Thomas is a process and risk engineer at GPA Engineering, specialising in hydrogen technologies and process safety. Since completing his master’s in large-scale hydrogen developments, he has supported GPA’s future fuels portfolio, including delivery of some of Australia’s operating hydrogen production and refuelling facilities, quantitative risk assessment for projects in development, and conducting compliance/safety assessments for novel technologies, including electrolyser and fuel cells for hydrogen and liquid derivatives (i.e., ammonia and methylcyclohexane). He maintains academic ties to the Dow Centre, Future Fuels CRC, and ME-093 and is passionate about advancing a commercially competitive and safely operated, future fuels economy.

Olivia is an experienced chartered professional process safety engineer. Olivia worked for the Queensland Major Hazards Facility (MHF) regulator for 5 years assessing harmonised Australian Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act and Regulations 2011 safety cases including auditing of facilities. Olivia successfully developed two Queensland operator brownfields complex MHF safety cases (explosives manufacture and LNG). A third brownfields complex MHF safety case was recently developed for a Northern Territory LNG Facility. Olivia works as a senior risk consultant facilitating risk studies; developing process safety management systems, bowties, process safety studies, SFAIRP demonstration; and providing industry technical authority services.