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About Us

Our Story

Diverse Experience

CHD Partners is committed to reduce crime and risk in organisations of all size.

CHD Partners has experience working with the large organisations such as Universities  providing security risk assessments and managing aggressive customer training to working with national security companies to meet there CM3 and Quality Management certifications to small entities including electricians and builders.

CHD Partners has worked closely with its clients and partners over the years to develop custom training and systems to meet clients ongoing and changing needs.

CHD Partners works on the premise of understanding legislation and standards to provide products and services that are sound, workable and appropriate to our clients.

See our case studies and testimonials for examples.

Our Mission

Outcomes Based

CHD Partners supports small to medium business owners developing safe systems of work and training to protect them from prosecution, disgruntled employees and unethical customers

Our Values

Everything we do in business is driven by our core values
Value each team members strengths and weaknesses
Listen to what the client needs
Integrity is more important then winning the job
Evidence based recommendations
It’s ok to ask for help No suggestion is a bad one
Innovation is the key to our success

Our Team

Diversity is Our Strength

Michael Huggett

Director

Michael worked for NSW Police for 15 years prior to becoming a Director of CHD Partners in 2005. In his time with NSW Police, Michael worked as a Youth Liaison Officer (working with many government agencies including Department of School Education), Education and Development Officer and a Licensing Coordinator. Michael has extensive experience with liquor licensing and crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) assessments.

Michael has worked on a number of crime and security risk assessments since joining CHD Partners including Hospitals, Schools, Rail Infrastructure, Licensed Venues and Universities.

Michael was responsible for informing the Department of Education’s Security Risk Management Framework and Hunter New England Local Area Health District Internal Security Toolkit.

Michael is the principle tutor for CHD Partners Registered Training Organisation including the facilitation of the Certificate IV and Diploma in Security and Risk Management. Michael has developed several training programs and procedures in managing Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing, Armed Robbery Preventing and Workplace Violence.

Kim Madden

Officer Manager And Accounts

Michael worked for NSW Police for 15 years prior to becoming a Director of CHD Partners in 2005. In his time with NSW Police, Michael worked as a Youth Liaison Officer (working with many government agencies including Department of School Education), Education and Development Officer and a Licensing Coordinator. Michael has extensive experience with liquor licensing and crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) assessments.

Michael has worked on a number of crime and security risk assessments since joining CHD Partners including Hospitals, Schools, Rail Infrastructure, Licensed Venues and Universities.

Michael was responsible for informing the Department of Education’s Security Risk Management Framework and Hunter New England Local Area Health District Internal Security Toolkit.

Michael is the principle tutor for CHD Partners Registered Training Organisation including the facilitation of the Certificate IV and Diploma in Security and Risk Management. Michael has developed several training programs and procedures in managing Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing, Armed Robbery Preventing and Workplace Violence.

Olivia Huggett

Systems Administration And Innovation

Olivia’s experience includes working with event based security organisations and understands crowd control and business systems.

Olivia has experience working on a number of security risk assessments and audits, including Hospitals and Universities.

Olivia is currently completing her double degree in Business / Innovation and Entrepreneurship and holds qualifications in Security Risk Management, Responsible Service of Alcohol and has a solid understanding of workplace security, safety systems and continuous improvement requirements.

Paul McGrath

Security And Compliance

Paul McGrath (Consultant) – Paul’s experience includes Regulatory Compliance Manager specialising in the storage and transport of Explosives and Security Sensitive Dangerous Substances in accordance with, Major Hazard Facility Security Management, Hazard Analysis, Risk Management and Emergency Management.

Security Risk Analysis and Management for static facilities, critical infrastructure, Major Hazard Facilities, road, air, maritime and rail transport operations. Conduct Security Risk Analysis for Major Hazard Facilities, compilation and submission of Security Plans and Emergency Plans compliant to NSW HIPAP standards, NSW and QLD MHF standards.

Security Manager specialising in High Consequence Dangerous Goods and Security Sensitive freight security in transit and at static facilities. Management and review of Security Plans ensuring compliance to the National Security Alert Level.

Matthew Clarkson

Legal And Compliance

Matthew is the principal lawyer and director of Clarkson Legal. A lawyer with over 20 years’ experience in the practice of law particularly in the areas of property and commercial transactions, taxation, construction law, licensing law, and wills and estates law.

Matthew is a Novocastrian, having grown up in Newcastle and living the greater part of his life there. His working life has been the epitome of the career of the later generations being a number of “careers” spread over a broad range of pursuits and employers including being an employee of a number of local firms, a sole practitioner in an incorporated legal practice, a co-director of an incorporated legal practice and recently returning to sole practice.

Throughout his legal career Matthew’s focus has been the law as it affects property, whether that be the buying, selling or leasing of land, the succession to property through wills and intestacy and the attendant disputes that often arise in business or out of property transactions and property ownership. Each dealing in property gives rise to some form of tax consequence and this ultimately led to Matthew undertaking a post-graduate degree in taxation, the Masters of Taxation through the University of NSW. Matthew now uses the knowledge acquired over the course of his legal career and his studies to pursue his client’s interests in disputes with the ATO in addition to advising in relation tax generally and on matters concerning superannuation.

Matthew also has experience in the various facets of construction law. He has been involved at the front end with contract negotiation and at the other end, has acted for a number of builders and developers in building disputes including claims under the Security of Payments regime, and prosecuting and defending claims under the Home Building Act 1989.

Liquor licensing is also an area in which Matthew regularly practices including assisting clients in the making of new applications of various kinds, advising in regard to the licensing issues, acting on the sale, purchase and lease of hotels, licence transfers and gaming machine regulation, licensing and transfer and the requirements of the Anti-money laundering regime.

James Soars

Operations And Systems

Prior to his time at CHD Partners, James has developed leadership and management skills through his experience as a Team Leader at Woolworths.

Currently, along with his role at CHD Partners, James is working as a Junior Project Manager while completing his degree in Construction Management. James Values the opportunity to build a diverse skill set across all phases of Project planning and delivery. James has worked on projects in the Building sector, gaining valuable experience in complex live environments with stringent safety and security considerations. He is developing his proficiency in stakeholder consultation and management, contract administration and on-site project development.

Here at CHD Partners, James is responsible for the management of project operations and client consultation. James oversees specific client requirements and manages project delegation. Through his experience in managing compliance, James monitors and maintains CHD Partners compliance obligations and where requested, the obligations of client documentation, providing updates where necessary.

James values the diverse experience provided by both the roles he is undertaking. Both the theoretical and practical experience exposed to James allows him to provide a holistic approach to client matters and an insight into construction industry requirements.

Case Studies

Case Study – Club Singleton
Client Club Singleton Deliverables Induction Training About The Project CHD partners (or CIRT) commenced working with Brett Burgess, the CEO from Club Singleton in 2014. Brett Burgess, the Clubs Chief…
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Case Study – Lemon Grove Hotel
Client Lemon Grove Hotel Deliverables Induction Reporting About The Project When Tony and Sandra Dart acquired The Lemon Grove Hotel and the 15 team members in 2013, they were keen…
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Case Study – Amos Air
Client Amos Air Deliverables Contract Compliance CM3 Certification About The Project Amos Air is a service-based company that specialise in preventative maintenance solutions for heating, ventilation and air capabilities. Terry…
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Testimonials

CIRT has saved me time looking for documents and working out what to do next. Having the CHD Team available to guide and assist me with changes and as a sounding board for problems is important and is very cost efficient

Tony Dart
Director

My experience with Michael is one of getting the job done. His knowledge of local council structures and ability to communicate information in an easy to understand format has been extremely beneficial in providing us with the required documentation quickly and efficiently

Cathy Handcock
Chief Executive Officer

Always great to catch up with CHD Partners at monthly site visits. Their knowledge of WHS and the ability to streamline processes make their service invaluable

David Jackson
Chief Executive Officer

I just wanted to email you and congratulate you on the upgrade and new functions within CIRT!

As you know, CIRT has given a small to medium size club with a lean staffing structure like Club Singleton a cost effective solution to comply with WHS legislation. As General Manager and understanding the needs of the Board, CIRT is giving us a good level of compliance within WHS allowing us the peace of mind that the Club is proactive in meeting the legislative requirement. The recent additions to CIRT incorporating the AML/CTF and HR functionality is a massive value add to the program.

Well done Mick, you really have a great program.

Brett Burgess
Chief Executive Officer

I just wanted to email you and congratulate you on the upgrade and new functions within CIRT!

As you know, CIRT has given a small to medium size club with a lean staffing structure like Club Singleton a cost effective solution to comply with WHS legislation. As General Manager and understanding the needs of the Board, CIRT is giving us a good level of compliance within WHS allowing us the peace of mind that the Club is proactive in meeting the legislative requirement. The recent additions to CIRT incorporating the AML/CTF and HR functionality is a massive value add to the program.

Well done Mick, you really have a great program.

Sheila Pandita
Learning and Development Facilitator