more about GroundCtrl, visit https://www.groundctrl.com.au/.
