Key Speakers
International Presenters
Roger Kahler is a Director and Principal Consultant of The InterSafe Group Pty Ltd. His has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (B. E. Mech. Hons) and is a Registered Professional Engineer, Queensland (R.P.E.Q.). Professional Memberships include: The International Society for Fall Protection, Safety Institute of Australia and The Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand. Roger's working life has been heavily involved in the mining industry, both nationally and internationally. The first ten years of his career, he worked in both an engineering and management capacity with open cut and underground metalliferous mines. In 1983, he commenced work on major incident investigation and, as at 2007, he has investigated over 5,000 incidents in detail for the legal profession, multinational and national companies. Roger provides intensive training of all levels of management, medical staff and the workforce of several major mining, mineral processing and smelting companies in Queensland, Tasmania, New Zealand (North) and South America. Roger has been instrumental in designing the InFocus Occupational Health & Safety Management System and is regularly involved in management consultancy with respect to systems implementation issues in relation to Occupational Health & Safety management.
Dennis Palalay is the Force Health Protection/Environmental Science and Engineering Officer for the United States Army Medical Pacific Theatre Enabling Command. He holds a Masters of Health Science, Industrial Hygiene Degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering Technology Degree from the University of Delaware. His 20 years of leadership and scientific experience with the U.S. Army comes from leading and managing key industrial hygiene, preventive medicine, occupational health and safety programs and organizations. Dennis' command of adverse situations, leadership in aggressive environments and strategic acumen within complex organizations have been honed in the combat zones of Iraq/Kuwait, the destruction from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, to the halls of the Pentagon after the terrorist attack on 9 September 2001. He is regarded as one of the Army's experts in industrial hygiene, health risk communication, and emergency response and planning. Dennis will be quick to tell you that he is not an expert or master in anything, but he is clearly someone who is absolutely loyal to his family and friends and a genuinely authentic individual.
Cristian Sylvestre is the Principal, SafeStart Pty Ltd. He holds a Masters of Engineering Studies, Chemical Engineering Degree and is Vice President of Safety Institute of Australia (NSW Branch). He is also the Conference Chair for 2011 Sydney Safety Conference being held on 25-27 October 2011 as well as being a Certified Lead Auditor (Environment and OHS). Cristian has held various senior OHS and environmental positions in ICI, Shell and other organisations over a 20 year career where he has acquired a different perspective on safety than most safety professionals. He considers himself a human error prevention specialist – not from an academic or psychological perspective but from a practical one. The human error prevention programs that he trains organisations in have typically resulted in 60-90% decreases in incident rates within 6-12 months.
National Presenters
Lesley Haines is the Deputy Chief Executive - Labour Group at the Department of Labour. The Labour Group assists New Zealand workplaces to be healthier, safer, and more productive, by helping them to understand and meet their obligations and to enforce when they do not. The Labour Group provides a range of integrated health and safety and employment relations services to employees, businesses, unions and employer groups. Lesley joined the Department in 2005, and prior to joining the Labour Group, worked in Workforce Group dealing with immigration and employment, as Group Manager Policy and Acting Deputy Secretary Workforce. Lesley holds a Masters of Economics from the Australian National University and has worked in the New Zealand Public Service for the last twenty years. Prior to the joining the Department of Labour Lesley held policy and management roles in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Treasury and in the social policy sector.
Dr David Beaumont is an Occupational Medicine Specialist with a background of 12 years in general practice in the UK and New Zealand, undergoing specialist training from 2000. A member of Council of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, he is Chair of the Faculty Policy and Advocacy Committee and lead for the Faculty project on The Health Benefits of Work. David has experience in a wide variety of occupational settings, from heavy industry to public sector in both the UK and New Zealand. As Medical Director of Fit For Work Ltd he provides a comprehensive range of specialist assessments in clinics throughout New Zealand. His company Pathways to Work Ltd provides managed rehabilitation solutions for complex cases.
Professor Gregor Coster CNZM is Deputy Chairman of Health Workforce New Zealand, and Chairman of the Counties Manukau DHB. He was formerly professor of general practice and the Dean of Graduate Studies for all of the University of Auckland. He has a keen interest in health workforce education for the broader health workforce.
Professor Tim Bentley is Associate Head of School within the School of Management at Massey University. He is also Director of the Healthy Work Group – a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Massey and elsewhere interested in psychosocial factors in workplace health and safety. Tim’s major research interest is concerned with the role of organisational/HR issues in occupational health and safety. Tim has been a Principal Investigator for the Health Research Council of NZ, and led a recently completed multidisciplinary government-funded project concerned with workplace bullying and stress in NZ workplaces. Tim is Scientific Editor for the international journal, Applied Ergonomics. Prior to Massey, Tim was Director of the Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics (COHFE).
Jules Fulton is Group Executive Manager – Corporate Services at Fulton Hogan. He holds a BE (Civil) Canterbury University, MIPENZ, GAICD. Jules has held multiple roles in Fulton Hogan including Project Management, Regional, State and General Management roles in Australia and New Zealand. He was appointed to the role of Executive Manager Corporate Services in 2010. The role encompasses Health and Safety, Quality, Environment and Human Resources responsibilities for both Australia and New Zealand. Jules sits on the executive in both Australia and New Zealand.
Stuart Keer-Keer is the Managing Director of K2 Environmental Ltd. K2 Environmental Ltd are air quality specialists. Stuart has a passion for learning about air quality and air quality assessments. The team he leads at K2 Environmental conducts:-
• Stack discharge testing,
• Workplace air quality assessments,
• Ambient air quality assessments,
• Asbestos Audits,
• Air conditioning assessments,
• Sound Level measurements – noise.
The workplaces that are assessed vary from air conditioned offices, warehouses, light and heavy industry, hospitals, vehicles, homes and numerous other locations. This work has provided the opportunity to understand what contributes to air quality in these locations. K2 has a large repertoire of instrumentation and methods that allow them to measure almost any compound in air. Each site visited, every test conducted, each paper/book read provides the opportunity to better understand what affects air quality in the home, the office, a stack or any workplace. Stuart has lead his team to gain ISO accreditation for over 40 methods, and are recognised leaders in this field. Stuart has worked at K2 Environmental for 14 years. Prior to K2 he worked for 10 years at New Zealand Aluminium Smelters in a variety of lab and leadership roles. He has a masters degree in Environmental Chemistry from Auckland University.
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