South Australian Health & Safety Symposium 2023

On behalf of the Australian Institute of Health & Safety (AIHS), we invite you to attend (or sponsor your employees to attend) SALUS 2023, the annual South Australian Work, Health and Safety Symposium.
This opportunity to share principles, perspectives and practical lessons will be insightful and helpful for a broad cross section of health and safety practitioners, professionals and leaders across government, private and non-for-profit sectors, as well as for lawyers, academics and many others.
The 2023 Symposium is an opportunity to: 

• Engage with leaders and your peers both formally and informally
• Learn, refresh and consolidate WHS competencies and skills
• Contribute to continuing professional development (CPD)
• Demonstrate that you remain at the cutting edge of WHS legislation, policy and practice
• Contribute to the improvement of Work Health and Safety in your workplace and throughout South Australia.

This year will feature two enhancements:

• We will have graduate student research posters in the registration and break area where you can discuss the latest WHS-related research being undertaken with the students who are doing it
• We will have three workshop streams to enable you to get hands-on practical engagement in the workshop stream of your choice. A summary of all three streams afterwards will ensure that no-one misses out.

For those who can, as a separate event after the Symposium, the SA Branch and Symposium drinks will be held alongside the Zoo animals and an annual Dinner will be held in the Sanctuary. 

Event details
Date: Friday 20 October 2023
Time: 10:00 -  17:00 (ACDT) 
Venue: Sanctuary conference facility, upstairs before the entrance Adelaide Zoo, 1 Plane Tree Drive, Adelaide 5000

Standard Rates:
AIHS Member (Symposium only) $250+GST
AIHS Member (Symposium & Dinner) $380+GST
Non-Member (Symposium only) $380+GST
Non-Member (Symposium& Dinner) $510+GST
Student ( Symposium only ) $170+GST
Student ( Symposium & Dinner) $282+GST

Dinner only
AIHS Member $150+GST
Non-Member $175+GST

If you are not a member of the AIHS we invite you to join us! Information on membership can be found here 

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PROGRAM 

About the AIHS SA Annual Drinks & Dinner

The Australian Institute of Health & Safety invites you to join us for the 2023 South Australian Annual Symposium and Branch Dinner which will be held on Friday 20, October from 5.00 pm to 9.30 pm.

The Annual Symposium and Branch Dinner is an excellent way to strengthen your WHS links with colleagues, peers, and industry professionals and listening to a highly experienced and fascinating guest speaker. It is open to Symposium attendees, SA Branch members and anyone who is passionate about improving WHS in SA.

This year's dinner speaker is Sherill Lepp from FAIHS BiORG Manager and Director at Hexagon Integrated Safety. Sherill will be speaking on Design & Human Factors in Defence projects.

Dinner Details

When: Friday, 20 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 21:30 with pre-dinner drinks from 17:00
Where: The Sanctuary, Adelaide Zoo, 1 Plane Tree Drive Adelaide

Drinks will be held in the immersion longhouse, the meeting point is the main zoo entrance and all guests will be escorted to the immersion longhouse.

Dinner only
AIHS Member $150+GST
Non-Member $175+GST

Your Speaker

Sherill Lepp, FAIHS, BiORG Manager and Director at Hexagon Integrated Safety.

Sherill is a highly skilled health, safety and risk management professional with nearly 40 years’ experience spanning local, state and federal levels, and across high-risk industry sectors such as Defence, mining, maritime and aviation. She was the first female “Factories and Shops” Inspector appointed in Western Australia with the Department of Industrial Relations (now WorkSafe WA) in 1985, a statutory member of the Construction Industry Safety Advisory Committee and proxy member of the Legislative Advisory Committee representing Western Australian employers 2011-2013; appointed as the first National OHS Advisor for the Australian Air Force Cadets from 2000 to 2005; deployed as a Defence Civilian Advisor to the Iraqi Secretary-General of the Iraqi Ministry of Defence from 2007-2008 for which she was awarded an Outstanding Civilian Service Medal and Citation by the US Department of the Army; led a significant project in 2010-2011 for the Office of the US Secretary of Defense to report on the downstream impacts on Middle East and other operational activities following the cancellation of the PaveHawk Helicopter Replacement Program; developed the California Shock Trauma Rescue (CALSTAR) Risk Management and Compliance Program and trained its Director of Operations to take on the role; Commissioned as an Intelligence Officer with the Royal Australian Navy Reserves in 2009; appointed as the WHS Advisor for Australian Border Force in 2015 before returning to the Defence sector in 2016 as a Future Systems Safety Advisor to 40+ Defence Projects. In 2018, Sherill relocated to Adelaide and took up the role of Systems Safety Manager for the P-8A Poseidon Project at RAAF Base Edinburgh followed by a Seaworthiness Manager role with the Future Submarine Program before “retiring” in Dec 2020. This did not deter Sherill from continuing to work as a safety consultant and her appointment as a member of the AIHS’s Mentoring Committee before being lured back to another full-time Defence Project in 2022 by her current employer – BiORG Pty Ltd. Currently Sherill is the Transition Manager for the Jindalee Over the Horizon Radar upgrade, a role that harnesses all her “cat herding” skills gained from her very diverse safety career.

Sherill has numerous qualifications under her belt including a Mini MBA in Project Management; Masters of Management of Defence Studies; Graduate Certificate in Maritime Studies; Associate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety; Diploma of Management and a Certificate 4 in Government Investigations.

On a personal level, Sherill is a mother of four, grandmother of seven and a great grandmother of four … and that’s excluding her current “children”, three rescue cats Mr Percival, Princess Grace and Lady Marmalade who rightly demand all her attention as their primary slave!

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