Health Safety and Environment Manager for Leighton Contractors as of the Solomon Project. Risk management rather than compliance was the principal driver for the program. This role oversaw the provision of emergency response services, on site medical services, health and wellbeing program, injury management, and safety and environment for the project. This required a strategic risk management approach, and an applied approach to actively engage with the many and varied issues of a remote 24/7 on-site operation.

Safety, Health and Security Manager of the $2.03 billion Southern Seawater Alliance desalination project. This was the largest water infrastructure project in the State’s history which will supply 40 per cent of Perth’s water supply. Amanda was responsible for setting policy and leading safety, health, injury management, workers’ compensation and security management across the project. Again project and safety risk management was the mainstay of the project, which through its two phases achieved in excess of four million hours worked lost time injury free, and industrial relations incident free. This achievement was possible only with a vibrant, dynamic team focused on risk, safety, health and injury management, and recognising that people and their wellbeing are a performance measure of a highly successful project.

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic advice and implementation strategies
• Alliance Management
• Project Management
• Risk Assessment
• Audit
• Investigation
• Group Facilitation and Accelerated Consensus
• Education
• Team Development and coaching

Professional Affiliations

Risk Engineering Society (WA)
Training and Development Association (WA)
Professional Occupational Safety and Health (WA)
Institute of Public Administration Australia (WA)
Women in Consulting and Training
Roberta Mead Facilitation Master Class

Representation

Member of the WorkSafe Western Australia Commission 1992 – 1997
Member of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation Review Advisory Committee 1992 - 1997

Amanda Wright has more than 18 years experience in risk management, she has developed a special ability to engage from business unit to board. Her passion is seeing conceptual risk management become implemented in the field and measured.

Her personal and professional skills include:

• Enterprise Wide and Strategic risk profiling
• Project and Operational risk profiling
• Alliance management experience and skills
• Group facilitation
• HAZOP Team Member
• Accelerated consensus techniques
• Mentoring project teams
• Risk management education
• One on one coaching (alliance and HS&E)
• Understanding adult learning skills
• OH&S education and training
• OH&S management systems auditing

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology La Trobe University 1986
Graduate Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health Curtin University 1991
Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training -Training Services Australia 2002
Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems AS4801 Auditor SAI Global 2003
SAI Global Intelligent Risk and Compliance Management
Safety in Design – Associate Professional Certificate / selected units (Association of Consulting Engineers Australia / University of Sydney)
Injury Management Coordinators Course (WorkCover Western Australia / Carepoint Health Services)
Senior First Aid (Corporate First Aid)

Accreditation

Accredited Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems Auditor

Awards and Achievements

• Southern Sea Water Alliance – Expansion Project:
  No Lost Time Injuries with 1.4 million hours worked and a Medical Injury Frequency Rate (MIFR) of 4.2
• Southern Sea Water Alliance – Stage One Project:
  No Lost Time Injuries with 2.3 million hours worked and a Medical Injury Frequency Rate (MIFR) of 8.3
  
• Gold Worksafe Plan Award 2000 & 2003
• Designed, developed and implemented Health and Safety Management System for Water Corporation Bulk and Waste Water
• Water Corporation’s Chairmans Award for Outstanding Leadership and Excellence in Health and Safety 2000
• IFAP/CGU Safe Way Safety Achievement Award proAlliance Seawater Desalination Project 2005
• Perth Seawater Desalination Project Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) of 2.35 and Significant Injury Frequency Rate (SIFR) of 6.26
• Member of the WorkSafe Western Australia Commission (peak government body for health and safety in the State) 1992-1997