This free live webinar is designed for community members to understand how to live safely around electricity – in their home and workplace!
10am
MC welcome
Chris Bombolas
10.05am
ESO welcome
Rob Wicks, Electrical Safety Office
10.10am
Electrical safety in the home and around overhead lines
Michael Gibson, Director – Field Services, Electrical Safety Office
10.25am
What to do in the event of a lithium-ion battery fire
Daren Mallouk Manager State Fire Investigation Unit – QFD
10.45am
Electrical equipment safety/safety switches
Sean O’Connor, Deputy Chair, Consultative committee for work-related fatalities and serious incidents, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
10.50am
’Electricity’ –The Wiggles partnership with ESO
Rob Wicks, Acting Executive Director, Electrical Safety Office
11.05am
Panel session (Q&A)
All speakers
11.15am
MC and event close
*Program subject to change
Speaker information
Robert oversees the strategic delivery of electrical safety across Queensland, by developing and enforcing standards for electrical safety and promoting improved safety in the wider community. This includes enforcement activities to promote compliance, licensing, approval of electrical equipment and accreditation regimes, education and training to help reduce the risk of death, injury and destruction of property caused by electricity. As the acting Executive Director, Electrical Safety Office (ESO), Rob serves as a member of the Electrical Regulatory Authorities Council, and Chair, Standing Committee of Officials, Electrical Equipment Safety System.
Keith started his electrical career in 1986. After gaining his electrical fitter and mechanics licence he worked for a number of companies on domestic, commercial, hospital, petrochemical and industrial projects.
He has served on a range of board and committees in the area of apprentice training, construction, training competencies, workplace health and safety and Australian standards and has been a member of the Electrical Safety Board and Electrical Licensing Committee since 2011.
Prior to his role as Commissioner, Keith was the President of the Queensland and Northern Territory Electrical Trades Union branches.
In 2017, Sean’s sister, Kerryn O’Connor, was killed by an electric shock while handling an electrical appliance with a hidden failure. Sean works to prevent others from experiencing the grief of losing a loved one in an avoidable incident. His passion is consumer protection.
Sean is the Deputy Chair of Workplace Health and Safety Queensland’s consultative committee for work-related fatalities and serious incidents. Representing his parents, Jim and Robyn, Sean joined the committee after experiencing the devastating impact that Kerryn’s death had on his family.
Sean has an electrical trade and experience leading staff in heavy industrial, transport and mining industries. This provides him with a practical insight into the health and safety challenges that workers face going about and doing their jobs.