Incident, Crisis & Emergency Management Specialist
I.C.E.Man. Consultancy
Meet The Team
Quality of our training and services is top priority. Stringent effort was made to assemble an elite team of industry experts around the globe, in order for our company to provide the high standard of training and services.
Ice Lee
Founder & Owner
OPITO Certified Assessor
Ice Lee previously served 10 years with the Republic of Singapore Air Force, his primary role being that of weapon specialist, with a secondary duty as member of the Emergency Response Team. During these 10 years, he was involved with many rescue and recovery missions for the RSAF.
His wide experience in operations and communications, together with his ongoing involvement in military training, provided the required expertise for his initial employment with Risktec Singapore, in 2005, as Course Coordinator. He was heavily involved in the logistical and operational aspects of Risktec MEM courses.
In 2008, he was promoted to the position of Training Support Manager of Risktec Singapore. In his new role, he was instrumental in setting up Risktec’s 2nd MEM training suite in Egypt, Cairo (a.k.a M&O Petrolift). In 2010, he led a project team and successfully attained OPITO approval for Major Emergency Management Initial Response (MEMIR) and for the assessment of OIM Controlling Emergencies, in Egypt. The Egypt Training Centre is the 1st training provider outside the UK to have attained OPITO MEMIR accreditation. In 2010, he took on the role of General Manager with Risktec Singapore to manage the company in a more holistic aspect.
In December of 2012, I.C.E.Man. Consultancy was founded to provide more comprehensive service to it's client. Further experience with the oil & gas industry has provided Ice with experience across all facets of the emergency response businesses, and he now brings his expertise and knowledge to the continual pursuit of providing the highest quality training and consultation to the customers of I.C.E.Man. Consultancy.
Brian R. Narbett
Senior Instructor
OPITO Certified Assessor
Brian Narbett first joined the oilfield as a commercial diver for Oceaneering in Australia having spent the initial 15 years of his working life in the British Royal Engineers. Directly from Oceaneering, Reading & Bates Drilling Corporation in Brunei took him on as a Barge Captain for the jack-up rig, Harvey H. Ward. He worked the next 9 years as a Barge Captain in Brunei, UK, Holland and Italy. In 1991 he was brought in to the HSE department as a rotating Safety & Training Coordinator. He remained in that role until 1997 when he was promoted to the Corporate HSE Manager and transferred to Houston. After the merge with Falcon, his title changed to HSE Manager, International Deepwater Division. After fours years in that position, in November 2000 he returned to a rotational role following the take over of R&B Falcon by Transocean Sedco Forex. He was re-located to Perth and continued in a rotational position as an Operational Safety Advisor (OSA) with HS&E Services. During that time he was very involved with emergency response in general and MEM in particular.
His main task at that time was to ensure a smooth and successful merge between TSF & RBF. He continued working as an OSA for the following 4 years until retiring from full time employment July 2004. Since then to date he has been mainly involved with Risktec as an instructor with their Transocean Major Emergency Management project. There has also been some work facilitating start up operations for Transocean and Woodside.
He then joined the Company QHSE group in 1991 as a rotating Safety and Training Coordinator until he was transferred in 1997 to Houston as Corporate HSE Manager, International Deepwater Division. During that time he worked in China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, India, USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Trinidad, Congo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon’s, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Italy, Greece, etc.
November 2000 he returned to Perth and following the takeover of Reading & Bates by Transocean and became an Operational Safety Advisor with Corporate QHS&E Services and conducted First Step Presentations (Three day training courses in the company’s Safety Management System) for the first half on 2001, and was then transferred to the Asia Australia Region in a similar capacity.
From 2001 through mid 2004 he continued to work within the Regional QHSE group until taking early retirement from Transocean and full time work to start a part time business as a training consultant in a variety of subjects, including Major Emergency Management.
From 2004 until the present time he has worked exclusively in the field of Major Emergency Management and have either fulfilled the role of Course Director or PIC Assessor. He has a Work Place Assessors Cert 4 certificate issued from TAFE, in Western Australia.
During the time he has been working in the MEM field and he has designed and written several new courses included those conducted on board new start up drilling rigs and also for the town based ER Team.
Anthony R. Pyne
MEM Consultant
Course Director
Tony Pyne, MA(Oxon), MPhil, by necessity was first acquainted with emergencies and the techniques needed to deal with them, during his 22 year career as a military and then civilian aicraft pilot. It was during this period that he also beecame a qualified professional instructor. He says, "You can survive emergencies with a little luck. I certainly did. If you want to grow old, however, you need to know what you are doing and why."
In 1995, Tony transferred his skills to studying and teaching Major Emergency Management in the petro-chemical industry. Since then, he has taught and designed offshore courses in the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea and Liverpool Bay, the Caspian Sea, the Arabian Gulf, the Red Sea and the South China Sea. In addition, he has conducted onshore courses in Texas, Louisiana, the UK, France, Baku, Abu Dhabi, Das Island, Cairo, Thailand and Australia.
He has also written a book, "The Management of Major Emergencies" (Trafford, 2004).
Bob Pollock
Emergency Response Consultant
D32/33 Assessor / D34 Verifier
Bob Pollock started as an apprentice marine engineer with BP in 1962. Attended Stow College , Glasgow and South Shields Marine College , OND in Marine Engineering. He worked for various UK shipping companies as a marine engineer until 1975. During this time passed Second and First Class ( Chief Engineer) certificates of competency after attending Glasgow College of Nautical Studies.
In 1975 Bob worked in various onshore jobs. He was a Chief Engineer in an nonferrous metal foundry and an Assistant Superintendent in a water treatment facility. 2 years later he started with Shell Expro North Sea holding the position of a Well Services controller for 3 years, he was promoted to Well Services Supervisor managing Well Services activities on two Brent Platforms During this period carried out an audit of Well Services activities in Sarawak. In 1982 he was transferred to production Operations in Shell Northern Fields. During this career he was promoted through Production Supervisor, Operations Supervisor to OIM before he left Shell in 1997 on voluntary severance.
1998 Bob was engaged as a Trainer and Assessor for Control Room Operator and OIM in emergency response and he was the company Internal Verifier for Control room operators for RGIT Montrose for 6 years. He also carried out onshore plant training and assessment, this includes work in BHP Algeria, Conoco Indonesia , Conoco Mablethorpe and Woodside Petroleum Australia. Concurrently he also carried out work for Chrysalis Learning Aberdeen, developing and presenting production operation courses, CBT (computer based training) and simulator developement (to engineering design standard) and training personnel in process operations prior to first oil on a major Elf / Total north sea platform.
2004 Bob joined Risktec Australia as an Offshore OIM and onshore Plant Manager emergency response Trainer and Assessor. He was tasked to work in Australia, Azerbaijan, Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. He was also tasked to develope and present Emergency Response Plans for an EPV (Early Production Vessel) and an Internal verifier for Risktec. Currently Bob is providing offshore and onshore plant training and Assessment in emergency response for Benchmark Training in Jakarta and a Trainer and Assessor for CRO and OIM emergency response and an Internal Verifier for Petrofac Training UK.
Angus Towns
HSE Consultant
D32/33 Assessor / V1 Verifier
Angus has over 35 years in the Oil and Gas industry covering a wide array of positions. Angus started offshore with a Drilling Contractor and held positions of Roustabout, Roughneck and Derrickman. He then moved to a major Oil Company and gained experience as a Deck Foreman, Production Operator, Permit Coordinator, Fire and Safety Officer, Health and Safety Team Leader and finally gained promotion to the position of Offshore Installation Manager (OIM).
After 25 years working offshore and having gained a wealth of experience in numerous roles. Angus set himself up as an independent safety consultant and since 2002 has trained, assessed and verified oil and gas personnel worldwide. His main focus has been assessing OIM's and Site Managers competency in Major Emergencies Management to OPITO Standard.
He has also been frequently involved in the training of major operators Incident Management Teams in dealing with major emergencies. Also at clients request he has delivered, permit to work, risk assessment, accident investigation and basic company specific safety courses.
Jonathan Kwok
Operation Manager
Instructor / Role Player / Simulation Technician
Jonathan experience in Major Emergency Management comes when he was enlisted in 1991 to serve with the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). During his service, his primary duty was a mechanical engineer on board the military vessels. His secondary duty was a member of the Emergency Response Team. He was trained in seamanship, firefighting, first aid and damage control. During his years with the Navy, he was involved with a few rescue and recovery missions for the RSN.
Jonathan joined ICEMan Consultancy In 2013 as an assistant course instructor and role player for Major Emergency Management courses and OIM Controlling Emergencies Assessment. In 2014 due to his diligent performance in the company, He was given the opportunity to conduct training courses as an instructor.
In July 2016 and 2017, He was in the team for the OIM and MEMIR OPITO site audit in PVD Training, Vung Tau. The team attained OPITO accreditation for OIM and MEMIR with PVD Training.
During this period, he has travelled across Middle East and South East Asia assisting and conducting Major Emergency Management courses; Emergency Response Procedure training and MEM Onshore Support training for our customers in oil & gas industry.
Carl Fitzgibbon
Emergency Management Consultant
TAA 40104 – Training and Assessment Qualification
Carl Fitzgibbon started his career in the Oil & Gas Industry as a Marine Engineering Officer on heavy crude carriers. From the Merchant Marine he moved to B.P. North Sea where he worked as Deck Foreman on the Sea Conquest before being transferred to the Forties Field where he moved into the area of Drilling Operations and the start-up of Forties Delta.
During his time with B.P. he also held a position as a Retained Fireman with Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service in the U.K.
Carl has gained over 10 year`s experience working in locations such as Singapore, Indonesia, India, Egypt, Vietnam, Thailand, Georgia and Australia as an Independent Trainer and Assessor, conducting Office, On-Shore and Off-Shore O.I.M. / P.I.C. - M.E.M. Training, Assessments, and Appraisals.
His client base includes Transocean, Shelf Drilling, B.P. Woodside Petroleum, PETRONAS, B.H.P. Origin Energy, Mobil and Hess. He was heavily involved for 5 years with Risktec in the PIC Training and Assessment programme for Transocean in Singapore.
Carl`s M.E.M. Training and Assessment experience covers both Semi-Submersible and Jack-Up Drilling Rigs, Drill Ships, Production Platforms, F.P.S.O.`s and On-shore Gas Processing Plants. Carl has also managed remote `on-site` simulated Major Oil Spill emergency exercises on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipe line in Georgia on behalf of B.P. / Rubicon.
He has also undertaken the compiling and writing of Technical, Training and Operating documentation for Oil and Gas Production and Process equipment, including Industrial Gas Turbines, Product Pumping Stations and Sub-Sea Well Control systems.
Carl has also held `On-Shore` Senior Managerial positions in high-speed, high volume manufacturing, both in the U.K. and Australia.
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