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My Profile

Who Am I

Dr Yang Miang Goh

Dr Goh is a specialist in occupational health and safety (OHS) and risk management. He is currently a senior consultant assisting companies improve their risk and OHS management capabilities. He is an Approved Workplace Safety and Health Auditor and has expertise in quantitative risk assessment. He was the Assistant Director (Investigations) at the Ministry of Manpower and was involved in the investigation of more than 80 fatal/ serious accidents. Dr Goh has experience in different industries including construction, manufacturing, shipyards and oil and gas. Dr Goh taught risk management, incident investigation and safety technology at post-graduate and undergraduate levels when he was Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia. Dr Goh is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor with Curtin University and has a wide range of peer-reviewed papers in high impact scientific journals.

Specialties

incident investigation and analysis, occupational health and safety management, audit, quantitative risk assessment, risk management, fall protection, workshop facilitation, training and consultancy, research and development, system dynamics, systems thinking, computer simulation

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. - Dept. of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore (2005)
  • B.Eng. (Hons) - Dept. of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore (2000)
  • Safety management system lead auditor (OHSAS 18001)
  • Lean-six sigma green belt

My Appointments

  • Senior Consultant, Det Norske Veritas
    January 2011 – Present (9 months)
    • Occupational Health and Safety consultancy and training
    • Management system audit
    • International Sustainability Rating System (ISRS) assessment/audit
    • Incident investigation and analysis
    • Research and development in occupational health and safety
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My Awards

  • Director of Occupational Safety and Health Commendation Award - Accident Causal Analysis Tool for OSH Investigation (2007)
  • Minister for Manpower Award - recognition of outstanding contribution to the successful implementation of the Occupational Safety & Health Reform in Singapore (2006)
  • PhD Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore (2000-2004)

Professional Memberships

  • Member, System Dynamics Society
  • Member, Academy of Management
  • Member, Safety Institute of Australia
  • Member, Curtin-Monash Accident Research Centre
  • Member, Human Factors and Sustainable Development Technical Committee, International Ergonomics Association

My Research Interests

  • System dynamics and systems thinking
  • Incident analysis and prevention
  • OHS management, health impact assessment and risk management
  • Application of artificial intelligence techniques in OHS
  • Safety technology in particular fall protection
  • Prevention through design

My Research

  • 2009 Curtin University Internal Research Grant winner; project titled, "Developing system dynamics models of major health incidents: Esperance lead pollution case study" (AUD$11,551)
  • Guest Editor for the Special Issue of Accident Analysis and Prevention (Impact Factor: 1.963), "Accident Analysis and Prevention in Construction and Engineering Projects"
  • Manuscript reviewer for American Society of Civil Engineers - Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
  • Manuscript reviewer for Automation in Construction
  • Manuscript reviewer for The 28th International System Dynamics Conference, Seoul, Korea (2010)
  • Manuscript reviewer for Journal - Accident Analysis and Prevention

 

My Activities

  • Presentation at the Risk Analysis and Mine Safety conference 2010
  • Created Fish and Ships Simulation game on Forio
  • Presentation on System Dynamics in Curtin Singapore
  • Attended advanced system dynamics modelling course (Powersim)
  • Conducted train-the-trainer course for Project Safety and Health Coordinator (Design for Safety) in Singapore (August 2009)
  • Chaired session on "Fall arrest and slips" during the International Ergonomics Association Conference 2009; presented paper on technical review of fall arrest requirement (August 2009)
  • Completed research report on industrial amputation in Singapore (June 2009)
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My Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals (ISI Listed: ranked A or A* by ERA)

  • Love, P.E.D., Lopez, R., Edwards, D.J., Goh, Y.M., 2010. Systemic modelling of design errors in social infrastructure projects. Accident Analysis and Prevention (In Press).
  • Goh, Y. M., P. Love, H. Brown, and J. T. Spickett. 2010. Organizational Accidents: A Systemic Model of Production versus Protection. Journal of Management Studies (In press)
  • Goh, Y. M. and Love, P. E. D., 2010. Adequacy of Personal Fall Arrest Energy Absorbers in Relation to Heavy Workers. Safety Science 48: 747–754.
  • Goh, Y. M., H. Brown, and J. Spickett. 2010. Applying systems thinking concepts in the analysis of major incidents and safety culture. Safety Science 48: 302–309.
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