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Claire is a founding director of PASS Inc. and has contributed significantly to the development and documentation of the PASS material. She is responsible for the corporate administration and provides direction to PASS Inc. external support resources.

Claire studied Anthropology for four years at the Universities of BC (Vancouver) and Victoria. She has worked on archaeological projects in BC, been involved in several museums (curatorial and managerial positions) and was a public library department head. Besides running the administrative affairs of PASS Inc., she is a director of the Kelowna & District Genealogical Society and is a genealogical researcher and educator. In addition, Claire sings with and is the Executive Director of one of BC’s foremost choirs, the Okanagan Festival Singers.

When she is not involved with PASS Inc.'s corporate affairs, singing or doing research, she enjoys working in her English cottage garden.

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Vic has extensive natural resource experience with an educational background in mechanical engineering. He has worked with numerous multinational companies in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Spain and West Africa.  For over fourteen years, he has been working with the PASS process and has implemented the process in numerous operations throughout the world. Previous to purchasing the PASS Indonesia (1997); Argentina (2002); Peru and Chile (2007) geographic licenses, he was the Managing Director of PASS Australia. He currently lives in Indonesia, speaks Indonesian and has a sound understanding of the Indonesian culture. All of the PASS material provided by Vic is in local language e.g. English, Indonesian, Spanish, and all training and coaching in the process is also done in the local language. Vic has been assisting clients to improve their Safety Culture and Safety Leadership in a wide variety of ethnic cultures and has excellent experience in implementing and establishing the PASS process in operations in remote and isolated locations. Some of his major natural resource clients are BHP Billiton, Xstrata and Rio Tinto.

On October 17, 2003, the Governor-General of Australia awarded Vic Seedwell the medal of the 'Order of Australia' (OAM) for his distinguished humanitarian service regarding the assistance he provided after the Bali Bombing.

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John is the Managing Director of John F. Lawson & Associates Pty. Limited and first became associated with Jim Burns and his consulting practice in February 1991. He assists in the marketing of the PASS process within Australia and strategic planning for international expansion of the PASS geographic licenses. John has participated in several international meetings with Jim and his fellow consultants, both in New Zealand and Canada. Also, John Lawson has purchased the PASS geographic license for China. He has been traveling to Hongkong and mainland China developing contacts and networks for future PASS opportunities in China.

John holds directorships on the following boards:

• John F. Lawson & Associates Pty. Limited, 1991 to present
• Queensland Corrections – Deputy Chairman, 1998 to 1999
• Positive Attitude Safety System Inc. – Director, 2000 to present 

He has more than 20 years experience as a full-time employee relations practitioner. His initial experience was gained as an officer of a major trade union. Since 1987, he has primarily represented corporate clients through associations with legal firms, the consulting firm Strategies and, since 1991, through his own business.

John F. Lawson & Associates is a Brisbane-based employee relations consultancy operating since 1991. The firm also operates under the registered business name of Corporate Workplace Relations Consulting. The firm practices in all areas of management but particularly in developing and implementing strategic plans and planning processes. His firm is actively involved in the development of remuneration strategies and systems involving hierarchal, organisational value and market inputs. The firm is results-oriented and specialises in developing and implementing innovative solutions to management issues, particularly solutions which lead to workforce and management attitudinal change.

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In 2007 Jaime joined PASS as a consultant, he is fluent in both Spanish and English and has been consulting with Xstrata Zinc’s San Juan de Nieva Smelter in Asturias Spain. Jaime was first introduced to PASS when assisting Vic Seedwell during the implementation of PASS at Xstrata Copper operations Altonorte and Lomas Bayas in Northern Chile.

Jaime was born in Chile and lived and studied in Toronto, Canada. He has a background in Mechanical Engineering disciplines and worked for many years in Canada after completing his studies. In 1997 he moved back to Chile with his family and opened up his own company focusing primarily on Interpreting and translating. During this time he worked for many different companies in the North of Chile and Argentina which were mainly related to the Mining Industry, providing bilingual technical support for companies such as: Caterpillar (Finning Chile and Argentina) and assisted Finning (Chile) to implement their CPS (Caterpillar Production Process) throughout its operations.

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Geraint became the owner of PASS New Zealand in April 2009.

Geraint is originally from the UK where he attained a degree in Civil and Structural Engineering. He started his career as a site based engineer and spent seven years in the UK as a structures and roads engineer on mostly civil type construction work.

Geraint immigrated to New Zealand in 1996 and continued his carer in an office based role with Hawkins Construction and had responsibilities including health and safety, tenders and project support for the commercial construction projects.

In 2002 Geraint started his consultancy business providing safety and construction services including writing safety systems and conducting audits and accident investigations. For the past seven years Geraint has worked with a number of clients in different industry areas included heavy manufacturing, mining, dairy plant suppliers and construction companies. Geraint has also provided training at worker and supervisor level under contact for Site Safe New Zealand, and has trained over eleven thousand people over this period.

Geraint attended the PASS Master’s Course held in May 2009 in Kelowna to acquire specialized training in the implementation and establishment of PASS Process. Geraint lives in Hamilton where he operates PASS New Zealand.

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