Dr Urie Bezuidenhout

Urie is a Professional Teaching Fellow and Consultant Transportation and Human Factors Engineer with +35 years of consulting experience, primarily in transport planning and traffic engineering. He has a unique combination of qualifications in Civil Engineering, Transportation Planning and Psychology.

He specialises in driver psychology and has pioneered the use of video-based eye-tracking (SAFEye) to investigate driver behaviour in New Zealand.

He lectures on transport engineering at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, covering road design, traffic engineering, transport planning and modelling, accident and economic analysis, and traffic modelling. His research won three awards at the UoA SPARK 100K challenge in 2011,2012, and 2013.

Diane Ah-Chan

Diane is a thought leader in organisational resilience, psychosocial risk, strategy, and contemporary safety. With a background in industrial and organisational psychology, she brings a unique mix of strategy, HR, governance, and human-centred risk expertise to reshaping how HSW in work is understood and designed.

Diane is focused on enabling organisations to learn and adapt to the complex and dynamic nature of workplace risk. Enabling Productive Safety at Work, providing usable and practical tools, processes and guidance to expand OHS management systems beyond compliance.

NextEra specialises in the integration of modern safety concepts, such as Human and Organisational Performance (HOP), Safety Differently and Safety II to name a few, into everyday workplace operations