Ramsina Lee has been working in the people side of businesses for over twenty years. She maintains that people are not ‘resources’. People are human beings whose lives, safety and welfare are sacred and matter, and should be revered.
She attained her Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Industrial Relations and Sociology at the University of New South Wales before commencing her career, which includes serving on boards, tripartite councils and committees, as well as executive leadership teams across the private and public sectors, the unions and not-for-profit. She has contributed enormously to many organizations, with her wealth of knowledge in all aspects of employee relations including leading the strategies for industrial relations, employee engagement, work health & safety and the broad range of people related services.
Ramsina believes that the measure to which society can progress, grow and prosper is the measure by which it respects the fundamental human rights of people to perform work that is safe in safe workplaces and their right to belong and associate.
Ramsina Lee has written Workers’ Inferno which is based on events which took place at an Esso operation (a subsidiary of Exxon Corporation) at Longford, Victoria Australia.
Fifteen employees were working at the Esso gas production and processing plant, when a gas plant ruptured and exploded, killing two of the workers and physically injuring eight others. The initial explosion caused numerous other explosions and fires, which took two days to extinguish. Through a proclamation by the State Governor all gas supply, except for critical areas of the state, was shut-off. The Governor of the State of Victoria established the Longford Royal Commission to investigate the causes of the explosion and fire.
Ramsina Lee started the My Life Matters Movement to reverse this.