Speakers

Jade is a Senior Ergonomist at WorkSafe Victoria and is an inspector appointed under the Occupational Health and Safety Act Vic. Her role focuses on providing specialist advice in relation to safe systems of work, hazardous manual handling, human factors, and systems thinking to support inspectors and health and safety projects. Jade has completed her Master's in Ergonomics, Safety, and Health at La Trobe University and has written a thesis where she has applied systems thinking methodologies to identify OHS gaps in hybrid working. Prior to this, Jade was working as a Program Officer at WorkSafe Victoria where she developed and implemented health and safety projects focused on driving awareness to employers about their OHS obligations in relation to hazardous manual handling and reducing the risk of musculoskeletal disorders.