Overview
Background
Maureen Hassall is Professor and Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute's Industrial Safety and Health Centre at the University of Queensland. Her expertises crosses the fields of industrial risk management, safety engineering and human factors. Maureen works collaboratively with industry professionals to develop better human-centred risk management and safety engineering approaches that improve companies’ operational performance and competitiveness. Maureen also develops and delivers process safety, systems safety engineering, risk management and human factors training, education and expert advice to students and to industry. Her industry-focused research is motivated by 18 years of industry experience working in a number of different countries and in a variety of roles including specialist engineering, line management, organisational change and business performance improvement roles.
Availability
- Professor Maureen Hassall is:
- Available for supervision
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
- Bachelor of Science, University of Southern Queensland
- Masters (Coursework) of Business Administration, University of Phoenix
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Risk management
Creating whole-of-systems risk management approaches to deliver sustainable operational excellence. Exploring Industry 4.0 advancements to help humans identify, and address the range of contemporary and emerging risks that can impact the operational competitiveness of an organisation. Developing evidence-based data analytics and leading indicators to produce and communicate intelligent insights that facilitate proactive and effective management and governance of critical operational risks.
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Safety Engineering
Developing and testing innovations in socio-technical systems-based approaches that integrate inherently safe design, risk controls, high reliability and operational resilience philosophies to improve the safety, integrity, reliability,and overall performance of industrial systems.
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Human factors
Developing and applying innovative, impactful and user-centred approaches that improve the design of work systems to better support industry practitioners decision making processes so they more effectively and successfully manage high hazard and safety critical systems.
Works
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2010
Conference Publication
Using cognitive work analysis techniques to identify human factor hazards
Hassall, M. E., Sanderson, P. M. and Cameron, I. T. (2010). Using cognitive work analysis techniques to identify human factor hazards. 54th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 27 September-1 October 2010. Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. doi: 10.1518/107118110X12829369201034
Funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Understanding Frontline Workers¿ Perspectives on Safety Leadership using newly developed Leadership Model
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Danellie Lynas
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Doctor Philosophy
Managing Major Disruptive Risks in the Water Sector
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Interactions and impacts of humans and automation in complex mining systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robin Burgess-Limerick, Dr Danellie Lynas
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Doctor Philosophy
Investigating improvements to safety data capture, analysis, and communication.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Jill Harris
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Master Philosophy
What Supervisors Need to Succeed: Competency Requirements for Safe and Psychologically Healthy Workin HighRisk Settings
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Stephanie Macmahon
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Doctor Philosophy
The Evaluation of Organisational Readiness for Technology Deployment: A Quantitative Assessment Model for High-Reliability Organisations.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Mehmet Kizil, Professor Mohsen Yahyaei
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Doctor Philosophy
Barriers and challenges in improving coal mining safety performance
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Danellie Lynas
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Doctor Philosophy
Grounding a contemporary and emerging Safety movement and viewpoint with Science: A study into Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) in Australian Mining.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robin Burgess-Limerick
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Abnormal Situation Management - Modelling and Analysis of the Alarm
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robin Burgess-Limerick
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The use of dynamic simulation to improve process safety
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Ian Cameron
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Development of a control focused incident investigation process to reduce workplace injuries
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robin Burgess-Limerick
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Technical considerations for the application of deep learning methods for multimodal emotion recognition
Associate Advisor
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Improving organisational learning from incidents through effective incident investigations: A study of the Ghanaian mining industry
Associate Advisor
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Integrated Project Risk Management for Residential Recycled Water Schemes
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Steven Kenway, Honorary Professor Zhiguo Yuan
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Delivering Superior Megaproject Performance Outcomes Through Timely Intervention in the Civil Engineering Curriculum
Associate Advisor
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Enquiries
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- human factors
- incident investigations
- risk management
- safety
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