Member Spotlight - July 2025

David has made a significant contribution to injury prevention on international stage. He is an engineer and the Professor of Risk Management and Injury Prevention at the University of Technology Sydney. His PhD was on interventions to reduce workplace hearing loss.

David joined UTS in 1995 as a lecturer and in 1997 he commenced pro bono work with the Standard Australia in the area of product and consumer safety. In the same year he developed a portable impact attenuation test rig which he used to measure the performing of playground surfacing. In 2000 he accepted an invitation to chair the domestic trampoline standards committee. In 2002 he developed the world first wireless blue tooth impact attenuation test rig. These test rigs were used to ascertain the performance of trampoline padding and the test method thresholds within the 2004 trampoline standard. David pioneered the introduction of numerous trampoline safety interventions such as frame padding, fall prevention barriers and skirting to prevent limb entrapment.

David continues to enjoy his long association with AIPN because their aim is to prevent injuries before they happen. When we prevent the injuries nobody knows or recognises the great work we have done, but we soldier on to eliminate the next spike to the injury data.

Most members would not know that David assisted the NSW Police in the ‘pogo stick’ murder investigation where forensic evidence he gathered lead to Kodi Maybir being sentenced to 31 years[1].