Safer shared air in the workplace webinar
We Join us for the second in our 2025 webinar series: Safer shared air in the workplace. We’ll explore how indoor air quality (IAQ) impacts access, equity and participation at work, with discussion around the lived experience of accessing work when IAQ may be a barrier, what responsibilities employers currently have to their employees, and what organisations can do to support safer and more inclusive environments for everyone. Whether you're an employer, employee, or someone advocating for better access, this session will offer useful insights and ideas you can take back to your own workplace.
Webinar speakers
A/Prof David Allen, Consultant Occupational and Environmental Physician, Sydney Occupational Health
A/Prof David Allen is a Specialist in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales School of Population Health. He has 33 years experience in occupational medicine and is actively involved in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Prof Christhina Candido, Director, SHE (Sustainable and Healthy Environments) Lab, The University of Melbourne
Prof Christhina Candido directs the SHE (Sustainable and Healthy Environments) Lab at the University of Melbourne. She has led studies and surveys in 250 buildings located in five continents. She is Global Research Advisor for the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), WELL Faculty and triple-IWBI award winner.
Greg Hunter, Lived experience representative
Greg is the Historical Collections Administrator at RANZCOG, where he manages their historical collection of medical paraphernalia and books. He is also Collections Registrar for the La Trobe Art Institute, where he is responsible for the care and management of the seven art collections owned by La Trobe University. Alongside his work, Greg volunteers as a Council member of the Australasian Registrars Committee, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting and supporting the work of those involved in caring for and managing collections across the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries and Museums) sector. Greg is interested in indoor air quality due to the challenges inherent in turning up for work - and living everyday life - during an ongoing pandemic.
Katherine Marshall, Chief Executive Officer, Inclusive Rainbow Voices
Katherine is the CEO of Inclusive Rainbow Voices, an intersectional Disabled Persons Organisation working towards equity & justice for LGBTIQA+ people with disability. Katherine brings 15+ years’ experience working on health, disability and LGBTIQA+ advocacy and policy development.
In addition to their lived experience as a chronically ill, disabled, queer and non-binary person, Katherine has worked across government, not-for-profit and creative industry settings, leading projects and programs that promote accessibility, inclusion and justice for diverse disability communities.
Katherine’s approach is rooted in disability justice principals and a systemic outlook that seeks to build cross-disability and cross-movement solidarity.
Katherine is an avid supporter of disabled arts and culture, and seeks to platform the power and creativity of disabled communities, culture and leadership.
Liam O’Brien, Assistant Secretary, ACTU
Before joining the ACTU Liam was the Victorian Assistant Secretary and National Vice-President of the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU). It was there where he fought for the rights of workers across the diverse range of industries that the AWU represents. As a national official he led the AWU’s work in the aluminium, aviation, glass and construction sectors.
As ACTU Assistant Secretary Liam is responsible for leading the movements policy, industrial and campaigning work on work health and safety and workers’ compensation matters. Liam is passionate about the rights of all workers to have safe, healthy and decent work, and is a member of Safe Work Australia (SWA) and the Asbestos and Silica Safety and Eradication Council (ASSEC).
Liam is also responsible for the skills and VET portfolio at the ACTU, and is a member of the Jobs and Skills Australia Ministerial Advisory Board.
He also holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics, with a major in Economics.
He is the proud father of two kids and lives in Melbourne’s west.
Plum Stone, Founder of the Safer Air Project
Plum has worked in health policy and public affairs for the last 20 years, with experience in the UK Parliament, international public affairs agencies and in-house for patient advocacy organisations. Plum wrote her undergraduate dissertation on learning the lessons of pandemics of the past to prepare for pandemics of the future and has an MSc in Public Health (Nutrition).
As a result of Plum’s professional background, and personal lived experience with an immunocompromised and high-risk family, she has founded The Safer Air Project, with a mission to get indoor air quality recognised as a critical accessibility and inclusion issue for people living with chronic health conditions, in order to make indoor air safer for everyone to breathe.