Professional Activities
Ham was a Member of the National Research Council of Canada,from 1969 to 1974.
He was Chairman, Committee on Education and Training, of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations from 1971 to 1974.
From 1974 to 1976, He was the chairman of the Ontario government's Royal Commission on Health and Safety of Workers in Mines (known as the Ham Commission). The commission's report included more than a hundred recommendations about health and safety in mines. The report also established the Internal Responsibility System ("IRS"), a strategy for the oversight of health and safety in the province's workplaces that remains today as a standard that has been adopted across Canada and internationally.
He was Chairman, Advisory Committee on Safety and Training, Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger Marine Disaster from 1982 to 1985.
From 1986 to 1988 he was Chairman, Industrial Disease Standards Panel, Ministry of Labour, Ontario. The Panel had been created by statutory amendments to the Workers' Compensation Act. Its purpose was to investigate issues of occupational disease in the province; and to make policy recommendations to the Workers' Compensation Board for possible compensation. Among the issues tackled by the Panel during his two years as Chairman can be included lung diseases in gold and uranium mining, various cancers from PCB exposures, and other contentious occupational disease issues.
In 1987, he was a founding fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, serving as its vice president from 1988 to 1989 and president from 1990 to 1991.
He was advisor to the president of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research from 1988 to 1990.
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