Contact the Health and Safety Team

Click here to email the Health and Safety Mailbox 

Or call the team on ext. 93636 (03 369 3636)

Natasha Barnett

Director, Health and Safety
Internal Phone: 91419

Roger Kippenberger

H&S Improvement Manager
Internal Phone: 90611

Chris Hyndman

H&S Business Partner
Internal Phone: 90837

Matthew Brown

H&S Business Partner
Internal Phone: 91244

Madeline Leighton

H&S Business Partner
Internal Phone: 90241

Casey Davies

H&S Business Partner - Projects
Internal Phone: 92271

Simone Kent

H&S Coordinator
Internal Phone: 91101

The Health and Safety team is responsible for:

  • Ensuring that the University meets its obligations with all occupational safety and health statutes and regulations.
  • Providing advice and assistance to staff and students around effective hazard management.
  • Health and safety education aimed at empowering departments to effectively identify and manage the hazards in their area.
  • Reporting and investigating events from across UC where staff/students/visitors /contractors have been injured or could have been injured in the course of their work.
  • Provision of occupational health services for e.g. health monitoring
  • Facilitating employee participation in Health & Safety.
  • Monitoring the Health & Safety performance across the University and reporting on this to senior management along with relevant recommendations for improvement.

If a Notifiable Event occurs, please contact one of the Health & Safety Team.