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With nearly 30 years of skilled leadership in political advocacy, policy development and stakeholder engagement, Ben’s extensive work across state and federal governments means he’s well-prepared to lead the VAEA’s mission to remove asbestos from government-owned buildings in Victoria.

Throughout his career, Ben has successfully driven complex negotiations and secured critical outcomes for industry and government. His expertise, strategic vision and commitment to health and safety will help deliver meaningful change and a safer future for Victorians.

Paul has spent 20 years working in the field of asbestos a hazmat related safety. He received his training in asbestos safety at OHSS Ltd in Ireland whilst he undertook his Bachelor Degree in Construction Project Management.

After migrating to Australia in 2011, Paul spent 5 years working as a Consultant and Team Manager in the field of asbestos and hazardous materials safety at Greencap in Melbourne. He then held the position of Asbestos Project Manager at Parks Victoria. In 2016, he joined the Victorian Asbestos Eradication Agency as the Principal Hygienist for the project to provide the Victorian Government with  prioritised register of ACMs for removal. In 2021, after a 2 year stint in consulting, he took the position of Asbestos Safety Manager at VicTrack where he manages asbestos and hazmat safety across the VicTrack managed section of the rail network. In this role, Paul has commenced a program of pro-active asbestos removal works from VicTrack assets, which includes the removal of corrugated asbestos cement roofing from this assets.

In his roles, Paul has worked on large scale auditing programs for Government agencies, property portfolio managers and healthcare facilities. He has also worked extensively in asbestos abatement over a large number of projects in the state of Victoria.

For over 20 years, Steve has worked throughout his professional career reconciling safety and environmental legislation to solve asbestos in soil challenges.  He is a consistent contributor to industry focus groups and asbestos support groups in relation to asbestos in soil, and often engages with regulators on the matter.  Steve is also an active environmental auditor appointed by EPA, providing pragmatic outcomes regarding contaminated land problems for a range of industries.

Steve supports licensed landfills and treatment facilities to manage asbestos-related risks that ensures regulatory compliance and also meets Victoria’s sustainability goals.

Steve has worked on a range of sites for education, defence, rail, waste management, airports and local government.  He established Prensa’s internal capabilities for asbestos analysis and plays a role in maintaining NATA accreditation for Prensa’s laboratory.

Over 20 years international experience as a professional in the environmental management sector, in Australia and the United Kingdom.  Simon specialises in business development, commercialisation, project management and contracts management in the contaminated land, remediation and landfill sectors, working closely with environmental scientists / consultants.

Simon focuses on project management and business development for a national contractor within the environmental field and a particular consideration to address soil and groundwater issues, whilst appreciating the client's environmental and commercial liability.  His main responsibilities centre on the development of new business (sourcing, tendering, winning and negotiating contracts), project estimation and the delivery of successful projects, focussed on client expectations.

Simon is a self motivated individual with strong leaderships skills, who is people minded, a team player and enjoys securing new business through the development and expansion of the existing client base. An avid networker with a large, national pool of contacts. Simon considers himself a highly motivated individual who places strong emphasis on high quality client relationships and commercial outcomes. He enjoys working as a team member to support, develop and guide colleagues though tendering and proposals, contract negotiations and project management / client delivery phases.

Simon's industry focus is centralised around commercial business growth, client relationships and involvement in the delivery of business development strategy.