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Board of Directors
The Centre for Health & Safety Innovation is governed by a Board of Directors. The Board consists of the Presidents and CEOs of the partner organizations.
Al Beattie
President, CHSI Board of Directors
President and CEO
Infrastructure Health & Safety Association 
Al Beattie is the President and CEO of the Infrastructure Health & Safety Association (IHSA), one of Ontario’s four newly amalgamated agencies for preventing occupational injury and illness.
Under his leadership, IHSA engages with member firms, workers, and other stakeholders to help them continuously improve their health and safety performance. Al and his team do this by providing effective and innovative sector-specific programs, products, and services.
Al earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters in Education from Central Michigan University. His education includes courses in management and practical loss-control leadership.
Al has extensive experience in health and safety, going back to his work as a powerline technician and supervisor in the 1980s and 1990s. After working in utilities in St. Thomas and Penetanguishene, Al accepted a position as a health and safety consultant with the Electrical & Utilities Safety Association (E&USA) in 1999.
This began his formal career in health and safety, a career marked by the breadth, variety, and responsibility of his roles. His work as a health and safety consultant involved facilitating 22 different training courses. Recognizing his leadership abilities, E&USA promoted him to Manager of Client Services in 2003. In this role, he oversaw the association’s service delivery to clients and financial operations.
In 2005, Al was promoted to Director of Prevention Services, becoming responsible for directing, planning, organizing, and evaluating the delivery of programs to prevent injury and illness in member companies. His success led E&USA to promote him to VP of Prevention Services in 2007. In this role, Al continued to develop and implement strategic business plans to increase E&USA’s impact and financial strength.
With the merger of the IHSA's legacy associations in January 2010, Al became IHSA's Vice President of Prevention—Specialty Sevices, a division that focused on high-value, health and safety training and auditing. Al became IHSA's Interim President and CEO in September 2010 and was named permanently to the role in April 2011.
Barbara Burns
VP Organization Excellence & Development
Workplace Safety and Prevention Services
With the merger of FSA, IAPA and OSSA into WSPS in January 2010, Barb became the VP of Organizational Excellence and Development. Prior to that, Barb had been with the Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA) for over 11 years as VP Corporate Services and as the General Manager and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing the amalgamation on behalf of OSSA.
Ms. Burns has more than 25 years of management and executive experience in healthcare and health and safety associations.
She has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science.
Fatima Luis
Vice President, Administration & Customer Relations
Fatima Luis is Vice-President of Administration & Customer Relations at the Infrastructure Health & Safety Association (IHSA). Fatima is responsible for finance, procurement, office services, communications, marketing, and print production at IHSA. Fatima studied commerce and has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Windsor. She also has a Certificate of Marketing and Retailing from Ryerson University. Her education includes courses in occupational health and safety management and information technology.
Fatima's marketing experience includes work for Simpsons department stores, where she prepared buying plans, executed product distribution, and conducted studies to support merchandise planning. She has experience in pay equity and labour-management relations.
Fatima began her career in health and safety twenty-five years ago with the Construction Safety Association of Ontario (CSAO), working her way up to the position of Manager of Production Services. In this role, Fatima managed all aspects of communications, print production, and customer service for the association.
Fatima became IHSA's Manager of Marketing and Communications in January 2010 when CSAO merged into IHSA. She became Vice-President, Administration & Customer Relations in June 2011.
Elizabeth Mills
President and CEO, Workplace Safety & Prevention Services 
Elizabeth Mills is the inaugural President and Chief Executive Officer of Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS),
one of four newly amalgamated health and safety associations resulting from the restructuring of Ontario's prevention system.
WSPS, formed January 1, 2010, is a not-for-profit organization with a mandate to meet the health and safety needs of 154,000 businesses in the agricultural,
manufacturing and service industries, representing 3.8 million employees across Ontario.
An executive with over 16 years of experience and leadership in health and safety, Elizabeth Mills was previously CEO of the Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA), having brought together a coalition of industry trade associations and volunteer organizations to found the not-for-profit association in 1997.
Prior to OSSA, Elizabeth honed her government relations, policy development and operational planning skills working in a variety of senior roles in the not-for-profit and government sectors. A strategic thinker, change agent and leader of stakeholder coalitions, Elizabeth served as Director, Government Relations, Retail Council of Canada, from May 1995 to June 1997. In representing and lobbying on behalf of the Council's 7,000 retail companies, she focused on issues related to employment standards, health and safety, workers' compensation and the environment.
Elizabeth's prior experience includes five years as an Ontario public servant working in policy-related functions in both the Ministry of the Government Services and the Ministry of the Solicitor General. She left government in March 1993 to begin her career as a lobbyist in association management and with the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association.
Elizabeth is currently a Director on the Board of WSPS. She also holds positions as:
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Previously Elizabeth served as a publicly appointed member of the Board of Directors for the College of Opticians, and as a Director for the Ontario Tourism Education Corporation.
A native of Toronto, Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Arts, Political Science (1987) from Wilfrid Laurier University and her Master of Public Administration from Queen's University, (1989). In recognition of her achievements, Elizabeth was nominated for Canada's "Top 40 Under 40" awards program.