Tim Cousins & Associates Pty Ltd provides Engineering Systems Failure Analysis and Disaster Recovery Consulting Services primarily in the insurance industry. The work is principally divided into three different but complimentary streams.

• The first stream, Engineering Systems Failure Analysis, involves technical investigations into the cause of failures within Engineering Systems principally involving electrical, electronic and computer systems. Some of these failures develop into fires.
• The second stream involves the Recovery of Organisations following an incident, crisis or disaster. This second stream is further divided into two categories: 

a) to establish the resultant nature and extent of damage; and 

b) to provide consulting assistance with the management of cost effective repairs and recoveries.

• The third and latest stream, Risk Management for Medical Research is a specialty service using his failure analysis and disaster recovery experience as a practical base.

Tim Cousins & Associates Pty Ltd work with specialist engineers and chemists over a wide range of engineering systems primarily involving electrical, electronic and computer equipment. The type of system extends from simple computer systems through process control systems to robotics, telecommunications systems, data centres and power stations. Last year he conducted failure investigations and technical audits in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam in conjunction with managing chemical testing / investigations in Singapore and Japan.

On average, Mr Cousins attends 2 disaster per week. He has done so fairly consistently since the early 1990s amounting to something in the order of 1,500 different disaster in tootal . More recently, in 2005, he conducted failure investigations and technical audits in the USA, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam in conjunction with the remote management of chemical testing / investigations in Singapore and Japan.

In dollar terms our revenue profile is approximately 30% from Insurers, 30% from Loss Adjusters, 30% from the Insured and 10% from Lawyers.