Speakers: Critical Risk Control Masterclass Series 2024

The Critical Risk Control Masterclass Series is hosted by the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre (MISHC), within UQ's Sustainable Minerals Institute.

Facilitator: Professor Maureen Hassall

Professor Maureen Hassall is Director of the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre. Her expertise crosses the fields of industrial risk management, systems/process safety engineering and human factors. Maureen works collaboratively with industry professionals to develop better human-centred risk management and safety engineering approaches that improve companies’ operational performance and competitiveness. She also develops and delivers process safety, systems safety engineering, risk management and human factors training, education and expert advice to students and to industry. Her industry-focused research is motivated by 18 years of industry experience working in a number of different countries and in a variety of roles including specialist engineering, line management, organisational change and business performance improvement roles. Read more

Speakers for the 2024 Critical Risk Control Masterclass Series

Day 1: Anthony Deakin

Anthony is a highly credentialed operational risk management professional, with extensive experience in strategy development, system design, technical risk analysis, program delivery and change management for high-hazard industries.  Anthony is widely regarded as a Thought Leader in the operationalising of 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. Anthony has worked with most of the tier 1 mining companies along with many other companies across a variety of industries (Energy, Utilities, Construction, Ports, Rail, Agriculture, Healthcare). Prior to moving into consulting Anthony worked for Rio Tinto where he held several roles overseeing group programs relating to safety and risk management, systems and assurance, including the design and deployment of their Critical Risk Management and Process Safety Management programs.

Anthony is passionate about ensuring that safety systems and leadership practices support, not hinder, the safe and efficient execution of work at the front line.

Day 1: Scott Fisher

Scott Fisher is a recognised leader in risk, governance, and assurance, with extensive experience enhancing risk and resilience frameworks for global organizations such as BHP, Rio Tinto, Glencore, Downer, Newcrest, and currently Newmont. Specializing in enterprise risk management, he aligns risk strategies with business goals to drive performance and support organizational objectives. His expertise in critical risk and control management, along with his understanding of client and contractor dynamics, positions him as a key figure in industries such as mining, oil and gas, construction, transport and more.

Day 1: Dale Temby

Dale Temby is a PhD candidate at the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre at the University of Queensland Her research aims to improve safety outcomes for contractors in hazardous industries with evidence-based decision making. Her work focuses on how data quality and communication can decrease the likelihood and severity of safety incidents on work sites. She has presented her research at international and local conferences.

Professionally, Dale is currently working as a risk analyst in the rail industry in an enterprise risk role and has previously worked as a risk advisor in process safety for a multi-national consultancy and in risk research at UQ.

Day 1: Sally Stewart

Sally Stewart currently serves as the General Manager of Safety, Health & Environment at Golding, where she oversees critical safety, health, and environmental initiatives to support the company’s operations delivering civil infrastructure, urban and mining services on the East Coast of Australia . With a wealth of expertise in operational line management within mining, risk management, and auditing, Sally has led the development of management systems, conducted both internal and external audits, and overseen HSE performance analysis and reporting. She is also highly skilled in significant incident investigations, using methodologies such as ICAM, Essential Factors, and TapRoot, and has extensive experience leading training programs across technical and safety-related subjects.

Day 2: Professor David Cliff

David has worked in OHS in Mining for the past thirty two years. During that time he has been involved in a number of major incident investigations and assisted governments in New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. He has been active in providing assistance to developing countries improve their governance of mining OHS. In 2016 he was a member of the Australia India Education Council Eminent Researcher Lecture Program

David has worked closely with the mining industry both in Australia and overseas, particularly coal mining companies. In addition he has worked with governments in China, Mongolia, Peru, Colombia, Indonesia, South Africa, India and New Zealand. He has undertaken work for the World Bank and the National Academy of Sciences in the USA. Read more

Day 2: Dr Stephanie MacMahon

Dr Stephanie MacMahon is a Teaching and Research Academic in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, focusing on the Science of Learning. She is co-founder and Program Director of the UQ Learning Lab: a group of multi-disciplinary researchers, educators, and industry partners who collaborate to transform learning, teaching and training in diverse education and industry contexts through the Science of Learning. Steph has been partnering with stakeholders from the mining industry to investigate learning in the workplace, drawing on the voices and insights of frontline workers, and combining these findings with evidence from research to inform quality learning and training experiences and resources.

Panel Chair: Jim Joy

Jim Joy has worked for over 30 years in the development of operational risk management.

From 1998 to 2011, he was the inaugural Professor and Director of the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre (MISHC) at the University of Queensland in Australia.

Jim's research involves advancing the minerals industry approaches to managing risk, addressing quality of mining risk assessment and risk management, improving human error consideration in decision making, and risk management regulation / governance.

Jim developed a network of overseas universities to deliver risk management education programs for companies such as Anglo American, Newmont, Murray and Roberts, Anglo Gold Ashanti, DeBeers, Exxaro, Yancoal and others. He also facilitated a unique project involving many global mining companies, engaging with major mining equipment producers such as Caterpillar, Komatsu, Sandvik and others to improve equipment operability and maintainability.

Jim has had corporate advisory roles for WMC, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. From 2007 to 2011 he was the Anglo American Chair of Safety Risk Management which involved development of their global HSE risk management education initiatives, including the global university network.

Jim's work has been recognised by the AusIMM (2004 Occupational Health and Safety Award), the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers (2009 IChemE Innovation and Excellence Award in Health and Safety), International Mining Technology Hall of Fame (inducted at SME 2015) and the Canadian Institute of Mining Safety Leadership Medal (2018).

Recent work has included being primary author of the 2015 ICMM guide on Critical Control Management and subsequent work with several global clients on the design, application and assurance of the approach.