Work Health and Safety Contacts
General Email Enquiries
| General Enquiries | safety@jcu.edu.au |
| Rehabilitation | rehab@jcu.edu.au |
| Biosafety | biosafety@jcu.edu.au |
| Quarantine Import/Export Permits | importpermit@jcu.edu.au |
| Training, Policy and Communications | whstraining@jcu.edu.au |
Contact the Work Health and Safety Team
Cairns Campus
Kara Carless
WHS Advisor
Room: 137, Building A1
Kara is responsible for:
Kara is responsible for:
- Work health and safety issues
- Risk management Incident and hazard management
- Incident investigations
- Auditing and inspections
- Construction safety
Antonella Cuneo
Support Officer
Room: 137, Building A1
Antonella is responsible for:
Antonella is responsible for:
- General work health and safety issues
- Auditing and inspections
- Hazard reduction and reporting
- Minor incident investigations
Nakita Pearce
Injury Prevention and Management Advisor
Room: 137, Building A1
Nakita is responsible for:
- Health management for compensable and non-compensable injuries and illness
- Injury prevention, including ergonomic workstation assessments, job task analysis, manual handling training, risk assessments for hazardous manual tasks, health and wellbeing and vaccination.
Townsville Campus
Andrew Reddicliffe
Manager, Work Health and Safety Unit
Building 39, Room 244
Andrew is responsible for:
- Work health and safety issues
- Risk management
- Incident and hazard management
- Incident investigations
- Auditing and inspections
- Construction safety
- Safety Advisor for Boating and Diving Advisory Committee
Drew Kleier
Occupational Hygienist
Building 39, Room 244
Drew is responsible for:
- Hazardous chemicals
- Drugs and poisons
- Radiation safety
- Biosafety
- Asbestos management
- Quarantine
- Safety Advisor for Radiation and Biosafety Advisory Committees
Sarah Gulbinas
Injury Prevention and Management Advisor
Building 39, Room 244
Sarah is responsible for:
- Health management for compensable and non-compensable injuries and illness
- Injury prevention, including ergonomic workstation assessments, job task analysis, manual handling training, risk assessments for hazardous manual tasks, health and well being and vaccination.
Melissa Gallacher
Training and Communications Advisor
Building 39, Room 244
Melissa is responsible for:
- Research, development and implementation of training, induction and communication methods
- Co-ordination of design, implementation and delivery of all WHS training, including JCU WHS Mandatory training requirements
- Review learning and development WHS needs through conducting training needs analysis for staff
- Development and delivery of a communications program of events and publications for WHS
Kahlia Strid
Support Officer
Building 39, Room 244
Kahlia is responsible for:
- General work health and safety issues
- Auditing and inspections
- Hazard reduction and reporting
- Minor incident investigations
Tania Thorburn
WHS Advisor (Controlled Entities)
Building 39, Room 244
Tania is responsible for:
- Research, advise, develop and or integrate, implement, monitor and continually improve the WHS Management Systems for JCU Controlled Entities in consultation with relevant stakeholders within each functional level.
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders within JCU and JCU Controlled Entities to provide progress on continual improvement of WHS Management systems and ensure objectives and expectations of parties are met.
Sophia Burke
Support Officer
Building 39, Room 244
Sophia is responsible for:
- General work health and safety issues
- Auditing and inspections
- Hazard reduction and reporting
- Minor incident investigations
Zachary Holland
Support Officer (Emergency)
Building 39, Room 244
Zachary is responsible for:
- Fire safety
- First aid
- Emergency capability
- Auditing and inspections