Steve Allsop, Ph.D. is Director of Clinical Education and Research at Next Step Specialist Drug and Alcohol Services in Western Australia. He is also Associate Professor in International Health, Centre for International Health, at Curtin University of Technology. He has worked in the drug field for over twenty years. His background has largely been in clinical education and research. His interest in drugs in the workplace began when he was involved in research at the University of Glasgow, examining the relationship between workplace accidents and alcohol consumption. Since that initial research, he has worked with international organisations and employer and labour organisations developing, implementing and evaluating responses to drug-related harm in the workplace.

Mike Phillips, B.Sc., M.Med.Sci. (Community Medicine) is a senior lecturer in epidemiology in the School of Public Health at Curtin University of Technology, where his teaching is predominantly concerned with epidemiological methods. He is also a member of the Occupational Safety and Health Commission of Western Australia and is Chair of the Safety and Health Hazards Advisory Committee. Having been born and raised in a coal-mining and steel-making region, he has a long-standing interest in both occupational health and safety and drug use. Both of these areas are the primary focus of his research interests.

Carlo Calogero, B.Sc. is Executive Director of Next Step Specialist Drug and Alcohol Services in Western Australia, and has held this position for over six years. Next Step is a government statutory authority and is one of the largest alcohol and drug services in Australia. It provides extensive specialist alcohol and drug treatment and professional clinical education, as well as undertaking research. For over two years, Carlo was the chief executive officer of Western Australia's largest employee assistance program service and has occupied senior management positions in alcohol and drug and related services for over ten years. He has had substantial experience in working with industry in relation to employment assistance programs and in responding to alcohol and drug problems in the workplace.

About the contributors

Alex Ask, Ph.D. (Psych.), MAPS works at the Flinders University of South Australia Coordinated Care Training Unit. He also works as a psychologist in general practice, where part of his focus is on developing responses for drug users.

Angela Corry, B.Psych. is currently completing her Doctor of Psychology degree at Murdoch University. She has been involved in drug and alcohol research with both industry and clinical populations. Her involvement in a large study of workplace conditions in the transport industry encouraged an interest in identifying factors that facilitate or alleviate drug-related harm in industry and the development of organisationally appropriate responses. She has a keen interest in understanding the organisational-change process and the development of effective strategies in managing change. While this interest has developed as her studies have progressed, it has also been borne of necessity. Being 'Mum' to three children means she is always searching for effective strategies to manage change.

Janice Duffy, BA (Hons), Ph.D. is currently a senior researcher at the South Australian Community Health Research Unit and a lecturer in Public Health at the Flinders University of South Australia. Her Ph.D. thesis, on alcohol in the workplace, was supported by a National Drug Strategy Scholarship and compared the delivery of harm-reduction programs in the building and banking industries. Janice has experience in a wide variety of health research and teaching concerned with disease prevention and health promotion. She has participated in projects concerned with primary health care as well as general practice and alcohol and other drug research.

Richard Midford is a senior research fellow at the National Drug Research Institute in Perth, where he coordinates the community prevention-research program. He has been engaged as a consultant on prevention strategies by a number of industry and government organisations in Australia. His research interests include community-based prevention of alcohol and other drug-related harm, workplace prevention programs, and school-based drug education. His publications have appeared in a range of journals, including Addiction, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Australian Medical Journal, Contemporary Drug Problems, and International Journal of Drug Policy.

Jim Nolan, BA, B.Leg.S., LL M is a barrister-at-law, Denman Chambers, Sydney, practicing in employment and industrial law. He has appeared in all major industrial jurisdictions in Australia and appears regularly in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. He appeared as Counsel for the CFMEU in the BHP Iron Ore case on employee drug testing before the Full Bench of the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission. He was formerly an industrial officer and advocate for media unions and then Executive Member of the NSW Privacy Committee, the statutory privacy ombudsman. For a number of years he was lecturer in labour law (part time) at the University of Sydney Law School. He has spoken and written regularly on privacy issues in the workplace.

Ken Pidd, BA holds an honours degree in psychology and has more than twenty years' experience in the construction, mining, and manufacturing industries throughout Australia. Ken has been involved in both the industrial relations and occupational health and safety areas, and was most recently employed to manage a workplace drug and alcohol safety and rehabilitation program for the South Australian construction industry. He left this position after receiving funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, and is currently working full time on a Ph.D. research program examining the relationship between drug use and the Australian workplace.

Max Sully holds a post in the Psychology Department at Murdoch University, where he teaches in the areas of organisational behaviour, occupational health and welfare, and the psychology of work. In addition to his academic work, he works as a consultant in the area of organisational change management and has worked with a range of private and non-governmental organisations.

Tania Towers, M.Psych.has worked in the addictions field in the public and private sectors for more than ten years. She has been involved in providing treatment for individuals with alcohol and other drug problems. She has also developed and implemented education and training programs on a wide number of topics related to addictions, including alcohol and other drugs in the workplace. She is currently Senior Clinical Psychologist at Next Step Specialist Drug and Alcohol Services, where she coordinates Clinical Psychology and Youth Treatment Services.