Rate My Professor Maureen Hassall

Professor Maureen Hassall is Professor and Director of the Industrial Safety and Health Centre at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Systems Engineering from the University of Queensland, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, a Bachelor of Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern Queensland. Before assuming her current leadership role in 2022, she was based in the University of Queensland School of Chemical Engineering. Her professional career includes 18 years of industry experience in various countries, encompassing specialist engineering roles, line management, organisational change initiatives, and business performance improvement.

Maureen Hassall's research specializations include risk management through whole-of-systems approaches, Industry 4.0 advancements, and evidence-based data analytics; safety engineering with socio-technical systems-based methods, inherently safe design, risk controls, high reliability, and operational resilience; and human factors employing user-centred designs to improve decision-making in high-hazard environments. She works collaboratively with industry to develop human-centred risk management and safety engineering approaches and delivers process safety, systems safety engineering, risk management, and human factors training, education, and expert advice. Notable publications comprise Fundamentals of Risk Management for Process Industry Engineers (2023, co-authored with Paul Lant), the editorial 'Launching Safety Science and Technology' (2026), 'Testing of a safety leadership model' (2025, Safety), 'Insights from meta-analyses of incidents' (2025, Australian Energy Producers Journal), 'Artificial intelligence in process safety and risk management' (2026, book chapter), and 'Dynamic simulation for process hazard analysis: Affordances and limitations in the application to complex process systems' (2023). She serves on the editorial board of Safety Science and Technology, has produced 99 works including 1 book, 46 journal articles, 10 book chapters, and 31 conference papers between 2010 and 2026, accumulating 1,503 citations, and is a media expert on human factors, incident investigations, risk management, and safety.