Presentations, Conferences, Harmonisation and
International Meetings and Site Visits undertaken
by NICNAS

Presentations at Australian conferences

Deborah Willcocks Case study: HHRA of Benzene, Science Forum 3:
The Practice of Human Health Risk Assessment in Australia, Canberra, ACT,
30 July 2004

Deborah Willcocks Monitoring and Profiling Precursor Chemicals,
Eighth National Chemical Division Conference, 19 October 2004

Margaret Hartley Overview of the Current Regulatory Landscape,
Australian Consumer and Specialty Products Association (ACSPA) AGM and
Industry Seminar, Sydney, NSW, 2 December 2004

Roshini Jayewardene Regulatory Issues with Novel Excipients,
Australian Society of Cosmetics Chemists, Thirty ninth Annual Conference,
Brisbane Convention Centre, QLD, 18 March 2005

Sneha Satya Review of Environmental Risk posed by Sodium Cyanide, Good
Practice Cyanide Management in the Gold Industry, ACMER, 12 April 2005

Roshini Jayewardene The Journey so far… Review of products at the
cosmetic-therapeutic interface: Cosmetic or Medicine?, ACCORD seminar,
Sydney, NSW, 18 April 2005. Also at Victorian Employers Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, Melbourne, VIC, 19 April 2005

Deborah Willcocks Public and Occupational Risk Assessment - NICNAS,
Clean Air Society, Australia, New Zealand Risk Assessment Workshop,
Hobart, TAS, 3 May 2005

Bob Graf NICNAS Overview of Current Regulatory Landscape for Industrial
Chemicals, HAZMAT 2005, Sydney, NSW, 12 May 2005

Deborah Willcocks Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials, National Drugs and
Poisons Scheduling Committee meeting, Canberra, ACT, 23 June 2005

Presentations at overseas conferences

Bob Graf Chemicals Regulation in Australia, NICNAS and New Industrial
Chemicals NICNAS - Reform Initiatives, Japan Chemical Industry, Tokyo,
JAPAN, 7 March 2005

Deborah Willcocks Canada/Australia: Issues being faced in the regulation of
nanomaterials, OECD Special Session on the Potential Safety Implications of
Nanomaterials, Paris, FRANCE, 7 June 2005

Presentations at training activities

Hana Hamdan Customs Broker Training, NICNAS training seminar, Sydney,
NSW, 24 November and 26 November 2004. Customs Broker Training also
presented in Perth, WA, 13 December and 14 December 2004

Neil Buck & Associates Industry Information Sessions, NICNAS training
seminar, Adelaide, SA, 14 December 2004
Industry Information Sessions also presented in:
• Melbourne, VIC, 15 December 2004 and 3 - 4 March 2005
• Brisbane, QLD, 8 March 2005
• Adelaide, SA, 10 March 2005

Bob Graf LRCC changes to the Act, PACIA, Sydney, NSW, 9 December 2004

Jane Weder Sources of Information in Toxicology, University of Sydney
School of Public Health (Short course on toxicology), Sydney NSW,
22 February 2005

Hana Hamdan, Bob Graf
NICNAS, New Chemicals and Reform Activities, June 2005

Internal training presentations

Sami Syed, Lewis Norman
Safety at work, our first priority, 17 August 2004,

Phil Burge
OHS Legislation for Commonwealth Employees, 5 May 2005

Conferences attended