Teksal Safety, in partnership with Brady Australia and Dropsafe, is excited to be sponsoring: STOP! Shutdowns, Turnarounds & Outages for Plants 2026 in Perth from 15-17 June.
Presented by Marcus Evans Group, the 17th annual conference brings together industry leaders, experts, and professionals to discuss effective planning and execution techniques to help reduce downtime, minimise budget overruns, and avoid costly schedule delays, directly impacting profitability.
This year’s theme, “Ensuring shutdown success through best practices in efficiency, scheduling, budgeting, and contractor management”, is focused on minimising downtime and maximising efficiency.
What to expect?
- Learn proven techniques, best practices, and new strategies for all phases of STO management, from initial planning to execution and post-event analysis:
- Scope management
- Risk assessment
- Cost control
- Sheduling
- Safe start-up procedures.
Speakers include:
- Karina Machado, SAP Integration Specialist, Leading Mining Company
- Craig Smith, Principal Mechanical Engineer, Arrow Energy
- Rodney Kitchen, Turbine & Coal Plant Maintenance Superintendent, AGL Energy
- Stephen Legge, Unit Manager – Assets and Planning, Central Coast NSW
- Jack Zagar, Maintenance Expert, Formerly of Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter
- Dylan Cummins, Outages Manager, Snowy Hydro
- Raymond Stewart, Maintenance Manager, Auckland One Rail
- Mark Wall, Head of Marketing & Innovation, SFI Australia
- Luke Reddy, Business Unit Manager – Rental & Safety Services, Draeger
- Ron Bettin, President and Principal Consultant, Adduco Inc.
- John Bowie, Managing Director, Palm Crest Consulting
- Frank Engli, Regional Group Lead – Canada, Reliability, Maintenance and Turnarounds, Becht
- Daniel Rivera, Managing Director, Lead Asset Management
- Fabricio Barros, Subject Matter Expert, Leading Australian Mining Company
- Mweemba Ng’andu, Asset Management Director, Lead Asset Management
- Manjunath Rn, Shutdown Planning and Control Specialist, Leading Mining Company
Key sessions include:
- Ensuring Disciplined Shutdown Adherence Through Consistent Organisational Processes From Start to Finish – Snowy Hydro
- Transitioning Safely From Production Through Robust Ramp-Down and Isolation Procedures Before Maintenance – AGL (Loy Yang Generation)
- Applying Structured Post-Shutdown Reviews and Embedding Continuous Lessons-Learned Improvement Cycles – Central Coast NSW
- Reducing Start-Up Delays by Allocating Sufficient Planning Resources for Plant Recommissioning Activities – Leading Mining Company
- Integrating Capital Works into Planned Shutdowns: Strategies for Success – Becht
Our shutdown expertise
Teksal Safety works with its global channel partners to help our clients protect their operations and maintenance personnel, plant and process during shutdowns.
Our shutdown solutions include dropped object prevention, hazard identification, energy isolation, safe and efficient valve operation, toxic and flammable gas detection, and general safety solutions.
For more information or to register, visit: https://www.marcusevans.com/conferences/shutdownsaus.
