QinetiQ Australia’s Safety and Systems Team Lead Angela Maples has received an Australian Defence Force (ADF) Gold Group Commendation from the Chief of Capability Development Group (CDG) Lieutenant General John Caligari for her involvement in the team developing a systems safety framework for Defence’s future capabilities that is compliant with Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation.
Lieutenant General John Caligari said, “Your dedication to this work has made a significant contribution across Defence to the integration of future capability systems safety considerations within the whole capability systems lifecycle and to the development of processes and practices that contribute to safe design from the very outset of the development of a project”.
Greg Barsby, Managing Director of QinetiQ Australia, said, “It is extremely rare for a non-Defence member to receive this type of recognition, which makes it even more significant. I congratulate Angela on her achievement. Her professionalism and expertise in support of Defence Capability Development are highly commendable and worthy of recognition”.
Angela said, “To receive this type of recognition is a huge honour. Providing WHS advisory and support services is my passion and I’m proud that my work has resulted in a robust, practical and fully compliant framework for CDG to use when considering the system safety of Defence’s future capabilities. I thoroughly enjoyed my time partnering with CDG on this project”.
The safety systems framework Angela helped develop has given the CDG confidence at every level, from the project managers through to the executive, that it has met the compliance obligations placed on it both collectively and personally under the WHS Act 2011. The WHS Act came into effect on 1 January 2012 to establish a nationally consistent set of laws covering health and safety at work.
Angela joined QinetiQ Australia in 2014 and does consultancy work for Australian Government agencies in WHS, business management, protective security and human resources. She has specialist skills in project definition studies, gap analyses, procurement and contract management, budgeting and financial management. She is a certified practising member of the Safety Institute of Australia.