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Your Auditor | Matthew's Chain of Responsibility Experience & Approach
Meet Matthew, MAEZ's lead Chain of Responsibility auditor with 20+ years of supply chain senior management experience, former National Logistics Manager at CSR, and a recognised Australian authority on practical CoR compliance.
Daily fleet activity has to connect back to duties, controls, and review.
Due diligence means knowing whether the safety system is actually working.
Proof that freight promises do not create unsafe transport pressure.
Loading controls need evidence, not assumptions.
Consignors
Role-based Chain of Responsibility controls, evidence, and SMS expectations.
Consignees
Role-based Chain of Responsibility controls, evidence, and SMS expectations.
Loaders
Role-based Chain of Responsibility controls, evidence, and SMS expectations.
Managers
Role-based Chain of Responsibility controls, evidence, and SMS expectations.
Meet your auditor
Two decades of hands-on supply chain and CoR leadership
Matthew is MAEZ's lead Chain of Responsibility auditor, with over 20 years of supply chain senior management experience, including his role as former National Logistics Manager at CSR Monier. He is a recognised Australian authority on practical CoR compliance, combining deep operational knowledge with formal qualifications to help transport businesses build workable safety systems.
Matthew's career spans senior roles at Linfox, Harris Scarfe, CSR, and NEXT (UK), managing logistics portfolios worth millions and overseeing CoR and safety outcomes for large businesses. That operational depth shapes every audit and advisory engagement MAEZ delivers.
His qualifications include a Masters in Logistics, Exemplar certification, and a Cert IV in Training and Education — paired with years of hands-on corporate supply chain management. As Matthew puts it: "With an ever-increasing demand on professionals to know everything, I know this isn't possible." His approach is to be a trusted, practical advisor — not a theoretical one.
If you need a practical CoR risk review, Matthew works collaboratively with clients to tailor effective, safe, and compliant systems based on how the business actually operates.
What makes this advisor different?
Operational experience, not theory
There aren't many consultants working in Chain of Responsibility who can offer the same depth of practical, front-line experience. Matthew's expertise comes from years of operational management inside real transport and supply chain businesses — not from standing outside the industry looking in.
MAEZ was established to help businesses tackle Chain of Responsibility head-on. The combination of deep legal understanding and practical solutions is central to his approach.
Additional experience includes strategic planning, managing organisational change, and performance measurement — skills that help translate regulatory expectations into systems a business can realistically run day to day.
Track record at CSR
Building national compliance from the inside
While Manager of Logistics within CSR, Matthew established the direction and strategies for national Chain of Responsibility compliance — particularly the systems and reporting structures that CoR requires in today's framework.
Key achievements during his tenure:
- Led the design and development of the CoR/Safety education program
- Investigated multiple breaches and formulated strategies to mitigate future breaches
- Wrote policy on numerous CoR processes
- Oversaw technology to support sound CoR safety measures
- Worked alongside the National Corporate Safety Team on amendments to deliver Primary Duty reforms within CSR
He refocused CSR's philosophy toward cooperation and partnership to improve safety outcomes — aiming to understand human behaviour when investigating breaches rather than defaulting to blame.
How experience shapes the audit approach
Real-world understanding of legal, political, and business pressures
Having worked in and alongside enforcement agencies and industry alike, Matthew has a genuine understanding of the challenges faced when addressing the legal, political, and business expectations acting on the supply chain and transport industries.
His expertise comes from years of operational management, so he takes pride in recognising each client's unique challenges and devising strategies that address them specifically. Every engagement starts with understanding how the business actually runs — then identifying gaps, building controls, and proving the evidence.
This is the same approach that underpins MAEZ's CoR consulting: start with operational reality, then map the controls and evidence to the duties that apply.
Recognition and industry engagement
A respected Australian voice on Chain of Responsibility
Matthew is widely recognised as an Australian authority on Chain of Responsibility, having built a successful advisory business from humble beginnings over the last several years.
His industry standing includes:
- Presenting at national forums and seminars on practical CoR approaches, safety philosophies, and performance measurement
- Delivering a simple, genuinely practical leadership style to compliance and safety improvements across 50+ Australian businesses
- Regular engagement as a public speaker, workshop facilitator, and training program leader
This recognition reflects a career spent bridging the gap between regulatory expectations and what transport businesses can realistically implement day to day.
How this connects to MAEZ today
From advisory to evidence
MAEZ helps Australian businesses turn Chain of Responsibility, HVNL, WHS, transport safety, and chartered risk obligations into practical training, advisory, audit, and implementation pathways. Matthew's operational background means every engagement starts with understanding how the business actually runs — then identifying gaps, building controls, and proving the evidence.
Chain of Responsibility training is delivered through dedicated programs, while CoR consulting provides the risk review and advisory pathway.
If you'd like to discuss your compliance position directly, contact MAEZ for a practical review of the controls, evidence, training, and SMS gaps that matter most to your operation.
Operational message set
Find the gaps. Fix the system. Prove the controls.
MAEZ helps transport operators deal with the compliance risk they already know is there. We help get the Safety Management System in order, protect NHVAS accreditation, reduce fine exposure, and connect training, evidence, and CoRGuard workflows where software is needed.
Find
Identify what is exposed before an auditor or regulator does.
Fix
Build the SMS controls around how the transport business actually runs.
Prove
Use CoRGuard where records, reminders, diaries, audits, and evidence need structure.
Evidence path
From MAEZ advice to a working Safety Management System
Advisory work should leave a practical implementation trail. These examples show how CoRGuard supports records, fatigue and driver diary checks, maintenance, audits, document control, inductions, corrective actions, and evidence review after MAEZ identifies the gaps.
Training records
Connect training completion from cortraining.com.au to evidence and follow-up.
Driver diary checks
Connect fatigue and driver diary review back to manager visibility.
Corrective actions
Turn audit findings, hazards and incidents into tracked actions.
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Who is MAEZ's lead Chain of Responsibility auditor?
Matthew is MAEZ's lead CoR auditor, with over 20 years of supply chain senior management experience, including serving as former National Logistics Manager at CSR Monier with responsibility for a $20m budget and national CoR safety system management.
What qualifications does Matthew hold?
Matthew holds a Masters in Logistics, Exemplar certification, and a Cert IV in Training and Education, paired with years of hands-on corporate supply chain management at companies including Linfox, Harris Scarfe, CSR, and NEXT (UK).
How does Matthew's operational experience shape MAEZ audits?
Every engagement starts with understanding how the business actually runs, then identifying gaps, building controls, and proving evidence — an approach grounded in two decades of front-line supply chain management rather than theory.
What did Matthew achieve at CSR in relation to Chain of Responsibility?
Matthew established CSR's national CoR compliance direction, led the CoR/Safety education program, investigated breaches, wrote CoR policy, oversaw supporting technology, and worked with the National Corporate Safety Team on Primary Duty reforms.
How can I engage MAEZ for a CoR review of my business?
You can contact MAEZ for a practical review of the controls, evidence, training, and SMS gaps that matter most to your operation, or explore the CoR consulting and training pathways available on the site.