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1967-1981
- Went on personal inspections and did analyses of construction failures, and served as consultant to forensic experts in USA
- The safety-related analyses and design included the following:
- Steel cotton-gin press
- Steel grain silo
- Torsion of steel thin walled sections
- Installation procedure for additional steel sewer alongside old reinforced concrete sewer
- Steel end-plate connections (Revised design method adopted by the American Institute of Steel Construction)
- Steel thin-section roof trusses
- Multi-span pre-engineered gable frames
- Prestressed concrete nuclear reactor model
- Heavy section steel nuclear pressure vessel
1981 – 1988, and 1999 – Present
[Between 1988 and 1999, ran a computer academy and consultancy in India ]
- Member:
- Singapore Institution of Safety Officers (SISO)
- Society of Risk Analysis , USA (SRA)
- American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
- Lectures and short courses on workplace safety and risk management in Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and India, from 1981 to present.
- Presented workshops, short courses, seminars, and invited talks on workplace safety and risk management for managers, engineers and supervisors from 2001 to July 2009, in Singapore , Malaysia , Hong Kong , and India :
- 81 short courses on workplace safety and health (for engineers and the workforce)
- 104 workshops and short-courses on risk management (for safety personnel, engineers, and project managers)
- 35 invited talks
- Safety courses, seminars and lectures sponsored by:
- National University of Singapore (NUS)
- Institution of Engineers – Singapore (IES)
- Singapore Contractors' Association Ltd. (SCAL)
- Defence Science and Technology Agency, Singapore (DSTA)
- Singapore Aviation Academy (SAA)
- Singapore Metro Rail Transit (SMRT)
- Builders’ Association of India , and
- Numerous government and private organisations
- Risk Management consultant and safety trainer approved by Ministry of Manpower, Singapore (MOM)
- Currently (Since August 2009) carrying out a research project for the Workplace Safety and Health Council, Singapore, on Effectiveness of Risk Assessment.
- Accompanies (as observer) audit teams on their site inspections in Singapore , thus acquiring practical know-how to back up theoretical knowledge.
- Consultant for investigation, third-party audit, and reporting of local accidents, mainly in the construction sector in Singapore , safety-related analysis and design including the following:
- 1981-1988:
- Steel crane frame/truss
- Failure of oil rig on the high seas
- Crane transportation by barge
- Steel 3D truss connector
- Steel TV towers
- 1999-Present:
- Fall of worker seven storeys from scaffold during demolition
- Fall of worker from mobile scaffold
- Prosecution expert in the Fusionpolis formwork collapse of 2004 for MOM
- Consultant to analyse effectiveness of risk assessment and management practices in Singapore , for the Workplace Safety and Health Council
- Developed course modules on accident causation, investigation, and prevention for project management courses by IES, SCAL, etc.
- Formalised and presented my ‘5A-Way’ applied to safety
- Scores of invited talks for various organisations on workplace safety and risk management, among them, three keynote talks to MRT:
- MRT hazards and safeguards;
- 5A-Way and MRT; and
- Towards Zero Accidents in MRT.
- Trained safety personnel Ministry of Manpower and other Government agencies in scaffold safety, design for safety, risk management, etc.
- Sole or Principal Instructor, Government approved and other courses:
- On Scaffold Design and Safety, Formwork Safety, Welding Safety, Life Cycle Design, Risk Management. etc.
- To audiences from top management to supervisor/foreman level
- For durations ranging from half-day workshops to two-day short courses, and long-term evening courses
- Organised by:
- Institution of Engineers, Singapore , IES Academy
- Singapore Contractors Association Ltd, SCAL Academy
- Defence Science & Technology Agency, Singapore
- University of Newcastle, Australia
- Etc.
- Publications:
- Book: ‘Introduction to Risk Management’, ISBN: 978-981-05-7924-1, 2007, 86p
- Number of papers on workplace safety and risk management (CLICK HERE for list)
- Recent international involvements in safety-related matters:
- Presentation of paper on forensic engineering at International Structural Engineers World Congress at Bangalore (2007)
- Presentation of two papers at Regional Conference of International Society of System Safety, in 2008
- Reviewer for risk analysis books for Society of Risk Analysis, USA (SRA)
- Conducted a one-day workshop, "Risk Management for Movers and Shakers", on 6 Dec 2009, at the Annual Meeting of Society for Risk Analysis, Baltimore, MD, USA, 6-9 December 2009
- Presented the paper, "Towards a Universal Deca-Scale for Risk Assessment", on 9 Dec 2009, at the Annual Meeting of Society for Risk Analysis, Baltimore, MD, USA, 6-9 December 2009
- Teaching course 'OHSE3740 - Risk Assessment and Management' for University of Newcastle , Australia , Singapore campus, Trimester-1, Jan-Apr 2010.
- Invention: ‘SAFER Diamond’, a new method of risk assessment and management, patented in Singapore , being registered in India , and being patented in USA