Thursday, 5 March 2026
Professional Skills
Accident Analysis and the Role of Expert Evidence
- Accident phenomenology and accident investigation
- Accident contributory factors and their combination in accident causation
- The complex interaction of people, hazards and the environment
- Accident case studies
- The role of expert evidence in accident analysis
Presented by Dr Milos Nedved, M.Sc.Eng., PhD, Safety Expert Witness WA; Adjunct Associate Professor in Accident Forensics, CQUniversity Australia; Assistant Director of the World Safety Organisation National Office for Australia
Chair
Dr Rob Guthrie, Retired Assessor Criminal Injuries Compensation and Adjunct Professor at School of Business Law, Curtin University
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Presenters
Dr Rob Guthrie, Retired Assessor Criminal Injuries Compensation and Adjunct Professor at School of Business Law, Curtin University
Rob Guthrie was admitted to practice in 1982 and worked in private practice for about 10 years and continued to practice whilst an academic at Curtin University for 20 years. He practiced, researched and lectured in employment issues and in particular workers compensation matters. He was appointed an Assessor of Criminal Injuries Compensation in 2010 and retired from that position in 2023. Rob is currently on the Board of Circle Green CLC. He is also a trades assistant in his son's carpentry and landscape business, a job for which he has no qualifications.
Dr Milos Nedved, M.Sc.Eng., PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor in Accident Forensics, Safety Expert Witness WA
Safety engineer with with over 50 years’ experience in accident investigation and accident analysis. He is an Assistant Director of World Safety Organization National Office for Australia, and a principal consultant in Accident Forensics Consulting Engineers in Perth. Currently he is also adjunct A/Professor in Accident Forensics at CQUniversity Australia. On numerous occasions he had worked as a United Nations Expert in occupational safety and health, having attained the highest professional level within the U.N. System, that of Chief Technical Advisor. He has been running training courses on accident investigation in the U.K., USA, Germany, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Singapore, and Malaysia. Since 1981, in WA, he has been extensively involved as an expert witness in accident investigation, in particular in legal work related to personal injury accident investigation and compensation claims. As an Expert Witness he has assisted a number of WA legal firms with over 600 cases-occupational, traffic and public liability personal injury accidents, some of which involved Court attendance.
