Occupational Health Advisor

I am a 22-yr-experience health professional with managerial capabilities, minimum 10 years experience in the Fields Health, Safety and Hygiene in Oil and Gas environment as Senior Health Specialist.

Petrolera Zuata Petrozuata C.A. – Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela 03/03 – 12/07
A strategic alliance between Conoco Phillips and PDVSA.
Occupational Health Manager. Responsibilities:

• Lead, coordinate and supervise with Human Resources Manager, ASHI Manager and Medical External Consultants the evaluation and execution of the Occupational Medicine Program and The Medical Assistance Activities of the company.
• Plan, organize, administer and manage all Health, Safety and Emergency Medical Response Operations including management of budget, personnel, supplies, equipment, structures and compliance/enforcement of regulations, policies and procedures alignment with corporate policies and management standards.
• Ensure that effective risk management programmes are developed, to identify hazards and their effects, and takes necessary measures to reduce those identified risks.
• Carries out studies on Occupational Health matters related to the corporation activities and sets goals and objectives to continuously improve the overall operational performance in line with corporate policies and management standards.
• Plans and coordinate the provision of adequate safety and accident prevention coverage throughout the various operational areas.
• Participate in the operational area activity audits, accident investigations, facility inspections and safety meetings.
• Coordinate and lead health and safety activities providing strategic advice on all aspects of company-wide health issues as requested and focusing on prevention through health risk identification and health monitoring, as well as appropriate responses.
• Supervise and review day to day activities including external appointments, emergency attention, evaluation of the registered cases in the local medical centers, daily log with the information of the accidents and diseased cases, monthly morbidity report with the respective epidemic analysis, recommendations and documentation to compliance with the labor and health laws.

MD, General Practitioner. Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo-Venezuela 1985
Specialist Assistance in Internal Medicine. IVSS, Maracaibo-Venezuela 1995
Specialist in Labor Medicine. Universidad del Zulia-enezuela
The University of Texas. MD. Anderson Cancer Center. Houston 03/91 – 09/91
Post Doctoral Fellow. Duties:
• Training in the Blood Bank, Transfusion and Immunology Laboratory.
• Drafted the Reports in the Transfusion Laboratory.
• Training in the service of the Bone Marrow Transplant.
• Executed investigations about the transfusions and its possible immunological effects in the patients with cancer, with publishing on the international magazine called “Sangre” of Spain.

• Labor Rehab Workshop. Physical and Rehab Medicine Venezuelan X Congress. Venezuela September 2007.
• Industrial Ergonomics International Shop. Ecuadorian Society of Occupational Health, November, 2006.
• State-of-the-Art Conference in Occupational Medicine ACOEM. Recent Advances in Occupational Medicine. New York, USA, 10/2006.
• SHEA Basic Training. Vectores C.A., August 2005.
• Supervisor Training’s. Baker, October 2005.
• Participation as a Relater in Labor Occupational Accidents and Illnesses. Salaverria and Associates. October, 2005.
• National Safety Council Congress & Expo. Orlando, Florida. September 18-23, 2005.
• Medical Review Officer Drug & Alcohol Testing Comprehensive Course. The American College of occupational and Environmental Medicine, ACOEM, Texas. November 3-4, 2004.
• Medic First Aid/Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Conoco Phillips, Venezuela, 10/2004.