Safety Officer

Name: Vitalis i. Njoku

E-mail: **************@*****.***

Contact No: 33176792

Address: Al shawal street Wakra, Doha Qatar.

Personal Profile Statement:

HSE professional with over 10 (Ten) years’ experience in construction – infrastructure, building, high way road construction, and fabrication of equipment in oil/gas firms with basic qualification on health safety, and environment (NEBOSH). High energetic, hardworking who has proven track record in the areas of emergency management services, good communication, and safety prevention programs whilst working within the company’s procedural guidelines and also ensuring a high quality of service which is consistently maintained with maximum efficiency.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Higher National Diploma (HND)

Business Administration/management (2008-2010)

National Diploma (ND)

Business Administration and Management (2005-2007)

West African Examination Council (WAEC) (1995-2001)

First Leaving School Certificate (FLSC) (1990-1995)

Occupational Safety, Health and Administration Academy safety Training (OSHA)

National Examinational Board in Occupational Safety and health (IGC 1, 2, 3 NEBOSH) (2017)

Institution of Occupational Safety and health (IOSH 2016)

Basic First Aider (2014)

Fire Warden Training Certificate (2019)

Emergency Rescue Team Doha

Occupational safety and health specialist

Occupational safety and health supervisor

Occupational safety and health trainer

Safety and health committee leader

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION

●Hazard hunting using hazard identification tools/ job safety analysis procedures, March 2010

●Occupational health hazards prevention and control measures. January 2009

●Supervisor Safety Essentials for project management April 2010

● Stress Management November 2010

●Fire And Its Preventive measures at Cambridge safety professionals institute June 2010

●Behavior Base Safety Training for wec and pew Nigeria Limited may 2009

●Unsafe Act Auditing procedures and applications July 2008

●Risk Assessment evaluation and implementation procedures August 2008

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

●Microsoft Excel and Word and knowledge in other MS Office package.

●Ability to deal with people tactfully and effectively.

●Self-motivated and able to work under pressure.

●Good command of the English language (written/spoken).

●Ability to work independently in a virtual team environment.

●Ability to develop information, educate and communicate materials including memo, newsletters and reports.

●Excellent writing and oral communication skills.

●Able to work well within different organizational cultures.

●Good interpersonal skills & managerial quality.

●Ability to organize pep talk/tools box and safety meetings.

● Ability to plan, analyze and implement HSE standard and procedures.

●Good HSE auditing and tracking ability.

●Ability to action and control HSE documentations.

●Ability to work in highly challenging organization or communities without supervision

●Good construction safety and accident investigation.

●Strong, dynamic leadership skills.

●Maintains a high degree of ethical conduct.

● Able to effectively communicate / influence multiple levels, from Senior Level Manager to Worker.

●Ability to work in harsh environments, and /or stressful situations, with changing

Priorities.

WORK EXPERIENCES:

TAYOUNEH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY WLL. DOHA QATAR (2017 TILL DATE)

PROJECT: NEW NAVAL BASE PROJECT (Road, and Infrastructure, Buildings, Underground Water, Wall Boundaries, and Bridges. Etc.

POSITION: SAFETY SUPERVISOR

SUMMARY OF WORK

As a safety responsible for a wide variety of task associated with maintaining a safe workplace

Responsible for ensuring that workers are properly trained regarding company-specific and occupational safety and health Act, or OSHA, safety requirement.

Involve in conducting safety orientation, daily toolbox talk, safety meeting, periodic safety meeting and formal training session on a wide range of safety-related topic.

Creating, maintaining and communicating safety-related policies and procedures, as well as ensuring that they are followed.

Determining the need for new policies and procedures and writing, editing and updating policy and procedure documents, posters, and handbooks.

Responsible for enforcement of safety policies and procedures, including making decisions regarding appropriate discipline for infractions.

Providing safety training to employees, and proactively involved in ensuring that that proper practices are observed on the job site, offices, and company vehicles.

Observe working conditions, equipment and employee behaviours to identify safety problems and take corrective action.

As a safety supervisor responsible in making sure that all equipment is properly maintained.

Periodic facility fire inspections, getting fire extinguishers charged regularly, verifying that first aid kits are properly stocked and ensuring that company vehicles and equipment are serviced following an appropriate schedule.

Hazard/accident investigations such as accidents, injuries or illness that occurred in the workplace, to determine the cause so that such problems can be prevented in the future.

Often lead occupational accident and occupational illness investigation, report writing and recommendation for corrective or preventive actions.

Responsible in ensuring that companies are in compliance with all safety-related regulatory requirements, including OSHA standards, Department of transportation regulations and environmental protection Agency requirements.

Ensure that workers are aware of obligations, specific to their industry and the type of jobs workers are performing.

Ensure that workers have proper safety credential and personal safety equipment

To ensure that there no violation in the workplace and they must comply with all report requirements.

SINOHYDRO, PLC (2016-2017)

PROJECT: NEW PROT (Internal road, building and infrastructure scope of work)

POSTION: SAFETY OFFICER

SUMMARY OF WORK

Conducting site safety induction, regular safety inspections, condition training and toolbox talk and assigning suitable personal protective equipment to all employees respectively in the workplace.

Adhering to the work permit system and monitoring the working conditions, providing safe access/egress to the employees at all work site, maintaining good house-keeping, first Aid procedure wherever required, developing good attitudes and accountability for and every employee in workplace.

Achieving zero accident performance by implementing and enforcing hazard identification and control process such as job hazard analysis, incident data, safety inspections, legislation, and materials safety data sheet.

Responsible for safety investigations, training on the use of the following machine such as mobile crane passenger hoist, crawler crane to the workers.

Promote a pro-active culture within the construction and commission teams.

Support development and measurement of project HSE targets, goals and objective that will support delivering of the HSE plans.

Track and trend HSE performance and support on the development and delivery of intervention to ensure target, goal and objective are achieved.

Completing safety environmental inspections identifying issues and developing corrective action ensure compliance with applicable safety, health and environmental regulations and policies in the workplace.

Conducting safety training orientation sessions and tool-box talk before work commences to ensure that rules and procedures are followed in the workplace.

Monitoring the use, storage and disposal of hazardous chemicals and materials in the site.

In charge of all HSE statistical and documentations.

Monitoring of drinking water system and testing all air and ventilation system for atmospheric pollution such as contaminants, radiation and noise

Weekly training of all the employees on how to face emergency situation.

SUADI BINLADING GROUP OF COMPANY, DOHA QATAR (2014-2016)

PROJECT: GREEN LINE METRO (Building and Construction of metro Station, Bridges, Road and infrastructures, micro tunnelling)

POSITION: SAFETY OFFICER

SUMMARRY OF WORK

To ensure that construction workers are following established policies and safety regulations.

To work closely with workers and ensure that zero accident and injuries are achieved at workplace

As a safety officer to detect and be aware of potential hazards earlier in the planning process, thus creating response plans that reduce the likelihood of accidents.

Develop, implement, and enforce policies that reduce the risk of accident

Responsible for keeping policies up-to-date, meeting the latest standards, and establishing new ones from time to time as more and newer risk are discovered.

In charge of inspecting site conditions to determine if hazards are present and to establish procedures and policies to overcome those hazardous situations.

Looks for broken equipment, defective tools, and other potential hazards.

Determines what type of personal protective equipment (PPE) is needed and makes sure that workers know how to operate and use to tools and equipment

To diminish or eliminate work-related accidents by carrying out safety investigation to determine root causes, what procedures may have gone wrong, and to gather the evidence necessary to identify the cause of the accident.

Proactive, staying a step ahead of the group on the safety and environmental hazards

Providing of training to employees on safety topic required by OSHA. These include fire prevention plans, machine guarding, and hazardous materials handling.

Responsible for reviewing and meeting all state and federal safety standard requirement for record-keeping

To ensure that the poster entitled job safety and health and other documents are display in readily visible and accessible location in the workplace as required by OSHA.

Verify that injury reports are submitted to related government agencies.

Preform emergency response drills.

Coordinate registration and removal of hazardous waste

Receive reports from and responds to orders by department of labour inspectors

JULIUS BERGER PLC (210-213)

PROJECT: LAGOS TO OWRRI HIGH WAY ROAD CONSTRUCTION (High way Road and infrastructures)

POSTION: (Safety officer)

Daily inspection of work site environment against hazard, and risk

Support the construction teams in the implementation of project safety policies and achieve goals and expectation through deriving site implementation of safety plans.

Planning and implementing site traffic rules

Achieving zero accident performance by implementing and enforcing hazards identification process such as job hazard analysis, incident data, safety inspection, legislation, and material safety data sheet.

Responsible for safety investigations, training on the use of the following machines such as mobile crane, passenger hoist, crawler crane to the works

Responsible for safety investigations, training on the use of following machines such as mobile crane, passenger hoist

Instructing workers on the use of concrete and plastic barrier in constructing and creating good access.

Maintaining of good high way traffic control while working on the high road

Maintain and develop a professional pleasant working relationship with the client, and consultant, management, peers, workers and staffs.

Effective strategies to reduce risks, hazard improved safety outcomes

Develop, evaluate and monitor the health and safety and environment plans/programs for the project activities to ensure compliance with applicable regulation, client’s requirement and international best practice.

Traffic controls of incoming and outgoing vehicle at highway road during work activities

Barricading of work zone area with concrete barrier against contact with vehicle

Risk analysis, accident analysis and control loss of material.

Maintaining good house-keeping and industrial hygiene, preparing safe working procedure based on the safety policy

Promote safety awareness among the employee, loss prevention and loss control.

Ensure company compliance with safety standard rules and regulation and bring to the management the areas of deficiency and the needed precaution and measures to go about it

Inspecting and testing of the fire fighting equipment’s such as fire alarms, smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, heat detector and water sprinkler in the workplace.

Give all the toolbox to the workers under my supervision before the start of any work on the daily basis and also organise and conduct safety training to all the staffs.

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