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Yin Chim

Director

Yin has worked as a health and safety consultant for over 22 years and during this time has acquired a wide range of technical and management skills. Yin’s technical skills extend to assisting her clients with developing WHS strategies, creating programs to transform safety culture, developing WHS management systems using continuous improvement frameworks, auditing WHS management systems against recognized audit tools such as AS/NZS4801 and the National Audit Tool (NAT), contractor management, designing and facilitating workshops to build leadership and employee capability and risk assessment. Yin has provided professional advice to a broad range of industry sectors including retail, health, property management, transport, manufacturing and mining.

As a Director of Verus Australia Pty Ltd Yin is passionate about creating trusted advisor relationships with clients and delivering real solutions that make a difference to their business. This is achieved through establishing long-term relationships along with developing a strong understanding and appreciation of her clients’ operational needs and challenges. Yin also works closely with Senior Leadership teams to help them create internal capability and resilience around the WHS function ensuring it is well integrated into overall business processes. Yin is also a safety leadership coach and works with senior and middle management teams supporting them to become better safety leaders in their roles.

 

Michael Brittliff

Director, Queensland

Michael has been a safety professional for 14 years both in operational and consultancy roles. Michael uses this experience to question traditional safety functions and inspire clients to come up with ideas on how things can be done more effectively and in a way that aligns with their business needs. His strengths and interests lie in HSE strategy, systems development and implementation where his extensive experience in HSE auditing many industries has allowed him to observe new situations and quickly assess what needs to change for systemic improvement.

During his time in consultancy he has successfully delivered a diverse range of projects to Local, State and Commonwealth government agencies, Retail, Mining, Logistics, Telecommunication, Property, Manufacturing and Construction clientele. Michael has built AS/ISO accredited systems, facilitated workshops, built audit tools and programs, coached management through HSE change and developed training programs to deliver systemic and cultural improvement. 

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Yin Chim

Director, Victoria

Yin has over 18 years of experience in the provision of expert health and safety advice. She has extensive experience working with Leadership Teams to create and implement workplace health and safety strategies to drive organisational change, increase employee engagement and to build internal capability to drive safety performance improvement. In addition to working with Leadership Teams, Yin has assisted organisations to design, develop and implement workplace health and safety policies and management systems. These are created in consultation with the workforce and are based on an organisation’s risk profile and recognised system frameworks such as Australian and International Standards. Yin has also assisted many organisations in the creation of risk profiles through the facilitation of risk management workshops with Senior Managers.

Yin specialises in safety leadership and culture change, HSE strategy development and implementation, policy creation, HSE management systems development and implementation, HSE risk management, and the management of organisational change.

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