Associate Professor Kate Blackwood is Acting Director of the Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Centre at Edith Cowan University, funded through the WA Government's MARS Program. Her research focuses on creating mentally healthy, safe, and respectful workplaces, with particular expertise in psychosocial risk management and the prevention of workplace bullying. Kate works closely with industry partners to translate research into practical, evidence-based solutions that improve worker wellbeing, psychosocial safety, and organisational performance. Before joining Edith Cowan University, she was based at Massey University in New Zealand, where she co-directed the Healthy Work Group. Her research has been published in leading academic and industry outlets, including Personnel Review and Safety Science, and she has secured approximately AU$3.5 million in external research funding. Through her research, industry engagement, and leadership, Kate is committed to supporting organisations to build healthier, safer, and more productive workplaces.

Marcus Cattani is a researcher focussing on the prevention of workplace injuries, disease and fatalities. He is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Sustainable Minerals Institute's, Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre at the University of Queensland. His expertise concerns the management of organisational injury and incident risk, managing exposure to workplace hazards and modelling safety data and information to improve the communication of risk. Marcus is an Australian Institute of Health and Safety Board member and Chair of the College of Fellows.

Ian has been an AIHS member for 30 years and a Fellow since 2009. A freelance HSEQ professional, he holds a Master of Health & Safety and a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health and Neuroscience. He is passionate about health and safety, lifelong learning and helping the next generation of safety professionals succeed.

Dorit is a health and safety professional specialising in psychosocial risk. After 15 years working first as a chef and then in insurance industry, she changed careers to focus on how work environments shape people’s behaviour. She completed a Psychological and Behavioural Sciences studies and a Master of Business Psychology at UWA, which led her into WHS. Her consulting work spanned both high- and lower-risk industries, and she is now Project Lead for psychosocial risk management at Water Corporation. A former AIHS mentee and a Board Member of Mentor it Forward®, Dorit sees learning as lifelong journey and believes mentoring helps people learn from others’ experience and find the clarity and confidence to grow.