Katherine Morris is a leading work health and safety partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. She has over 23 years’ experience working across all jurisdictions of Australia. Katherine is recognised as a leading individual in key global legal rankings publications including Chambers & Partners, Asia-Pacific Legal 500 and Best Lawyers Australia.

Katherine’s main areas of expertise in health and safety law are:

1. Serious incident response and management;

2. Defence of prosecutions (and other investigatory and enforcement action) and representation in coronial inquiries; and

3. Strategic and compliance advice to organisations and their officers regarding satisfaction of all health and safety legal duties, including regarding psychosocial risk management.

Katherine has successfully defended both individuals and corporations in high profile health and safety prosecutions (including for the highest level offences where there is exposure to custodial sentences) and coronial inquiries across Australia. She has experience across a wide range of high safety risk industries including transport, construction and engineering, energy and resources, and real estate.

Talks

• Speaking Session – Recent prosecutions for failure to mitigate psychosocial risks and learnings for satisfying officer due diligence duties
• Keynote Panel Discussion – Implementation of the new psychosocial risk management legal obligations