History
With a 70-year history and recently known as the Australian Institute of Health & Safety (AIHS), the origins of the 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.
Annual Reports & Strategic Plan
AIHS Presidents/Chairs since 1976
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Naomi Kemp (COHSProf) 2019 - Current |
David Skegg (Life Member) 2002 - 2005 |
Frank Davis 1985 - 1986 |
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Patrick Murphy (FAIHS - ChOHSP) 2013 - 2019 |
Geoff Dell (Life Member) 1996 - 2002 |
Laurie Mason 1983 - 1985 |
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Malcolm Burgin (FAIHS - ChOHSP) 2012 - 2013 |
Gill Ross (FAIHS) 1994 - 1996 |
Lyle Leibhardt 1979 - 1983 |
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Sue Pilkington (FAIHS - ChOHSP) 2010 - 2012 |
Brian Emerson (FAIHS) 1992 - 1994 |
Ron Moulds 1977 - 1979 |
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Barry Silburn (Life Member) 2008 - 2010 |
Ivon Northage 1991 - 1992 |
K. Isbester 1976 - 1977 |
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Geoff Dell (Life Member) 2007 - 2008 |
Gary Knobel 1987 - 1991 |
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Phil Lovelock (Life Member) 2005 - 2006 |
Bill Lessels 1986 - 1987 |
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Life Members
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Gill (Donald) Ross FAIHS |
Sheryl Dell FAIHS |
Ern Millard
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Barry Silburn FAIHS |
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Neville Betts FAIHS |
Neil Dine FAIHS |
John Moroney FAIHS |
David Skegg FAIHS |
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Stephen Brindley
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Patrick Doherty
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Patrick Murphy (WA) FAIHS |
Robert Tacy
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Fred Catlin
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Roger Fairfax
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Peter Nuzum FAIHS |
Geoffrey Taylor FAIHS |
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Gary Chaplin FAIHS |
Terry Farr FAIHS |
Allan Pearce
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Jim Toshach FAIHS |
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Cipriano Corva FAIHS |
Geoffrey Hitchings FAIHS |
Glyn Williams FAIHS |
Frank Davis FAIHS |
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Les Jackson
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Ralph Willson FAIHS |
Dr Geoffrey Dell FAIHS |
Trevor Love FAIHS |
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Philip Lovelock FAIHS |
John Kirwan FAIHS |
Dr Margaret Cook FAIHS |
David Randall FAIHS |
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Ted Leeson |
A/Prof Janis Jansz FAIHS |
Patrick Lawrence FAIHS |
Karen Wolfe FAIHS |
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David Segrott FAIHS |
Andrew Hopkins FAIHS |
Pam Pryor FAIHS |
Mike Capra FAIHS |
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Leo Ruschena FAIHS |
Kym Bills FAIHS |
Honorary Fellows
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Michael Chan |
Niki Ellis |
Trevor Jensen |
Jocelyn Plovits |
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Alan Clayton |
Dennis Else |
Sylvia Kidziak |
Don Schofield |
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Michael Costello |
Brian Gibson |
Gary Lawson-Smith |
Rob Seljak |
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Jean Cross |
Grace Grace |
Frederick Randall |
Barry Sherriff |
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John McDonald |
Donald Hector |
John Merritt |
Derek Viner |
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Martin Dolan |
Julie Honore |
Michele Patterson |
John Watson |
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Andrew Douglas |
Lois Hutchinson | Professor Drew Dawson | Robin Stewart-Crompton |
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Professor Jan Hayes |
Emeritus Professor Andrew Hale | Emeritus Professor Patrick Hudson |
Harold Greenwood Thomas Award and Lifetime Achievement Award
| Pam Pryor (Harold Greenwood Thomas Award - 2003) | Neville Betts (Harold Greenwood Thomas Award - 2005) | Dr Geoff Dell (Harold Greenwood Thomas Award - 2011) |
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Geoffrey MCDonald (Lifetime Achievement Award 2015) |
Ciaran MacCarron (Lifetime Achievement Award 2016) | Leo Ruschena (Lifetime Achievement Award 2017) |
| Michael Tooma (Lifetime Achievement Award 2018) | From 2019, the HGT and and lifetime achievement awards were combined: | |
| Professor Mike Capra (Harold Greenwood Thomas Llifetime Achievement Award - 2019) | Professor Andrew Hopkins (Harold Greenwood Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award - 2020) | Dennis Else (Harold Greenwood Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award - 2021) |
| Professor Patrick Hudson (Harold Greenwood Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award - 2022) |