Offshore Safety Research Consortium
Anthony
Patterson, M.M.
(Chair)
Anthony Patterson is the Director of the Centre for Marine Simulation at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is a graduate of the Canadian Coast Guard College and holds both a Coast Guard Command and Master Mariner's Certificate. Anthony has held a number of sea-going and shore positions within the Coast Guard including Commanding Officer of a search and rescue cutter; Superintendent of the SAR Research and Development program; and the Superintendent responsible for Maritime Search and Rescue in Newfoundland. Anthony has particular expertise in search theory, rescue operations, emergency command and control, and in simulation technology.
Tel:
(709) 778-0305
E-mail: apatterson@mi.mun.ca
Brian Veitch, P.Eng., Dr. Tech.
Brian Veitch is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and is the Terra Nova Project Junior Chair of Ocean Environmental Risk Engineering. His interest in offshore safety is in the development of the requisite technical tools for the ongoing development and implementation of design methods and standards. In particular, he has been evaluating the capabilities of evacuation systems as a function of weather conditions and system configuration. He is a partner in an offshore safety research team with researchers at the National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Marine Dynamics.
Tel:
(709) 737-8970
E-mail: bveitch@engr.mun.ca
Robert Rutherford, P.Eng.
Bob Rutherford is a professional engineer and certified first class marine engineer with over 25 years experience in the marine and offshore industries. He is currently Director of the Offshore Safety and Survival Centre at Memorial University of Newfoundland. The Centre provides safety and emergency response training to over 2,500 people per year. He is the Canadian representative of the International Association of Safety and Survival Training and the Newfoundland Chair of the Institute of Marine Engineering. As an engineer, he has a particular interest in safety equipment; as an educator, he is interested in how people can be trained to respond effectively in emergency situations.
Tel:
(709) 834-2076 (ext 222)
E-mail: Bob.Rutherford@mi.mun.ca
Keith Storey, Ph.D.
Keith Storey is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1977. His primary interests in offshore health and safety are in the social and psycho-social implications of offshore work and work systems and the role of human factors in productivity and safety on offshore installations. He has published a number of monographs and papers in this field, including work for the Occupational Safety and Health Branch of the ILO, and has presented his work at a variety of industry and academic conferences such as the annual meetings of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Fax:
(709) 737-8987
E-mail: kstorey@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
Scott MacKinnon, Ph.D.
Scott MacKinnon's research areas include the biophysical (kinematic and kinetic) analyses of human movement, development of operations guidelines for heavy materials handling activities, electromyographical assessment of muscle function, and the cost-benefit analyses of ergonomic intervention programs. He has published in the top ergonomics journals and has presented at several international conferences in his areas of specialization. He is currently investigating the influences of platform motion on injury, postural stability, motion sickness and fatigue on command and control in harsh maritime environments.
Tel:
(709) 737-8807
E-mail: smackinn@mun.ca
Susan Hart, Ph.D.
Susan Hart is an Assistant Professor in Industrial Relations in the Faculty of Business Administration. In May 1998 she was awarded a Memorial University of Newfoundland Endowment Fund grant of $25,000 for an international comparison of health and safety regulatory frameworks for the offshore oil industry. A paper based on the first stage of this research is forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy; it is entitled "Safety and Industrial Relations in the Newfoundland Offshore Oil Industry since the Ocean Ranger Disaster in 1982." She is currently working on a paper exploring what we can learn in Canada from the Norwegian collaborative approach to safety in the offshore.
Fax:
(709) 737-2431
E-mail: shart@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
Rob Brown, P.Eng., M.Eng.
Rob Brown is the research lead of offshore safety at Marine Institute's Offshore Safety and Survival Centre. He is a professional engineer with a Master's degree in Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering from MUN. Prior to joining the OSSC, Rob worked for 5 years with C-CORE in the area of ice engineering providing research consulting to numerous international offshore clients. He has considerable experience in offshore ice management techniques and the analysis of risk related to the offshore installations and pipelines from ice. Rob has published about 10 technical papers and has authored/coauthored more than 30 technical client reports.
Fax:
(709) 834-2076 (ext 226)
E-mail: rbrown@mi.mun.ca
David Behm, Ph.D.
David Behm is an Assistant Professor and Fitness Director in the School of Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research interests include neuromuscular adaptations to acute and chronic exercise training, fatigue, disuse and the application of different modalities or environments. In particular, he is interested in the effect of short or long duration activity, training, injury, hyperbaric environments or devices on the ability to fully activate muscle, excitation of the muscle membrane and excitation-contraction coupling.
Tel:
(709) 737-3408
E-mail: dbehm@mun.ca
Faisal I. Khan, Ph.D.
Faisal Khan is a chemical engineer. He got Master and Doctorate degrees in computer-aided design and computer aided risk assessment, respectively. Prior to joining Memorial University as a Visiting Research Professor and then as Associate Professor, he has served as a Scientist at the Centre for Pollution Control & Energy Technology, Pondicherry, India for about four years, and as an Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India for about two years. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and has authored four books and about 75 internationally referred research papers. His expertise includes oil and gas operation risk assessment, industrial safety, environmental risk and impact assessment, and computer aided design and evaluation of process equipment.
Tel:
(709) 737-8939
E-mail: fkhan@mun.ca
Matthew D. White, Ph.D.
Matthew White is an Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's. His doctorate is in physiology-endocrinology and his ongoing research is in the Laboratory for Exercise and Environmental Physiology. He has numerous publications centered on human responses and performance in conditions of high or low temperature and/or pressure. This research has particular relevance to human health and safety during exposure to the extreme environmental conditions of the North Atlantic region, an aspect that is integral to the province's offshore oil and gas development. His collaborations include research on human performance at depth with MUN's Center for Offshore and Remote Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine.
Fax:
(709) 737-8671
E-mail: mdwhite@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
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