Ken brings solid industry experience encompassing construction, transport, emergency management, security, health & safety, private security sector – armed cash in transit, senior and executive management, community and corporate leadership. An accomplished health, safety & wellbeing, security risk management, cultural change management, adult education, training & assessment specialist practitioner. Ken has been responsible for and instrumental in deploying cultural safety change management across rail transport construction, safety competency management, and most recently health, safety & wellbeing in a large multi-dimensional and diverse cultural precinct, actioning cultural safety and security of people property and assets, driving down incidents, managing emergency response and business continuity plans. Specifically in health & safety he brings 15yrs of solid experience in the development and writing of policy, standards and procedures aligned to a systematic risk-based approach to safety risk, aligned to ISO9001 and ISO45001 continuous improvement & safety risk management standards.

A leading influencer over the past 8yrs in helping New Zealand businesses understand the intent of the Health & Safety at Work Act 2015, has resulted in being a well-respected industry practitioner. As an Officer (under the Act) at Auckland War Memorial Museum, he has implemented an Integrated Safety Risk Management Framework. The model fosters positive safety culture with a “Just & Natural Law” approach, identifying safety risk, assigning accountability and responsibility assuring safety risk management controls are applied and monitored for maximum effectiveness.

His influence and leadership in the development of rail transport construction safety competency, assessment and management with Transport for NSW resulted in recognition as an industry competency risk management specialist, well regarded within the NSW rail Tier 1 & 2 construction sector.

He was the TfNSW lead auditor of Tier 1&2 Construction Contractors auditing safety competency management systems including Jacob, Leighton Construction, GHD, John Holland and Alstom, to review, assess and evaluate safety management systems and benchmark compliance against the TfNSW SMS and Transport Construction Industry Standards.

He is a highly experienced at all levels across multiple industry disciplines including Construction, Retail, Tourism, Armed Cash in Transit Security, Adult Education & Training, and Transport Logistics. Over the past 8 years, he has successfully applying cultural and operational safety change management across a very large multi-cultural workplace with over 600 workers and contractors, and welcomes more than one million visitors per year.

Talks

• Keynote Speaking Presentation – Attitude is Everything