Competence Development & Environment, Health and Safety Consultant

To work as an Environment, Health and Safety Consultant, Trainer or as a Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance Recruitment Specialist in the oil and gas sectors.

• Be a member of the health, environment and safety department participate in the development of health and safety policies, procedures, codes, standards and programs;
• Lead line management in the implementation of health and safety policies, standards and programs;
• Identify and recognize hazards in existing or future systems, equipment, products, facilities, processes, operations or procedures;
• Formulate and prescribe engineering or administrative controls in order to eliminate hazards and causes of exposures, accidents and loss events and to reduce the probability and/or severity of injuries, illnesses, or losses;
• Review, compile, analyze and interpret data from incident and loss event reports and other sources regarding injuries, illnesses and property damage to identify causes, trends and relationships;
• Prepare reports that communicate valid and comprehensive recommendations for hazard controls based on analysis and interpretation of accident, exposure, loss event and other data;
• Use written and graphic materials, presentations and other communication media to recommend hazard controls and hazard control policies, procedures and programs to decision-making personnel;
• Direct, develop or help to develop management accountability and audit programs that assess safety performance;
Stay current with technological developments, laws, regulations, standards, codes, products, methods and practices related to hazard controls;
• Proactively monitor all activities on the construction sites from a QA/QC and Health and Safety perspective, ensuring all practices are conducted in a safe and compliant manner at all times;
• Ensuring management, employees and contractors have the knowledge and tools necessary to carry out their legal Health and Safety responsibilities;
• Ensuring the development and implementation of processes and continual improvement;
• Providing consultancy support to the company;
• Supervising major procurement and purchasing activities e.g. building and maintenance contracts;
• Leading process hazard analyses and revalidations for site and business enterprise;
• Conducting qualitative and quantitative risk analysis (QRA)
• Development and delivery of Reliability Centered Maintenance Programs;
• Development of Corrosion Control plans and systems;
• Developing and conducting Reliability Based Inspection Plans.

I received my Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from Kansas State University in the USA in 1984, my Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Melbourne-Australia in 2004 and my Certificate IV in Training and Assessment from the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE in Melbourne-Australia in 2011.

I am also a lead Auditor in Quality Management Systems ISO 9001:2000/2008 and Safety Management Systems OHSAS 18001 & ISO 14001.