VICTOR LEACH
Mullumbimby 4th August 2018

MR VICTOR LEACH

Mr. Victor (Vic) Leach App. Physics (RMIT), MSc (Melbourne. Uni) has worked as a radiation health physicist and atmospheric scientist for the past 40 years in both the private sector (uranium & coal mining) and public sector with a number of Commonwealth (Australian Radiation Laboratory now ARPANSA) and State Government Health Departments (QLD & NT). He has been a founding member of Australasian Radiation Protection Society (ARPS) since its inauguration in 1975, where he has been a past treasurer and is currently on the organising committee for conferences in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns and Darwin. Vic has been involved in many occupational and environmental aspects of mining and non-mining projects at both the planning and operational stage. He has published in refereed scientific and engineering journals on subjects of dust and radioactivity exposure and the inhalation effects on health of workers and members of the public. He was University Radiation Advisor (RPA) at both the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the University of Queensland (UQ). In the last two years before retirement, Vic assisted in obtaining all the radiation health approvals for the 18 Mev cyclotron. Since last taking up the Role as URPA at QUT in 2006, Vic has been developing an increased interest in the standards setting for non-ionising radiation compared ionising radiation

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