Are you remotely interested in prevention, building a culture of safety conference

• Date:

  1 - 4 August 2012

• Location:

  Mount Isa, Queensland

• Category:

  Some Indigenous content

Overview

The theme for this conference, while continuing to build on our past theme of remote possibility, challenge and bringing evidence into practice, will recognise the roles injury prevention, farm safety, occupational health and safety, rural and remote workforce play in rural Australia health and productive industry outcomes. It will also aim to recognise challenges and developments through clinical training and simulation, cultural safety, secondary prevention and chronic disease and innovation.

Identified conference themes are:

• injury prevention / occupational health and safety
• remote and rural workforce for the future
• clinical training and education, simulation and cultural safety
• prevention and public health
• innovation
• health reform and service models

Across a wide range of regional industries and services, including:

• health and education
• cattle production and agriculture
• mining
• fisheries
• rural services and transport.

Keynote speakers for the conference include:

• Professor Rob Moodie (Professor of Public health at the Melbourne School of Population Health)
• Dr Barbara Lee (Director of the National Children's Centre for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety)
• Dr Jim Helmkamp (Senior Epidemiologist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Western States Office, Denver USA)
• Dr Sharon Willcox (Director of Health Policy Solutions)

Contacts

Mount Isa Centre for Rural and Remote Health
Funded by the Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government
Ph: (07) 4745 4500
Fax: (07) 4749 5130
Email: micrrh-conferences@jcu.edu.au

Links

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