Don't be fooled by FTA, Rebekah McCutcheon and Michal Morgan
- Crystal Polson
- Jun 11, 2025
- 22 min read
Updated: 15 minutes ago
I was going back and forth about whether or not I should write this post. I was torn between not expending more time and energy vs getting the facts laid out in one place.
My decision was made for me on 26 May 2025 when I received an email from Michal Morgan of Fit Test Australia. You'll see that email later in this post.
And on 8/1/26, I received an email from a person who suffered verbal abuse and bullying from Michal Morgan and Rebekah McCutcheon. Here are their words verbatim: "I just read your blog post about Fit Test Australia. I wanted to thank you for bringing attention to their behaviour and for speaking up about the way people have been treated. When I worked with Rebekah, my colleagues and I genuinely dreaded taking her phone calls, as she would often scream and yell at us. There were also several occasions when Michal came in and spoke to our staff in a degrading manner. I could never forget the way they treated me and my colleagues. Please know that many of us support you and what you’re doing."
This post is really long because it’s an extensive timeline of FTA’s repeated dirty tactics and behaviours, kept here so everything is in one place. It's a no-holds-barred account of my experiences with Rebekah McCutcheon and Michal Morgan of Fit Test Australia (FTA).
I believe that people deserve to be warned about these two. When a business, and its owners, repeatedly engage in intimidation, misrepresentation, threatening, lying, manipulation, and bullying, they deserve to be called out. I have heard from several individuals and companies who will no longer work with FTA due to their deplorable behaviours and unethical practices.
Mark Reggers, Chair of RESP-FIT, recently confronted Fit Test Australia on LinkedIn for being “misleading and irresponsible."
Mark wasn’t wrong. However, in my opinion, he barely scratched the surface of just how misleading and irresponsible FTA, and its owners, can be and have been.
Rebekah and Michal have relentlessly tried to destroy my business and damage my personal reputation. They even tried to sue me to get me to close up shop and pay them thousands of dollars.
Their slimy tactics have included:
Misappropriation of my intellectual property;
Attempting to sue me for thousands of dollars, claiming that I was pretending to be affiliated with Fit Test Australia and that's the reason Fit Test Victoria is successful;
Opening an office in Moonee Ponds, Victoria a couple of doors down from us, in a further attempt to mislead and deceive the public;
Unabashedly calling themselves 'FTA Fit Test Victoria';
Demanding that I cease doing business and turn over all of Fit Test Victoria's marketing and promotional materials to their lawyer;
Demanding that I never use the words 'fit test' in any business that I start;
Falsely accusing me of being in cahoots with a marketing company to create a smear campaign against them;
Making false allegations and complaints about me to the AIOH and RESP-FIT;
Using my business name in their Google ads to garner more clicks and trick people into believing they are affiliated with Fit Test Victoria;
Publicly and prolifically claiming that Fit Test Victoria is "piggybacking" off their reputation and "misleading" the public;
Accusing people who give them 1-star Google reviews of “confusing them with Fit Test Victoria”. This has become their go-to tactic because they refuse to take accountability for their behaviours;
Posting doctored screenshots of fake emails on social media;
Disparaging both me and my business - verbally and in public online forums;
Posting patently wrong, misleading and potentially dangerous information on social media;
Bullying, threatening, harassing and intimidating anyone who challenges them.
Before I published this post, Fit Test Australia received a legal concerns notice from my lawyer demanding they stop their ongoing defamation (especially in their Google review responses and misleading and deceptive conduct by calling themselves Fit Test Victoria). They completely ignored that notice and continue their unlawful and unethical behaviour to this day.
All reasonable attempts at private resolution have, unfortunately, failed (another reason I decided to publish this blog). Instead of addressing their actions, Rebekah and Michal have doubled down on their efforts to discredit their biggest perceived threat: Fit Test Victoria.
This is not a "smear campaign" as Rebekah and Michal will inevitably claim when they see this. (And that is exactly what they did). It's the truth, supported by tangible evidence, including emails, letters, screenshots, and legal correspondence.
That Article Looks Familiar
The saga started while I was doomscrolling through LinkedIn one day. I saw a post from Rebekah McCutcheon that caught my eye. She shared an article she wrote titled "Respiratory Protection Programs: What they are and why you need one."
Interesting. I had just written an article with that same title.
When I clicked to open the link to the content, I was gobsmacked to discover that the article was, indeed, my work.
When Rebekah's LI followers praised the article’s clarity and insight, she responded with things such as, “Thanks! I love writing about respiratory protection!”
It made me physically ill to see this.
I immediately commented on Rebekah's post that the article was mine. She quickly deleted that comment. I reposted my comment and it was again quickly deleted.
I messaged every person who had liked, commented on, or shared her post to let them know that the content was stolen from me.
What Rebekah didn’t seem to consider is that I’d recognize my own writing. It’s baffling that she assumed I wouldn’t notice she had published my work under her name. She wasn't even trying to hide it. She was promoting it.
When I realized Rebekah wasn't going to take down the article, I picked up the phone and called her. I gave her the opportunity to remove my content from her blog and social media accounts.
She played dumb and hung up on me.
After that call, I noticed that Rebekah had changed a few words around in the article (e.g., "employees" became "staff"), believing that synonyms would help her avoid plagiarism and copyright infringement. She continued to publicize the article and accept accolades for writing it.
This told me a lot about Rebekah's character. I knew she wasn't going to do the right thing, so I hired a lawyer to send a cease and desist letter for copyright infringement.
Rebekah chose not to respond to this letter.
And while she did remove the article from her blog post and LinkedIn after receiving the demand notice, she reshared my work as a very long Facebook post on FTA's page. Unbelievable. That FB post wasn't removed until after the deadline specified in the cease and desist order.
When my lawyer called Rebekah to ask if she planned on responding to the letter, she said, "probably not."
Rebekah didn't think a legal demand letter required a response? Really? Most people, when served with a concerns notice from a lawyer will at least acknowledge the accusation, whether to deny, dispute, or defend it.
I believe hijacking someone else’s work, claiming authorship, and accepting praise for it shows a clear lack of integrity, dishonesty and disrespect. It’s calculated and self-serving.
Report to RESP-FIT
After Rebekah lifted my article and claimed it as her own, I reported her to Mark Reggers (Chair of RESP-FIT) and the AIOH Ethics Committee.
Rebekah freely admitted to misappropriating my work, yet no disciplinary action was taken. RESP-FIT and AIOH told me that “Rebekah had complied with my lawyer’s letter, but I reported her anyway.” She hadn’t. She ignored the letter and missed the deadline to remove all content. No one from RESP-FIT/AIOH bothered to ask me if Rebekah's claim was true. They simply took her word for it.
I raised my concern to Mark that FTA's financial sponsorship of RESP-FIT may have influenced their decision to accept her story without scrutiny. (After this article was published, I noticed FTA's financial sponsorship listing was removed from RESP-FIT's website).
For the record, I do not believe any accrediting body should accept money from the same people it accredits. It's an egregious conflict of interest — and it undermines integrity from the top down.
Although I disagreed with the outcome, the ordeal was over. Or at least I thought it was.
Getting Sued for Doing It Better
In June 2024, a few months after I reported Rebekah to RESP-FIT, I received a letter from FTA’s lawyer, Victor Ng.
The letter claimed my business, Fit Test Victoria, was “passing off” as Fit Test Australia, and that was the only reason we were successful. They accused me of claiming to be FTA's subsidiary to “piggyback” off their stellar reputation.
The letter demanded that I pay FTA $5,900, stop trading as Fit Test Victoria, and deliver every piece of branded material to their lawyer’s office and surrender it. I guess that meant my company vehicle too.
Their lawyer also said I could never start another business with the words “fit test” or apply for a trademark using those words. He threatened me based on an unregistered trademark FTA was “likely” to get. (spoiler alert: IP Australia rejected it.)
I imagined Rebekah, Michal and their lawyer standing around a bonfire burning my 'marketing and promotional' materials and raining my $5,900 in the air in pure joy over their easy defeat.
The letter threatened that I would be taken to Federal Court if I didn't comply with all their demands.
Under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), businesses are not allowed to use improper tactics to substantially lessen competition, which is exactly what FTA was trying to do.
I responded to Victor directly. After that, I never heard from him again.
You can read the letters here:
If Rebekah was so concerned that Fit Test Victoria copied her brand and business name, she could have voiced her concerns when I first opened in 2022. Instead, she sent me a sales email asking if I wanted to buy her fit test probes.
You're Unethical. But We Won't Say Why.
In September 2024 - three months after RESP-FIT told me my complaint about Rebekah was closed - I got another email from Mark Reggers and the AIOH Ethics Committee regarding the same grievance.
This time, the attached letter simply said I was “unethical.” No explanation, no context, no reason. I called Mark to ask what prompted their declaration of my character. He said Rebekah had made “additional complaints” about me, which RESP-FIT and AIOH considered. But Mark flat out refused to tell me what those complaints were.
When I asked to meet with the RESP-FIT Board and Ethics Committee, Mark said, “That won’t be happening.” He also mentioned that the RESP-FIT Board and AIOH didn’t “take too kindly” to my pointing out that FTA - Rebekah’s company - pays RESP-FIT thousands each year to be a financial sponsor which I believe influenced their bias.
Their refusal to disclose the allegations Rebekah made, or meet with me directly, violated AIOH’s own grievance procedure, which requires both parties to meet and discuss the matter.
In February 2025, I learned that Rebekah had been recorded defaming me and bragging about “turning me in” to AIOH/RESP-FIT. It became clear that AIOH’s label of me as “unethical” (which Rebekah was privy to) was being weaponised by her to damage my reputation.
I contacted Mark Reggers and the AIOH Ethics Committee again to ask what allegations she had made, but they again refused to disclose anything.
I had my lawyer send a formal letter to AIOH President Aleks Todorovic demanding details and an explanation for the lack of due process.
The outcome:
They still refused to disclose Rebekah’s allegations.
The letter labelling me “unethical” was formally retracted.
They offered mediation between Rebekah and me (bizarre since my issue in this case was with AIOH/RESP-FIT).
I am certain Rebekah made up false allegations to report to RESP-FIT because she was angry that her attempt to sue me went nowhere. She was exacting her revenge.
In a face-to-face meeting with Aleks Todorovic on 15 December 2025, he finally admitted that AIOH "made a mistake" by blindly accepting Rebekah's allegations.
Accusing someone of being unethical without explaining why or giving them a chance to respond isn’t just unprofessional, it’s a failure of basic fairness, due process and natural justice - all of which AIOH claims to value and adhere to.
I was not happy (to say the least) with how I was treated by RESP-FIT and the AIOH, but, once again, I decided to drop it and move on because the whole thing was mentally and emotionally exhausting.
And that was the end of that, right?
Not by a long shot.
Mojo Dojo
On 7 February 2025, I received a call from Ajay at a marketing agency called Mojo Dojo. I assumed it was a sales pitch and nearly hung up. But it wasn’t.
Ajay explained that Michal Morgan and Rebekah McCutcheon from Fit Test Australia were accusing Mojo Dojo and Fit Test Victoria of 'working together' to create a smear campaign against FTA. I was thoroughly confused, as I had never heard of Mojo Dojo before Ajay's call.
This is the email I received from Ajay after that call (highlights are mine):
Here's the backstory:
In 2023, Rebekah engaged Mojo Dojo for a free consultation - she was never a paying client. Fast forward 13 months to Feb 2025. Rebekah, and hubby Michal, conjured up a delusion that Fit Test Victoria and Mojo Dojo were in cahoots to create a 'smear campaign' against FTA.
Rebekah and Michal left Mojo Dojo multiple 1-star reviews accusing them of leaving fake 1-star reviews for FTA and calling them unethical for working with their competitor - Fit Test Victoria.
Here's another derogatory review Michal left for Mojo Dojo. Notice here that Michal uses the alias "M" instead of his real name (pssst.. you're not fooling anyone Michal, we know it's you!).
In the menacing message below from Rebekah to James (of Mojo Dojo), Rebekah acts as if she has no idea who "this M person" is and denies being involved in M's 1-star review left for Mojo Dojo. Rebekah threatens to leave Mojo Dojo a review that will be "much worse than the one this M person left you."
Rebekah knows exactly who this "M" person is. She lives with him.
This is yet another example of how Rebekah and Michal will say whatever suits them in the moment, facts be damned. It’s about controlling the narrative, threatening anyone who pushes back, and rewriting reality to fit their agenda.
I suppose Michal/M's 1-star reviews for Mojo Dojo weren't enough. Rebekah chimed in too from the FTA account. Rebekah, like Michal/M, accused Mojo Dojo of "onboarding" their competition.
After previously pretending not to know who “M” was, Reekah now refers to “M” as an FTA staff member (you're not fooling anyone Bek, M is your partner in crime).
To be crystal clear (pun intended): Fit Test Victoria and Mojo Dojo have no partnership, relationship, or any other kind of ship together. Rebekah and Michal’s obsession with our success seems to have inspired this paranoid delusion.
Mojo Dojo, like me, decided to call out the same unethical and harassing conduct I've seen from FTA.
Mojo Dojo created a 3-part exposé. You can watch those videos here:
And a website: https://truthaboutfittest.com/
Video #2 is especially enlightening regarding FTA's fake 5-star reviews. Mojo Dojo found one of FTA's reviewers who admitted to being paid to write fake positive Google reviews.
After being exposed, FTA attempted to do damage control by changing their responses to the fake 5-star reviews. Below is just one example of many. By the way, Rosalia is the person Mojo Dojo was able to contact and who admitted to being paid to write fake online reviews.
Before Mojo Dojo's video, FTA thanks Rosalia for coming in and for leaving a 5-star review:
After Mojo Dojo's video, FTA changes their response to say they have no idea who Rosalia is. Why didn't they say this in their original response?
Purchasing fake reviews isn’t just dishonest, it’s a breach of public trust and undermines the integrity of genuine customer feedback.
Someone who left a 1-star review for FTA's Randwick office mentions that they were solicited to write a 5-star review. Also, notice that FTA accuses the reviewer of 'posting in error' while claiming they (FTA) pride themselves on their "ethical standards and integrity."
Buying fake reviews is also unlawful. The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) makes that very clear.
The ACCC also notes: "You should not ask others, including family and third parties, to write reviews about your business without prominently disclosing their personal connection or commercial relationship with your business in that review."
Greg Van Beek is a Fit Test Australia staff member who works at their Toorak office. Greg left FTA a 5-star review on their Toorak business page. I wonder if Greg fit tested himself and then praised his own service with the maximum gold stars? Either way, FTA is very appreciative.
The only thing that's missing here is a prominent disclosure about Greg's relationship as an employee of FTA as required by consumer protection laws.
The Savage Witch Hunt
After Mojo Dojo published their videos on YouTube, Rebekah took to social media claiming that she was the target of a smear campaign, the victim of a "savage witch hunt" intended to tarnish her reputation.
Rebekah pleaded with her followers for advice on what to do. She also claimed that it took her "years" to build up their 5-star reviews (FTA's 5-star reviews exploded from the single digits in mid 2024 to over 900 in a matter of weeks - this can only be achieved by paying for fake reviews).
What Rebekah conveniently omitted from this post were the facts. All of them. The truth is that she and Michal initiated a smear campaign against Mojo Dojo and then dragged Fit Test Victoria into their debacle. I am still scratching my head about this.
This is Rebekah and Michal's modus operandi when they are confronted with hard truths and get exposed. They blame everyone but themselves and then attempt to do damage control, hoping to get people to feel sorry for them.
After I saw Michal and Rebekah's reviews for Mojo Dojo explicitly naming Fit Test Victoria, FTA's defamation of Fit Test Victoria in their Google review responses, and Rebekah's post claiming she was targeted, I sent a letter.
You can read it here:
Don't Be Fooled
FTA attempted to extort thousands of dollars from me and accused me of misleading and deceptive conduct and passing off. Yet all the while, FTA was, and still is, paying for Google ads that use my business name 'Fit Test Victoria' prolifically.
And in their most egregious move, they recently started calling themselves 'FTA Fit Test Victoria'.
That’s not clever marketing, it’s misleading and deceptive and 'passing off', the same conduct they accused me of.
Howdy, neighbour
FTA has consistently claimed that it attempts to distance itself from any association with Fit Test Victoria. Yet just a couple of months after Fit Test Victoria opened an office in the Victorian suburb of Moonee Ponds (June 2025), FTA moved in a few doors down from us (Sept 2025).
They announced their arrival by renaming themselves 'FTA Fit Test Victoria':
Their move to Moonee Ponds - and announcing themselves as 'FTA Fit Test Victoria' was a calculated attempt to confuse the public, divert clients, and trade off the goodwill and reputation that Fit Test Victoria has built. The proximity of their new office amplifies the deception by creating the illusion that Fit Test Australia is affiliated with or has replaced Fit Test Victoria.
We have had an influx of clients - both ours and theirs - who have shown up at the wrong office. And people who have inadvertently booked with FTA when they meant to book with Fit Test Victoria.
On 16/10/25, a Fit Test Victoria customer accidentally showed up at FTA and was made to wait for an hour while the FTA staff member "looked them up." It wasn't until the client received a text from Fit Test Victoria that they realised they were at the wrong place and left.
These tactics are FTA’s most egregious acts of misleading and deceptive conduct and passing off to date. And they don’t seem to mind that they are confusing their own customers and frustrating them as well.
FTA's 1-Star Reviews
When faced with 1-star Google reviews, Rebekah and Michal routinely claim the reviewer intended to leave the poor feedback for Fit Test Victoria - or that it was Fit Test Victoria leaving the review.
Here's a sample of reviews from FTA's Google Business Pages (read FTA's responses!):
On 09/12/25, FTA changed their response. Instead of blaming Fit Test Victoria for leaving the review, they revert to their tired old story that FTA is the target of a smear campaign and the reviewer must have meant to leave the review for Fit Test Victoria:
When FTA accuses Elisha Stephan of meaning to leave the review for Fit Test Victoria, Elisha makes it clear that her negative experience was indeed with FTA.
On the bright side, here are are few poor reviews FTA didn't claim were intended for Fit Test Victoria (thanks, guys!). But FTA tells the reviewers they must have posted these reviews in 'error'.
Did You Know Fit Test Australia was the FIRST Fit Test Provider in Victoria and NSW?
No? That's because they weren't.
Rebekah and Michal vehemently assert that their business, Fit Test Australia, was the first fit testing provider in Victoria, "established in 2019" (see Google reviews above). And they've been known to claim they were the first in NSW as well.
LinkedIn members have called them out on this fairytale. And so have I.
In the post below, FTA claims to be the first fit testing provider in Victoria and NSW - but this time they claim 2020 instead of 2019.
Carl politely calls their bluff.
FTA's rebuttal is that they "specialise solely in fit testing" and have "inspired" others to use the words "fit test" in their business names. They go on to derogatorily refer to other fit testing providers as "COVID pop-up companies."
In this post, FTA has abandoned the years 2019 and 2020 in favour of the year 2021 as their preferred fictional start year. Come on guys, pick one fake start date and stick with it.
The fact is, Fit Test Australia wasn't established as a company with its own ABN until April 2022, around the same time as Fit Test Victoria (we became a company in May 2022).
Fit Test Australia didn't open an office in Victoria until 2023, over a year after Fit Test Victoria was established. Bottom line - we were here first, and FTA hasn't been "fit testing Victoria" since 2019. Or 2020. Or 2021. Or 2022.
One more point. Fit test companies are popping up everywhere. With increased enforcement of mask fit testing in light of new silica regulations and a recent pandemic, it’s no surprise. Using “fit test” in a business name where the primary service is fit testing makes perfect sense. I don't think anyone needs to be "inspired" to come up with that.
Telling fit testing providers they can’t use “fit test” in their business name is akin to telling plumbers they can’t use the word “plumbing.” It’s absurd.
Ignoring Legal Concerns Notices
FTA was sent a concerns notice for defamation and misleading and deceptive conduct. You can read the letter here:
Not only did Rebekah ignore the letter - no surprise there - but she and Michal continued to post derogatory statements about Fit Test Victoria, claiming we were "impersonating" FTA and "misleading others" after receiving the demand notice. They also doubled down on the use of 'Fit Test Victoria' in their Google ads and are now calling themselves 'FTA Fit Test Victoria'.
And Michal went on to post a fake email he doctored on LinkedIn.
Bob McGiggity and Fake Emails
Michal and Rebekah have consistently demonstrated that they’ll twist facts, bend the truth, and target anyone who questions their carefully curated image.
They craft their version of events to portray themselves as the reasonable, ethical, smart, and reliable ones, while casting anyone who challenges them as the problem.
Here's a prime example of their manipulation.
After I discovered more online defamation by Rebekah and Michal, I sent them an email containing some colourful language. Well, I used a colourful word to be exact (given the circumstances, it was fitting and still is).
Michal posted a screenshot of the email on LinkedIn.
But there was a big problem with Michal's screenshot. The email I wrote had been drastically altered with a photo editing software or AI. It wasn't real.
I've posted Michal's doctored email and my original email side by side below. On the left is the screenshot Michal shared on LinkedIn. On the right is the real email.
Michal omitted all my words except the last line, leaving out the crux of the message: calling Rebekah and him out for continued defamation and for accusing Fit Test Victoria of impersonating them.
Michal also removed the subject line"DEFAMATION" and deleted the screenshot showing him blatantly defaming Fit Test Victoria. He even moved my email signature up so that one sentence appeared to be the entire email.
What Michal did by doctoring my email and posting it on social media is called 'defamation by omission.'
Defamation by omission refers to a situation where someone attempts to damage another person’s reputation not by what they say, but by what they deliberately leave out. Especially when that omission misleads others or creates a false impression.
A response to Michal's Frankenstein'd screenshot was made by Jason Polson (my husband). Jason also posted the real email I wrote in the thread:
Shortly after Michal posted the doctored screenshot on LinkedIn, an AIOH member, whom I didn't know, sent me a message via LI. That member - let's call him S - told me that the altered email Michal crafted had also been shared on a Reddit subgroup called "LinkedIn Lunatics" by a user who went by the moniker 'Bob McGiggity.'
I asked S how he knew this, and he said he just happened to come across the post on Reddit (a big coincidence?). Interestingly, after I published this blog, S deleted his LI account, which removed his name from the messages he sent me (but of course I have screenshots).
In the Reddit post, “Bob McGiggity” was mocking me as a lunatic for emailing FTA and questioning Michal’s incorrect/unsafe SCBA advice for pool workers. Bob conveniently cropped screenshots he took from LinkedIn to make Michal look innocent and me unhinged.
Bob did not include the screenshot of the actual email I sent, which was also in the comments. Nor did he include Michal's blatantly incorrect advice on SCBA, which would have provided context for my comment. Bob could have easily captured all that, but chose not to.
Bob McGiggity, under the cowardly cloak of his online alter ego, was doing the same thing Michal had done to me - defamation by omission.
Bob McGiggity seemed deeply invested in casting Michal Morgan in a favourable light while trying to tarnish my reputation. I was able to determine from prior posts/comments that "Bob" lives in a unit in NSW, works in health and safety, and has (or had) a dog.
I called Bob out on this post, and it was promptly removed. Michal Morgan also removed his doctored email from LinkedIn.
Someone - in this case 'Bob McGiggity' - taking a cropped screenshot of Michal's falsified email and posting it on an international Reddit group called "LinkedIn Lunatics" demonstrates the damage false, defamatory content can cause and how far-reaching its impact can be.
By the way, Michal's claim that I made 'repeated late night phone calls' is another one of his falsehoods. Always playing the victim.
Misinformation Can Be Dangerous
Fit Test Australia posts extensively on LinkedIn.
Many of their posts are just self-congratulatory or moral high-ground lectures aimed at "other fit testers" for not “doing the right thing” the way they claim they always do.
But some of Fit Test Australia's posts contain information that, as Mark Reggers and many others (including me) have duly noted, is misleading, irresponsible, incorrect and incompetent.
Section 8.4 of the AIOH's Code of Ethics states that its members may only make public statements claiming professional knowledge if they are competent to do so.
SCBA for Pool Workers at a Rec Centre
In one post, FTA provided patently incorrect guidance on the type of respiratory protective equipment workers at a recreational pool should wear to protect against chlorine exposure and 'potential carbon dixode'. (This is the post I commented on that ended up on 'LinkedIn Lunatics.')
Michal Morgan claimed his advice to the workers was to use self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) because of "potential carbon dioxide" levels. I think he may have been confusing carbon dioxide with chlorine - two very different hazards.
I don't believe Michal actually told pool workers they needed to wear SCBA. He was just trying to sound smart.
Qualitative Fit Testing and Valved Respirators
In another of FTA's posts, they confidently claimed that filtering facepiece respirators with valves can't be tested using the qualitative fit test (QLFT) method. And if disposable valved masks were tested using the QLFT method, the results would be invalid.
Anyone even vaguely familiar with international fit testing standards, including the AS/NZS 1715:2009, knows this is not true.
That particular post garnered quite a bit of uproar.
Below are some of the comments. This time, Mark Reggers also chimes in. Mark tells FTA that their post is 'misleading and irresponsible' and to 'be mindful of future posts'.
I agree with Mark. These kinds of discussions on social media perpetuated by FTA are “NOT what keeps standards or best practices sharp, but creates confusion... as if it's coming from a reliable source.”
Paul’s right too - it’s clickbait.
LI user Jarrod told FTA they should "have someone reviewing their content before posting it." And again, FTA plays the victim. Everyone is "throwing digs" at them for no reason at all.
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Increasing the Noise
Here Carl is asking Rebekah if she is "increasing the noise or cutting through it". I believe it's definitely the former, Carl.
Publicly Shaming a Stranger
In this post, Rebekah photographs a complete stranger and publicly shames him on social media, asserting that he should be wearing a respirator and a hard hat and accusing him of “not following safety.”
LinkedIn users were quick to push back, pointing out that the worker was using a wet-cut saw and that Rebekah was making assumptions well outside her knowledge. Rebekah blames "not having her glasses on" as the reason she didn't see the wet saw. She also says she was driving when she took the photo. I wonder if that was tricky, given she couldn't see properly?
And here, Rebekah decides - based solely on a photo she took while driving - that this worker “wouldn’t exceed the WEL” but might exceed the “STEL” for silica. Problem is, silica doesn’t have a STEL in Australia.
Concerningly, people believe FTA because their advice sounds convincing and they seem like they know what they're talking about.
It doesn't help that OHS professionals, including certified occupational hygienists, encourage FTA by liking some of their posts and thanking them for sharing (mis)information.
Fortunately, plenty of people on social media are calling FTA out for what they’re doing.
Fit Test Australia operates far outside their area of expertise and scope of practice. They don’t conduct risk assessments, don’t conduct air monitoring, and don't hold the qualifications to issue broad recommendations for respiratory protective equipment and other PPE. Yet they do so repeatedly.
It's obvious that FTA uses ChatGPT to generate a lot of their content but don't bother checking the validity of the information.
Often, FTA's advice is not just wrong, it’s potentially dangerous, as many have pointed out. AIOH is aware of this but has chosen not to act.
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Try to Buy 'Em
I suppose if you can't bring your competitor down, the last resort is to see if they will sell you their business.
On 26 May 2025, I received this cordial email from Michal Morgan:
I guess Michal's thought was - If you can't beat 'em, try to buy 'em.
When I didn't respond to this email, Michal reached out again:
There's something more sinister here than a competitor wanting to buy my business. Michal's bold enquiry suggests that he and Rebekah believe that they may have worn me down to the point that I'm just going to give up and sell them my business. An easy win.
It also occurred to me that Michal's so-called interest in buying my business might’ve just been a clever way to try and get their hands on my financials.
Given what I know about Michal and Rebekah, nothing would surprise me.
Like I said at the top of this post, I wasn’t sure about writing this. I had to ask myself if it was really worth kicking the hornet’s nest...again.
But It has absolutely been worth it. Since publishing this blog post, I’ve received calls and emails of support, as well as stories from others who’ve experienced similar behaviour from Rebekah and Michal.
That's a Wrap
Everything you've read here is an honest, detailed account of my experiences dealing with Rebekah McCutcheon and Michal Morgan over the past two years.
The alleged smear campaign here is one of FTA’s own making. Their pattern of public accusations, dishonesty, misrepresentations, lack of integrity, threatening, harassing, bullying, and online shaming has done far more to damage their reputation than anything I could ever say or do.
I believe Michal and Rebekah have mastered the art of rewriting reality to suit their own fairytale story. One where they’re always the heroes, frequently the victims, and never the perpetrators.
I fully expect Rebekah and Michal to respond to this post with more denials, deflections, and the usual attempts to paint themselves as the victims (and I was right, they did). They will probably ask their social media followers what they should do about this. Another undeserved, savage witch hunt and smear campaign.
And it wouldn't surprise me at all if they throw in some more manipulated data and photoshopped screenshots, too. They've proven that they will do absolutely anything to control the narrative in their favour.
As Abraham Lincoln purportedly said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.”
Rebekah McCutcheon - I know you're reading this, so feel free to share this article with as many people as you like across all your social media accounts. This time, you have my explicit permission to do so. And so do you, Michal Morgan :-)
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