Career
Alena is a highly regarded health and safety lawyer with 20 years' experience. She is recognised for providing an empathic and multidisciplinary approach to all client health and safety regulatory needs.
Her practice spans both private and public sectors, with a focus on energy, gas, construction, infrastructure, mining, aviation, defence, transport and logistics.
Alena advises on occupational health and safety, psychosocial risk, security and anti-terrorism, biosecurity, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure security, product safety, maritime safety, aviation safety, mine safety, rail safety, construction safety, food safety, road safety and chain of responsibility.
She also provides a 24/7 incident response service for clients dealing with fatalities and serious incidents and conducts WHS investigations and WHS-related litigation.
Alena has significant experience in enabling improved operational performance across multiple sectors through the design and delivery of education and skill development programs and technology-enabled tools to support organisations to achieve WHS legal compliance. She has relationships with all health and safety regulators in all states and territories and at the federal level.
Alena is recognised by Chambers & Partners as a leading lawyer in health and safety.
For additional information on Alena’s professional background and work highlights, please visit: https://jws.com.au/our-people/alena-titterton/.