Chris Winder

Professor Chris Winder JP, is a United Kingdom-born Australian academic figure and scientist.

Professor Winder is presently Professor in Applied Toxicology in the School of Safety Science of the University of New South Wales, an appointment he began in 1992. He also served as chairman of the Standards Australia committee SF/1, developing standards for occupational health and safety management systems (AS 4804 & AS 4801), community representative for public health on the National Industrial Chemicals Notification Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) Community Consultative Committee and was formerly a technical expert on the Technical Advisory Panel of the National pollutant inventory (NPI).

Professor Winder was previously the Senior Lecturer in Toxicology at the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOHS) (1987-1992). Before joining the University of New South Wales, he was Senior Lecturer in Occupational Health, the School of Occupational Health, University of Sydney (1990-1996).

Professor Winder has also held a number of other senior positions including Director and Chief Toxicologist, Chemicals Section (NOHSC); Coordinator, Hazard Evaluation Program (Worksafe Australia); Principal Toxicologist, Commonwealth School of Health; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney and Senior Research Fellow, Neurotoxicology Laboratories, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London. His past academic studies were attained in the UK prior to settling in Australia.

Professor Winder's research interests are in the area of OHS and chemical safety, including occupational health and safety, OHS management systems, their auditing and their integration into combined management systems and "in vitro" toxicology (identification of new methods for the assessment of toxic chemicals).

Professor Winder has been instrumental in establishing the occupational health condition (aerotoxic syndrome) in flight crew exposed to contaminants in bleed air leaking out of aircraft engines while in flight.

Professor Winder has been instrumental in developing new "in vitro" toxicology methods to assess toxic chemicals in cell bioassays at the air/cell interface in 2002, and was awarded the prestigious (Australia Museum Eureka Award) in 2006 for research that replaces the use of animals.

Professor Winder is best known for his 1984 book "The Developmental Neurotoxicity of Lead" (MTP Press, Lancaster, 1984, ISBN 0852007760), co-editor of Occupational Toxicology, 2nd (2004) and Managing Workplace Chemical Safety Training Manual (1995).

External links

* [http://www.safesci.unsw.edu.au/ School of Safety Science]
* [http://www.standards.org.au/ Standards Australia]
* [http://www.nicnas.gov.au/ NICNAS]
* [http://www.npi.gov.au/ NPI]
* [http://www.ascc.gov.au NIOHS]
* [http://www.nohsc.gov.au NOHSC]
* [http://www.safesci.unsw.edu.au/research/aerotoxic.html Aerotoxic Syndrome]
* [http://www.austmus.gov.au/eureka/ Australia Museum Eureka Award]