SAFETY IN DESIGN& MULTI-CULTURAL TEAMS

SIA NATIONAL SAFETY CONVENTION

MELBOURNE, 2015

S E P 2 0 1 5

Pedram Danesh-MandDirector – Risk Management

NSW President of Risk Engineering Society (RES)

THE CONTEXT

SAFETY IN DESIGN STAKEHOLDERS IN A GLOBAL OPERATION

Stakeholder model: adapted from Winch, 2010

With 40000 people, AMEC Foster Wheeler currently operate in approximately 55 countries.

THE KEY CHALLENGES FOR A DIVERSE TEAM

• The structure of decision making

• Leadership choice of direct versus indirect communication

• Misinterpretation of information (including language barriers)

• Issues with hierarchy and authority (upwards, downwards and horizontally)

• Inconsistent approaches to Safety in Design (SiD)

THE KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Understand the key risks (previous page) and develop action plans

• Put a team together but not just for experience but also relevant knowledge

• Have leading indicators in the communication network

• SiD to be directly linked with design change management processes to ensure

ongoing assessment and management of emergent OHS risks, and

• Last but not the least, communicate, then communicate it differently and then

make sure you have communicated!

QUESTIONS?

Pedram Danesh-Mand | Director – Risk Management, Aquenta Consult ing (part of Amec Foster Wheeler)

P: +61 432 041 560

E: Pedram.DaneshMand@aquenta.com.au