Dirk De Wee
Vredenburg
Summary
Knowledgeable and experienced individual with over 3 years’ experience in the Health and Safety environment, responsible for maintaining, developing, leading and supporting a strong environmental, health and safety culture in a fast paced, pressurized environment. Uses experience-backed judgment, innovation, and a strong work ethic to overcome complex business challenges and make high-stakes decisions within an ever changing, high-pressure environment. Exceptional leader, motivator, and negotiator with the flexibility to adapt to changing demands and conditions, who relates well to diverse groups of people with an ability to quickly engender trust and confidence.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Health & Safety Officer
Flexo Line Products
06.2024 - Current
- Implementation of OHS Digital system
- Managing OHS System
- HIRA
- Incident Management
- WCA – Report IOD’s on Department of Labour Site
- RCAT
- SHE Committee Meetings
- Site Safety Meetings
- Induction
- Awareness Training
- Food Safety Committee Member
- Legal appointments
- Implementation of Staff Wellness programme
- PPE Management
OHS / Security Administrator
Flexo Line Products
12.2023 - Current
- Ensure compliance and alignment across the organizations by undertaking inspections, monitoring compliance and investigating for all OHS related queries
- Full responsibility for OHS protocols; Incident investigation; Legal compliance for all OHS aspects; regular internal audits and compiling reports
- Ensure that security staff compliment is present and trained according to contract and PSIRA regulations; manage PPE requirements, issues, registers, and ordering
- Ensuring that general housekeeping is maintained in office and that all company rules and regulations are adhered to
- Identifying potential hazards in the workplace, providing recommendations for preventative measures and conducting risk assessments
- Manage and arrange training for all OHS and Machine handling related positions; assist in Preventative maintenance
- Arrange occupational medicals for all relevant employees, ensuring that certificates of fitness are kept up to date, and that medical service providers’ recommendations are followed
- Draw up and maintain emergency plans for various business activities
Supervisor/Safety officer
AR Jones Engineering
01.2023 - 12.2023
- Assembling Gantries at Transnet as Construction Supervisor (CR 8.7)
- Implementation of health and safety measures on site and daily safety task instructions
- Construction regulations compliance and Toolbox talks
- Planned task observation and monitoring and reporting progress of project to management and client
Health & Safety Officer
Lucky Star Operations (Amawandle Pelagic)
05.2021 - 10.2021
- REX (Return of Experience) - Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis
- Contractor Compliance - Auditing of contractor Safety Files; Induction of contractors; Ensuring compliance of contractors PPE
- Security Management - Liaised with Security management to ensure contractual compliance; Audit Security company site safety file
- Medical Service Management - Assisted with CV-19 Compliance and Role Player in CV-19 Audits
- Arrange and partook in Site Safety Meetings (Responsible for Minutes and Agenda and discussion of REX)
- Responsible for Baseline as well as Task based Risk assessments
- Ensuring the appointments of relevant trained employees are in place and renewed
- Attend Departmental Safety Meetings / Promote Toolbox Discussions
- Conduct Contractor and new employee Health & Safety Induction
Laboratory Quality Analyst
ArcelorMittal Steel - Saldanha
01.1998 - 12.2020
- Stationed in the Laboratory at Saldanha Steel for 20 Years responsibilities included raw material analysis on iron ore, dolomite, lime, quartz, coal, and coke, and subsequent by products generated such as sludge and slag amongst other ad hoc samples
- Other areas include metallization analysis on the directly reduced iron product of our Corex and Midrex plants
- Slag and raw material chemical analysis on XRF spectrometer
- Determination of size distribution for the various raw materials mentioned and spark optical emission spectrometry for the chemical analysis of the steel through the various stages in production
- Also used gas analyzers to determine the carbon and Sulphur percentage in the DRI and raw material samples and nitrogen in the steel samples as well as radiation detection on steel and slag samples
- First line maintenance of machinery and equipment
- Drift correction required to maintain the accuracy of the instruments thereby ensuring accurate results are reported to the various clients
- The creation of reports, spreadsheets, and capture of data on Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access
- The supervision and setting out of workstations for co-workers when delegated as the shift coordinator
- Dealing with non-conformances to ensure client satisfaction
- Part of proto team, handling emergency situations at plant
- Adhering to the relevant ISO standards for Quality, Safety and Environmental awareness
Education
National Diploma - Safety Management
Unisa
Internal Auditors Course - ISO 14001:2015
Implementation IA Course - ISO 45001:2018 (SAMTRAC), HIRA: Legal Liability, Safety for Supervisors & Incident Investigation
National Senior Certificate - undefined
Schoonspruit SS
Skills
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- Collaboration
- Patient
- Inspire Trust
- Good Listener
- Lead by Example
- Service Excellence Attitude
- Effective Communication
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Customer Focused
- Detail Oriented
- Deadline Oriented
- Accountability
- Responsibility
- Problem Solving
- Results Focused
- Conflict Management
- Crisis Management
- Incident Management
- Computer Literacy
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Access
Timeline
Health & Safety Officer
Flexo Line Products
06.2024 - Current
OHS / Security Administrator
Flexo Line Products
12.2023 - Current
Supervisor/Safety officer
AR Jones Engineering
01.2023 - 12.2023
Health & Safety Officer
Lucky Star Operations (Amawandle Pelagic)
05.2021 - 10.2021
Laboratory Quality Analyst
ArcelorMittal Steel - Saldanha
01.1998 - 12.2020
National Diploma - Safety Management
Unisa
Internal Auditors Course - ISO 14001:2015
Implementation IA Course - ISO 45001:2018 (SAMTRAC), HIRA: Legal Liability, Safety for Supervisors & Incident Investigation
National Senior Certificate - undefined
Schoonspruit SS
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