TEAM
SAFERIGHT training ACADEMY
Our Team
Stunt, practical SFX, screen safety and tactical realism, built for Western Australia.
SCREEN CAPABILITY.
A WA-based team connecting stunt coordination, practical SFX, performer safety, tactical training, production design and controlled armoury support for productions that need confidence before camera rolls.
Saferight Academy brings together veteran-led safety training, stunt and practical SFX knowledge, film armoury experience, tactical performance and production design realism so WA productions can prepare safely before complex action reaches set.
Founders & Specialist Team
A cross-disciplinary team built around stunt coordination, practical SFX, performer safety, tactical training, controlled armoury support, compliance and screen realism.
Mack McCormack
Founder / Director. Safety training, business leadership and veteran capability.
Shea Walsh
Founder / Screen industry strategy, production relationships and market positioning.
Daniel Potts
Film armoury specialist and capability-transfer consultant. Supporting WA protocols, screen weapons safety and SOPs.
Adam Wheatley
Head of tactical production design and screen realism. Training emerging design talent.
Tim Carr
Lead stunt, squib and practical SFX capability-transfer consultant. Building WA pathways for action safety, performer readiness and on-set effects coordination.
Scott Roark
Tactical performance and firearms safety specialist. Former US Marine and US police officer.
Derek Bailey
WA firearms safety and armoury capability trainee. Building local crew capability.
Mack and Shea lead the WA-based founding structure, with Tim Carr leading stunt, practical SFX and action-safety capability transfer, supported by armoury, tactical, production-design and local crew capability.
01.
Mack McCormack - Founder / Safety Training
Mack brings veteran leadership, more than 30 years of safety-training experience and the operational backbone of Saferight Training Academy. He anchors the business in compliance, facilities, risk management and a safety-first culture productions can trust.
02.
Shea Walsh - Founder / Screen Industry Strategy
Shea connects the academy to the screen sector: producers, directors, first ADs, cast, crew and incoming productions. His role is to shape the strategy, partnerships, marketing and production-facing language so the capability is genuinely useful to the industry.
03.
Daniel Potts - Lead Armoury Specialist
Daniel supports the film-armoury capability transfer, helping train WA personnel, shape SOPs and build protocols around safe handling, storage, transport, blank-firing systems and production-ready compliance under WA requirements.
04.
Adam Wheatley - Tactical Production Design
Adam connects production design with tactical realism, action geography and safety-led screen planning. He helps sets, props, camera movement and practical action design feel convincing while remaining shootable and safe.
Q5.
Tim Carr - Stunt, Squib & Practical SFX
Tim strengthens the stunt, squib and practical SFX pathway, helping align performer safety, practical hits, action planning and on-set communication with the broader armoury and tactical-training model.
Large-scale productions need more than access to firearms, props or training days. They need a joined-up team that can work across armoury, cast preparation, first AD protocols, stunt coordination, production design, safety planning, storage, transport and regulatory liaison.
A team structure designed to support productions before, during and after any scene involving firearms, tactical movement, stunt risk or screen realism.
Film Armoury
Weapons, blank-firing systems, storage, transport, chain of custody and production-facing safety planning.
Tactical Training
Military, police, TRG, counter-terrorism and special forces movement, language, posture and command presence for screen performance.
Stunts & SFX
Stunt safety, squib planning, practical effects liaison and action design support for high-pressure scenes.
Adam connects production design with tactical realism, action geography and safety-led screen planning, helping scenes feel convincing, practical to shoot and safe to stage.
Tactical set layout.
Action geography.
Design training.
Armoury liaison.
Set realism.
Safe staging.
Practical action spaces.
Emerging crew pathways.
Saferight Academy helps productions bring complex action, firearms and tactical screen work to Western Australia with confidence.