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Dr Vincent Ho
BSc (Hons), PhD, MBA, PE, RSO, CSP, RPE, CMILT Telford Plaza, Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong |
Dr. Vincent Ho is the Safety & Quality Manager of the China and International Business Division of MTR Corporation Limited. Dr. Ho is charging with a responsibility to ensure safety governance through the development and implementation of safety and quality policies, directions, standards, objectives, and related systems for the Divisions operation and growth business activities in the Mainland China and Overseas.
Previously, Dr. Ho was the Corporate Risk Manager of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, a government owned private company serving an annual ridership of 550 million. Acting as the Corporation’s head of safety at the corporate level, He developed and maintained the Corporation’s safety risk management system. Dr. Ho was in charge of Corporation-wide Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) practice in KCRC with responsibilities including setting corporate-wide OSH policies and procedures, overseeing employees’ compensation, work injury rehabilitation programme, and corporate-wide safety training programmes and seminars, and implementing response plan to avian influenza. Dr. Ho was the Corporation representative to HK Labour Department on OSH matters. Dr. Ho also served as in-house expert on safety management, risk assessment, enterprise risk management, and system safety. Dr. Ho established the System Safety Section and developed documentations for the railway extension projects to manage system assurance issues.
Prior to joining KCRC, Dr. Ho had been a consultant specializing in risk assessment and management for the transportation industry, nuclear and chemical weapons, nuclear power plants, and various complex engineering systems.
Dr. Ho’s areas of expertise include safety and risk management, corporate/enterprise risk management, fire risk analysis, decision analysis, occupational safety & health, organization behaviour analysis, system hazard analysis, security risk assessment, business process risk assessment and management, human action analysis, accident data analysis, environmental risk assessment, and cost/risk/benefit analysis.
Dr. Ho received his BS,
MS, PhD and MBA from UCLA. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (HK, USA),
a Certified Safety Professional (USA), a Registered Safety Officer (HK),
and a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
Hong Kong Institution
of Engineers (HKIE)
Hong Kong Occupational Safety & Health Association
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)
Chartered Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
Hong Kong Association of Risk Management & Safety (HKARMS)
Society for Registered Safety Officers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
National Fire Protection Association
Society for Risk Analysis
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES/PUBLIC POSTS :
Chairman, Hong Kong Association
of Risk Management & Safety, 2004-present
President, International Association of Probabilistic Safety Assessment and
Management, 2008-2010
Chairman, Organising Committee, HKIE-SSC Conference on Disasters: Preparedness,
Response and Recovery, 2008
Chairman, IOSH, Hong Kong, 2007-2008
Chairman, Joint Utilities Safety & Occupational Health Policy Group, 2006-2007
Chairman, the 9th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment
and Management, 2008
Chairman, Safety Discipline Task Force, HKIE Safety Specialist Committee,
2006-2008
Chairman, Safety Specialist Committee, HKIE, 2005-2006
Chairman, Construction Industry Safety and Health Committee, Hong Kong Occupational
Safety & Health Council (OSHC), 2004-2007
Chairman, 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Risk Management and Safety, December
2005
HKIE Mechanical, Marine, Naval Architecture and Chemical Engineering Division
Committee, 2006-present
Hon. Treasurer, IOSH, Hong Kong, 2004-2006
Appeal Board Panel of the Amusement Rides (Safety) Ordinance, The HK Government
SAR, 2008-2011
HK-China Cross Border Boundary Control Point (Lo Wu) Anti-Terrorist/CBRN Security
Sub-Committee, 2004-2007t
APTA Security Risk Management Standards Working Group, 2007-present
Transport Policy Committee, CILT, 2004-present
Professional Activities Committee, CILT, 2006 -2008
Subject Specialist (Electrical & Mechanical Services and Occupational
Safety & Health), Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation, 2006 to
2009
School Ambassador, HKIE, 2005-present
Risk Management Committee, American Public Transportation Association, 2007-2008
Electrical and Mechanical Services Training Board, Vocational Training Council,
2004-present
Working Subgroup-Engineering Works on Railway, Industry Training Advisory
Committee for the Electrical and Mechanical Services Industry, Education and
Manpower Bureau, HKSAR, 2006 - present
OHSAS 18001 Technical Committee, Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency, 2004-present
Dissertation Tutor, MSc, B Eng (Hons) Fire Engineering, City University of
Hong Kong, 2006-present
Validation Panel, BSc (Hons) in Environmental, and Occupational Safety and
Health, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2004
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology, 2005-present
Safety and Risk Management Course Board, HK Institute of Vocational Education
(Morrison Hill), 2004-2008
Continuous Professional Development Committee, HKIE, 2002-present
Technical Advisory Panel, International Conference on Tunnel Fires, 2002-present
Technical Reviewer, International Journal of Reliability Engineering and System
Safety, 1995- present
Vice Chairman, Nuclear Division, HKIE, 2004-2006
Judge Panel, Utilities Protection and Work Safety in Road Excavation Competition,
2006
Judge Panel, OSHC Construction Industry Safety Award, 2004-2006
Chairman, Joint HKIE-SSC/IOSH Seminar on Enterprise Risk Management, 2006
Chairman, Joint HKIE-SSC/IOSH Seminar on System Safety, 2004
Chairman, HKIE-SSC Seminar on Engineering Aspects of Terrorism Defence, 2003
Director, International Association of Probabilistic Safety Assessment and
Management, 2004-2008
Session Chair, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Probabilistic
Safety Assessment and Management, 1989-present
Presidents, Southern California Society for Risk Analysis, 1997-1998
Hon. Treasurer, Southern California Society for Risk Analysis, 1992-1997
Police Reserve Officer, Pasadena Police Department, 1989-1999
PUBLICATIONS:
Dr. Ho has authored over 100 conference, journal, technical and seminar papers on safety analysis, risk analysis, fire analysis, flood analysis, hazard analysis, and human action analysis.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
• IOSH Presidents’
Distinguished Service Award, 2005 and 2008
• Best Research Paper, the 15th International System Safety Conference,
Washington, D.C., August 1997.
• High-Five Award, Booz•Allen & Hamilton Inc.
• Police Reserve Officer of the Year, Los Angeles County, 1995
• Police Reserve Officer of the Year Distinguished Employee Award, City
of Pasadena, 1995
• Chief's Annual Award, Pasadena Police Department, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994, and 1996
• Graduate Student Fellowship, UCLA Anderson School of Management
• Outstanding Achievement Award, High Achiever Award, The Ralph M. Parsons
Company
• Graduate Fellowship, UCLA
• Departmental Scholar, UCLA
• Dean’s List, UCLA
• Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honour Society
• Southern California Edison Fellowship
• Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), Fellowship
• Chevron Scholarship
• L.M.K. Boelter Scholarship, UCLA
• UCLA Alumni Association, Certificate of Merit
• Chancellor’s Award, UCLA