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Session 3b - Critical Risk Management

Concurrent Session 2
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
12:50 PM - 2:45 PM

Speaker

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Mr Christian Young
Founder & CEO
Impress Solutions

Critical Risks Unveiled: The Imperative of Broad-Brush Risk Assessments

12:50 PM - 1:10 PM

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Biography

Christian is an internationally recognised health and safety executive whose mission is to help you save lives at work. Christian is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Impress Solutions an industry leading mine safety services company. Christian has twenty years of HSE experience across a variety of industries including mining, rail, construction, oil & gas, finance, and facilities management. Christian delivers his mission of saving lives at work by collaborating with organisations to implement simple, effective evidence-based practices.
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Dr Amy Hawkes
Head of Psychology at Sentis and Adjunct Lecturer, School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University
Sentis

Climate, Safety Leadership, & Critical Risk Management in the Australian Mining Sector

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

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Biography

Amy is an endorsed organisational psychologist with experience in organisational development, leadership, culture and wellbeing. Experienced in both research and consulting, Amy has conducted individual and organisational interventions, large research projects, and has 10 years’ experience as an academic. Amy is passionate about taking an evidence-based approach to improve workplaces. As the Head of Psychology, Amy brings best practice insights to business, strong statistical skills and applied research methodology to her work. She leads the research team and provides strategic guidance to the assessment tools and reporting offered by Sentis.
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Mr Peter Wilkinson
Principal Associate
Atturra

Preventing Unwanted Events Critical Controls – Success and failure in implementing the ICMM Guidance

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

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Biography

Peter is a strategic and innovative thinker on risk management systems in high hazard environments and complex organisational settings. Peter authored the London based International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) guidance on implementing critical controls and edited the earlier guidance on the same subject (2015/2016). Training on the critical control approach is now provided by the Risk Management Institute of Australia (with support from Noetic) and major corporations and governments have applied the concept globally. Peter’s successful career in regulatory roles, as well as in the senior leadership of a listed oil company (GM Operational Excellence and Risk at Caltex Australia) underpins the quality advice he offers Noetic clients. His work with the United Kingdom’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) culminated in the design and construction of a new Australian statutory authority for offshore petroleum safety. Peter has particular expertise in operational and process safety risks for low probability but high consequence risk exposures in the oil and gas, chemical and mining industries and in complex environments in government. Peter typically leads strategic assessments of risk and safety management for organisations to identify material risks, diagnose the effectiveness of their risk controls, and implement improvements.
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Mr Kris Sheehan
GM Risk
Whitehaven Coal

Visualising risk – proactive is better than reactive

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

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Biography

Kris has 17 years of heavy industry experience, including executive leadership roles; board level reporting; exposure to metalliferous mining & processing; coal mining; underground and open-cut mining; and water treatment. He has successfully developed and maintained both enterprise and operational frameworks. In his current role he leads the development and implementation of the risk culture at Whitehaven Coal. Partners with board and executive level to improve performance and risk-based decision making and is accountable for strategy development, planning, corporate reporting & analytics, third line assurance and risk systems. He has extensive experience liaising with government stakeholders. Kris has been recognized both internally and externally. He led BHP to become the first mining company to win an Industry Excellence Award from CASANZ. And was recognized for innovative leadership with a BHP Global Environment Award nomination. He was invited to present to the Samsung Innovation Board in Korea. Kris grew up in Northern NSW, has two daughters and uses his spare time surfing and parading as a stand up comic.
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Mr Anthony Deakin
Director and Principal Consultant
Glasshouse Consulting

Critical control management: our journey so far and the road ahead

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

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Biography

Anthony is a highly credentialed Safety and Operational Risk Management professional, with extensive experience in strategy development, system design, technical risk analysis, program delivery and change management in mining and other high hazard industries. Anthony is widely regarded as a Thought Leader in the operationalization of fatality critical controls and risk management practices. He was a key contributor to the ICMM Health & Safety Critical Control Management guideline, contributing to a step change in the approach to preventing fatalities in the mining industry. Anthony is the Director of Glasshouse Consulting, an independent consultancy specializing in the design and delivery of safety and operational risk management practices for many tier 1 companies across a variety of industries (Mining, Construction, Port, Rail, Agriculture, Healthcare). Prior to moving into consulting Anthony worked for Rio Tinto, where he held various leadership roles including leading the design and deployment of their Critical Risk Management and Process Safety Management programs. Anthony is passionate about ensuring the safety systems and leadership practices support the safe and efficient execution of work at the front line.
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Mr Darren Head
Health and Safety Manager
IonicRE

Q&A with the Session Chair

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

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