Simone is a Physiotherapist with 18 years experience in Australia, UK, Ireland and Bermuda!  She has been a Manual Handling and Ergonomics Coordinator for the Gold Coast Health Service (Queensland Health) for the past 7 years.

To cope with high predicted growth in the region this service just transitioned into a 750 bed, brand new Gold Coast University Hospital in September 2013. The new design saw them move from zero to 220 ceiling hoist tracks. 13 of these ceiling hoists can take 500kg patients.

After many years of Physiotherapy private practice and public health roles, here and abroad, she was happily drawn to manual handling as way of preventing injuries on a larger scale.  She has lectured at Bond University School of Physiotherapy in manual handling.