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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

natasha.barnett@canterbury.ac.nz

Roger Kippenberger

Health and Safety Improvement Manager

Phone: +6433690611

Internal Phone: 90611

roger.kippenberger@canterbury.ac.nz

Chris Thomas Hyndman

Health and Safety Business Partner

Phone: +6433690837

Internal Phone: 90837

chris.hyndman@canterbury.ac.nz

Matthew Brown

Health & Safety Business Partner

Phone: +6433691244

Internal Phone: 91244

matthew.brown@canterbury.ac.nz

Madeline Leighton

Health & Safety Business Partner

Phone: +6433690241

Internal Phone: 90241

madeline.leighton@canterbury.ac.nz

Simone Moana Kent

Health and Safety Co-ordinator

Phone: +6433691101

Internal Phone: 91101

simone.kent@canterbury.ac.nz

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.