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)
Roger Kippenberger
Health and Safety Improvement Manager
Phone: +6433690611
Internal Phone: 90611
Mobile: 027 281 2070
Chris Hyndman
Health and Safety Business Partner
Portfolios: Engineering, Facilities Management
Phone: +6433690837
Internal Phone: 90837
Mobile: 027 252 3648
Matt Brown
Health and Safety Business Partner
Portfolios: UCSA, Vice-Chancellors Office, Fieldwork, WIL
Phone: +6433691244
Internal Phone: 91244
Mobile: 027 579 9814
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.