Clients benefit from my understanding of the safety requirements associated with their operations and I have supported many clients to deal with the aftermath of serious incidents and fatalities, working closely with clients to support their engagement with regulators and developing a strategic response to prosecutions and related enforcement activity.

I have particular expertise in advising clients about the management and allocation of contractual risk and in conducting workplace and Board/Executive training on health and safety obligations. I particularly enjoy working with clients to develop proactive and practical health and safety compliance strategies, directed at prevention of incidents and enhancing worker safety and wellbeing. I have extensive experience in supporting clients to address psychosocial hazards and employee mental health, safety and wellbeing issues.

More broadly, I have an established practice in administrative, regulatory and public law matters, acting for a range of public sector departments and regulators to support them to exercise their powers and carry out their functions.

I have a particular interest in high risk industry sectors, including health, education, construction, manufacturing and transport and enjoy working closely with clients in these industries to identify bespoke solutions to health and safety issues.

Career highlights

• Managing complex critical incident and work health and safety investigations – including in the immediate aftermath of a safety incident.
• Advising Boards and executives about their obligations under the work health and safety regimes and delivering bespoke training to assist officers to comply with their due diligence obligations.
• Advising and defending safety prosecutions and enforcement action arising from alleged contraventions of work health and safety laws.
• Advising public and private sectors clients in relation to responding to safety incidents, conducting internal investigations and applications for review of compulsive notices.
• Advising regulators, government departments and statutory authorities on the exercise of their statutory functions and regulatory powers.

• COVID-19 vax information regulations now revoked in Victoria
  

  Employers who collected or recorded vaccination information under OHS COVID-19 Regulations have 30 days to destroy information.