Safety Manager

CURRICULUM VITAE – LETHIWE COSSA

PERSONAL DATAILS

Full Name: L I Cossa

Permanent Address: FLAT 82,Victoria Walk, Victoria Street, Durban

Mobile number: 073-****-***

Tel Number (w): 031-****-***

Email Address: ***********@*****.***

PERSONAL DATAILS

Date of birth: 24 June 1979

Place of Birth: Durban

Citizenship: South African

Identity Number: 790**********

Gender: Female

Marital Status : Married

Language : Zulu & English

TERTIARY EDUCATION/ACCREDITATIONS

COURSE NAME YEAR COMPLETED INSTITUTION

SHE REPRESENTATIVE : 28-01- 2010 NOSA

APPLYING SHE PRINCIPLES IN THE WORKPLACE : 16-03- 2010 NOSA

HIRA : 03-03-2010 NOSA

SHE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS TOOLS : 05-03- 2010 NOSA

SAMTRAC : 28-05- 2010 NOSA

FALL ARREST TECHNICIAN : 13-12-2011 HEIGHTSAFETY

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE : 29-06-2012 UKZN

INCIDENT INVESTIGATION : 25-04-2013 NOSA

ISO 9001 INTRODUCTION : 24-06-2013 NOSA

DIPLOMA IN SAFETY MANAGEMENT : 05-05-2014 OXBRIDGE ACADEMY

FIRE FIGHTING : 10-12-2017 ACTION TRAINING

FIRST AID LEVEL 1 : 10-07-2015 ST JOHNS

OPERATING CRANES 30T : 04-04-2016 THOLULWAZI ATC

HEALTH SAFETY & SECURITY ADMINISTRATION : 18-04-2018 IBM COLLEGE TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT : CURRENTLY UNISA

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFET ACT : 30-08-2018 KBC

MINE HEALTH & SAFETY ACT : 30-08-2018 KBC

FALL PROTECTION PLANNER : 28-10-2018 GRAVITEK

FALL ARREST TECHNICIAN : 29-10-2018 GRAVITEK

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: PROJECT

Name of Company : Elinem coastal

Job Tittle : Safety officer

Date started : 04 May 2008

Reason for leaving : company relocates to Witbank.

Date : 15-08-2010

Responsibilities

Site safety officer

First aider

Fire watcher, Confined space observer.

Conduct tool box talk.

Technical clerk

HIV/AIDS awareness

Attend client safety meetings

Record employee’s hours.

Monthly inspections

Control P-T Cash

Arrange employees Entry & exit medicals

Arrange transport for employees when the work late.

Arrange client’s inductions

Maintain site housekeeping & waste management.

Arrange client induction as well as internal induction.

Attend client site Audit.

Do welding inspections, Ark welder, Boilermaker Assistant.

Name of Company : DORMAC (MARINE& ENGINEERING)

Job Tittle : SAFETY COORDINATOR

Date of Started : 27 June 2011

Reason for leaving : Retrenched

Date : 05/06/2015

Sites : RICHARDS BAY MINERAL (mine), TRONOX (mine),TRANSNET MARINE (SHIP REPAIR)UMFOLOZI SUGAR MILL,PONGOLA SUGAR MILL,MONDI RICHARDS BAY,HILLSIDE ALLUMINUIM,BAYSIDE ALLUMINUIM, TATA STEEL (mine),LAFARGE RICHARDS BAY,FOSKOR RICHARDS BAY (Petro- chemical)& VOPAC DBN TANK BUILDING PROJECT (Petro-chemical).

Responsibilities

Administer the EHS filling documentation system

Appointed Site Supervisor for RBM Mine.

Permit Applicant for TRONOX KZN SANDS.

Compiling and presenting Safety Files to clients.

Coordinate Internal SHEQ Audits.

Coordinate External SHEQ Audits for Certification(NOSA, Dept. of Labour, SABS & DNV)

Coordinate External Client Site Compliance Audits ( SAMSA)

Ensure induction and compliance Management of contractors on site.

Ensure induction and compliance Management of Sub-contractors on site.

Ensure General, Recyclable and Contaminated/Hazardous Waste is managed according to legal requirements with regard to Generation of waste storage and Disposal.

Ensure in-house and site good housekeeping is maintained

HIV/AIDS Counsellor or awareness in the workplace

Ensure Employees are provided with the correct PPE and know how to use and maintain.

Ensure employee medical examinations are conducted and records maintained.

Coordinate internal EHS Committee meetings every month.

Attend client SHE site meetings.

Complete (DSTI) Daily Safety Task Instruction.

Attending Client she committee meeting.

Develop and manage the EHS plan

Manage Nosa 5 star Safety system.

Provide Dormac inductions and toolbox talk.

Permit Applicant for all sites e.g. Foskor, Hillside, and RBM.Tronox etc.

Arrange training for employees.KBC, working at heights.

Compile Safe work procedures.

Record and manage EHS statistics, Near miss LTIs and compile a monthly report.

Incident and investigations/accident and writing the reports, root cause and

Update all letters of appointments.

Capture all SHE’s hours & project time costing for Safety officers and Fire team.

Daily site inspection.

Supervise the employees ( Mining Appointed supervisor)

Arrange hot work permit with Transnet fire deptment.

Training BELL EQUIPMENT employee’s overhead cranes and gantry cranes.

Name of Company : BNC PROJECTS Engineering Services Mechanical Contractors.

Date started : 08/06/2015.

Reason for leaving; End of contract. (Currently assisting with compiling SHE files for TSB, USM, FELIXTON,KOMATI- Project name: inspection of Centrifugal basket)

Date; 31/09/2015

Responsibilities: -

Compile health and safety file for the sites and projects.

Ensures that all SHE files are compiled and approved by client.

Assist the client Audit for UMNGENI WATERS.

Ensures medicals are carried out prior to mobilisation and that all employees are inducted in terms of safety regulations prior to mobilisation.

Tool box talks and kept the records.

Training of safety offices for the client Veolia Waters.

Compiling Risk assessment and approve risk assessment for sub-contractors.

Ensures that risk assessments are carried out and that safety plans are adhered to

Ensures that reporting is accurate and that all equipment and tool registers are up to date and checked

Convene and attend regular safety meetings and ensures minutes are taken.

Ensures senior management are advised immediately if a serious accident occurs and effectively manages accident / incident investigations

Monitors safety on site day to day and insists that areas are made safe where hazards exist or work is stopped where danger of an accident exists

Effectively manages appointments in terms of legal requirements.

Ensures all scaffolding is inspected.

Ensures all sub-contractors appointed in writing in terms of section 37.2

Auditing sub-contractors on monthly basis.

Ensures correct personal protective equipment is available and being worn.

Ensure that the safety plans are applied and abided by.

Ensure that all supervisors and their teams comply with requirement as per good safety practices.

Ensure daily safety task instruction supervisor communicate with employees and attendance register sign by all employees involve in the task.

Crane operator for all the installation for Lower Thukela Bulk water supply scheme plant.

Name of Company : FOSKOR ORAM INDUSTRIES

Position held : Safety Coordinator

Reason for leaving : Shut down project.

Date started : 06/10/2016

Date : 31/02/2017

Responsibilities:

Prepare for Safety audit DERKA

Compile safety files

Tool box talk, Risk assessments.

Inspection of Tanks, Painting & Blasting

Daily safety Task instructions ensure that it completed

Attend safety meetings, compile safety report. Site safety, scaffold inspector.

Rope access technician, Supervisor Site safety officers, First aiders,

Name of Company : TELLUMAT INTERGRATED SOLUTIONS-MIDREND

Date started : 03/04/2017 Position held : SHEQ Officer –TELLUMAT KZN

SITES : CAMERA POLES (RISK & DISASTER ETHEKWINI MANUCIPALITY)

: BEGHAUL MICROWAVE (SAPS –KZN)

: IN BUILDING SOLUTION (TIGER BRANDS, ILLOVO UMHLANGA, COMMERCIAL BUILDING)

: TELKOM CP & RESHELL MSAN PROJECT – TELKOM

: RBCT MTN NEW UPGRADE.

Responsibilities:

Compiling safety files and approved by the client HUAWEI, TIGER BRANDS IN MOBENI, MEEREBANK, RBCT, ILLOVO UMHLANGA etc.

Arrange inductions for Sub-contractors to the clients.

Site inspections

Attend clients SHE & Quality meetings.

Vetting the sub-contractors SHE files.

Compiling Risk Assessment for all Tellumat branches, Midrend,Cape town and KZN

Compiling Lifting Plans and safe work procedures.

Attend client SHE committee meetings.

Ensure the ISDP is done for all site.

Attend Department of labour inspections

Site safety file audit to the subcons.

Tools and site inspections.

Get the acceptance letter from the client.

Submit the notification of Construction to Dol.

Manage sub-contractors safety officers in kzn.

Update site safety files from the clients.

Ensure the COC for electrical is done.

CONTACTABLE REFERENCES:

Contacts person : Willie van Staden

Position : CEO

Company : Elinem Coastal Projects

Contact no cell : 079*******

Email address : ******@*************.**.**

Contact person : Mr. Rudolph Punt

Position : Divisional Manager

Company : Dormac Marine & Engineering

Contact no cell : 083*******

Email address : *******@*******.**.**

Contact person : Cory Henry

Position : Divisional Manager

Company : Redis group

Contact no cell : 079*******

Email address : ****.*****@**********.***

Contact person : Leslie Emmanuel

Position : HR Manager

Company : DORMAN LABOUR

Contact no cell : 031-***-****/082*******

Email address : ******@******.**.**/ *****@******.**.**

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