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Keisha Currie

LLB

Senior Associate - Brisbane

Areas of Expertise

Workplace Relations & Safety

Contact Keisha

+61 7 3135 0511 keisha.currie@holdingredlich.com Connect

Expertise

Keisha is an experienced work health and safety lawyer and is passionate about helping clients take a preventative approach to safety. Keisha has experience advising clients within both the public and private sector and has particular experience within the mining industry. Keisha previously worked at the Department of Justice and Attorney-General for Crown Law performing public sector employment and safety work.

Keisha’s practice includes advising on all facets of safety legislation including duties, incident response, assisting with reviews of safety health management systems, legislative compliance and responding to regulatory enforcement action as well as providing and facilitating incident response training.

Experience

Keisha’s recent experience includes: 

Workplace Management

  • reviewing and amending workplace policies and procedures
  • auditing safety health management systems including incident notifications and regulatory responses
  • providing training to the work force regarding health and safety duties and interacting with Inspectors and Police
  • providing training to middle management regarding health and safety duties, liability and incident response
  • providing training to executives and senior management regarding director duties, health and safety duties, liability, incident response and incident investigations
  • preparing and facilitating training to test emergency and incident response procedures.

General Safety

  • advising on liability and exposure relating to safety incidents
  • advising on various duties under safety legislation and meeting statutory obligations
  • advising on principal contractor arrangements including reviewing contractual clauses for principal contractor appointments
  • advising on general safety matters including preventative action and responding to general matters raised by WHSQ or employees.

Incident and regulatory response

  • attending site and assisting clients in incident response
  • representing single or multiple employees during interviews with WHS inspectors following a workplace incident
  • assisting clients in responding to regulatory investigations following a workplace incident including responding to notices to produce documents and information, improvement notices and prohibition notices

Investigations

  • undertaking investigations, in person or desktop, into workplace incidents and providing an investigation report for the purpose of providing the client with advice
  • undertaking and advising on workplace investigations into complaints of health and safety concerns, employee misconduct and other workplace allegations.

Litigation

  • reviewing prosecution briefs and providing preliminary advice regarding liability and prospects of success.

Publications

18 April 2023 - Knowledge

Elevating the duty to ensure psychosocial safety: Consequences for non-compliance (Part 3)

#Workplace Relations & Safety

In this final instalment, we consider some of the potential consequences for businesses that fail to comply with the relevant code of practice for managing psychosocial hazards at work.

12 April 2023 - Knowledge

Elevating the duty to ensure psychosocial safety: Key considerations for identifying, assessing and controlling risks (Part 2)

In the second part of this series, we look at some practical considerations for identifying, assessing and controlling psychosocial hazards and risks in the workplace.

04 April 2023 - Knowledge

Elevating the duty to ensure psychosocial safety: New law and key compliance considerations (Part 1)

#Workplace Relations & Safety

In this three part series, we take a closer look at the codes of practice for psychosocial health and what businesses need to consider, practically, when intergrating changes into their workplace.

02 December 2022 - Knowledge

How will the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act impact human resource management? (Part 1)

#Workplace Relations & Safety

The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022 has made substantial amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). In this first article of a multi-part series, we look at the provisions regarding fixed term contracts and flexible work, and the impact of these on recruitment and hiring processes.

30 November 2022 - Knowledge

How will the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act impact human resource management? (Part 2)

#Workplace Relations & Safety

As part of our examination and guide to the changes flowing from the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act, we continue our series with this next instalment on the provisions relating to pay secrecy and job advertisements.

Upcoming Seminars

30 May 23

Recent developments in privacy, cyber security and AI | Queensland Government lawyer series 2023

In this webinar, we will look at key developments in these areas, including: recent data breach cases and trends, reviews of Queensland and Commonwealth privacy legislation, the rise of Chat GPT, AI tools, and key risks and cyber security developments.

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31 May 23

IBAC and the Victorian Ombudsman | Victorian Local Government Series 2023

IBAC and the Victorian Ombudsman have investigated a number of complaints in relation to Victorian local councils and produced a series of reports. In this presentation, partner Joseph Monaghan, will provide a basic overview of IBAC and the Victorian Ombudsman, their respective roles and functions under their establishing legislation and an overview of recent IBAC and Ombudsman investigation reports involving local councils.

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05 Jun 23

Emergencies, flooding and legal liability | Victorian Local Government Series 2023

The recent extreme flood events raise a series of legal issues including the liability of local councils for decisions that expose residents and businesses to greater risk from flooding events, and remedial steps to address past decision-making. In this webinar, partner Joseph Monaghan and lawyer Jacob Atkinson will discuss these topics.

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