Amelia Keates is a Registered Psychologist (Organisational), and human factors practitioner within Frazer-Nash Consultancy Australia’s System Safety & Assurance practice group. Amelia has over seven years of experience designing and managing human factors assessment, integration and assurance projects across complex safety-critical industries, including Rail, Civil Air Traffic Control, Defence, and Mining. This has included projects ranging in scale from broadscale human factors integration programmes across the engineering lifecycle, to narrowed human reliability analyses, Control Room design assessments and critical incident investigations. Amelia currently serves as South Australian Director, and Branch Chair for the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society Australia.

Steve Cooper is a Chartered Chemical Engineer and Professional Process Safety Engineer with over 25 years of experience across the energy, chemicals, resources, power, and emerging new energy sectors. He is an accomplished senior leader with extensive experience engaging Boards, executive leadership teams, regulators, and operational workforces. Steve has held global and regional leadership roles with large Consulting organisations. He combines deep operational experience with specialist expertise in process safety, risk assessment, safety cases, and consequence modelling. Steve is a Professional Process Safety Engineer and has served as a Director of IChemE’s Fundamentals of Process Safety Course for many years.

Kathryn McDonald is an experienced professional in industrial operations and risk management with a background in major hazard facilities. Her experience includes process safety, operations excellence and continuous improvement and the practical management of hazardous materials across the lifecycle of industrial facilities, including shutdown and decommissioning activities. Kathryn has a strong interest in governance, risk oversight, and the application of emerging and existing technologies to improve operational decision-making.