Vandick Kwena, Csmp® M.Ismi® Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

• Advise senior leadership team and country program leadership in decisions affecting the health, safety, and security of Foundation staff and partners,• Provide technical support and coordination to country and Pan Africa Programs to ensure that appropriate health, safety and security systems and procedures are in place and are fully operational,• Conduct safety/ security site surveys for office and accommodation sites including hotels and provide a list of approved hotels for staff use while constantly assessing travel threat assessments,• Respond to safety and security complaints raised by employees or other stakeholders,• Develop and maintain a network of safety and security contacts across the region including government, commercial and non-profit organizations,• Management of logistics operations across all countries where Foundation operates by identifying vendors that meet Foundation and International safety/security standards,• Tracking ISOS and Seerist applications providing 24hr coverage of staff movement and facilitating a panic response in the event of an incident,• Develop and deliver safety/security-related training for Foundation employees including health, safety, security inductions and emergency response drills,• Provide technical knowledge, direction and training to the programs team for the delivery of safe and secure programs managed by respective partners,• Ensure all Foundation safety/security plans and procedures are compliant with the relevant legislation in each country,• Ensure 100% compliance to Safety, Security and Risk Management Policies, Standards and Procedures.

Nairobi County, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

• Planned organized, directed, controlled and coordinated the development and implementation of the health, safety and environmental management system in compliance with legislation, ISO 14001 and all relevant customer codes of practice throughout the Group’s East African businesses,• Developed, implemented and monitored environmental strategies, policies and programs that promoted sustainable development,• Established, managed and monitored standards, processes, communications, risk assessments, management systems and delivered of all health, safety, environmental activites in an effective and efficient manner,• Liaised with regulatory bodies/internal/external business customers and ensured all key performance measures and objectives are achieved in regard to EHS (Environment, Health and Safety),• Produced educational resources, provided training and versed employees on health and safety standards,• Encouraged and promoted the use of safer work equipment, materials and supplies,• Tracked the number of incidents and generated reports while monitoring exposure to work risks,• Monitored the effectiveness of the EHS policies and recommending changes where appropriate,• Advised senior management on all legal and other requirements related to EHS legislations at the work place.

Nairobi

• Provided clear leadership with regards to the expectations of the business, its goals and objectives for HSSE performance in both property operations and property development,• Established an appropriate management structure to implement the HSSE policy throughout the company,• Allocated sufficient resources to enable the HSSE function to perform effectively,• Coordinated all loss prevention activities as a representative of management,• Ensured compliance to IFC (International Finance Corporation) performance standards and World Bank HSSE guidelines,• Acted as a consultant to management in the implementation and administration of the HSSE Program,• Developed and implemented loss prevention policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with the applicable rules and regulations,• Reviewed all incident reports to determine root cause and corrective action,• Conducted periodic reviews of the HSSE program and job sites to evaluate performance, discuss problems, and help solve them.• Designed and conducted training on health, security, safety, risk management and accident prevention.

East Africa - Kenya Uganda And Tanzania

• Managed, maintained and improved the company’s Integrated Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety Management system to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 standards and Linde Group standards,• Served as an acting Operations & Maintenance Manager for a period of 8 months,• Led the drive for continual improvement of SHEQS standards throughout the organization,• Determined the strategic direction and work priorities (in conjunction with line management) for the continuous improvement of the head office (Nairobi), branches (Mombasa & Kisumu) and affiliates (Uganda and Tanzania),• Advised line management on implementation, compliance to new or existing regulations, Group standards and Industry best practices,• Provided leadership to the Executive committee of the HEWA Savings and Credit Cooperative Society.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Ensured all operations at the depot are carried out as per group operational procedures and HSSE (health, safety, security & environment) standards,• Managed aviation depot operations including aircraft fueling, facility management, shift management and equipment management,• Consolidated and analyzed aviation reports for operations, safety and controls for 42 airports in 15 countries,• Coordinated development of Libya oil aviation opex (operations expenditures) and capex (capital expenditure) plans.

Africa

Consulting and training on management systems (Quality - ISO 9001, Environment -ISO 14001, Health & Safety - OHSAS 18001, Information Security -27001 and Food Safety - ISO 22000.

Nairobi - Wilson Airport

• Established and maintained aviation SHEQ (safety, health environment and quality) programs for offshore helicopter operations, VIP air transport, rescue missions and mining operations,• Implemented and monitored company’s objectives as per corporate governance good practices

East Africa

• Trained and audited organizations on quality, safety & environmental management systems and corporate governance within East and Central Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda & Ethiopia),• Conducted Pre-shipment and third-party inspections e.g. at World Food Programme and SDV Transami,• Conducted Process stage Inspections for pressure vessels and tanks (double & single skin) as per EN 12285-1 (European Standard) e.g. at Warren Enterprises Limited, Spectre, and H Young.

Nairobi

• Organized, led and developed production personnel in order to achieve business objectives,• Maintained safety standards and statutory requirements,• Carried out production planning in accordance with company’s production objectives.

Level 6 Diploma, Certified Security Management Profesional (Csmp)

Certificate, Business And Human Rights

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategic Management

Diploma, Environmental Science, Distinction

Nebosh - International Technical Certificate In Oil And Gas Operational Safety, Distinction

B. Tech, Chemical Engineering

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