Date: |
11 Sep 2025, 12.00PM – 1.00PM |
duration: |
1 hr |
Location: |
Online |
Cost: |
Free event |
Andrew’s recent paper to the Railway Technical Society’s CORE conference titled “The Essence of Rail and its implications for safety, performance and governance” drew the conclusion that a critical mass of effective knowledge and understanding at board level is vital in order to adequately assess risk, innovate, and ultimately enhance performance and safety. For his presentation to the NZSES Andrew will use elements of the paper as a case study, but then go on to highlight the governance needs for different forms of engineering organisation and the potential for Engineering New Zealand to once again provide generic guidance. The presentation draws on the wisdom of Nicholas Davidson KC, counsel for the families of the victims of the Pike River Mine disaster at the Royal Commission of Inquiry, as shared in his subsequent lectures to engineering and other groups on the lessons from the Inquiry.
Andrew Hunt ME(Dist), CPEng, FEngNZ, FCILT is a professional engineer with 45 years of experience across the engineering, operating and commercial environments of Aotearoa New Zealand’s rail industry. His career includes design, construction, operations, maintenance, accident investigation and standard setting. He has probably experienced most of the possible permutations of rail industry configuration, which gave an increasing awareness of organisational design risks and the role of governance in assuring performance, including in safety and risk management. In 2020 he received the RTSA’s Railway Professional of the year Award.
Are your directors equipped to spot the next risk—before it’s a headline? Join Andrew Hunt, using his work in the rail industry as a case study, then maps governance essentials for every engineering organisation, with lessons learned from Pike River.
Andrew’s recent paper to the Railway Technical Society’s CORE conference titled “The Essence of Rail and its implications for safety, performance and governance” drew the conclusion that a critical mass of effective knowledge and understanding at board level is vital in order to adequately assess risk, innovate, and ultimately enhance performance and safety. For his presentation to the NZSES Andrew will use elements of the paper as a case study, but then go on to highlight the governance needs for different forms of engineering organisation and the potential for Engineering New Zealand to once again provide generic guidance. The presentation draws on the wisdom of Nicholas Davidson KC, counsel for the families of the victims of the Pike River Mine disaster at the Royal Commission of Inquiry, as shared in his subsequent lectures to engineering and other groups on the lessons from the Inquiry.
Andrew Hunt ME(Dist), CPEng, FEngNZ, FCILT is a professional engineer with 45 years of experience across the engineering, operating and commercial environments of Aotearoa New Zealand’s rail industry. His career includes design, construction, operations, maintenance, accident investigation and standard setting. He has probably experienced most of the possible permutations of rail industry configuration, which gave an increasing awareness of organisational design risks and the role of governance in assuring performance, including in safety and risk management. In 2020 he received the RTSA’s Railway Professional of the year Award.
