Tim Allred

2026 AIHS Board Candidate

For much of my career, I was focused on a simple question:

How do I become a better safety professional?

Like many of us, I pursued qualifications, sought mentors, learned through experience and worked to make sense of an increasingly complex profession.

My career has taken me through consulting and leadership roles across healthcare, manufacturing, education and infrastructure, alongside doctoral research, professional certification and governance service.

Over time, that question evolved into something bigger:

How do we become better safety professionals?

That question has shaped my contribution to the profession over the past decade.

It led me to help establish and support the AIHS Emerging Leaders Network, invest in mentoring, undertake research into safety leadership, and focus my professional practice on capability building, organisational learning and leadership development.

I believe this is one of the defining questions for our profession.

Work is increasingly complex. Health and safety professionals are being asked not only to understand risk, but to influence decisions, navigate uncertainty, facilitate learning and help organisations adapt and improve.

Technical expertise remains essential.

Yet knowledge alone is no longer enough.

Our profession must continue to build the judgement, leadership and influence needed to create meaningful impact.

I bring nearly 20 years of experience across infrastructure, consulting, healthcare and education, including executive leadership experience with Downer Energy & Utilities.

I also bring nine years of not-for-profit governance experience, including four years as Chair and Co-Chair.

I currently serve on the WAHA Board and have recently joined the AIHS Victorian Branch Committee, reflecting my commitment to supporting the profession at both strategic and grassroots levels.

If elected, I would bring a member-focused, evidence-informed and future-oriented perspective to the AIHS Board.

My experience has taught me that professional growth occurs when people have opportunities to learn, connect, contribute and be constructively challenged.

I would seek to support an Institute that continues to create those opportunities while remaining relevant, influential and responsive to the evolving needs of our profession.

AIHS has contributed significantly to my own journey.

It has provided opportunities to learn, connect, contribute and grow.

It helped shape my professional identity and strengthened my belief in professional community, lifelong learning and evidence-informed practice.

Serving on the Board would be an opportunity to give back, help steward the future of our profession, and help ensure that current and future health and safety professionals have meaningful opportunities to learn, connect, contribute and lead.

Most importantly, I want to help our profession continue asking, and answering:

How do we become better safety professionals?

Because the strength of a profession is not measured by what any one of us knows, but by how well we learn, grow and improve together.

Yours in Safety,

Tim Allred
BAppSc MBus MOHS DProfSt FAIHS ChOHSP

Thank you for taking the time to consider my nomination.