Andrew is a Principal Scientist, Occupational Hygienist and Director at Environmental Advisors and has continually served the contaminated land and occupational hygiene industry since 1994. With more than 25 years’ experience specialising in contaminated site assessment, hazardous building materials and remediation, Andrew has conducted, directed and reviewed more than 500 investigations of contaminated land and structures throughout Australia covering all major industries.

Andrew is a suitably qualified person for contaminated land assessment under S.564 and S.565 of the Queensland Environmental Protection Act 1994 and an appropriately qualified person for asbestos auditing under the Queensland Work Health and Safety Act 2011 as well as being a Licensed Asbestos Assessor (Licence No. 2317050).

He is a member of the Australian Institute of Environmental Health (a prescribed organisation under schedule 8 of the Environmental Protection Regulation 2008) and a corporate member of the Australian Contaminated Land Consultants Association, the principal industry representative group in Queensland of which Andrew was part of the formative steering committee and was inaugural Secretary.

He has held relevant qualifications granted by the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) for analysis of asbestos air monitoring samples (counter and signatory) and was the Technical Manager and Delegating Signatory for the first national accreditation granted by NATA for a Type A Inspection Body for Hazardous Materials Surveys. He has also completed a TAFE training module for friable asbestos removal, and for several years delivered an annual guest lecture at the Queensland University of Technology on contaminated land and planning.

Andrew’s experience covers many facets of contaminated land including those of human health and environmental risk assessment, multi-disciplinary soil assessment and remediation, waste management, site management and planning matters.