a new breed of Health and Safety Officer, building on the experience of professionals in the industry and combining current best practice with innovative new approaches to the field. Constantly striving to develop a better understanding of "Behavioral Safety" and the role Training and Organizational Safety Culture play on employees taking responsibility for their own Health and Safety, ensuring maximum productivity. In short an making unsafe behavior harder and conscious; making safe choices easier and obvious.In my current position I work with my clients, developing and implementing or reviewing and updating existing Health and Safety Management Systems, ensuring legal compliance through sustainable simple solutions tailored specific to their company’s unique requirements. Once developed the focus moves to facilitating the integration of the system into the company’s operations, taking the system from something we required to do, to how we do everything. Clients include: H&M, Baltimore Aircoil Company, Dimension Data Western Cape, SABT, Fireco, Fairstep and Orchards.A qualified Facilitator and Assessor I facilitate the following training, Level 1 First Aid, Basic Fire Fighting, Health and Safety Representative, HIRA and Chevron SWP training.

Placed by Comprac on behalf of ProPlan on BP Head Office Remodeling Project. Duties include:1. Performing Authority responsible for completing BP Method Statements and Risk Assessments for Permit to Work Application.2. On site Health and Safety Officer, responsible for Proplan employees and over seeing Sub Contractors including:TranslucentImatFaradays ElectricalFire Spec

Placed at Plessey Western Cape Offices, on behalf of ComPrac, responsible for: 1. Assisting Plessey and its sub-contractors adapt to the New construction Regulations2. Initial Plessey sub-contractor site safety file audits and engagements. 3. Conducting Site Inspections on behalf of Plessey.Gaining further experience in the telecommunication industry, particularly on the civil side and microwave Installation. Most sites are Dark Fibre Africa and have to adhere to their stringent Health and Safety specs. Work predominantly focuses on the Installation of Fibre optic cable infrastructure. I am gaining valuable experience in Safety aspects of:• Trenching• Traffic Management• Core drilling • Way leave applicationsClients include: Vodacom, MTN, ATC and Dark Fibre Africa

A Health and Safety Practitioner serving a number of companies in the Western Cape on behalf of Essential Services. Responsibilities include:1. Functional Safety File development2. Safety File Induction that make sense3. Two way Safety Inspections/interactions4. Safety Meetings5. Applicable Toolbox Talks6. Auditing/educating of Sub-Contractors7. Incident and Accident Investigations (focusing more on how what and where than on who)Companies Represented include: Aluplan, Hunter Douglas, IES, Farradays Electrical and Fire Control Systems.

Working on behalf of Comprac, as a project Health and Safety Officer for Dimension Data: Project, SKA Telescope in the Karoo.Installing Fibre Optics and Data Network. Working closely with small teams providing a great opportunity to gain insight into how they conduct their work and together identifying hazards and associated risks enabling us to develop practical and effective safe working procedures.

Placed at Dimension Data Western Cape on behalf of Essential ServicesResponsibilities include:1. Assisting Contractors with Dimension Data Accreditation process, encouraging the development of a healthy safety culture.2. Compiling Safety Files that encourage employee participation and that consist of documents that are simple, user friendly and make sense to the people the file was developed to protect. 3. Implementing Safety Files with Contractors, striving to have employees understand that safety is not something we do, but is how we do everything. Safety is not a tick box but a attitude that not only keeps us safe but ensures productivity and quality.4. Monthly inspections of Contractors to encourage and guide the development of a safety culture and importantly to learn from frustrations and failures how to further adapt the companies safety policy.5. Achieving real Client compliance, not just on paperClients include: RR Electronic Security Solutions, Core Data and Voice Cabling and Falcon ElectronicsClients scope of work include: Data Cable installation, Fibre Optic Installation, CCTV and Access Control Installation.Major Site/Projects include: BP, ENGEN, SKA and Cape Town StadiumFirst Aid Level 1, Basic Fire Fighting and SHE Rep Facilitator Strive to offer training that engages and includes the learners, creating and understanding of the principles and not just a short term knowing. Clients include: Dimension Data AI and IS, Tsogo Sun, Flip File and Plessey

Great opportunity to work with a company involved with bringing electricity to previously disadvantaged areas. Working closely with ESKOM and under their stringent safety control measures ensuring a safe working environment in a very high risk industry, although I was with the company for a very short period I successfully got a safety file approved by ESKOM, and was very privileged to play a small part in providing electricity to the people of Happy Valley. The sense of gratitude at helping people improve their quality of life will stay with me forever

1. Facilitating: Supervisor Training Certificate Course Safety Rep Training Course Not just as a required compliance for our clients but to empower employees to work closely with management, ensuring a safe, happy and productive workplace that produces work of a high quality.2. Site Inspections at various large developments in and around Cape Town, on behalf of Clients, Principle Contractors and Sub Contractors. Ensuring compliance with site specifications as well as the Occupational Health and Safety Act.3. Documentation Inspections at various large developments in and around Cape Town, on behalf of Clients, Principle Contractors and Sub Contractors. Ensuring that safety files on site comply with site specifications as well as the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

In order to gain valuable experience, I offered to work for free, and was fortunate to be provided the opportunity to shadow and assist experienced Comprac Western Cape practitioners. My commitment to ensuring that I continued to grow as a HSE professional require huge sacrifices, but the experience was priceless as I was exposed to numerous different sites and practitioners, and learned from each. Comprac Western Cape’s commitment to the Health and Safety Industry clearly showed in the fact that they were willing to provide me with this opportunity, which many others had declined to do.

A senior management position, with a seat on the School Executive. The position entailed the implementation of effective Prep Sport management and operating system.RESPONSABILITIES: • Growing and establishing a sport culture at a young, innovative and progressive Private School of 250 children aged 5-13 yrs.• Creating effective logistic, budgeting and communication networks to facilitate effective management.• Contributing to the effective management of Regional Sporting Bodies, to further ensure opportunities not only for our students but all students in our region.• Running an effective Physical Education Program • Coaching • Consolidating existing relationship with local schools and developing relationship with like-minded schools further afield..

A managerial position, responsible for 12 permanent staff and numerous sub-contractors, fencing team, civil contractors and builders.RESPONSABILITIES:• Overseeing infrastructure development (Fencing, Roads, Water system, Electrical System and the building of shed, offices and accommodation)• Staff Management and Development• Vehicle and equipment Maintenance• Alien vegetation control• Livestock Management (small Inguni cattle herd, Boerperd Stud and Indigenous chicken)• Fire Protection Program

Farm Management, including stock management, feed production and general.Game guide and host

Pub Management

Stable ManagementStaff ManagementFire planRiding InstructorTourism ActivitiesFeed productionSafety and Security

I undertook an 4000km horse ride across South Africa in commemoration of the Anglo Boer War (South African War) unsupported I was equipped exactly as a Boer Commando would have been at that stage 100 yrs. ago. The first line in Denyse Reitz's book reads "good horses and dead men" and that sums up the experience grave yard to grave yard on two of the most gutsy Boerperd stallions, Gelofte and Dertien.

Management of Section in Game reserve, including staff, equipment, Fire Plan, game sensus, fence maintanance and tourism activities.

General Farm Maintanace at Companies Poperty in the Waterburg (Bergtop). Helped with Operational Managment at companies hunting consession in Mozambique (Qutada 10) Acted as a Proffesional Huntining guide.

Completed my Basic Military Training. Obtained a Level 1 Shot Certificate. Served as a clerk in the Unit Sorts Office, Infantry School (Oudtshoorn). Represented the Units Rugby Team and was selected to play for a SWD u21 Invitational Rugby Team.