Nicole Shambrook is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with IChemE and has 19 years’ experience leading Process Safety across petroleum refining, ammonia manufacturing, and power generation. She enjoys engaging directly with front-line leaders and operators, translating lessons from incidents into practical actions, and applying practical, holistic Process Safety Management to ensure credible MAEs are known, understood, managed and critical barriers are effective.

Ewan Stewart is a Process Engineer with Kent Plc, where he is supporting a major refinery upgrade. His experience spans the many stages of process design and operations, having supported clients in the oil and gas, petrochemical and municipal water sectors. He has authored technical content for the Loss Prevention Bulletin which has also presented case study webinars for the IChemE Safety Centre. He applies a strong safety focus across his work and is a firm believer in storytelling as a means of getting the safety message across. Ewan is the current chair of the IChemE Australia board.

Laurence Ledrut is Head of Process Safety at Origin Energy. She has two Masters of Engineering. She is a Fellow and Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia, Registered Professional Engineer QLD, Functional Safety Engineer, Associate Member of IChemE and Justice of the Peace. She specializes in Chemical Engineering and Process Safety with 20 years of experience leading technical teams and programs across Europe and Pacific. Her experience covers the lifecycle of assets, she brings a practical approach based on stakeholder engagement. She is passionate about building an open learning culture and collaboration to prevent future process safety incidents.