Catherine Jeffries is a senior health, safety and wellbeing executive with extensive experience leading cultural transformation and risk reduction across Australia’s public health, manufacturing, retail and corporate sectors, in large complex organsiations at state and national levels. As Director of Health, Safety & Wellbeing at Monash Health, she oversees safety strategy, psychosocial risk management, and workers compensation for more than 25,000 employees. Catherine has delivered significant improvements in safety culture, multi‑million‑dollar premium reductions, and delivered positive improvements through innovative wellbeing and manual handling programs.

A former Registered Nurse with a Graduate Diploma in OHS, she is known for building high‑performing teams, strengthening governance, and creating mentally healthy workplaces where people can thrive