Natural Gas Health Safety
Resume:
Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION Edwin Yaw Andoh
c/o Frank Ayisi-Domson, CT 7492 Cantonment - Accra (Ghana)
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JOB APPLIED FOR:
SAFETY HEALTH ENVIRONMENT & SECURITY (SHES) LEAD
WORK EXPERIENCE
31/10/2022
to
09/09/2023
Achievements
Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) Engineer Structin Engineering Limited, Tema (Bridge Power Natural Gas Pipeline Project) Structin Engineering Limited is a construction firm that specialises in all forms of steel fabrication and erection is delivering the construction of 3.5km natural gas pipeline to Bridge Power production plant with a total staff strength of approximately 115. The entire scope of work activities involve high hazard high risk and therefore strict risk; management strategy to ensure safe project outcome. My responsibilities included the following:
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Developing schedules for monthly, six monthly and yearly auditing of required elements of safety management system and ensuring same is completed by all relevant critical control points of HSE risks
Developed health safety & environment system in line with ISO45001 & ISO14001 and ensure all documentation are up-to-date and conform to these standards.
Providing advisory support to top management on all occupational health safety and environmental Ghanaian statutory regulations, international standards as well as Client’s requirements.
Drafted HSE policy for review, acceptance and publishing of the content amongst workforce
Leading the completion of risk assessment covering all activities under the scope of project and implementation of same to ensure safe project lifecycle.
Managing day to day requests for PPEs and ensuring stock are available for issuance and compliance to proper PPE usage.
Developing and submitting HSE management plan and Method statement for project Consultant’s review and acceptance before commencement of project.
Attend kick off meeting of the Client and Project Consultant and ensure all important concerns are addressed before commencement of project.
Conducted security risk assessment to determine potential security threats and mitigations.
Conducted unscheduled patrols to test the effectiveness of night security team on various sites.
Provided, training and supervision to employees and contractors to improve awareness around individual and collective responsibilities and expected health safety security and environmental behaviours.
Developed emergency preparedness and response plan to cover all identifiable emergency scenarios possible during the project lifecycle.
Conducted emergency simulation exercises to test responsiveness of ERT and effectiveness ERP
Inspected emergency equipment monthly and reported their condition for corrective actions.
Developed and maintained database for man-hours collection and tracking to determine deviations in employee attendance and reporting same to management for reviews.
Helped workers to acquire the relevant permits to work and monitored compliance to the conditions of the permit, proper closure of the permit and keeping records of same for audit trail.
Ensured all incidents are investigated and reported to top management and Client per established procedure and preventive and corrective actions implemented and tracked to completion
Investigated and reported theft cases to management and client to meet deadlines and requirement.
- There is only one lost time accident over 6 months of hefty construction activities involving an average of 115 workers
- Conducted toolbox meeting every morning for all workers using the outcome of project risk assessment.
- Reduced PPEs abuse and misuse by workforce by establishing return of old for new policy
- Significantly reduced Client complaints and HSE observations and received Client’s commendations for same.
- Assisted client HSE team to one conduct emergency response simulation exercises at the early stages of the project and mid-way of the project.
- Assisted the recruiting of security personnel for night operations during construction of the 3.5km natural gas pipeline
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to
31/10/2022
Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) Senior Officer Rocksure International, Perseus Mining Ghana Limited (Ayanfuri) / Ghana Manganese Company
(Nsuta Wassa) & Asanko Gold Mine (Manso Nkran)
Rocksure is a mining services contractor with a workforce of over 700 workers across 3 sites and about 55 fleet of heavy-duty mobile equipment which are used for contract mining services in Perseus Mining Ghana Limited in Ayanfuri and Ghana Manganese Company Limited in the Central region and Asanko Gold Mine in Ashanti region of Ghana respectively on a 12-hour-3 shifts system. Rocksure International delivers Drilling, Blasting, Mining and Haulage of earth material from the Pits to Rom pad or Waste Dumps of average distances 15km, 4km and 2km respectively. The prominent hazards / risks include uneven running floor conditions, tyre failures, fatigue driving, pit wall failures, interaction of heavy-duty mobile equipment with humans, hazardous interaction of heavy-duty mobile equipment with light duty mobile equipment, management of explosives etc.
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The following are elements of my role and duties:
• Leading risk assessments (job safety analysis) using companies risk management framework matrix and prioritising significant risks and developing mitigation programs against the key risk identified.
Conducting site monitoring of unsafe actions and conditions created due to mining activities and ensuring corrective and prevent action plans are developed and implemented to prevent occupational incidents.
Leading incident investigations and ensuring that corrective and preventive actions determined for each identified root cause are implemented as well as following up on outstanding measures where applicable.
Leading the arrangements for employee consultation involvement, and participation as part of the health and safety management system arrangement.
Conducting training using developed safe operation procedures (SOPs) and safe working procedures
(SWPs) for awareness creation and for competency training of workers for specialised work activities.
Conducting surveys and developing traffic management plans for new operational activities and ensuring all essential safety information and warning signage are provided.
Developing and implementing strategies for the mitigation of COVID19 to protect the health safety and wellbeing of employees and visitors.
Supervising escort of heavy-duty mining equipment to ensure safe delivery to the areas of urgent need including sleipner operations for conveying excavators...
Attending client’s production meetings and ensuring all HSE concerns are resolved in a timely manner.
Conducting regular inspection of earth moving equipment, light vehicles, mine environment, fire extinguishers, first aid boxes, offices and ablution facilities etc and ensuring defects are reported and corrective actions are assigned and completed by responsible persons.
Compiling HSE data and writing weekly and monthly HSE reports and submitting to HSE superintendent & Manager.
Ordering and following up on procurement of PPEs and distribution of same to worker as well as keeping records of issuance of PPEs.
Preparing and circulating daily and monthly HSE topics for discussion amongst workers of different trade and risk profile.
Achievements
- I led the investigation to determine the root causes for tyre failure and determined control measures which has helped reduce the rate of tyre failure incidents.
- I supervised complete demobilization of Heavy-Duty equipment and transportation of same at end of contract as well as remobilization of dump trucks for recommencement of project without major incident.
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01/03/2010
to
01/03/2019
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Specialist
Vodafone Ghana Limited, Accra (Ghana)
Vodafone Ghana commenced health safety and wellbeing programme in 2009 to address high incident frequency rate averaging about 9 fatalities per year as well as 23 high potential incidents per year while operating a fleet size of about 700 vehicles. The five key occupational health and safety risks included working on structures as high as 100m and in permit required confined spaces and extensive work with or on electrically powered installations and occupational road risks. Amongst the programs and initiatives that were deployed to proactively manage the occupational road risk and other key risks of the organization, I led the introduction of controls including contractor engagement and management, driver behaviour modelling program and employee refresher training programs covering all teams, maintaining awareness among employees and contractors via campaigns and awareness trainings, implementation of network design standards to improve the safety of climbers, monitoring of managed service contractors to ensure conformance to Vodafone requirements which in many ways brought huge benefits and results to the company. The following are some of the key functions:
Setting up and maintaining of health safety and wellbeing management system documentation including developing procedures and ensuring same are complied with amongst workers.
Providing advisory support to top management on all occupational health safety and wellbeing matters.
Leading the completion of risk assessment covering all organizational operations and maintained same when there are significant changes.
Developing and implementing health safety and wellbeing strategic plans for each financial year after management review and approval.
Budgeting for all planned health safety and wellbeing programs and activities for the financial year and tracked expenses to end of the year.
Reviewing and approving health safety and environment project plans and other documentations for each high-risk project before sign-off by Chief Technical Officers to ensure health safety risks and environment aspects are properly mitigated prior to start-up of all high hazard high risk projects.
Conducted kick-off meeting with qualified contractors prior to start-up of each project to communicate all relevant project requirements and ensure they are understood by all stakeholders
Liaised with relevant regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with applicable requirements and standards as well as managed internal governance and assurance processes to ensure compliance to company’s high-risk policies.
Developed and provided, training and supervision to employees and contractors to improve awareness around individual and collective responsibilities and expected health safety and environmental behaviours.
Ensured compliance to climbing standard through unannounced site visits and specialised training programmes.
Developed and maintained a database for collecting and analysing corrective and preventive actions and providing reports on progress status for top management reviews and decision.
Developed and maintained database for man-hours collection and tracking to determine deviations in employee attendance.
Conducted contractor performance management audits to determine their level of health safety and environment maturity and management system effectiveness as well as conducted quarterly contractor engagement forum half yearly performance reviews. 10/7/14 © European Union, 2002-2014 http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 4 / 7 Achievements
Established a system for reporting, investigating and analysing accidents to aid management decisions on corrective and preventive actions to prevent future recurrence.
- I implemented Health Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) programs that progressively reduced fatal incidents by 57% in the first year, 14% in the second year and 29% in the third year.
- I improved the HS&W culture by conducting project specific trainings for employees and contractors and maintaining records of participation.
- Supported the Supplier Chain Management team to win the African Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) award (Health & Safety Category) for year 2011 organised in South Africa.
- Trained at-risk personnel on the needed competencies and certified them (internally) to perform high hazard high risk jobs.
- Set up and trained emergency response team composed of Fire Marshalls and First Aiders totalling 120 persons.
- I played a key role in business continuity and recovery planning activities and developed response strategy for Ebola during the outbreak in 2014 as well as helped with the implementation of the plans.
- Established and entrenched a forum for the performance management of contractors on monthly basis which improved contractors’ appreciation of health and safety on their projects.
- Set up and maintained the health and safety management system for Vodafone in 2010 and achieving level 5 certification on the International Safety Rating System (ISRS) maturity scale and maintaining same.
- Led the creation of organization wide health and safety risk register and maintained same from 2010 till 2019.
- I created a list of approved suppliers from among 33 contractors using health & safety auditing and evaluations thereby improving efficient use of contractors in Vodafone’s Operations.
- Drew a wellbeing framework and started implementing same. 02/05/2007 Health, Safety and Environment Manager
to Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited, Accra (Ghana) 01/03/2010
Guinness Ghana Breweries is a food and beverage manufacturer of offering about eight (8) different products to the Ghanaian market. Their raw material and energy needs includes: glass bottles, water, cereals, caustic and electricity, diesel and residual fuel oil, as the main inputs whiles generating some significant by-products like chaff and environmentally degrading effluent streams. The Achimota site had 3 processing lines, run on 24/7 basis and operated by 3 shift system each consisting of 100 employees and contract staff and office staff population of about 150 on usual working day. As glass bottles were filled with finished beverages under gas pressure, explosion of same led to frequent severe injury rates of at least 16 lost time accidents per year in addition to over 33 medically treated cases per year which are also attributable to the same cause. The processing plant had issues with heat accumulation, ventilation and high humidity which were a significant challenge for employee’s comfort.
I was responsible for the establishing and maintaining safety management systems and also managed the environmental aspects aimed at reducing the risk of injury to employees and potential environmental pollution incidents at the Achimota Brewery site. To ensure the company meets environmental standards I liaised with the all relevant regulatory to ensure compliance to statutory and other requirements through reporting per the required frequencies and timelines to the relevant agencies. My duties included:
Ensuring organizational and operational risk assessment and evaluation of their significance of all factory activities and maintained the records of significant risks for regular reviews by Curriculum Vitae
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operational management.
Coordinated and facilitated Crisis Management activities and trained the organization’s Crisis Management Team including desktop simulations, real-life business continuity and recovery exercises as well as maintained War Room and relevant equipment in readiness.
Budgeted for annual health safety and environmental programs and tracked same in with procurement department and financial to control expenditures
Provided professional advice to senior management on statutory/regulatory requirements and how to meet those requirements by keeping a summary of applicable legislations and tracking compliance at established frequency.
Liaised with all applicable regulatory agencies (both national and local community) to ensure their requirements are met thereby eliminating the risk of corporate fines or infraction notices.
Developed targeted standard procedures to address identified operational hazards & risks and monitored to ensure compliance of same after training on those procedures.
Established and maintained safe systems of work at the Achimota Breweries including permit to work systems and lock out tag out system and kept records for audit trail.
Managed and supervised site construction projects by engaging with contractors from prequalification and selection phases through to execution and commissioning of phases.
Led all high potential incident investigations and reported to local management and Group and ensure appropriate remedial actions are defined, assigned to responsible person and implemented per agreed timelines.
Led the internal health safety and environment auditing (License to operate) process as the LTO Champion and ensured all audit cycles were completed, reported to meet timelines as well as the required levels of compliance achieved.
Identified training needs of employees and ensured the training and refresher training of employees
Planned each year's health safety and environment program and ensured its approval by the production director for implementation.
Supervised the resident senior nurse to ensure employee health and wellbeing program is planned and implemented year after year including arrangements for international assignees and rehabilitation for the injured together with occupational health surveillance for relevant employees at prescribed frequencies.
Conducted monthly site wide inspections, reported and ensure issues identified are corrected through a follow up and tracking system.
Achievements - I developed glass handling procedures wit hazard area classifications and implemented strict rules to reduce contact with glass on the process plant which drove down the 16 LTIs to 3 in less than 3 years.
- Also, I initiated the process to end inadequate ventilation in the process plant floor by engaging the service of ventilation consultant and brokered an agreement to conduct a preliminary survey, waving the initial cost of consultation, for the installation of heat exhaustion and ventilation fans and thereby reducing the heat stress and the associated discomfort of workers in the area.
- I established permit to work systems that covers all areas of high hazard high risk operations in the processing plant and trained all technicians, team leader and supervisors on their roles in acquiring permits to work as well as general employees’ roles and responsibilities under permit to work system.
- Set up crisis management room (CMR) with all relevant equipment, tools and materials in readiness for crisis management activities for the entire Guinness Ghana Limited on the Achimota site.
- Developed simulation exercises and conducted 2 crisis simulation drills annually for two years in the Guinness Ghana Achimota site as well as emergency drills
- I achieved zero enforcement action record during my entire tenure from 2007 to 2010 in Guinness Ghana Limited and ensured timely completion of license to operate (LTO) audits on yearly basis.
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01/07/209 -16/07/2019 HSE Officer Certificate
Mineral Commission (MINCOM) of Ghana
09/06/2019 – 10/06/2019 First Aid at Work Course
St John Ghana (Kumasi)
12/04/2017 -13/04/2017 Fall Arrest and Height Rescue Training Gravity Training (South Africa)
14/08/2012 - 12/05/2014 NEBOSH International General Certification SHEilds Safety Training, Hessle (United Kingdom)
11/10/2012–13/10/2012 Safe Use of Fall Arrest systems, Work at and Rescue from Height Latchways Fall Arrest Systems, Johannesburg (South Africa) 09/10/2011–21/10/2011 Prince 2 Project Management (Foundation) Techy Consult - Ghana Limited, Accra (Ghana)
25/01/2010–28/01/2010 Certificate of Training (Element Leaders) Det Norske VERITAS (DNV), London - Cathedral Street, (United Kingdom) 04/06/2007–08/06/2007 Certificate - Occupational Health and Safety Workshop for Lead Auditors School of Public Health - University of Ghana (Legon), Accra (Ghana) 30/10/2006–22/12/2006 Postgraduate certificate in Occupational Health Safety and Environmental Management.
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) - Greenhill, Accra (Ghana) 02/09/1998–29/09/2001 Diploma Mine Mechanical Engineering Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology - School of Mines, Tarkwa (Ghana) PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s) Twi, English, French (beginner)
Communication / Training
skills
I have good communication skills acquired through school and in the field of work while interacting with the rank and file (both workers and top management). This I have demonstrated through excellent writing in mails and other forms of communications. I have strong presentation skills which lends me to teaching complex issues using simple illustrative communication strategies.
Organisational / managerial
skills
I have gained useful leadership skills over the past years in various work environments as I prioritized, organized, coordinated, trained and worked with rank and file of employees to start and finish projects to meet timelines. I find my strength in logical reasoning, critiquing and analysing issues, which have consistently helped to resolve process issues while relying on my calm disposition as the fulcrum when there are conflicts to resolve. Job-related skills I have working knowledge of all legal and safety requirements, ISO 14001, ISO9001, ISO 45000 Systems and other relevant standards.
Ability to lead teams and ensuring team goals are delivered in full, in good quality and in time.
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I have demonstrated competence in managing occupational health, safety and environment risks by employing reasonable and practical solutions based on risk assessment and my working knowledge of applicable legal or regulatory requirements including, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirements, Factories Offices and Shops Act and Labour Law, Bye-laws of Local Municipalities as well as internationally known standards and best practices.
Over the past years I have accomplished several training programmes and saved my employers so much financial costs. I have also acquired excellent auditing skill which lends me the ability to institute systems for monitoring and measuring success and failures of any health and safety management programme or systems. I have strong capabilities in conducting risk assessments, accident/incident investigations using various techniques, developing, implementing and reviewing policies, inspecting workplace facilities, auditing and preparing report for management review and action. My specialities cover developing systems for controlling occupational road risks, establishing of safe systems of work – (permit to work system), Job safety analysis, and lock out tag out systems as well as systematic investigation techniques like root cause analysis techniques.
I am capable of establishing and coordinating business Continuity & Crisis management program which includes emergency preparedness and response planning and implementation and fire safety system.
I have developed sufficient skill for managing suppliers and Contractors throughout the lifecycle of engagement (prequalification, selection, engaging, execution and end of contract) the use of different fora and presentations. Understanding and ability to use the FACTS process for crisis management scenarios. Computer skills I have a good command on Microsoft office suite (word, excel, PowerPoint etc), entropy database for managing health safety and environment information and Rivo Safeguard also for keeping and analysing health safety and environment data. I have reasonable speed on the keyboard and can quickly adapt to newer technologies to enhance work delivery.
Driving licence I have acquired a regulatory approved driver’s license ‘B’ classification and driving almost on daily basis.
References Mr. Ishmael Kojo Afful
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HSE Superintendent (African Mining Services)
Nana Odei Adjei
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Project Manager - Rocksure International (Asanko Mine Project, Amansie)
Mr. Daniel Adanu
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HS&W Manager (Vodafone Ghana)
Philip Buckman
ad196p@r.postjobfree.com / ad196p@r.postjobfree.com Project Manager – Structin Construction Ltd (Bridge Power NGPL Project, Tema)
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Environment Health and Safety Manager
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