Trevor Zwar is a Principal Engineer with 17 years’ engineering experience across multiple industries including defence, mining, agriculture, infrastructure and manufacturing. He has practiced in the electrical, mechanical and control systems disciplines, and has worked across the engineering lifecycle. Trevor has a passion for safety in engineering and is a certified Functional Safety Engineer. Trevor has worked collaboratively with research institutions to develop new technologies, including two patented designs. Trevor holds degrees in mechatronic engineering (hons) and economics, is a fellow of Engineers Australia and a chartered professional engineer in the mechanical and electrical disciplines.

Samara is a Senior Risk Engineer at R4Risk with over five years of experience in risk management for petroleum storage, chemicals manufacturing, logistics and oil and gas industries. She completed a Bachelor of Science / Engineering (Honours) at Monash University, where she majored in chemical engineering, atmospheric science and applied mathematics. Samara has extensive experience in completing a variety of technical studies, including consequence modelling (fire, explosion, and toxic dispersion), quantitative risk assessments, occupied building risk assessments, fire safety studies, emergency response planning and hazardous area classification.

Ben Seligmann is a risk specialist, systems thinker and teacher. Over the last 12 years he has worked in academia, engineering consulting, HSE and risk and compliance, across the mining, infrastructure, healthcare and education industries. He currently focusses on risk management research at the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre (MISHC), part of the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland. His particular research interests are causal network topology analysis, risk assessment in practice, modelling of accident scenarios and engaging with the complexity of socio-technical systems.