Work Health and Safety Contacts

General Email Enquiries

General Enquiries[email protected]
Rehabilitation[email protected]
Biosafety[email protected]
Quarantine Import/Export Permits[email protected]
Training, Policy and Communications[email protected]

Contact the Work Health and Safety Team

Cairns Campus

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Kara Carless

WHS Advisor

[email protected]

Room: 137, Building A1

Kara is responsible for:

  • Work health and safety issues
  • Risk management
  • Incident and hazard management
  • Incident investigations
  • Auditing and inspections
  • Construction safety

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Larissa Baptist

Support Officer

[email protected]

Room: 137, Building A1

Larissa is responsible for:

  • General work health and safety issues
  • Auditing and inspections
  • Hazard reduction and reporting
  • Minor incident investigations

Townsville Campus

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Andrew Reddicliffe

Manager, Work Health and Safety Unit

[email protected]

Room: 220, Ken Back Chancellery Building

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

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Drew Kleier

Biological, Radiation and Chemicals Safety Advisor

[email protected]

Room: 220, Ken Back Chancellery Building

Drew is responsible for:

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Carlie Walker

Injury Prevention and Management Advisor

[email protected]

Room: 220, Ken Back Chancellery Building

Carlie is responsible for providing advice, assistance and training with respect to:

  • 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.

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Nakita Pearce

Injury Prevention and Management Advisor

[email protected]

Room: 220, Ken Back Chancellery Building

Nakita is responsible for providing advice, training and assistance with respect to:

  • 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.

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Raelene Fewquandie

Training and Communications Advisor

[email protected]

Room: 220, Ken Back Chancellery Building

Raelene 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

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Tania Thorburn

WHS Advisor (Controlled Entities)

[email protected]

Room: 220, Ken Back Chancellery Building

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.

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Kahlia Strid

Divisional Support Officer

[email protected]

Room: 220, Ken Back Chancellery Building

Kahlia is responsible for:

  • Records management
  • Team administration
  • Secretariat to WHSAC advisory committee
  • Work Health and Safety website maintenance

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Sophia Burke

Support Officer

[email protected]

Room: 220, Ken Back Chancellery Building

Sophia is responsible for:

  • General work health and safety issues
  • Auditing and inspections
  • Hazard reduction and reporting
  • Minor incident investigations

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Geoff Hueber

Support Officer (Emergency)

[email protected]

Room: 220, Ken Back Chancellery Building

Geoff is responsible for:

  • Fire safety
  • First aid
  • Emergency capability
  • Auditing and inspections