exida has been very active in Australia over the last two decades, forming solid relationships with customers across the country, providing lifecycle services, training and products. exida Australia now has offices in both Queensland and Western Australia to support all your functional safety, industrial cybersecurity and alarm management needs.
The exida Australia team is fortunate to have Dr. Eric Scharpf, one of the founding partners of exida just across the way in New Zealand. Eric has been a formidable presence across Asia Pacific for over 20 years with his extensive functional safety knowledge and training expertise.
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28 Apr - 1 May, 2025
IEC 61511: Functional Safety Analysis, Design, and Operation
Perth, Australia
26 May - 29 May, 2025
Machine Functional Safety Engineering
Perth, Australia
16 Jun - 19 Jun, 2025
Machine Functional Safety Engineering
Brisbane, Australia
28 Jul - 31 Jul, 2025
IEC 61511: Functional Safety Analysis, Design, and Operation
Brisbane, Australia
Mr Holden, Principal Safety Engineer for exida Australia.
Sam is an experienced EC&I and Functional Safety Consultant with more than 25 years’ industrial experience in specification, design, commissioning, modification and maintenance on instrument and control systems. He has worked on projects within the petrochemical, refinery, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, chemical and mining industry.
Sam has been working with safety related systems since 2002 and has gained detailed knowledge of functional safety lifecycle management including implementation, planning, realisation, classification, verification & validation across various process industries. He is also an experienced assessor who has led well over a dozen functional safety assessments and audits with major upstream, downstream oil and gas facilities the UK, Ireland and Australia.
He has held positions from apprentice, technician, site based EC&I engineer, project engineer, senior engineer, principal EC&I engineer, senior consultant, principal consultant. He has extensive training experience and has also authored and published technical papers at international conferences.
Mr Lumsden has over 30 years’ collective experience working in both aircraft maintenance engineering and functional safety engineering. His early years were based in Scotland working for various aviation companies that eventually brought him to Australia. In 2007, his career evolved into functional safety within resource industries including oil and gas, mining and minerals, rail and aviation, working on large projects both nationally and globally.
Gordon is a subject matter expert in functional safety and has performed various functional safety related activities over the last 20 years, including functional safety assessments and audits, validation and SIL verifications of safety functions. He has provided expert advice and training to the aviation, oil and gas, mining, resources and machinery safety, covering all stages of the safety lifecycles aspects.
Mr Kerai is a strategic technology and infrastructure engineer who has worked with leading-edge cyber security and threat intelligence solutions for both Industrial Control Systems and Enterprise networks. He has extensive experience, including an academic and practical deep understanding of computer and network security. He has skills aligned with enterprise and industrial cyber security solutions focusing on SCADA/ICS security. He has also led cybersecurity risk assessments within the energy sector.
With over a decade of computer, network security, and industrial control system experience, Paresh continues to research emerging technologies being developed globally within the cybersecurity domain and actively attends and speaks at cybersecurity conferences.
Paresh has consulted with various organisations, both in the private and government sectors. He is passionate about threat intelligence, threat hunting computer and network forensics, wireless security, IoT devices, security and infrastructure architecture reviews and operation technology security.
Dr. Eric Scharpf has over 30 years’ of professional experience and is widely recognised as an expert in process and machine safety, efficiency analysis and optimisation. He has led many safety lifecycle projects in chemical processing, energy and machine automation applications.
Eric has developed and teaches several of the exida functional safety engineering courses and is the technical lead for the consulting business in Australasia. He has published numerous reviewed journal articles as well as leading textbooks on SIL target selection, risk analysis, and HAZOP. He developed several of the cryogenic gas processing, combustion, and separation techniques currently used for hydrogen, synthesis gas, and power generation.
Eric’s principal work responsibilities have included research and development, project execution, and operations / manufacturing efficiency, safety, and reliability improvements in the bulk gas and specialty chemicals industry. He also teaches several process, energy, and safety related courses at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand and has authored more than 15 US and international patents.