Alan Barker - Managing Consultant
Qualifications:
Graduate Diploma in Safety Science - University of NSW
Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental Studies) - Griffith University
Cert IV in Workplace Training and Assessment
Email Address: alan.barker@prensa.com.au
Professional History:
Alan has over 20 years experience working across various risk management disciplines including hazardous materials, occupational hygiene, environmental and property risk. He has worked for a number of private consulting groups in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane. Alan has extensive experience in assisting clients from a wide range of industry sectors (i.e. construction, mining, property management, manufacturing, retail) to manage their exposure to a range of hazards in the workplace to prevent injury/illness and to demonstrate best practice approaches to controlling risk. Particular areas of expertise that Alan has consulted in over the past 20+ years include:
· OHS Technical Assessments;
. Plant Risk Assessments;
. Confined Space Assessments;
· Cooling Tower Risk Assessments;
· Occupational Hygiene Assessments;
· Noise Exposure;
. Hazardous Substance Exposure;
. Asbestos & Other hazardous materials management.
Alan is a NATA approved asbestos counter, identifier and signatory.
Alan has also conducted a significant number of holistic property risk auditing programs for major Australian property owners and management groups assisting to identify and manage risks from legionella risk in cooling towers to indoor air quality complaints, lighting assessments, no-ionising radiation exposures, asbestos exposures, dangerous goods risk, fire, traffic management risk, etc.
Alan is a provisional member of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH)