Menzies Aviation -O R Tambo International Airport Duration : 01 August 2022 to Date Position : Safety Officer DUTIES - Conduct site safety inspection.
- Investigate incident/accident and provide recommendation after investigation is concluded.
- Conduct internal workplace audit.
- Assist Safety Head of Department to manage Safety Systems.
- Compile daily and Monthly report.
- Assist company to avoid incident/accidents- related cost and productivity losses.
- Conduct Mobile equipment inspection.
- Monitor if Employees medicals, licences and inductions are still valid.
- Monitor and assist in conducting risk assessment.
- Monitor that employees are using correct PPE for their specific work.
- Monitor and ensure that all SHEQ standards and Safe work procedures are followed by all stake holders.
- Ensure and monitor that P T O’s and planned inspection are conducted by departmental SHE REP’s as per SHE REP committee schedule.
- Co-ordinate SHE related contractors e.g., Fire Equipment.
- Coordinate Health and Safety, SHE REP meetings.
- Coordinate toolbox talks meetings.
- Conduct and Coordinate during emergency evacuation preparedness.
- Ensure and monitor that employees work according to company safety rules.
- Motivate employees to always work safe and report incidents no matter how small they appear to be.
- Engage employees about the objectives of reporting incidents.
- Coach employee about the importance of complying with SHEQ standards.
- Ensured that Equipment check list is done before use.
- Good house keeping
- Ensure that safety around the Aircraft is adhered too.
- Ensuring that employees drive within the speed limit.
Buzaphi Construction (Pty) ltd Duration : 01 March 2022 to 30 July 2022 Position : Safety Officer DUTIES - Conduct site safety inspection.
- Investigate incident/accident and provide recommendation after investigation is concluded.
- Conduct internal workplace audit.
- Assist Safety Head of Department to manage Safety Systems.
- Compile daily and Monthly report.
- Assist company to avoid incident/accidents- related cost and productivity losses.
- Conduct Mobile equipment inspection.
- Making sure that the Excavated trench is safe for Employees to enter.
- Making sure that Safety barricading is erected around Excavated areas and Safety signs a displayed.
- Monitor if Employees medicals, licences and inductions are still valid.
- Monitor and assist in conducting risk assessment.
- Monitor that employees are using correct PPE for their specific work.
- Monitor and ensure that all SHEQ standards and Safe work procedures are followed by all stake holders.
- Coordinate toolbox talks meetings.
- Attend regular site, technical and progress meeting.
- Conduct and Coordinate during emergency evacuation preparedness.
- Ensure and monitor that employees work according to company safety rules.
- Motivate employees to always work safe and report incidents no matter how small they appear to be.
- Engage employees about the objectives of reporting incidents.
- Coach employee about the importance of complying with SHEQ standards.
- Ensured that Equipment check list is done before use.
- Good house keeping
- Ensure that safety around construction area adhered too.
- Ensuring that plant equipment operators are operating safely around working area.
Engineering (Elandsfontein TRANSNET RME) Duration : 01/12/2020 to 29 /02/2021 Position : Safety Officer DUTIES - Conduct risk assessment and enforce preventative measures.
- Doing daily audits
- Issuing PPE
- Ensuring that DSTI are done before work commences.
- Sending weekly reports to management
- Ensured that work permit is obtained before work commences.
- Ensured that electrical equipment inspection is done every day.
- Ensured that new employees and visitors are fully briefed on the hazards on-site.
- Ensured that everyone on-site is fully aware of emergency protocol.
- Ensured that site supervisor do a toolbox talk about the potential hazards of the work that is going to be done.
- Ensured that safety protocols.
- Ensuring that personal protective equipment is worn all the time.
- Making sure that employees are trained, assessed, and found competent to do the work, e.g., Welder, Drivers and Flagmen.
- Ensured that Vehicle checklist is done before it is driven.
- Conduct toolbox talk.
- Ensuring that vehicles are clean at all times.
- Doing walkabout to check if everyone is working safely.
- Conduct investigation to incidents and near miss.
South Africa Airways (OR Tambo International Airport) Duration: 02/10/2002 to 30/05/2014 Position : Customer service agent Duration : 01 /11/2015 to 30/06/2017 Position : Customer Service Agent : SHE Representative DUTIES - Identifying potential hazard in the workplace
- Examining the cause of incident
- Investigating employee complaints regarding health and safety
- Review the effectiveness of health and measures in the workspace which I was appointed at.
- Do monthly checklist.
- Attend SHE REP monthly meeting.
- Assist Safety Officers with investigation.
- Acting as a liaison between employees and Safety department
- Ensuring good house keeping
NJM Heat Treatment & ND services (Sasol Secunda) Duration : 01 to 31 September (2021) Position : Safety Officer DUTIES - Responsible for monitoring and assessing hazardous and unsafe situations.
- Developing measures to assure personnel safety.
- Correct unsafe acts or conditions through the regular line of authority.
- May exercise emergency authority to prevent or stop unsafe acts when immediate action is required.
- maintaining awareness of active and developing situations.
- Ensures there are safety messages in each Incident Action Plan.
- Investigate accidents that have occurred within incident areas.
- Inspects the site to ensure it is a hazard-free environment.
- Conducts toolbox meetings
- Verifies that injury logs and reports are completed and submitted to Management.
- Verifies that all tools and equipment are adequate and safe for use.
- Promotes safe practices at the job site.
- Enforces safety guidelines
- Conducts investigations of all accidents and near-misses
- Watches out for the safety of all workers and works to protect them from entering hazardous situations. (e.g. Barricading)
- Responds to employees’ safety concerns
- Conduct risk assessment and enforce preventative measures
- Inspect premises and the work of personnel to identify issues or non-conformity (e.g. not using protective equipment)
- Stop any unsafe acts or processes that seem dangerous or unhealthy
- Record and investigate incidents to determine causes and handle worker’s compensation claims
- Prepare reports on occurrences.
Swissport SA ground handling company (OR Tambo International Airport) Duration : 03/07/2017 to 31/07/2020 Position : Safety Officer (03/07/2017 to 31/07/2020 Position : Facilitator & Assessor (10/2019 to 07/2020) DUTIES - Conduct site safety inspection.
- Investigate incident/accident and provide recommendation after investigation is concluded.
- Conduct internal workplace audit.
- Assist Safety Head of Department to manage Safety Systems.
- Compile daily and Monthly report.
- Assist company to avoid incident/accidents- related cost and productivity losses.
- Conduct Mobile equipment inspection.
- Monitor if Employees medicals, licences and inductions are still valid.
- Monitor and assist in conducting risk assessment.
- Training workers on SHE REP, First Aid and Fire fighter.
- Monitor that employees are using correct PPE for their specific work.
- Monitor and ensure that all SHEQ standards and Safe work procedures are followed by all stake holders.
- Ensure and monitor that P T O’s and planned inspection are conducted by departmental SHE REP’s as per SHE REP committee schedule.
- Co-ordinate SHE related contractors e.g. Fire Equipment.
- Coordinate Health and Safety, SHE REP meetings.
- Coordinate toolbox talks meetings.
- Conduct and Coordinate during emergency evacuation preparedness.
- Ensure and monitor that employees work according to company safety rules.
- Motivate employees to always work safe and report incidents no matter how small they appear to be.
- Engage employees about the objectives of reporting incidents.
- Coach employee about the importance of complying with SHEQ standards.
- Ensured that Equipment check list is done before use.
- Good house keeping
- Ensure that safety around the Aircraft is adhered too.
- Ensuring that employees drive within the speed limit.
Yandisa Tony’s Construction (Arcelormittal Newcastle) Duration : 01/06/2014 TO 31/05/2015 Position : Safety Officer DUTIES - Conduct risk assessment and enforce preventative measures.
- Doing daily audits
- Issuing PPE
- Sending weekly reports to management
- Ensuring that personal protective equipment is worn at all times when employee is entering a boiler room?
- Making sure that workers treat the vessel as a permit-required confined space.
- Ensured that all OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) and other safety regulations are being followed.
- Made sure that the project foremen conduct pre-work meetings with all crews to review any potential hazards and to make workers aware of all safety requirements.
- Made sure that everyone on-site is fully aware of emergency protocols and have easy access to contact information for emergency responders.
- Made sure any new employees should be fully briefed on safety practices and be carefully supervised by a more experienced worker.
- Ensured that good housekeeping.
- Ensured that all workers are trained and found competent and certified, e.g., Boiler makers, Pipe fitters.
- Ensured that gas testing is done, and it is safe to enter the vessel.
- Ensured that the work site should also be properly ventilated, and a material safety data sheet (MSDS) should be displayed listing every type of chemical or material that may be hazardous. All containers should also be labelled to prevent potentially dangerous confusion about contents.
- Ensured that Hazardous areas were marked off with appropriate warning tape, such as yellow for caution or red for danger.
- Ensured that hot work permit is obtained before work commences.
- Ensured that lock out procedures are adhered to.
- Ensured that entry and exit procedures are adhered to when working on the boiler.
- Ensured that electrical equipment inspection is kept in a log and a colour coded piece of tape is added to the equipment indicating a completed inspection.
- Ensured guardrails meeting height and force resistance regulations should be in place wherever possible.
- Ensured that If work is being done where the presence of guardrails is not possible then workers should use personal fall protection gear such as harnesses and lanyards with a secure anchor point.
- Ensured that All fall protection equipment were routinely inspected.
- Ensured Barricades are used to block off areas where there are open holes, and they should never be left unattended. Horizontal lifelines should be installed wherever needed.
- Ensured that Scaffolds were inspected daily by authorized personnel and no assembly or modifications of the scaffold should be done unless it is supervised by a trained, competent person.
- Ensured that all scaffolds were properly tagged with specs and safety requirements.
- Ensured that all workers are mandated to read and fully understand a scaffold’s tags prior to using the scaffold.
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