Date & Time: Tuesday 11 October 2016 at 12:00pm
Venue: Level 1, 333 Queen Street Melbourne (AMS Consulting Group)
Safety: trade or profession?
Safety needs to be both a trade and profession, according to Leo Ruschena, who will give a lunchtime presentation on this topic to the Central Safety Group on 11 October.
He will talk about how safety education and accreditation is going through a process of major reform. This includes developing a uniform system of knowledge, accreditation of universities and certification of individuals.
This has led to some confusions and gaps, including problems with the role of TAFE in safety education and certification.
Leo will also discuss the current (controversial) move to ‘professionalise the profession’, which will require safety professionals to have accreditation the same as engineers, doctors and accountants.
About the Speaker
Leo Ruschena is former Chair, Technical Committee of the Australian OHS Education Accreditation Board. He was previously Director of Human Resources at WorkSafe Victoria and before that held senior roles in human resources and OHS with several utility companies.
He has bachelors degrees in chemical engineering and economics from the University of Queensland, a Masters in Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene from the University of London and a Masters in Industrial and Employee Relations from Monash University.
In his current role he teaches a number of subjects in the Graduate Diploma OHS and is the co-author of WHS: A management Guide
Venue: Level 1, 333 Queen Street Melbourne (AMS Consulting Group)
Safety: trade or profession?
Safety needs to be both a trade and profession, according to Leo Ruschena, who will give a lunchtime presentation on this topic to the Central Safety Group on 11 October.
He will talk about how safety education and accreditation is going through a process of major reform. This includes developing a uniform system of knowledge, accreditation of universities and certification of individuals.
This has led to some confusions and gaps, including problems with the role of TAFE in safety education and certification.
Leo will also discuss the current (controversial) move to ‘professionalise the profession’, which will require safety professionals to have accreditation the same as engineers, doctors and accountants.
About the Speaker
Leo Ruschena is former Chair, Technical Committee of the Australian OHS Education Accreditation Board. He was previously Director of Human Resources at WorkSafe Victoria and before that held senior roles in human resources and OHS with several utility companies.
He has bachelors degrees in chemical engineering and economics from the University of Queensland, a Masters in Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene from the University of London and a Masters in Industrial and Employee Relations from Monash University.
In his current role he teaches a number of subjects in the Graduate Diploma OHS and is the co-author of WHS: A management Guide
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