About
A strategic, people‑centred leader with more than 30 years of experience in health, safety, risk, operational excellence, and organisational governance. Simon has built a career delivering cultural transformation, strengthening risk maturity, and leading large multidisciplinary teams across complex operational environments. He is known for developing capable leaders, improving safety outcomes, and embedding systems and frameworks that lift organisational performance. Across multiple senior HSEQ leadership roles, Simon has overseen national safety governance, reporting, systems optimisation, and operational risk programs. He has led large teams of safety professionals across more than 100 geographically dispersed sites, driving consistent safety capability, improved compliance, and enhanced operational resilience. His achievements include reducing injury and illness rates, introducing predictive analytics for safety performance, simplifying reporting frameworks, and developing psychosocial wellbeing programs. Simon has extensive experience in crisis and emergency management, incident response, and business continuity. He has led major organisational initiatives such as remote auditing programs, fatal risk control standards, investigation quality uplift, and safety culture diagnostics. His work has consistently focused on improving lead indicators, strengthening critical controls, and ensuring leaders at all levels understand and manage risk effectively. Earlier in his career, Simon held senior operational and risk roles in large‑scale resource operations, where he managed field logistics, drilling and earthworks programs, operational teams, and rehabilitation activities across diverse geographic regions. He has also delivered consulting services in HSE, risk, security, and operational readiness, and has a strong foundation in investigation, emergency response, and public service leadership. Supported by formal qualifications in internal audit, occupational health and safety, business management, and policing—along with extensive specialist training—Simon brings a rare combination of strategic insight, operational experience, and human‑centred leadership. His career reflects a consistent commitment to improving safety outcomes, strengthening organisational capability, and building cultures grounded in care, accountability, and performance.