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Name
Olle Wennström
Age
52 (Born 19th July 1955)
Profile
Senior Field Manager, Operations Manager & Consultant in area of industrial asset and site protection (eg fire), physical risk management, project command & control, field management and team training.
Seniority and Hands-On
Able to work from top level (Company Director) at HQ, National and International political level, down to field front line personnel at a remote site.
Skills
- Fire protection technical knowledge and experience
- Industrial fire safety, eg industrial complexes, power stations, harbours, project sites, mining industry, over and under ground.
- Planning, preparation, response and implementation.
- Other Industrial asset protection and physical risk management,
- Command & Control for project management in field operations, such as project sites, concession areas,
- Employee and middle management team training for field operations
Nationality
Swedish
Present Location
Perth; Australia
Geographic Experience
Sweden, Singapore, Indonesia, Croatia, Russia, Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia.
Assignment Experience
Swedish Rescue Services, Singapore Civil Defence Force, NATO, Stockholm Fire Service, Stockholm Energy, regional corporations eg April Fine Paper, Riau Andalan Pulp, Asia Pulp & Paper. Major mining companies.
Present position
Principal Consultant/ Project Director, GHD Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia, Risk Management.
Education
- Swedish War Collage. 2 year higher staff course. Selection training for promotion to lieutenant colonel, colonel and above.
(Only fire officer ever, so far, to be seconded to this course) (1994-1996)
- Incident Commander course Danish Fire Collage. (1991)
- Senior Fire Officer Degree. Swedish Fire and Rescue Collage (1979-1981)
- Cadet school and officer training Swedish Marines. (1974-1976)
Working experience
- Principal Consultan/ Project Director, GHD Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia. Risk assessments. (2006-current)
- Major Emergency Management Training for oil and gas off-shore. Malaysia. (2005-2006)
- Senior Consultant Forest Fire Protection, Sinar Mas Group Forestry Division. (2002-Aug 2005)
- Senior advisor for establishing of Haze Prevention Group in Indonesia. (2001-2002)
- Senior Consultant and Fire Officer, Swedish Rescue Services Agency (1997-2004)
- Senior Fire Officer/First Commander, Stockholm Fire Service (1983-1997)
- Fire Protection Engineer, Stockholm Energy (1982-1983)
- Fire Protection Engineer, Norrköping Fire Service (1981-1982)
- Officer Swedish Marines (1974-1979)
Assignments
Stockholm Energy
- Fire protection planning for energy supply tunnels in Stockholm
More then 60 km of tunnels supplying most of Stockholm with all different types of energy and telecommunications.
- Fire protection planning for Hässelby power plant. Coal powder combustion.
Hässelby power plant has a total produced effect of 500 MW and an estimated asset value of more then 2 Billion US Dollars. It is of key importance to the energy supply in large areas of Stockholm.
Stockholm Fire Service
- Originator of standard operational procedures for special operations
- Responsible for contingency planning for special events in Stockholm.
- Chief instructor and originator of “chief of staff training” and Staff training” courses in Stockholm Fire Service.
- Responsible for the operational start of the New Command & Control Centre of Stockholm Fire Service. The largest and most modern Central for alarm, Command & Control in Europe, on duty since April 1997.
- Preparation of requirements and specifications for the New Command & Control Centre of Stockholm Fire Service.
- First Commander of Fire and Rescue Service
- Head of Command & Control Section
- Acting Chief of Training department
Räddningsverket/ Swedish Rescue Services Agency
- Head of Evaluation for NATO international civil emergency exercise Ferghana, Uzbekistan April 2003.
- Head of Evaluation for NATO international civil emergency exercise Bogorodsk, Russia September 2002.
- Head of Evaluation for NATO international civil emergency exercise Taming the Dragon, Croatia May 2002.
- Consultant for initiation and organisation of “Haze Prevention Group”, a forest fire organisation among Indonesian forestry and plantation companies.
- Responsible for Swedish Rescue Services Agency’s commercial activities and consultancy in South East Asia, based in Singapore.
- Consultant for design of a new training system with and for Singapore Civil Defence Force.
- Author of “Elements of command and Control”.
New principles for Swedish Fire, Rescue and Emergency organisations. Presently under implementation in Fire & Rescue Organisations in European Union and NATO.
- Member of commission at Swedish Ministry of Defence. Report of the design of Fire and Rescue services in the future.
- Member of commission at Swedish Ministry of Communications. Report on digital public safety radio systems.
- Member of special training crew for Swedish Government. Special incident decision-making training for the ministers.
- Instructor at SRV’s schools in Rosersberg, Sando, Revinge and Skovde.
Sinar Mas Forestry Division
- Design and implementation of forest fire protection program for the concessions in Riau, Jambi and South Sumatra.
- Operations Command at major forest fire incidents.
- Hazard- and fire reduction in log stock and handling.
- Implementation of aerial fire fighting capacity for the forestry concessions in Sumatra.
Major Emergency Management
- Disaster training for oil and gas site/installation managers on and off shore.
GHD Pty Ltd
- Risk management and risk assessments.
- Facilitator for mining industry on semi quantitative risk assessments.
Major Fire and Rescue Operations
- 1989 M/S Athena. Operations Commander for onboard ship fire in Swedish cruise liner in Stockholm Port. All POB saved.
- 1990 M/S Sally Albatross. Operations Commander for onboard ship fire in Swedish cruise liner, in floating dock, Finnboda shipyard in Stockholm. All POB saved, the ship was declared total loss.
- 1990 M/S Scandinavian Star. Assistant Operations Commander for ship fire in Danish cruise liner of the Swedish West Coast. 157 people died before fire crews arrived.
- 2002-2005 Riau, Sumatra. Operations Commander for multiple fire fighting operations during fire season in Sinar Mas Forestry. The largest single operation covered 750 fire fighters and 3 helicopters for 4 weeks, over an area equal to Singapore’s.
Languages
Swedish verbally and in writing
English verbally and in writing
German verbally
Indonesian verbally and in writing
Malay verbally |
