Pam Pryor BSc.
Lets look at the historical perspective.
The Safety Institute of Australia had its beginnings in 1949 with a small group of safety practitioners who had recently completed the Industrial Safety and Accident Prevention course at Melbourne Technical College. In 1965 the Safety Engineering Society of Australia, as it was then called, formed a Federal Education Committee. An early initiative taken by this committee lead to the introduction of a certificate course in occupational health and safety in 1968 at South Melbourne Technical School. This was the first course developed in Australia with the help and co-operation of a state education department and has served as a model for similar certificate courses in other states. Whilst these initiatives were under development, members of the Safety Engineering Society, and particularly the Education Committee, were repeatedly and consistently pressing through public and educational forums for tertiary teaching in accident control to benefit the Australian community.