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History and Honour Roll
Our History
With a 75-year history, the origins AIHS belong to a small group of students who enrolled in and attended the first industrial Safety and Accident Prevention course conducted by the (then) Melbourne Technical College in 1948, at the site of what today is RMIT, on Kulin Nation land. This group remained together and formed the nucleus of the Safety Engineering Society of Australia and held regular monthly meetings.
Membership of the society expanded steadily and reached the stage where every State had formed a division. With time, it became apparent that the term “Safety Engineering” in the society’s name had an implied bias and emphasised only one of the many disciplines associated with the effective control of accidents, injuries and diseases. As a result, the Safety Institute of Australia (SIA) was incorporated in 1977 with a new constitution and members of the society became members of the new SIA.
AIHS has a long and proud history of working with regulators, employers, unions and government departments in the pursuit of more effective health and safety policy, regulation and in particular, practice. Today across Australia, the AIHS has thousands of members and partnerships with many companies who share our vision of safe and healthy workers in productive workplaces and communities.
AIHS Presidents/Chairs since 1976
Cameron Montgomery: 2023 - Current
Naomi Kemp (COHSProf): 2019 - 2023
Patrick Murphy (FAIHS - ChOHSP): 2013 - 2019
Malcolm Burgin (FAIHS - ChOHSP): 2012 - 2013
Sue Pilkington (FAIHS - ChOHSP): 2010 - 2012
Barry Silburn (Life Member): 2008 - 2010
Geoff Dell (Life Member): 2007 - 2008
Phil Lovelock (Life Member): 2005 - 2006
David Skegg (Life Member): 2002 - 2005
Geoff Dell (Life Member): 1996 - 2002
Gill Ross (FAIHS): 1994 - 1996
Brian Emerson (FAIHS): 1992 - 1994
Ivon Northage: 1991 - 1992
Gary Knobel: 1987 - 1991
Bill Lessels: 1986 - 1987
Frank Davis: 1985 - 1986
Laurie Mason: 1983 - 1985
Lyle Leibhardt: 1979 - 1983
Ron Moulds: 1977 - 1979
K. Isbester: 1976 - 1977
Life Members
Betts, Neville (FAIHS)
Bills, Kym (FAIHS)
Brindley, Stephen
Capra, Mike (FAIHS)
Chaplin, Gary (FAIHS)
Cook, Dr Margaret (FAIHS)
Corva, Cipriano (FAIHS)
Dell, Dr Geoffrey (FAIHS)
Dell, Sheryl (FAIHS)
Dine, Neil (FAIHS)
Doherty, Patrick
Fairfax, Roger
Farr, Terry (FAIHS)
Frank, Davis (FAIHS)
Fred, Catlin
Hitchings, Geoffrey (FAIHS)
Hopkins, Andrew (FAIHS)
Jackson, Les
Jansz, A/Prof Janis (FAIHS)
Johnstone, Kelly (FAIHS)
Kirwan, John (FAIHS)
Lawrence, Patrick (FAIHS)
Leeson, Ted
Love, Trevor (FAIHS)
Lovelock, Philip (FAIHS)
Millard, Ern
Mitchell, Tony (FAIHS)
Moroney, John (FAIHS)
Murphy (QLD), Patrick (FAIHS)
Murphy (WA), Patrick (FAIHS)
Nuzum, Peter (FAIHS)
Pearce, Allan
Pryor, Pam (FAIHS)
Randall, David (FAIHS)
Ruschena, Leo (FAIHS)
Segrott, David (FAIHS)
Silburn, Barry (FAIHS)
Skegg, David (FAIHS)
Tacy, Robert
Taylor, Geoffrey (FAIHS)
Tepe, Susanne
Toshach, Jim (FAIHS)
Williams, Glyn (FAIHS)
Willson, Ralph (FAIHS)
Wolfe, Karen (FAIHS)
Honorary Fellows
Chan, Michael
Clayton, Alan
Costello, Michael
Cross, Jean
Dawson, Professor Drew
Dolan, Martin
Douglas, Andrew
Ellis, Niki
Else, Dennis
Gibson, Brian
Grace, Grace
Hale, Emeritus Professor Andrew
Hayes, Professor Jan
Hector, Donald
Honore, Julie
Hudson, Emeritus Professor Patrick
Hutchinson, Lois
Jensen, Trevor
Kidziak, Sylvia
Lawson-Smith, Gary
McDonald, John
Merritt, John
Patterson, Michele
Plovits, Jocelyn
Randall, Frederick
Schofield, Don
Seljak, Rob
Sherriff, Barry
Stewart-Crompton, Robin
Vallance, Deborah
Viner, Derek
Watson, John
Harold Greenwood Thomas Award and Lifetime Achievement Award
From 2019 onwards, the HGT and and Lifetime Achievement Awards were combined
Professor Patrick Hudson (Harold Greenwood Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award - 2022)
Dennis Else (Harold Greenwood Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award - 2021)
Professor Andrew Hopkins (Harold Greenwood Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award - 2020)
Professor Mike Capra (Harold Greenwood Thomas Llifetime Achievement Award - 2019)
Michael Tooma (Lifetime Achievement Award 2018)
Leo Ruschena (Lifetime Achievement Award 2017)
Ciaran MacCarron (Lifetime Achievement Award 2016)
Geoffrey MCDonald (Lifetime Achievement Award 2015)
Dr Geoff Dell (Harold Greenwood Thomas Award - 2011)
Neville Betts (Harold Greenwood Thomas Award - 2005)
Pam Pryor (Harold Greenwood Thomas Award - 2003)
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