Ms Sylvia Kidziak AM

Workers Compensation Dust Diseases Board NSW

Ms Kidziak is Managing Director of SL Engineering, a Councillor on the NSW Business Chamber Sydney North Regional Council and held the position of Principal Consultant, Occupational Health, Safety and Environment Policy at Australian Business Ltd for 26 years. She is Chair of the ARPANSA Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council and Member of the NSW Workers Compensation and Workplace Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Council. Ms Kidziak was formerly a Commissioner on the Australian Safety and Compensation Council and the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission, Board Member of the NSW Cancer Council, a Director on the NICNAS Industry, Government Consultative Committee, Chair of the Occupational Health, Safety and Rehabilitation Council of NSW and Chair or Member of various other state and federal government Councils and Committees concerned with health and safety matters. Ms Kidziak has received several awards for her work which has included extensive advice on policy and technical issues relating to health and safety, medical research and specifically asbestos.
Appointed: 17 August 2006

Mr Dave Henry - Acting Chair

Workers Compensation Dust Diseases Board NSW

Mr Henry has been the Occupational Health and Safety Officer for the NSW Branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) since 2003. He represents workers in relation to both OH&S and workers’ compensation matters and is responsible for development and implementation of AMWU policy, representing the union at all levels of industry and government. Prior to this he was an industrial organiser with the union from 2001. Mr Henry is a member of the Workers Compensation and Workplace Occupational Health and Safety Council of New South Wales, the WorkCover Manufacturing Industry. Reference Group, as well as sitting on a number of Australian Standards committees. He is the Chairman of the Industrial Health and Research Foundation and a board member of the New South Wales Dust Disease Board. Mr Henry is also a WorkCover accredited trainer.
Appointed: 17 August 2006

Ms Rita Mallia

Workers Compensation Dust Diseases Board NSW

Ms Mallia has been the Senior Legal Officer for the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union NSW, Construction and General Division, since February 2000. From 1996 to February 2000 Ms Mallia was the Union’s Workers’ Compensation Officer. In her role Ms Mallia provides legal assistance to the union, its officials and members of CFMEU in many matters including workers compensation and industrial issues. Ms Mallia also represents the CFMEU on the Construction Industry Reference Group and the Vocational Training Appeal Panel. Ms Mallia is also a director of the Schizophrenia Research Institute.
Appointed: 17 August 2006

Mr Brian Eichhorn

Workers Compensation Dust Diseases Board NSW

Mr Eichhorn has worked in manufacturing industries all his working life. For the past thirty (30) years he has held senior positions in Human Resources Management. Mr Eichhorn has qualifications in Human Resources and Occupational Health and Safety. He is a trustee of his company’s superannuation fund.
Appointed: 17 August 2006

Professor Ben Freedman

The University of Sydney

Professor Ben Freedman is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney, and Deputy Dean of its Sydney Medical School. He was previously Head of Department of Cardiology at Concord Repatriation General Hospital and is now Head of the Vascular Biology Laboratory of the ANZAC Research Institute. Professor Freedman’s research interests include ischaemia, acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, and inflammation and thrombosis in atherosclerosis. He is the author of well over 100 papers, articles and book chapters, is on the editorial board of a number of cardiology journals and was Scientific Chairman of the World Congress of Cardiology in 2002.
Appointed: 27 November 2007

Professor David Handelsman

ANZAC Health and Medical Research Foundation

Professor Handelsman is the inaugural Director of the ANZAC Research Institute since its inception in 1998. As a leading expert in Andrology, the study of male reproductive health, medicine and biology, he has active research in the basic, clinical and public health domains and established the country’s first hospital Andrology Department As well as becoming its first Professor in Andrology. He has served on numerous research and health policy advisory bodies including the WHO Human Reproduction Programme, the World Anti-Doping Agency as well as past Secretary of the International Society of Andrology and past President of the Endocrine Society of Australia. He was awarded the Susman Prize (Royal Australasian College of Physicians) and the inaugural AMA Men’s Health Award. He serves as a nominee of the ANZAC Health and Medical Research Foundation.
Appointed: 27 November 2007

Mr Barry Robson

Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia Inc

Barry Robson is the President of the Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia (ADFA) and President of the Blacktown and Mt Druitt Cardiac Support Group. He is a life member of the Maritime Union of Australia and the St Mary’s Baseball Club.
Appointed: 27 November 2007

Mr Paul Bastian

Unions NSW

Paul Bastian has been the National President of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union since January 2010. Paul commenced his employment with the AMWU in 1981 and in 1997, was elected State Secretary of the NSW Branch. He is a shipwright by trade and completed a Law Degree while studying part time at the University of Technology, Sydney. Paul has worked throughout the manufacturing industry, in the construction, shipbuilding and metals industries, in both metropolitan and regional areas of the state. He is an Executive Board Member of APHEDA, he represents the AMWU on a number of Government and ACTU bodies and was a member of the NSW Manufacturing Council and the NSW Workers Compensation Advisory Council. He has a long history of involvement with community and union campaigns against asbestos and has represented the AMWU and International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) at numerous international asbestos Conferences.
Appointed: 27th November 2007

Mr Sean O’Sullivan

Representative of Past & Present Manufacturers and suppliers of dust and dust containing goods

Sean O’Sullivan is the Vice President, Investor and Media Relations for James Hardie.
Appointed: 19th October 2011

Professor Nico van Zandwijk

Board Nominee

Nico van Zandwijk earned his medical degree at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1973 and wrote his thesis on "Pulmonary injury elicited by blood" in 1976. He was editor of the Haematology section of Excerpta Medica until 1980, and received licences in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine in 1979 and 1981, respectively. In the same year he was appointed Assistant Professor of the Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam and became Consultant Physician at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam. From 1985 to 2008 he was Head of the Department of Thoracic Oncology at that Institute. Professor van Zandwijk has served as Secretary (1982-1988) and Chair (1988-1994) of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Lung Cancer Group. 
Appointed: 29 July 2008

Mr Colin Goldrick

Colin is a partner in the legal firm of Goldrick Farrell Mullan, heading up their Business and Technology practice group. He also acts as legal counsel to the Foundation. Colin has been a lawyer since 1996, specialising in intellectual property, corporate advisory and commercial law. Prior to that Colin worked in the Information Technology industry for almost 15 years, holding positions ranging from technical support, through to sales and business unit management. He has also worked as a management consultant with CSC, consulting with companies on implementing business change. He advises a number of companies on compliance and governance issues.
Appointed: 10th August 2006