Occupational Health and Safety

Expertise

• Industrial safety culture modeling and monitoring.
• Dynamic analysis of OHS systems
• Data processing and analysis
• Data processing and mathematical modelling
• Identification of latent sources of human error through engineering design
• Sustainability through optimising engineering design
• Accident analysis
• Vision and work assessment
• Designing for human use
• Occupational hygiene in developing countries,
• Examining workplace whole-body vibration exposures
• Ergonomic aspects of vehicles (Forklifts)
• Occupational hygiene, workplace chemical exposures.
• Assessment of driver fatigue in shiftwork and non-shiftworking groups.
• Assessment of time-on-shift errors.
• Analysing learning practices and financial performance.
• Case study usage

Publications

Di Milia, L., & Bowden, B. (2007). Unanticipated safety outcomes: Shiftwork and drive-in, drive-out workforce's in Queensland's Bowen Basin. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, (in press).

Smith, P.A., Garrett, C. and Calvert, D. (2006) A five factor measure of safety culture Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, Townsville, 6-9 August 2006

Di Milia, L. (2006). Shift work, sleepiness and long distance driving. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 9, 278-285.

Di Milia, L. (2005). A psychometric evaluation and validation of the revised Preferences Scale. Chronobiology International, 22, 679-693.

Di Milia, L., Smith, P. A., & Folkard, S. (2005). A validation of the revised Circadian Type Inventory in a working sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 1293-1305.

Garrett, C.D. Marshall, P. and Smith, P.A. Developing a safety culture. ICOMS 2005 Tools for Asset Management Workshop , ICOMS, Tasmania, 3 June 2005

Smith, P.A. and Di Milia L. Managing Human Fatigue. ICOMS 2005 Tools for Asset Management Workshop, ICOMS, Tasmania, 3 June 2005

Howard, P. & Toft, Y. 2005 "An Information Source for Improving Safe Design Decisions". Institute of Instrumentation, Control and Automation IICA2005 Conference,25-29 July, 2005, Melbourne Convention Centre

Jeppesen, H.J. and Smith, P A (2005) Shiftwork and work autonomy - clocking out of work organization? 17th International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time, 18 - 22 September 2005, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands

Garrett, C D and Smith, P A (2005) Measuring the impact of work hours redesign on the employee: the Working Time Change Impact Scale (WTCIS). 17th International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time, 18 - 22 September 2005, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands .

Di Milia, L. (2005) Work schedules and driver sleepiness. 17th International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time, 18 - 22 September 2005, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands .

Howard, P. & Toft, Y. 2004 A transdisciplinary approach to reducing workplace through the use of coronial reports. Refereed Paper in the Proceedings of Creating Flexible Learning Environments, 15th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 27 - 29 September, 2004, Toowoomba, Australia.

Di Milia, L., Smith, P. A., & Folkard, S. (2004). Refining the psychometric properties of the Circadian Type Inventory. Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 1945-1956.

Smith P. A Human Fatigue - a case study of risk management. Commerce Queensland, Rockhampton, 6 August 2004

Howard, P. and Toft, Y., "A Transdisciplinary Approach to Reducing Workplace Accidents Through The Use Of Coronial Reports", 15th Annual Conference of the AustralasianAssociation for Engineering Education, 27-29 September 2004, Toowoomba,Queensland, Australia.

Smith P A and Di Milia L Shiftworker's guide to fatigue management. CQUniversity, 2004

Howard, P and Toft, Y. 2003 The Coroner's Voice - a powerful weapon but it must hit the target!. In Quest: The Journal of the Australasian Coroner's Society Inc. October 2003