20 - 21 May 2021

Julie Nielsen

Executive Director Health and Safety, WorkSafe Victoria

Julie Nielsen is the Executive Director of Health & Safety for WorkSafe Victoria. Julie will join us at Connect 2021 to speak in the Leadership & Innovation stream. She will give a perspective on the safety record of the water sector, highlight current and emerging safety issues for the sector and provide some best practice approaches from other sectors, that the water sector may be able to utilise to improve safety in the industry.

Julie joined WorkSafe Victoria as Executive Director in October 2018 and is committed to ensuring Victorian workplaces are the safest in Australia. She has a particular interest in effective workplace consultative arrangements as a mechanism to prevent mental and physical harm.

Julie and her team are focused on the development and delivery of preventative strategies which allow all people to be healthy and safe at work.