Biography
Pam has worked in education for more than 20 years and safety for over 15. In addition to a
career as an occupational health and safety professional and consultant Pam has had a major
impact on OHS professional standards and education in Australia.
Pam was national secretary of the Safety Institute of Australia for 5 years and chaired the
Professional Review Committee which instigated the Chartered Fellow and the Challenge Assessment
programs. Pam was instrumental in incorporating the Australian OHS Educators as a national
Chapter of the Safety Institute of Australia. In 2003 Pam was awarded the Harold Greenwood
Thomas Award for her contribution to safety and the objectives of the Safety Institute of
Australia.
From 2001 to 2004 Pam Pryor was contracted to the National Occupational Health and Safety
Commission as a technical advisor to the OHS Skills team to provide technical advice on an
ongoing basis. During this period Pam provided technical strategic advice at a national level
for ensuring that the specifications for vocational training included appropriate and technically
correct OHS requirements. In addition to a range of industry-based training packages Pam was
intensively involved in the major review of the workplace trainers and assessors training package
the new competencies for OHS practitioners in the Business Services Training Package.
In other roles Pam has project managed, on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Health and
Aging, a major national project to improve health and safety in aged care. She has also
implemented minimal manual handling programs in a number of hospitals and aged care facilities
in Victoria and local government instrumentalities in Victoria and ACT.
Pam chairs the OHS Program Advisory Committee at RMIT University and has been involved in OHS
course reviews for the University of Ballarat. She has been the major author of the learning
materials for the new Certificate IV in OHS delivered by VIOSH and lectures in the Graduate
Diploma program on ethics in occupational health and safety. Pam has made conference
presentations and authored papers on OHS Education and the role of the OHS professional.
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