SIA WA Christmas Function

On behalf of the Safety Institute of Australia, the WA Branch invites you to attend our annual Christmas Function on Wednesday 14 December, at the Parmelia Hilton.

Join us for an enlightening discussion about incident investigations, WHS perspectives and the evolution of health and safety in Australia.

At the event, a panel of WA’s brightest Young Safety Professionals will quiz Dr Ciarron MacCarron, about his breadth of  experience and achievements which include – witnessing the arrival of the first computer at the WorkSafe offices and the initiation of many investigations that went on to become important Australian safety common law cases.

Young Safety Professionals and Students from around Western Australia, will also be invited to display posters of their current research studies and discuss their findings with guests.

This informal networking event will bring together health & safety representatives from a vast array of industries and levels of experience for a fun evening of reflections, networking and Christmas cheer.

Event Details

Date: Wednesday 14 December 2016
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm (6:00pm registration & networking drinks)
Venue: Parmelia Hilton, 14 Mill St, Perth, WA 6000
Cost: SIA Members $25+ GST | Non Members $45+ GST

Your Speaker

Ciaran MacCarron
Safety Specialist, MacCarron & Associates

Ciaran MacCarron commenced his health and safety career as an unqualified site safety officer for major works being undertaken and managed by a geotechnical company based in Perth. In the over 35 years since then, he has progressively gained qualifications in health and safety at the levels of certificate, associate diploma, graduate diploma, Masters and Ph.D.

From a qualifications perspective, Ciaran was a shining example of continuing education and professional development long before those concepts became the norm in industry.
He has worked on a wide range of industry sites (construction, mining, and oil & gas) in Australia, Mongolia, Indonesia and Egypt, and in Government (Special Investigator and Acting Chief Inspector of Fatalities), where his knowledge and understanding of health and safety matters, and his pragmatic approach to encouraging the highest of safety standards has been inspirational to those of us who have worked with him.

Numerous investigations (and subsequent prosecutions) initiated and managed by Ciaran have been important cases in Australian safety common law, and his Ph.D. thesis on confined space fatalities likewise has had major implications for the re-thinking of confined spaces procedures.

Ciaran is an outstanding and a long-standing safety professional who has been making influential contributions to both specialist and generalist areas of safety for well over 30 years, and his work has had major influences on OHS outcomes in Australian OHS law and directly in Australian workplaces.

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