Health and Safety Research Group

Research Group Summary

This is a multidisciplinary research group that covers all aspects of health and safety. Topics include:
Occupational health;
Human error;
Ergonomics;
Safety engineering;
Business systems and procedures;
Legislative and regulatory;
Hazard analysis;
Risk Assessment;
Preventative and recovery Barrier methods;
Emergency response;
Failure investigation;
Organisational behaviour;
Industrial psychology;
Organisational & Workplace culture;
Change management;

Key Contact

• Dirk John Pons: Group Leader; Mechanical Engineering

Members - UC Staff

• Dirk John Pons: Group Leader; Mechanical Engineering

• Developing a complex system for managing health and safety at Early Years Care and Education (EYCE) centres. An in-house practitioner research project.
• DISASTER MITIGATION
• Finding deeper insights in safety incident reports
• Health and Safety Cultures in Manufacturing Engineering
• Industrial Health and safety
• Representing Safe Processes and Risk to Workshop Operators
• Why did the Pike River mine explode?

• Education: Health Education
• Engineering and Technology: Engineering Management; Manufacturing
• Health and Health Sciences: Other Health Studies
• Law: Employment Law; The law of employment, social security and accident compensation
• Management, Human Resources, Industrial Relations, International Business and Other Business: Business Administration; Change Management; Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility; Human Resources; Operations and Services Management; Organisational Behaviour and Theory
• Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy: Public Policy
• Psychology: Behavioural Science; Cognitive Psychology; Organisational Psychology
• Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Criminology and Gender Studies: Social Policy
• Statistics: Applied Statistics