Key Qualifications / Specialization:

     Pat Bolger is an environment, health and safety professional with 36 years of environmental, health and safety management experience in industry, government and consulting. 

     Pat has worked on projects in Canada, United States, Peru, Chile, India, Sweden, Austria, Portugal, Turkey, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Papua New Guinea and Australia. 

.  As a result of his global experience, spanning 6 continents, Pat has worked under a wide range of legal, social and political frameworks.  He has a valuable appreciation of different multicultural perspectives for resolving environment, health and safety issues.

     Pat has 19 years of environmental, health and safety experience working in the mining and power generation sectors.  This included roles of Environmental Effects Coordinator and Division Environmental Coordinator (Inco Limited), Corporate Safety, Health and Environment Director (Inmet Mining), and Division Manager of Impacts and Assessment (Ontario Power Generation – Nuclear). 

     During his 8 years working for the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Pat served as an Environmental Abatement Supervisor and Mine Rehabilitation Inspector.  He supervised enforcement officers in the investigation of hundreds of incidents and public complaints and participated in more than 200 environmental assessment and decommissioning projects.

     During the past 9 years as a consultant, Pat has been applying his extensive industry and government experience.  He supports organizations in managing a wide range of environment, health, and safety management issues.  Major focus areas include implementing governance processes and environment, health, safety management systems (OHSAS 18001 / ISO 14001), conducting audits, facilitating strategic / scenario planning sessions, implementing ecological and human health risk assessments and assisting multi-stakeholder teams with consensus building and conflict management.

     Pat has been active in the field of environmental education throughout his career. He taught an Environmental Management Course at Canadore College for three semesters.  Pat has served as an advisor on Canadore College’s environmental program advisory committees since 1985 and is currently the Chair of the Environmental Protection Program Advisory Committee.  He has also served as an advisor for environmental programs at Northern College, Sault College and the former Ministry of the Environment Brampton Training Centre.  He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, University of Western Ontario, Laurentian University, Fanshawe College and Humber College.  At the invitation of Environment Canada, Pat participated in a delegation that assisted the government of Chile in developing revisions to its mining and environment regulations.

     Pat has a Masters of Science Degree in Biology.  He is a Certified Environmental Auditor (Canadian Environmental Auditing Association - Registration Number 960023G) and has completed a Certificate Program in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation in Ottawa.