Dr Denis O'Shea

Denis has built an impressive career, founded on his experience of managing operations, quality and safety programs for businesses in the heavy equipment, engineering and construction industries.  He also has experience in project management, process improvement, incident investigation and risk management.  He is very experienced and competent analyst, trainer and mentor with a comprehensive knowledge of Australian Safety legislation and standards compliance.

Denis has been facilitating incident investigations and ICAM Training in Australia and overseas for over a decade and holds the following degrees / qualifications / awards:

• Doctor of Philosophy (University of Technology - Sydney, Australia)
• Master of OHS Management (University of Technology - Sydney, Australia)
• Certificate in Production Engineering (Sydney Technical College - Sydney, Australia)
• Trade Certificate II Fitting and Machining (Sydney Technical College - Sydney, Australia)
• Six-Sigma Black Belt (Kairos Management Institute)
• Certificate of Advanced Management (University of Hawaii - Manoa, USA)
• Certificate of Lead Auditor-Quality (SAI-Global)
• Certificate of Lead Auditor- HACCP (SAI-Global)

Denis’s specific areas of interest and experience include the following:

• Coaching, mentoring and training in incident investigations.
• The management of human factors and error
• Safety coaching for Boards and Executives together with training for safety leaders
• Independently investigating systemic failures
• Diagnostics for organisational process failures
• Denis is also a keen advocate of cementing a proactive safety culture into an organisation through ‘reverse engineering’ the risk management process.