Cameron Cox

Safety Investigations | Expert Witness | Safety Consultant | Managing Director

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

About

Cameron Cox is Co-Managing Director of HCX Safety Group, specialising in incident investigations, expert witness services, and strategic safety advisory. He brings over 20 years of hands-on experience in safety leadership across Australia’s highest-risk sectors, including construction, rail, mining, tunnelling, utilities, and demolition. Cameron is regularly engaged on complex and high-profile matters, supporting organisations, government bodies, and leading law firms. His experience spans the full project lifecycle, having worked client-side, for contractors, and as a Principal Contractor, providing a well-rounded and practical perspective on WHS Management. His recent engagements include: JWS Lawyers – psychosocial workplace investigation (sensitive, high-profile) Clayton Utz – fatality response support, engineering and safety advisory, including regulator notice resolution HWL Ebsworth – investigations into multiple public fatalities at public venues and expert witness in a plant failure matter causing serious injury NSW Government Department – psychosocial risk guidance and directors’ due diligence briefings JWS Lawyers – investigations into two traffic-related incidents involving injury to workers and members of the public Clayton Utz – investigation into a complex engineering failure on a major construction project Tier 2 Constructor – development of critical risk frameworks, incident management uplift, and board-level reporting and assurance design Global Product Supplier – organisational gap analysis and action plan delivered under Legal Professional Privilege

Experience

  • Managing Director at HCX Safety Group
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    HCX are a group of trusted specialists in work health and safety across complex, safety-critical industries. HCX Safety Group specialise in three core areas: - Expert Witness - Serious Incident Investigations - Strategic WHS Advisory

  • Safety Director | Safety Consultant at Cox Safety Advisory
    Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Safety Consultant focussed on helping organisations develop strategies to reduce risk, improve organisational learning and engage front line teams. Additional services: - Expert witness reports - Safety Leadership training - Safety Strategy development - Coaching

  • Health And Safety Consultant - Canberra Light Rail - Stage 2 at ACT Government
    Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Safety Manager (contract) at HumanX HR
    Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Internal WHS support for the HumanX HR and WHS team, advising clients from various industries

  • Head of Health, Safety and Environment at Essential Energy
    Jan 2020 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Head of Health, Safety and Environment for Essential Energy, a state owned corporation that owns, operates and maintains the electrical network that supplies 95% of New South Wales and parts of Queensland. Key achievements: - Development and implementation of the Health and Safety Strategy - Development and implementation of a critical risk and control framework - Health and Safety Investigation improvements - Development of assurance and verification improvements including the 3 lines of defence model