Current Road Safety Professionals

Raphael Grzebieta

Engineering and Road Crash Reconstruction Disciplines

Raphael Grzebieta is the immediate past  President of the Australasian College of Road Safety and is the Chair of Road Safety at the Injury Risk Management Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Before moving to UNSW he headed up a road-safety & crashworthiness research team for 25 years in the Civil Engineering Department at Monash University where he published over 160 papers in structural crashworthiness research, accident investigation, failure analysis, numerical modelling and experimental crash testing. He is also a member of and contributes to a number of road safety, editorial and national and international standards committees. His research team carried out over 35 crash tests and numerous computer modelling and theoretical studies investigating and mitigating injuries in truck under-run, far-side impact, roll-over and roadside barrier crashes. Raphael has also carried out numerous accident reconstruction analyses and has acted as an expert for insurance companies, legal firms, and for criminal and coronial inquests.

Contact email: r.grzebieta@unsw.edu.au

Ray Shuey, APM

Enforcement/Road Safety Education

Ray Shuey is a trainer and adviser in international road safety providing best practice solutions and road safety strategies to meet jurisdictional needs. He has had 41 years policing experience and is a former Assistant Commissioner in Victoria having held that executive position for fourteen years until July 2003.  During his police career, he has had broad experience as a senior executive in strategic traffic enforcement, benchmarking and target road safety profiling complemented by the effective use of technology and intelligence to achieve objectives.     

In his current role, he has designed and delivered police training programs in the United Arab Emirates, China, Malaysia and Cambodia as well as providing road safety keynote presentations and facilitated workshops in many other countries.  He is a principal author to the World Health Organisations Road Safety Manual for Decision Makers on "Drinking and Driving" and a contributing author to other good practice manuals on "Speed Management" and "Helmets".  He has also undertaken risk management reviews for many government organisations with outsourced services recommending practical solutions and proactive risk management controls. 

Ray is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and an Associate Fellow of the Australasian College of Road Safety.  He is a senior associate of the Australian Road Research Board, a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and a member of the International Police Association.  Ray holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Post Graduate Diploma of Criminology and is currently undertaking his research doctorate PhD in benchmarking traffic law enforcement.  He has been awarded the Australian Police Medal for distinguished police service and in July 2004 was presented with an award for outstanding service to road safety in Victoria by the Ministerial Council for Road Safety.                                                        

Contact Email:www.strategicsafety.com.au

Associate Professor Rebecca Ivers

Research and Evaluation

Associate Professor Ivers is the Director of the Injury Division at The George Institute for International Health. She is a Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at The University of Sydney.  Dr Ivers has substantial expertise in the area of large scale population based studies in road injury. She is the lead investigator on the DRIVE Study, a cohort study involving 20,822 novice drivers, and is also a chief investigator on a recently funded large case-control study investigating heavy vehicle crashes in NSW, Queensland and WA. Dr Ivers has published widely in the road safety and public health literature, including chapters on program evaluation in WHO/World Bank/Global Road Safety Partnership facilitated road safety manuals, and is a recognised expert, both locally and internationally, in the field of road safety.  She leads research projects in the area of indigenous road safety in NSW, is a member of the Australian Government Indigenous Road Safety Working Group and has experience working in both urban and remote parts of the Territory.

Contact email: rivers@george.org.au

Eve Somssich                                               

Driver Education

Manager Driver Education

Discipline Leader Logistics

School of Engineering and Logistics

Faculty of Technology

Charles Darwin University 0909

E: Eve.somssich@cdu.edu.au

Ken Smith 

Administration and Policy/Research and Evaluation

Smithworks Consulting

PO Box 568 QUEANBEYAN NSW 2620

E:smithworks@aapt.net.au

Roger Stuart-Smith                        

Road Crash Reconstruction

Consulting Traffic Engineer

7 Selwyn St ARTARMON NSW 2064

E:roger@stuart-smith.com.au

Maureen Kohlman 

Driver Education

Consultant

PO Box 74 Nightcliff NT 0814

E:Section25@bigpond.com

Robin Anderson                                     

Administration/Policies

Road Safety Consultant

PO Box 100 Jamison ACT 2614

E:robinanderson@grapevine.net.au

Debra Swadling                                                                                

Psychology

Engineering Technical Officer

Shire of Broome

PO Box 5291 BROOME WA 6725

E:Debra.swadling@broome.wa.gov.au

Donald Veal                                                  

Road Safety Audit

Director

Donald Veal Consultants

125 Oliver St  Mt Helena WA 6082

E:Donald.Veal@dvcworld.com

Neil Guest

Audit

Civil Infrastructure Division

Lambert and Rehbein (SEQ) Pty Ltd

E: neil.g@lar.net.au

Cameron Messer

Audit

Senior Traffic Engineer

Lambert & Rehbein

E:cameron.m@lar.net.au