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About The School The Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre (MISHC) multidisciplinary team focuses on creating safer, healthier, and more rewarding workplaces for all involved in or impacted by high-risk work.
MISHC works across most high-risk industries and collaboratively with stakeholders to deliver: Innovative, useful and impactful evidence-based research Professional development programs grounded in the latest research and best practices Specialised, high quality consulting services and advice by internationally renowned experts We focus on: Advancing operational risk and control management Enhancing workplace safety and health Progressing effective human factors approaches.
Leveraging advanced data analytics More information can be found at About This Opportunity This is an exciting opportunity for a Professorial Research Fellow to work within the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre (MISHC) to engage in research that sustains their reputation for outstanding research and international leadership in resource industry health and safety, principal hazard management and incident response research.
At this level the incumbent will make outstanding contributions in service and engagement roles and activities.
This is a research focused position.
Further information can be found by viewing UQ's .
Key responsibilities include:
1. Research Conduct and develop research into areas of occupational health and safety in major hazardous industries such as mining and mineral processing including: Emergency response and management Fire and explosions Spontaneous combustion of coal Occupational Health including fatigue, respirable dust, noise and psychosocial risk Principal (Major) Hazard management including critical controls Collection and analysis of health and safety statistics to identify trends and underlying causes Effective Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems Other relevant areas of OHS would be considered Maintain a record of outstanding contributions to the field and producing quality research outputs as well as initiating and leading funding initiatives.
2. Teaching Where undergraduate and postgraduate teaching is undertaken and when professional develop courses are delivered direct to industry professions it is expected that teaching quality is high as indicated by approved surveys and outcomes for students.
3. Supervision and Researcher Development Lead a research team, drive individual/team commitment in the pursuit of results and mentor more junior academics and researchers.
Act as Principal Supervisor to Higher Degree by Research students.
Demonstrate effectiveness in the development of researcher capability and skill.
Lead the facilitation of engagement opportunities for supervisees
4. Citizenship and Service Consistently demonstrate and provide senior leadership to others in relation to behaviours that align to the UQ values.
Make outstanding contributions to the improvement and governance of the organisational unit, including displaying leadership behaviours.
Shows leadership of self and others through mentoring, collaboration and a responsibility for staff wellbeing.
5. Other Ensure you are aware of and comply with legislation and University policy relevant to the duties undertaken, including but not exclusive to: The .
Requirements of the Queensland occupational health and safety (OH