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He is an engineer with a background encompassing risk, business processes, information and communication engineering.

He has substantial experience in risk management acquired in the high risk environment of underground mining.

Later on he switched career track from mechanical engineering to ICT (Information and Communication Technology). His efforts to understand the underlying real world problems he was attempting to solve with technology lead him to study the fundamental principles that are covered in this course.

As regards his experience delivering training, please refer below to the testimonial section, or please feel free to request a curriculum vitaae through the enquiry form.

Who can we help? Anybody with a responsibility for health, safety, and risk mitigation, including owners, managers, safety officers, supervisors, and any other responsible role.

From a professional development point of view, the engineer's code of ethics for example states that members should "... at all times be conscious of the effects of their work on the health and safety of individuals and on the welfare of society...". The course content also delivers on that type of stipulation.

The problem that the course emphasises is increasing the capability for "live" risk assessment in the context of Operational Health and Safety.

Participants will learn how to do a type of audit, in essence.

This audit may be documented, or performed mentally as an element of judging the risk situation, and one's own capabilities and limitations within that situation, towards taking timely precautions appropriate for that situation.

It certainly does.

For example, topics like handling uncertainty, examining autonomy, systems thinking, interdependence of actors, unintended consequences, and other topics that bear on the challenges of doing live risk assessment in an OHAS context, have potentially much wider application.

But the present course draws on the career experience of the trainer in OHAS type risk. Since other types of risk domain lie outside of the experience of the trainer, courses within these domains are not offered.

Conceivably however, in the future, when such expertise is drawn in, we could develop such courses. Without doubt also, anyone attending the OHAS course who wanted to apply these principles to a domain other than OHAS they would be able to do that, and we would be happpy to help them to do that.

During the course development process, what was originally a long list of topics has been reduced down to four primary concepts that are treated in each of four training sessions, as described in the "course overview" section below.

Everything that needs to be accounted for in a "live" risk assessment is some combination of these core concepts.

No.

We investigate and work to understand the fundamental information and communication processes primarily in non-technological terms.

We do reference the basic technological information and communication concepts, mostly to understand their strengths, weaknesses and whether they are fit for purpose for what is ultimately wanted in real-world terms.