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The Australian Institute of Health and Safety ( AIHS ; previously known as the Safety Institute of Australia , SIA ) is Australia's peak body for the occupational health and safety profession. Established more than 75 years ago, the Institute has a membership of over 4,000 individuals and more than 50 corporate members. In many cases, members are actively working in the field of OHS as health and safety representatives, or OHS practitioners or professionals. Other members simply have an interest in health and safety in the workplace.

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27-472: AIHS may refer to: Australian Institute of Health and Safety Melbourne, Australia Ace Institute of Health Sciences , Pakistan American Irish Historical Society Australian International Hotel School , Canberra, Australia International Academy of the History of Science (French: Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences ) Topics referred to by

54-410: A variety of professionals with an interest in the science of safety and injury prevention. Since that time, the institute has run nearly 100 state and national conferences and continues to provide an active conference program including state and territory events and a national annual safety convention, which brings together the wider health and safety community. During the period 1958 to the present day,

81-462: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Australian Institute of Health and Safety The SIA was founded by a small group of students who enrolled in and attended the first industrial safety and accident prevention course conducted by Melbourne Technical College in 1948. Graduates from this course were awarded a Certificate of Industrial Safety and Accident Prevention . After completing

108-760: The Australian OHS Education Accreditation Board (AOHSEAB) continues this work. Through its early decades, the SIA ran many events and conferences for its Members. In September 1987, this accelerated when the institute joined with the International Commission on Occupational Health and ran the 22nd International Congress on Occupational Health in Sydney, Australia, titled "Work for Health". The program offered 288 oral presentations and 178 poster presentations, selected from 760 abstracts submitted by

135-598: The International Organization for Standardization and the European Committee for Standardization . Today, the AIHS has representatives on 15 standards committees. The AIHS also has a long history in working with regulators, employers, unions and government departments in the pursuit of more effective health and safety policy and regulation. Over the decades, branches of the AIHS have often had very strong links to

162-581: The Ballarat College of Advanced Education (Ballarat CAE) was formed with the merger of the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education (1967) with the State College of Victoria, Ballarat—that began as Ballarat Teachers' College in 1926. The Dawkins Revolution of the late 1980s saw a merger of large metropolitan colleges of advanced education with universities, and although the college struggled with

189-891: The Ballarat School of Mines and Industries (1870) and the Horsham-based Wimmera Institute of TAFE merged into the university, expanding its curriculum. The university's English and Academic Preparation (EAP) prepared international students for a university education in Australia and improved student's ability to read, write, speak, and listen to the English language. The Ballarat had five campuses, and it offered traditional university programs, including business, information technology, building and construction, engineering, mining, education, social sciences, nursing, hospitality, and art. In addition to traditional classroom learning,

216-586: The School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat (SMB) in 1976. Several entities merged or had arrangements with SMB. In 1994, a memo of understanding (MOU) was signed between SMB and the Ararat Technical School, which was founded in 1969. Then, in 1998, SMB and the Horsham-based Wimmera Institute of TAFE (1984), dating back to 1882, merged into the University of Ballarat to create a larger University. In 1976,

243-475: The aided in their ability to get a job. The university merged with Monash University 's Gippsland (Churchill) campus in 2013, and the merged schools are now the Federation University Australia . The name change was made as the result of the passage of the amended University of Ballarat Act 2010 bill through the state's parliament . Its name no longer carries the name of Ballarat because

270-455: The board of BUC why, if Southern Cross University was allowed to separate from the University of New England by becoming a university in its own right, Ballarat should not be allowed to do the same. The Federal Government was lobbied and responded by sending three Vice-Chancellors (one of them, incidentally, being from the University of New England) to Ballarat to consider the matter. The result

297-599: The course, the group of students collaborated to form the nucleus of the Safety Engineering Society of Australia , and held regular monthly meetings. The founding members of what was then known as the Safety Engineering Society of Australia included Eric Warburton (the first President), Chris Allan (the first Secretary), Eugene Falk (Secretary), Harold Greenwood-Thomas, Bill Reid, Bill Jenkins, Peter Cathcart, Bill Carroll and Cecil Holmes. Membership of

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324-465: The establishment of the Ballarat School of Mines in 1870, making it Australia's third oldest tertiary institution. Redmond Barry was its first president, and he was involved in the creation of university degree level courses for the school. The School of Mines had two divisions - a tertiary division and a technical division. The tertiary division provided higher education courses such as mining engineering, geology, education and business studies, while

351-492: The gold rush era of the 1850s. It began as a tertiary school in 1870. In 1970, Founders Theatre was built at the Mt Helen campus after an appeal was made to commemorate the opening of the school 100 years earlier. The theatre opened in 1981. The University of Ballarat was formed from a number of varying types of schools. The earliest was the School of Mines in 1870, which subsequently merged with other related organizations. Another

378-582: The institute has maintained a close working relationship with the Australian Standards Organisation (now known as Standards Australia ). The institute has served on many technical committees dealing with, among others, risk management , fire safety , occupational health and safety , road and traffic design and the Building Code of Australia . Members have represented Australian standards while attending conferences and working parties with

405-448: The options, it chose to remain as a CAE. Ballarat University College was formed in 1990, and became an affiliated college of the University of Melbourne . Its name was changed to "Ballarat University College, an affiliated College of the University of Melbourne", the actual name used on graduates' testamurs. Ballarat University College then sought to become a fully-fledged university in its own right when Professor John Sharpham asked

432-587: The regulators within their state or territory, engaging in shared activities and projects which reflect the common interests that the Institute shares with these bodies. The institute was originally a member of the National Occupational Health and Safety Committee (NOHSC), the precursor to Safe Work Australia . The AIHS retains ongoing links with Safe Work Australia. Ballarat College of Advanced Education The University of Ballarat , Australia

459-450: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title AIHS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AIHS&oldid=912807097 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing French-language text Short description

486-551: The school offered online learning courses. According to the university's records, there were 25,810 students consisting of 13,820 higher education students and 11,990 technical and further education students in 2008. Of the total student population, 11,460 students were at the Ballarat campus. There were 6,145 master's students , as compared to the 6,048 bachelor students . There were 12,481 students located off-campus, based on partnerships with partnership institutions. The university

513-421: The society at that time were Eric Wigglesworth, Samuel Barclay, Sol Freedman, Frank Kuffer, Roger Smith, Cip Corva, Hilton Ludekens and Fred Catlin. In 1977, the SIA joined with the (then) South Melbourne Technical School in establishing a specialist resource collection in the field of industrial safety and health. This library became the most comprehensive research resource available for safety professionals and

540-458: The society expanded steadily in the early years of its existence, reaching a point where eventually every state had formed a division, affiliated with the federal body. In general, membership included a majority of safety engineers and safety officers, as well as medical practitioners, insurance officers, occupational nurses, educators and other people interested in promoting health, safety and accident prevention. With time, it became apparent that

567-499: The technical division provided such programs as wool classing, plumbing and bricklaying. The organisation remained in that form until 1967 when it was split into three institutions, Ballarat School of Industries, Ballarat Technical School, and Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education. They remained three entities until 1976. Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education merged into Ballarat College of Advanced Education. The Ballarat School of Industries and Ballarat Technical School merged into

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594-482: The term "safety engineering" in the society's name had an implied bias and emphasized only one of the many disciplines associated with the effective control of accidents, injuries and diseases. As a result, the Safety Institute of Australia was incorporated in 1977 with a new constitution, and members of the society became members of the new SIA. Some of the notable people who carried forward the aims and objectives of

621-603: Was a dual-sector university with multiple campuses in Victoria , Australia, including its main Ballarat campus, Melbourne , Sydney , and Adelaide that were authorized by the university to provide diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The university offered traditional programs, including business, information technology, building and construction, engineering, mining, education, social sciences, nursing, hospitality, and art. The University of Ballarat's history goes back to

648-527: Was a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. All transcripts issued by the university are accredited by Australian Core Skills Framework and Australian Qualifications Framework . The school achieved a 5-star rating for teaching quality in the 2013 and 2014 edition of The Good Universities Guide. The same survey showed that graduates gave the school a 4-star rating for its ability to teach general skills, cultural diversity, graduation success, and

675-478: Was favorable and the university college became a university in 1994. Its sole link to the University of Melbourne was that Melbourne would observe the academic standards at the new university for a five-year period. The University of Ballarat was organised in 1994, after being sponsored by the University of Melbourne for five years, and due to the passage of an Act of the Victorian Parliament . In 1998,

702-483: Was maintained by institute members for many years. In 1981, the SIA played a major role in launching the Ballarat College of Advanced Education ’s occupational hazard management course, the first tertiary level ( graduate diploma ) course of its kind. Since that time, the SIA has successfully promoted and supported a wide range of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate educational courses around Australia, and today

729-462: Was through Ballarat Base Hospital School of Nursing (1888). Ballarat College of Advanced Education was formed in 1976 with what began as a teacher's college in 1926, and Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, which began in 1967 when it split from the School of Mines. The university merged with Monash University 's Gippsland (Churchill) campus in 2013, under the new name Federation University Australia . Tertiary education at Ballarat began with

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