Pete spent thirty years in public hospitals in Australia working as an anaesthetic and recovery nurse.
His forays into industrial relations and occupational health and safety led him to believe that systemic stressors such as fatigue, production pressure, bullying and poor systems-of-work architectures were instrumental in eroding the safety culture in clinical practice.
In partnership with John Gibbs, he was instrumental in the development of 'Below Ten Thousand' as a clinician- led safety culture initiative.
In retirement from health care, he now lives as a writer and farmer on the north coast of New South Wales.