About Us
KSW Consulting provide consultants with passion and a deep understanding of a range of risk and resilience topics that have real world operational and strategic experience combined with industry leading qualifications.
KSW Consulting provide consultants with passion and a deep understanding of a range of risk and resilience topics that have real world operational and strategic experience combined with industry leading qualifications.
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Kevin Waterman
Managing DirectorKevin brings over 25 years of experience in operational and senior management roles and has an extensive amount of experience in a range of areas including emergency management, emergency response, safety and risk.
Kevin has worked on projects on Australia and Asia including working in the mining, oil and
gas industries, energy generation, and within the corporate world.
Kevin is a graduate of Charles Sturt University and holds a Master of Emergency Management, Graduate Certificate of Terrorism, Safety and Security, Graduate Certificate of Psychology of Risk and a Bachelor of Social Science (Emergency Management) and a number of other qualifications in auditing, emergency response, project management, risk management, safety, and security.
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Who works with us
KSW Consulting works with a variety of private and public sector organisations with a particular emphasis with government, mining and oil and gas clients both within Australia and overseas. We help you identify your problem and find the solution that will work for you in the most economical and streamlined way possible.
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Organisation
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(Plan)
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(Do)
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(Check)
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(Act)
Services
KSW Consulting is a Brisbane based resilience consulting organisation, focused on providing tailored solutions to increase organisational resilience within organisations.
Our programs and consulting work is aligned to industry standards such as ISO22301 for Business Continuity, AS3745, ISO 22320 and codes of practice and all relevant federal, state and territory legislation including best practices of the industries we operate in.
- Business Continuity
- Emergency Management
- Emergency Response
- Safety and Security
Consulting
Planning ahead can be hard, the world is ever changing and even when you know your business, your suppliers, staff and customers are not always correctly aligned.
Our extensive knowledge and experience in creating tailored business continuity programs that are aligned to the internationally align ISO22301 model of Plan (Establish), Do (Implement & Operate), Check (Monitor and Review) and Act (Maintain and improve) model takes the guess work out of reliably judging your risks.
Our initial stakeholder engagement will help to develop a scope of work that ensures a high level of usability that are relevant for current and emerging threats. Our services can be tailored to your needs from auditing, planning, exercising, and testing of business continuity systems.
The global pandemic has highlighted the need to identify your business continuity risks such as supply chain management and ensuring contingencies for key roles within your business.
Emergency management can be difficult to understand due to the breadth and depth of the subject area. For many organisations, having wardens and plan can be enough to meet your needs, but for more complex organisations and broader emergency management and crisis plan comes from examining the risks they face and the best ways of controlling them.
From ensuring supply chain resilience and infrastructure protection, resilience requires being one step ahead of any event that can only come from a tailored emergency management solution.
With over 28 years industry experience, KSW Consulting has been providing clients first class emergency management and response consulting services from compliance to AS3745 to designing and implementing complex emergency management planning services, KSW Consulting can assist you with the preparation and response of you staff and facilities to emergency and disaster events.
Emergency response programs are designed to ensure that you have an effective response or mitigation for the risks your operations face.
An emergency response project often starts from assessing your risk scenarios, then developing a solution that provides you with an effective emergency response.
From designing effective emergency response programs, running on site emergency drills and exercises or training and recruiting firefighters and paramedics, our recent projects including the setup and management of complex emergency response projects for global leaders in mining, oil and gas.
Our personnel have a broad range of specialist experience and education allowing it to provide a range of risk, safety, and security consulting services. We focus on current and future risks to develop comprehensive and usable safety and security plans and assessments to ensure the protection of your assets and staff and compliance with all policies, procedures, and legislative requirements.
Using our broad ranges of shared experiences and training in complimentary fields, we can dig deeper into your risks and identify emerging threats and responses to a broader range of scenarios.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Benjamin FranklinResilience Zone Blog
Welcome to our blog that will be our source of conversations about our work, the issues surrounding our core fields of work and thoughts and opinions.