Fire safety at caravan parks

Matt is the Specialist Risk and Fire Safety Manager for the Country Fire Authority. Matt has 30 years’ experience within CFA and 17 of those years’ working within the built, land use planning and renewable energy environments. Matt manages the Unit that has the responsibility for reviewing and responding to planning application that involved renewable energy facilities. Matt’s knowledge of this industry has grown in the past few years and has become one of CFA’s subject matter experts in this field.

Matt formed a part of the investigation team that investigated the incident at the Victorian Big Battery in July 2021 and is part of the team that wrote and published the CFA’s Renewable Energy Guideline, which have received National and International recognition. Matt is a delegate of the CFA Chief Fire Officer for the building legislation and a CFA Board Delegate under the dangerous goods and the occupational health and safety legislative frameworks.