Health and Safety Professionals Alliance (HaSPA)
HaSPA is an alliance of OHS associations and education providers, facilitated by WorkSafe Victoria. It is the first alliance of its kind in Australia, initiated in 2007 to help deliver sustained improvements in workplace health and safety.
HaSPA aims to:
- promote OHS as an area of professional practice
- enhance the quality of OHS professionals
- improve OHS service delivery to workplaces
- improve OHS in Victorian workplaces.
HaSPA initiatives
- Project to develop a body of knowledge that should be recognised and shared by all generalist OHS professionals. Learn more about the background to this project.
- Production of a Code of Ethics and Minimum Service Standards for the OHS community, which includes procedures for managing complaints about OHS professionals.
- Ethics workshops for OHS professional associations in collaboration with the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne.
You can also read HaSPA’s 2009 progress statement for more information about its achievements and current activities.
HaSPA members
Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine
- Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists
- Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians)
- Congress of Safety and Health Association Presidents
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia
- La Trobe University
- RMIT University
- Safety Institute of Australia
- University of Ballarat
The Victorian Trades Hall Council and Victorian Congress of Employer Associations also participate as observers.
