Grant Purdy is an Associate Director
of Broadleaf.
Grant has specialised in the practical application
of risk management for the last 30 years, working across a
wide range of industries and in many countries. He is
a recognised expert on enterprise and strategic risk management,
specialising in the tactics for the take-up, customisation
and embedding of 'bespoke' risk management frameworks and systems.
Grant is Chairman of the Australian Risk Management
Committee responsible for the Risk Management Standard AS/NZS
4360 and co-author of the 2004 version of the Standard and the
associated Handbook of best practice. He is also the nominated
expert representing Australia in the ISO Working Group on Risk
Management.
Grant is currently working with a number of major
corporate clients helping them develop and implement Enterprise
Risk Management. These include:
Transurban
The Australian Ballet
Amcor
Fosters
Group
Downer
EDI
He is also working with Newcrest Mining Limited developing its
Investment Governance and toll-gating system, has developed an
Investment Governance system for Transurban and is assisting Xstrata
with a major investment risk assessment.
Before joining Broadleaf, Grant led the global
Risk Management team at BHP Billiton that created the Enterprise-wide
Risk Management framework and strategy that is now recognized
as world best practice within the resources sector. This
has developed one consistent process for the management of
all types of risks, now applied every day in support of decision
making at over 120 BHP Billiton assets and sites throughout
the world. In particular, Grant has been most successful
in integrating risk management into all major investment projects
for the company.
Prior to working at BHP Billiton,
Grant led a number of consultancy groups who provided risk management
services to large organizations in many countries.
For Arthur Andersen, Grant was
a Director of the Australian EWRM team and provided services
to clients as diverse as Melbourne Ports Authority, Santos, NRG
Flinders Power, TXU and the South Australian Emergency Services
Unit.
ISO 31000
Grant has been instrumental in the development
of ISO Risk Management Standard 31000. Click on the image
below for further details of Broadleaf's approach to the issues
raised by ISO 31000 and a page of downloads of ISO 31000 documentation.
For four years, as Managing Director
of Aon Pacific Risk Consultants (previously Pacific Risk Management),
Grant led major risk studies for the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation, Orica, Amcor, Amatek, Bankers Trust, Lend Lease,
RAC, ARTC, Justice Portfolio, Public Trustee of SA, Dalrymple
Bay Coal Terminal and many other clients.
As Technical Director of International
Risk Control Africa, Grant and his team provided risk management
services to many of the major mining houses in South Africa. Clients
included JCI, Spoornet, Goldfields, SASOL, AECI (ICI), SAPPI,
Transnet and Anglo American.
For 71/2 years Grant was Manager
of Operations for DNV Technica in the UK. This consultancy
was at the forefront of risk management practice. He led
projects as diverse as the risk assessment for the Second Runway
at Manchester Airport, the risk assessment of all gas gathering
facilities for Saudi Aramco and the development of the 'Manager'
safety management audit protocol for the European Community.
Grant spent 12 1/2 years with the
UK Health and Safety Executive.
For the Major Hazards Assessment Unit, he developed the first
Quantitative Risk Assessment methodologies for HSE and became
national specialist on the risk assessment of toxic gas installations,
transportation systems and dangerous goods.
Grant
played a major role in the development of QRA techniques in Europe
and, in particular, worked on the risk assessment requirements
of the UK Safety report legislation. He conducted risk assessments
of key transportation systems including the Channel Tunnel, developed
risk-based land-use policy around major hazard factories in the
UK and led the technical studies for a major 3 year review into
the "Transport of Dangerous Substances in the UK" for
the Health and Safety Commission.
Grant graduated from Hull University with an honours degree in
Chemistry in 1977. He gained a postgraduate diploma in Safety
and Hygiene at the University of Aston in Birmingham.
He holds professional qualifications of Chartered Chemist, Member
of the Royal Society of Chemistry, European Chemist and Chartered
Scientist.
