Louise is a certified professional ergonomist and registered nurse. She established an ergonomics consultancy in 1994, and has since worked with regulators, industry associations, unions and employers to address musculoskeletal injury prevention. Louise has co-authored a number of publications relevant for the health and aged care sectors, including Manual Handling for Nurses program for WorkCover NSW and most recently Work Health and Safety Essentials for Nurses and Midwives, for NSWNMA (both available for download). For over a decade Louise has been delivering comprehensive trainer workshops for health professionals on best practice, safe patient handling. She also provides expert opinion in legal matters, principally in OHS/WHS and ergonomics-related issues. Louise is the Chair of the Healthcare Ergonomics SIG of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia. In her spare time, Louise is a PhD candidate at the University of NSW. Her research area is investigating the risk of injury when staff intervene to prevent a patient falling. P| 02 9659 6590 E| louisewhitby@bigpond.com W| www.workededwell.com.au