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
Phone: +6433691419
Internal Phone: 91419
Mobile: 027 232 6254
Roger Kippenberger
Health and Safety Improvement Manager
Phone: +6433690611
Internal Phone: 90611
Mobile: 027 281 2070
Angie Willington
Health and Safety Business Partner
Okeover House
Phone: +6433693384
Internal Phone: 93384
Mobile: 021 0294 3590
Chris Hyndman
Health and Safety Business Partner
Phone: +6433690837
Internal Phone: 90837
Mobile: 027 252 3648
Samara Hodges
Health and Safety Business Partner
Phone: +6433690685
Internal Phone: 90685
Mobile: 027 234 4261
Matt Brown
Health and Safety Business Partner
Phone: +6433691244
Internal Phone: 91244
Mobile: 027 579 9814
Mel Walker
Health and Safety Co-ordinator
Phone: +6433691022
Internal Phone: 91022
Mobile: 027 311 9727
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/ flu vaccines
- Facilitating employee participation in Health & Safety.
- Maintaining an effective rehabilitation process for staff and students as required.
- 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.