Our Trainers

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Brett Argus is a qualified electrician, engineering technologist and accredited auditor with more than 10 years' industry experience. Brett has worked with a wide variety of clients in a range of industries including hydrocarbons, mining and minerals, milling and petrochemical. He is a technical specialist in the area of explosive atmospheres, with a focus on hazardous area electrical and instrumentation system compliance. Brett has consulted both domestically and internationally for a wide variety of clients. His experience includes hazardous area installation design, installation compliance inspections, installation auditing, hazardous area classification and engineering deliverables for installation / remediation works.

Brett's technical expertise, experience and continuing industry practice makes him a very qualified trainer who is able to impart on his students not only the knowledge they need to work in hazardous areas but also valuable insights into the industry of hazardous areas.

Gareth is a semi-reformed electrical engineer – an engineer who eventually realised that he much prefers teaching to actually doing engineering. This took some time to happen though, and before it did he worked on a number of large engineering projects including hazardous areas both in Australia and internationally, so he brings the benefit of these years of experience to his course development and delivery for Extend. Gareth also sits on Standards Australia committee MS-066 – Competencies for working with electrical equipment for hazardous areas.

Cris is still an engineer, but periodically enjoys passing on some of his vast knowledge and experience in the hazardous area electrical field. Cris is one of Australia's foremost authorities on hazardous areas and explosion protection and regularly presents at conferences and events on the subject as well as delivering training courses for Extend. He is also a member of Standards Australia committee EL-014 – Electrical Installations for Explosive Atmospheres.