Overview

We would like to invite you to a 'Meet and Greet' event. This provides an excellent opportunity to meet the IChemE Safety Centre Director as well as other IChemE members and stakeholders.

Speaker

Trish Kerin, Director, IChemE Safety Centre (ISC)

Trish is an award-winning international expert and keynote speaker in process safety and the inaugural director of the IChemE Safety Centre. She leads a team who help organisations share and learn in process safety. Trish leverages off her years of engineering and varied leadership experience to help organisations improve their process safety outcomes.

She has represented industry to many government bodies and sat on boards. She is a Chartered Engineer, registered Professional Process Safety Engineer, Fellow of IChemE and Engineers Australia and a Senior Member of AIChE. Trish also holds a diploma in OHS, a Master of Leadership and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Her expertise has been recognised with the John A Brodie Medal (2015), the Trevor Kletz Merit Award (2018) and Women in Safety Network’s Inaugural Leader of the Year (2022). She has been named one of the “Superstars of STEM” for 2023/24 by Science and Technology Australia.

Time

16:00–17:00 MYT.

Agenda

• 16:00 - registration opens
• 16:15 - cognitive bias and how it impacts safety
• 16:45 - Q&A
• 17:00 - programme ends