The 2019 AGM will be followed by the patrons lunch

Important information for members: the IRS NSW AGM will commence at 12.30pm Friday 8 November 2019, and information for members about the AGM can be found at irsnsw Committee Members  As this is a Members Only page members will need to login to access this material

This is a Member's Only Event

The lunch will feature the society's patron (The Hon Lance Wright QC) in conversation with Professor Michael Quinlan, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at UNSW.

Professor Quinlan is an internationally regarded expert in occupational safety and in labour history. He is the author in these fields of many publications in book form and articles in learned journals. Notable publications include.

• “Ten Pathways to Death and Disaster - Learning from Fatal Incidents in Mines and Other High Hazard Workplaces” (2014)

• “The Origins of Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1788-1850” (2017 - Volume 2 in preparation)

Areas to be covered in the conversation will include the professor’s role in advising and assisting inquiries by coroners, governments and other public authorities into workplace deaths and other safety and health issues. This will include reference to the kinds of experience that he, as a highly experienced Industrial Relations and OH&S academic and practitioner, brings to such matters in the public sphere.

This will lead to a discussion as to how and why he came to write the important work “Ten Pathways to Death and Disaster … “

He will also reflect upon how his experience in Industrial Relations (including its role in addressing inequality at work) and labour history inform his activities in work health and safety and also how public policy has suffered from failures in necessary breadth in perspective and historical context, including now maligned but significant past achievements that warrant re-examination.

Finally, Prof Quinlan will discuss recent research he and colleagues have undertaken on the effects on the deceased’s family of workplace death.

To read more about Prof Qinlan's experience click here

Booking for this Event

If you are not able to pay online at the time of booking and need to pay by EFT your reservation cannot be confirmed until a copy of your payment receipt has been sent to membership@irsnsw.org.au.

Members who book for the AGM only should note that lunch is not included in this option.