CONFERENCE BROCHURE
CONFERENCE PROGRAMFRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER09:00 - 17:00 COH exams
SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER
08:00 - 17:00 Registration
09:00 - 17:00 COH exams
09:30 - 17:00 CES 1 FULL DAY AmplifiiTM your Influence - Sponsored by DuPont Rene Rodriguez
09:30 - 17:00 CES 2 FULL DAY Asbestos: Lessons from the past, dealing with the present and understanding future risk
Pierina Otness Laurie Glossop, Peter Franklin, Samantha O’Callaghan, Victorian Asbestos Eradication Agency
09:30 - 12:30 CES 3 How to Prepare a Noise Control Plan David Warrington
09:30 - 12:30 CES 4 A Fresh Look at the Management of Potable Water Ryan Milne
09:30 - 12:30 CES 5 Evolution of occupational exposure limits in Australia Peter Di Marco
11:00 - 11:30 Morning Tea12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea
13:30 - 17:00 CES 6 Risk Communication Max Lum
13:30 - 17:00 CES 7 Legionella - Why Manage Opportunistic Pathogens in Water Ryan Milne
13:30 - 17:00 CES 8 Developing Resilience : The key to mental wellbeing Kerryn Ashford-Hatherly, Michael Tunnecliffe
SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER08:00 - 17:00 Registration
09:00 - 17:00 GCG President’s Cup Golf sponsored by GCG
09:00 - 16:30 CES 9 FULL DAY Lead with Heart - Sponsored by DuPont Rene Rodriguez
09:00 - 16:30 CES 10 FULL DAY Testing the performance of LEV systems Adrian Sims
09:00 - 12:00 CES 11 Air Sampling Advancements to Meet Challenges of 2020 Deborah Dietrich
09:00 - 12:00 CES 12 Health Surveillance, time to Recalibrate, Resynergise & Rebrand
Jacques Oosthuizen Martyn Cross
09:00 - 12:00 CES 13 Practical heat stress assessment utilizing phone/tablet applications
Ross Di Corleto
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Tea
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea
13:00 - 16:30 CES 14 Radiation protection from exposures to norm in the mining industry
Martin Ralph
13:00 - 16:30 CES 15 Toxicology of PFAS John Frangos
13:00 - 16:30 CES 16 Ethics Brian Eva, Terry Elms
14:00 - 16:30 Exhibitors bump in
16:45 - 17:45 AIOH Annual General Meeting
17:45 - 18:30 Newcomer’s Speed Networking
18:30 - 19:30 Welcome Drinks sponsored by AES
19:30 - 22:00 AIOH Welcome Dinner
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MONDAY 2 DECEMBER
08:00 - 17:00 Registration
07:00 - 08:00 Mentoring Meeting
08:15 - 08:30 Conference opening
08:30 - 08:40 AIOH President's Address - Dr Julia Norris
08:40 -08:55 Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene - 3rd edition Book Launch
08:55 - 09:40 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1Sponsored by S.E.A
Utilizing Digital Media For Increased Engagement And Building Our Community Of Practice: The Good, The Bad And The Really Ugly
Max Lum
09:40 - 10:25 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2 Advocacy And Influence: The Hygienist’s Central Role Dr Julia Norris
10:25 - 10:30 Official opening of Trade Exhibition
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea & head shot café open
11:00 - 11:30 Trade Exhibition and Delegate Networking
11:30 - 12:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3 LEV Test Equipment Adrian Sims
12:15 - 13:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4 Occupational Surveillance Programs - Lifestyle Frontiers Christine Kennedy
13:00 - 14:00 Trade Exhibition and Lunch & head shot café open
13:00 - 14:00 Excite session 1
14:00 - 15:10 CONCURRENT SESSION 1 – RECALIBRATE
14:05 Diesel and welding fumes – ‘cancer-causing’ declarations by IARC and their impact on exposure standards
Gregor Riese
14:25 WHS in the Digitalized World – New Opportunities with Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Thomas Mitchell
14:45 Time to ReCalibrate: Incorporating Human Factors in Respirator Selection Jane Whitelaw
14:00 - 15:10 CONCURRENT SESSION 2 - RESYNERGISE
14:05 Non Communicable Disease prevalence among a cohort of mine workers in Mongolia
Andy McCarthy
14:30 AIOH RPE Fit Test Training & Accreditation Scheme Update Mark Reggers
14:55 Utilizing a holistic approach to ‘Beating the Build Up Blues’ Leisa Puckering
14:00 - 15:10 CONCURRENT SESSION 3 – REBRAND
14:05 Re-calibrating data interpretation for effective stakeholder engagement – A template to ‘Re-brand’ our communications
Mel Cruttenden
14:30 Metal Composition Analysis and Cell Exposure from PM2.5 Hsin-Hsuan Han
14:55 Finding the culprit : A case study of when toxicology and occupational hygiene meet
Nathan Aust
14:00 - 15:00 OHTA Stakeholders meeting
15:10 - 15:50 Afternoon tea and Trade Exhibition and Delegate Networking
15:50 - 16:55 CONCURRENT SESSION 4 – RECALIBRATE
15:55 Re-calibrating Health Risk Assessment in Bush Fire Fighting Zach Bentley
16:15 Development of a prediction model to assess costs for complying with OELV’s. Steven Verpaele
16:35 Re-energise Occupational Hygiene focus in a global mining company Portia Weeks
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MONDAY 2 DECEMBER
15:50 - 16:55 CONCURRENT SESSION 5 – RESYNERGISE
15:55 Integrating occupational hygiene into mine closure – a multidisciplinary approach
Megan Howitt
16:15 A waste management project with logistics and occupational hygiene interactions
Martin Jennings
16:35 Toll for Toil Holly Fletcher
15:50 - 16:55 CONCURRENT SESSION 6 – REBRAND
15:55 Characterisation of Respiratory Hazards during the Manufacture and Installation of Engineered and Natural Stone Products
Christian Madden
16:15 Working Safely with Engineered Stone - A Fabricators Perspective Jason Green
16:35 Are you Independent and Competent? Perdita Dickson
16:00 -17:00 IOHA Meeting
18:30 - 22:30 3M dinner - Theme Re- imagine, Re-Create, Re-Purpose. Assemble near conference registration desk at Crown Towers by 6:15pm.
TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER
08:00 - 17:00 Registration07:00 - 08:30 GOHR Meeting
07:00 - 08:30 PD&E Committee meeting
08:30 - 09:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 5 Re-Imagine Occupational Hygiene To Improve People’s Lives
Professor Cas Badenhorst
09:15 - 10:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 6 AmplifiiTM Your Influence Rene Rodriguez10:00 - 11:00 M&Q Meeting10:15 - 10:30 2018 AIOH Award Winners Presentation10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea and Trade Exhibition11:00 - 11:30 Trade Exhibition and Delegate Networking & head shot café open11:30 - 12:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 7 The Health Benefits Of Good Work - Achieving Better
Health OutcomesDr Peter Connaughton
11:30 - 12:30 ANOH session: emerging issues in South East Dong-Uk, Park
12:15 - 13:00 CONCURRENT SESSION 7 RECALIBRATE: Compliance for occupational hygiene: WHSQ’s enforcement campaign of the stone benchtop fabrication industry in QLD
Carolyn Topping
12:15 - 13:00 CONCURRENT SESSION 8 RESYNERGISE: Basic Occupational Hygiene Services for Small Enterprises
Mahinda Seneviratne
12:15 - 13:00 CONCURRENT SESSION 9 REBRAND: Harnessing the Power of Many Dr Steve Dix13:00 - 14:00 Trade Exhibition and Lunch & head shot café open13:00 - 14:00 Excite session 214:00 - 15:05 CONCURRENT SESSION 10 – RECALIBRATE14:05 Controlling exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica in Sydney Demolition Workers -
A Client-led InterventionKate Cole
14:25 Parallel Particle Impactor: A New Sampler for Accurate Fractioning of Respirable Dust at a Choice of Flowrates
Deborah Dietrich
14:45 State-of-art Analysis of Respirable Crystalline Silica by Direct-method using X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and recent findings from workplace air samples.
Martin Mazereeuw
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14:00 - 15:05 CONCURRENT SESSION 11 – RESYNERGISE
14:05 What do Occupational Hygienists really know about dermal exposure? Dr Sharyn Gaskin
14:25 A collective approach to managing potable water health risk – a case study in how occupational hygienists can ‘Re-synergise’
David Lowry
14:45 Crowdsourcing OH Data to Create Value Inside & Outside the Facility Fenceline Vivek Patel
14:00 - 15:05 CONCURRENT SESSION 12 – REBRAND
14:05 Barangaroo - The development of dynamic occupational hygiene control plans in a unique CBD environment
Haysam Elhassan
14:25 Prevention of Chronic Health Risk thru Health Performance Tracking and Analysis Ahmad Khairi B Abdullah
14:45 Are you part of a bigger picture? Or do you have tunnel vision? Peter Aspinall
15:10 - 15:40 Trade Exhibition & Afternoon Tea & head shot café open
15:40 - 18:00 Exhibitor Bumpout
15:40 - 16:45 CONCURRENT SESSION 13 – RECALIBRATE
15:45 Safe compressed air cleaning - a global solution Dave Collins
16:05 Changes in hearing threshold levels for workers entering Australian coal mines between 1991 - 2015
Adelle Liebenberg
16:25 Recalibration of Local Exhaust Ventilation Systems for Soil Samples Analysis Carl Brannan
15:40 - 16:45 CONCURRENT SESSION 14 – RESYNERGISE
15:45 Occupational noise exposure during pregnancy and its effect on the foetus Tiffany Dozet
16:05 Occupational Hygiene Exposure Assessment of Tank Operators during Manual Tank Gauging in the Downstream Oil and Gas Industry
Ayman Arfaj
16:25 Management of Diesel Exhaust in Underground Mines Mark Desira
15:40 - 16:45 CONCURRENT SESSION 15 – REBRAND
15:45 Health risks associated with the use of water mist systems as a cooling intervention in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
Edmore Masaka
16:05 What is “biotoxin illness” and who is Richie Shoemaker? Report on the Parliamentary Inquiry into Biotoxin-related illnesses in Australia
Brad Prezant
16:25 Clandestine Drug Laboratories - Peroxide Remediation Philip Turner
16:00 - 17:00 AIOH Foundation AGM
18:30 - 23:30 AIOH Gala Dinner
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WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER
08:00 - 12:00 Registration
07:00 - 08:00 AIOH Committee Breakfast (by invitaiton only)
08:30 - 08:35 Sponsor presentation - Dräger
08:35 - 08:40 AIOH 2020 Conference Presentation
08:45 - 08:55 Workplace Health Without Borders
08:55 - 09:00 Best Conference Poster Presentation Sponsored by AMCOSH
09:00 - 09:25 Best Conference Paper Presentation Sponsored by 3M
09:25 - 09:30 AIOH Foundation
09:30 - 10: 10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 8 Making Words Count - Change Community Behaviour Clare Arthurs
10:10 -11:10 Morning tea with head shot café open
11:10 - 12:30 PANEL DISCUSSION Where were we when..Black Lung re-surfaced | Silicosis re-emerged How do we prevent the next occupational disease from repeating?
11:10-11:40 Mentoring- How Occupational Hygiene Mentoring can be amazing for you & how would YOU like to be mentored
12:30 -13:30 Lunch with head shot café open
13:30 - 14:15 CONCURRENT SESSION 16 RECALIBRATE: Measuring changes in hearing and ineffectiveness of hearing protection
Glenn Johnson
13:30 - 14:15 CONCURRENT SESSION 17 RESYNERGISE: Assessment of illicit drug contamination in residential environments and the critical role of Occupational Hygienists’
Paul Newell
13:30 - 14:15 CONCURRENT SESSION 18 REBRAND: Rebrand Your Professional LinkedIn Presence Jo Saunders
14:15 - 14:55 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 9 Research in space radiation with NASA Dr Doug Boreham
14:55 - 15:35 Afternoon tea with head shot café open
15:35 - 16:00 Official Conference Close
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