Welcome to Redhawk Safety
Highly qualified & experienced
Passionate about improving health & safety performance & promoting strong safety cultures

Director / Principal Consultant
Deb Cameron MWHS (with Distinction, Newcastle), BMS (Waikato), CertProfNZISM
Phone: 021 0625 884
deborah@redhawksafety.nz
Linkedin: DEB CAMERON
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Extensive experience in the Ports & logistics sectors, manufacturing, and agri-business
- Leading safety in complex multi-PCBU critical risk environments
- Successful stakeholder / industry engagement & collaboration (including government agencies)
- Enhancing safety culture
- Lead investigator on numerous HRI investigations (including within the port industry)
- Safety leadership experience (including member of National Executive of the NZISM Senior Leadership Team 2020 – Current)
- Effective & skilled safety communicator
Specialities:
- Critical Risk
- Confined Space
- Working at Height
- Mobile Plant
- Traffic Management
- Energy isolation
- Heavy Lifting
- Hazardous Substances
- Incident Investigations & Learning Teams facilitator
- Risk Assessments
- Legislation compliance
- Health & Safety Leadership
- Psychosocial risk and mental health issues in the workplace
- Health & Safety Management Systems
- Safety Communications
GOVERNANCE
- Board Member: Waipuna Hospice Inc., Tauranga, 2022 – Current
- Women in Safety Excellence (WISE) Governance Essentials Workshop Scholarship 2023
- Open to Board / Governance roles
QUALIFICATIONS & ACREDITATIONS
- Master of Workplace Health & Safety (with Distinction), University of Newcastle, Australia
- Bachelor of Management Studies, University of Waikato
- NZ Institute of Safety Management (NZISM) Certified Professional Accredited Member
- Health & Safety Association of New Zealand (HASANZ) – Registered Practitioner
- ICAM Investigator
AWARDS
Winner Safeguard Awards 2021 Best Collaboration between PCBUs:
In 2021 Deb was part of a team who was announced the winner of the Safeguard NZ Workplace Health and Safety Awards for “Best Collaboration between PCBUs”. The high-risk operation involved the removal of 40,000 tonnes of fumigated logs from a damaged vessel to another at the Port of Tauranga. It required coordination with many PCBUs, involved a high-risk challenging environment, and was completed without incident or injury.

