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Membership Policy
Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to provide guidance around the different membership classes.
Background
In Australia, and Internationally, there are increasing numbers of persons employed in Environmental Health and allied areas who are not qualified, or for some other reason, do not practise as professional Environmental Health Officers. The Board of Directors believe that the Institute should encourage and facilitate such persons being able to participate in the affairs of the Institute; by attending workshops, conferences, receiving journals, etc.
In line with moves in other countries the Board of Directors has approved that those persons may join membership of the Institute, at a level appropriate to their qualifications in an Environmental Health area, irrespective of whether or not the person is employed in private enterprise, government, defence services, commerce, academia or some other field of endeavour. The Board of Directors believes that with active encouragement the Institute will be enriched and will achieve a wider recognition through this extension of membership, both within Australia and overseas. The issue of the National Environmental Health Strategy will require that the AIEH maintains itself as the peak Environmental Health organisation, including an advocacy and a professional role.
Some areas of employment covered by Environmental Health and which are welcome and eligible for an appropriate level of membership are medicine, noise, air pollution, sound technicians, occupational health and safety, waste management, civil disaster, nursing, food training and food safety, food technology, radiology, microbiology, nutrition, environmental science, environmental management, etc. The field of modern environmental health covers all areas involving “environment” and “health”.
Scope
The Membership policy, approved by the Board of Directors covers membership of the Australian Institute of Environmental Health only. It is not related to any entitlement to employment.
Employment criteria is determined by each employing authority and some States cover this requirement in legislation/awards. However, the Australian Institute of Environmental Health’s standard to professionally practise as an Environmental Health Officer in Australia is the successful completion of an AIEH accredited Bachelor Degree of Science majoring in Environmental Health or “equivalent” approved by the AIEH Accreditation Registration Board. A separate Certificate of Professional Recognition is issued by AIEH at the time of processing the membership.
DEFINITIONS
Nil
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AIEH POLICY
Admission/advancement requirements for membership of the Institute are detailed below:-
Student Member (Non—Voting)
A person residing either in or outside of Australia who is enrolled as a full time student in an accredited degree course under the AIEH Accreditation Policy or enrolled as a full time student in a degree course of a related course may be admitted as a Student Member. For the purposes of these bylaws, “full time student” is defined as a person undertaking a course on a full time loading as defined by the enrolling university.
Applications for membership are to be submitted on the prescribed form and accompanied by the admission fee, if any, and annual subscription. The Board of Directors may delegate to the CEO, or a Branch Council, the power to receive and approve such applications with such conditions as it deems necessary.
Note:
Successful completion of your existing studies may qualify you for advancement to higher levels of AIEH membership. However, admission at Student membership level does not imply that successful completion of your existing course will qualify you to professionally practise as an Environmental Health Officer.
No membership Certificate, post-nominals or voting rights apply at this level of concessional membership.
Associate member (Voting)
A person may be admitted to or advanced as an Associate member, who has successfully completed a:
- Royal Society of Health Diploma or
- Associate Diploma, Diploma, or Advanced Diploma in an Environmental Health or related field
The application shall be submitted to the Executive Officer on the prescribed form and be accompanied by the annual membership subscription. (At its meeting on 24 October 1998 the Board of Directors approved the introduction of a scholarship for Indigenous Environmental Health Workers. The Scholarship Award is for 3 years at the rate of 50% of the approved Annual Membership Subscription. These EHWs have either a Certificate or Associate Diploma in Environmental Health and are eligible for Associate membership of AIEH.)
A membership Certificate is issued. Post-nominal entitlement is “AAIEH”.
Voting rights apply.
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Member (Voting)
- A person who has successfully completed any one of the following accredited courses may be admitted to or advanced as a full Member:
Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental Health)
University of Western Sydney (Hawkesbury), NSW
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education, NT
Bachelor of Health Science (Public & Environmental Health)
Swinbume University of Technology, Victoria
Bachelor of Public Health (Environmental Health)
LaTrobe University, Victoria
Bachelor of Science (Environmental Health)
Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia
Griffith University, Queensland
Bachelor of Environmental Health
Edith Cowan University, WesternAustralia
Flinders University of South Australia,
University of Tasmania **
- A person who has successfully completed the Advanced Diploma in Health Services (Environmental Health)* Hobart TAFE
* Tasmanian legislation recognises this course for the purposes of practising as an Environmental Health Officer in Tasmania.
- A person who has successfully completed a Degree in an “Environmental” or “Health” related field. (A related Degree may be medicine, noise, air pollution, sound technicians, occupational health and safety, waste management, civil disaster, nursing, food technology, microbiology, nutrition, environmental science, environmental management, etc. It covers all areas involving Degrees in “environment” and “health”.)
- A person who has successfully completed a Post Graduate qualification in Environmental Health.
- Accredited postgraduate degree courses are offered by:
Curtin University of Technology – Master of Environmental
Health
Queensland University of Technology – Graduate Diploma
in Environmental Health **
** Currently awaiting final accreditation.
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Note:
The following may also be admitted or advanced to full Member level:
Persons who, before 1 January 1994, were Students in an AIEH accredited course in Environmental Health and who have successfully completed that course, and Associate members of the AIEH, before 1 January 1994. These persons are deemed, under AIEH “sunset provisions” to hold an AIEH accredited Bachelor Degree in Science majoring in Environmental Health; and
Persons who successfully completed the Swinburne Technical College, Victoria, Diploma of Applied Science (Environmental Health) (1979—1989).
Applications shall be submitted to the Chief Executive Officer on the prescribed form and be accompanied by the annual membership subscription fee.
A membership Certificate is issued. Post -nominal entitlement is “MAIEH”.
Voting rights apply.
Note:
Approval of full Member status does not necessarily imply recognition to professionally practise in Australia as an Environmental Health Officer.
Affiliate member (Voting)
A person may be admitted as an Affiliate member who is:
- Interested in promoting the objects of the Institute, and is working in a related field of environmental health (eg, medicine, noise, air pollution, sound technicians, occupational health and safety, waste management, civil disaster, nursing, food training and food safety, food technology, radiology, microbiology, nutrition, environmental science, environmental management, etc. The field of environmental health covers all areas involving “environment” and “health”); or
- Interested in promoting the objects of the Institute, is employed full time in the environmental health field and/or has qualifications acceptable to the Board but is not qualified to be a Life Fellow, Fellow, Member or an Associate member; or
- Not qualified to be an Associate member or a Member and who has a qualification in environmental health and has been assessed by Branch Council or the Board of Directors as capable of satisfactorily performing in the duties of an Assistant Environmental Health Officer/Technical Officer.
Any firm / corporation / association may be admitted as an Affiliate member who is considered worthy by Branch Council or the Board of Directors because of its interests in Environmental Health or because its aims and objectives are similar to those of the Institute.
Affiliate members shall be required to pay the annual subscription fee.
Affiliate members shall not be eligible for election to any office.
Voting rights apply.
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