Professional Skills
Work Health & Safety: Understanding Industrial Accidents & Workplace Injuries
- The techniques to document an incident scene
- Technologies used by engineers to reconstruct incidents
- Lesson from incidents what could you tell your clients to do
- Do a stress test
Presented by Dr Shane Richardson, Principal Forensic Engineer, Managing Director and Owner Delta V Experts
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair
Lauren Townsend, Partner, Thomson Greer
Presenters
Lauren Townsend, Partner, Thomson Greer
With over 15 years' experience advising and acting for Australian and international employers in relation to the full range of Australian employment law issues across the employee lifecycle, Lauren is well regarded by her clients for being able to explain complex legal issues in a digestible manner and for her pragmatic and timely advice. Lauren's practise encompasses all aspects of employment law, industrial relations, work health and safety, discrimination law and workplace investigations. This includes employment/executive contracts, enterprise bargaining, industrial action and other industrial disputes, enterprise agreement and modern award compliance, management of ill and injured workers, management of employee misconduct and underperformance (including termination of employment), transfer of business, employee/contractor distinction, workplace bullying and employment related litigation. Lauren's legal expertise is complemented by her experience as an independent workplace investigator, having conducted external misconduct investigations for a range of private and public sector clients. For example, Lauren has conducted workplace investigations for a major public hospital in Melbourne, Universities, Victorian Government Departments, Victorian Government emergency services (police and ambulance), and the APS. Lauren regularly provides presentations and training to in house counsel and HR professionals.
Dr Shane Richardson, Principal Forensic Engineer, Managing Director and Owner Delta V Experts
Shane is the Principal Forensic Engineer at Delta-V Experts. Shane has provided expert evidence in the Supreme, County, Magistrates and Coroners Courts across Australia (and in Courts in Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia and New Zealand) related to collision/incident investigations for Criminal and Civil matters. Shane is a Mechanical Engineer with more than 30 years' experience and is a Chartered Professional Engineer (Engineers Australia) and is registered in: Amusement Rides and Devices In-Service Inspection; Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; and Structural Engineering. He has published national and international technical papers on crash investigations.
