In 2024 Dannae is completing a Churchill Fellowship, where she visited both regulators and chemical facilities in Singapore, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA.

The focus of the fellowship is to investigate the regulatory best practice on safe handling of hydrogen and ammonia at large scale in order to ensure the transition to chemical renewables is safe for the community. 

This project spans across regulators, industry and the general public, because safe workplaces deliver community safety, through reduced major hazard incidents.  When facilities can safely manage their risks, the local communities around the facilities are safer and more prosperous. 

Dannae is a process safety expert with extensive experience in the development and implementation of major hazard facility safety case regulation and assessment. In fulfilling this role she achieves her ambitions of protecting the community from large scale catastrophic chemical incidents. 

In her current role Dannae mentors and provides leadership to colleagues and stakeholders in risk management within high hazard industries.

Dannae is a member of the Victorian Renewable Energy Regulator Taskforce, the National Regulator MHF Community of Practice and the OECD Working Group on Chemical Accidents.  

She holds an Honours Degree in Chemical Engineering and Post Graduate qualifications in Safety Management.