About

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Dr Brent Halliday is a senior safety, risk and human performance leader with more than 30 years of experience across manufacturing, major hazard facilities, infrastructure, engineering, utilities and work health and safety regulation. He specialises in translating contemporary research and complex risk concepts into practical approaches that strengthen leadership capability, workforce engagement and operational performance.

Brent holds a Doctorate in Safety Science, Wellbeing and Organisational Behaviour and a Master’s in Work Health, Safety and Injury Management from the University of Southern Queensland. He also holds a Graduate Diploma in Organisational Presilience, Risk and High Performance, a Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience, Risk and High Reliability, and an Advanced Diploma in Occupational Safety, Health and Training Systems.

His doctoral research examined how work health, safety and wellbeing can be integrated with corporate strategy, employee engagement and organisational performance. This research produced the evidence-based HSW Strategy Framework, which positions health, safety and wellbeing as strategic contributors to organisational capacity and performance, extending their role beyond compliance and injury prevention.

The research was published in the peer-reviewed MDPI journal Safety as Prioritizing Work Health, Safety, and Wellbeing in Corporate Strategies: An Indicative Framework. The article has attracted more than 11,000 reads and is listed among the journal’s most-viewed research, demonstrating its international relevance and strong practitioner interest.

Brent’s professional experience includes senior roles with Downer Group, Dyno Nobel Asia Pacific, M2P Engineering, Hyne Group and Workplace Health and Safety Queensland. He has designed and implemented enterprise risk frameworks, critical-control programs, safety leadership initiatives and organisation-wide transformation strategies. He has also facilitated material risk reviews, reset bowties and critical controls, and delivered risk and safety capability development to executives, operational leaders and frontline teams.

Brent brings an evidence-based, practical and coaching-oriented approach to facilitation. His work integrates human performance, systems thinking, organisational behaviour and contemporary risk management, enabling leaders to better understand how people make decisions, build capacity and manage risk under real operational conditions.

He is a Certified OHS Professional, Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Presilience, Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders Australia, and a member of the Risk Management Institute of Australia