Biography
Russel is an experienced Occupational Health and
Saftey and risk management professional with
extensive background in the development,
implementation, management and auditing of OH&S and
risk management systems. Over the last 25 years he
has worked within a broad spectrum of industries and
government and semi-government organisations, and
with a number of large Australian and international
organisations throughout Australia, New Zealand, PNG
and the Pacific Islands, and S.E. Asia.
He established his management consultancy LCMS
Australia Pty Limited (T/A Safetysystems.biz) in 1995
and during this time was also employed by Noel Arnold
& Associates for 18 months as NSW State Manager. The
business provides a broad range of OH&S and risk
management consultancy services throughout Australia,
New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
Prior to, and following the establishment of his
Management Consultancy, he has worked in a number of
senior and executive management positions within
Unilever Australasia, DNV Consultancy Services, The
BOC Group, Coles Myer Limited, Smorgon Consolidated
Industries and Boral Limited.
He has been actively involved with VIOSH Australia at
the University of Ballarat for in excess of eight
years; both in a teaching, and a consulting capacity;
and he completed the review and development of the
Management System Auditing Unit within the current
Grad. Dip. OHM. This program is also offered as a
5-day Public and in-house training course and was
accredited by the Quality Society of Australasia
(QSA), now RABQSA, five years ago as "meeting the
training requirements for Certification as an OH&S
Auditor". Russel was also the previous chair of the
QSA OH&S Auditor Examination Panel and regularly
provides advice on effective auditing practice.
He also delivers in excess of one hundred and fifty
OH&S and risk management training sessions annually
to a broad range of organisational positions and he
specialises in the delivery of stimulating executive
awareness workshops. He has presented at
international events in New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New
Guinea, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Philippines,
Singapore, Indonesia, Canada, USA, and UK.
Russel's particular interest is in the development of
pragmatic approaches to the implementation of
management systems and the effective use of auditing
to evaluate overall risk management performance.
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