Fred Salome     Carol Bodle     Dr David Stitt     Robert Sutcliffe     Bill McEwan     Don Bartlett

Fred Salome
Director - Head Office

Fred Salome holds a B.Sc. with Honours in Organic Chemistry from Sydney University, and has 30 years experience in the corrosion industry.  He is an ACA Corrosion Technologist and a NACE Certified Coatings Inspector.

Fred is a founding director of CTI Consultants Pty Ltd, and has prior experience as a chemist working with heavy duty coatings with a number of major paint manufacturers.  Fred now consults to the protective coatings industry, acting as specifier, inspector and in failure diagnosis.  He is also actively involved in the assessment and protection of concrete structures, in corrosion issues in general and, through his work in lead paint management, in Occupational Health and Safety.

Fred has been actively involved in lead paint management since 1991 and has published a number of articles on the subject. He has completed training as a Competent Person/Supervisor for de-leading work under a US OSHA and US EPA accredited training program run by the SSPC. Since 1994 Fred has been running training courses on lead paint management, and he is a member of Standards Australia Committee MT/14/2, and of Subcommittee CH/3/11, “Lead paint management”.

Fred has been a regular speaker at ACA conferences and seminars since 1986, has been presenting courses in lead paint management since 1996 and is a approved by ACA and NCAE International as a lecturer for the NACE Coating Inspection Program courses.  He has been secretary and president of the ACA Protective Coatings Group as well as the NSW Branch of the ACA, is an ACA Councillor for NSW and is a Director of BCCA-Australia Ltd, whom he represents on a number of Standards committees.

Carol Bodle
Director - Head Office

Carol Bodle holds an Honours degree in Medical Science, a Masters Degree in Applied Science (Occupational Health and Safety), and a Graduate Diploma of Occupational Hygiene from Deakin University. Her Masters thesis topic was “Exposure Monitoring in the Abrasive Blast Cleaning and Protective Coating Industry: 2 Case Studies”.

Carol is an Occupational Hygienist and is involved in carrying out monitoring, performing risk assessments and providing safety training for workers exposed to hazardous substances. She is also actively involved in carrying out assessments for lead hazards in both residential and industrial settings.

Dr David Stitt
Senior Consultant - Head Office

Robert Sutcliffe
Coating Inspector - Head Office

Robert Sutcliffe is an experienced field technician and inspector who joined CTI in 1991. He has prior experience as a laboratory technician in the paint industry, and as a supervisor for a coatings applicator.  He also has develop a high level of skill in Auto-Cad and other related software.

Robert has been involved in the majority of CTI's assessments of concrete and steel structures, acting as site manager with responsibility for co-ordinating all on-site activities, the operation of field equipment and completing all sampling and test plans.  He has tickets for confined space entry, operation of EWP's and for operating fork-lift trucks, as well as a NSW Workcover Construction Industry Green Card.

In 2002, Robert was recognised by NACE-International as a Certified Coating Inspector, which has allowed him to combine his practical knowledge of coatings and application with the formal requirements of QA and third party inspection.  Robert is also qualified in lead paint management.

Bill McEwan
Associate - SE Regional Australia

Bill McEwan  is a qualified Chemist and Metallurgist and has had 40 years experience in corrosion engineering, failure analysis of metals, welding metallurgy, NDT and protective coatings. He began his career in Melbourne in the Corrosion and Paint Section of the MMBW Research Laboratory before joining the Engineering and Scientific Services Department of the Hydro Electric Commission of Tasmania in 1969. Bill held various positions in the Engineering and Scientific services Department before becoming Scientist in Charge of the whole department in 1990. When the Department was closed in 1995 Bill joined CTI Consultants Pty Ltd.

Bill is an honorary Life Member of the ACA and has been a member of several AS/NZS committees on protective coatings as well as a NATA Assessor of paint laboratories. He has worked overseas on several projects and has presented many technical papers on corrosion, protective coatings and welding.

Don Bartlett
Manager - Victorian Office

Don Bartlett is a qualified chemical engineer, chemist and corrosion technologist with over 40 years in the power, water supply and construction industries. His expertise centres on the appraisal, selection and investigation of a diverse range of building materials, notably in the fields of paint, plastics and elastomers technology and corrosion mitigation.

Don chairs Standards Australia Committee CH/3 "Paints" and its sub-committee CH/3/8 "Painting of Buildings". He is also a member of CH/3/11 "Lead Paint Management" and MT/14/2. He is former Chairman and a current member of NATA's Surface Coatings Technical Group and Australia's contributing editor to the US Journal of Protective Coatings and Linings. He was formerly Executive Officer and Technical Chairman of the Commonwealth Government's Australian Paint Approval Scheme. He has worked, published and lectured widely, notably in China.