Austine Oduputeh, Safety Officer

Austine Oduputeh

Safety Officer

City Engineering & Contracting Company

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Diploma, International general certificate in occupational health and safety
Experience
2 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :2 years, 9 Months

Safety Officer at City Engineering & Contracting Company
  • Qatar - Doha
  • March 2013 to September 2013

• Managed compliance with safety procedures.
• Established proactive safety analysis plan.
•Coordinated with clients in respect to work safe procedures.
•Monitored the prevailing working conditions and ensures safe working practices in the company.
•Followed up on work permit systems and inspections.
•Ensured the standards of Emergency services like Fire Extinguishers, First Aid Box.
•Implemented Personal Safety & Social Responsibilities in the minds of employee.
•Maintained and implemented the site Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) plan, fire fighting plan, emergency evacuation protocols.
•Conducted risk assessment at all sites and created appropriate safety signage’s to inform and make awareness efficient for site employees,
Clients and the public of the hazards present in and around the location of the work site premises.
•Coordinated with the project manager in respect to trucks and drivers loading and unloading of sand fill materials at the MIC site to conform with the MIC HSE policies/standards.
•In charge of applying for all transportation entry and exit permits at MIC.
•Made sure all PPE were provided for all workers at all sites.
•Monitored and made sure no accidents/injuries occurred at all work sites.
•Managed site set-ups and organisation of equipment’s and employees.
•Made sure all machineries and operators were professionally certified by a third party institution to conform to client demands.
•Assisted the safety manager in the Preparation of Risk Assessments, Safe Work Method Statements and compliance reports.
•Conducted induction trainings to update staff on client’s HSE policies and procedures.
•Conducted good housekeeping and made sure the work site was rid of demolition debris and beams.
•Assisted in the coordination of the removal/shutdown of all government welfare facilities from the work site before demolition.
•Attended all clients HSE meetings.
•Created all vehicle and Excavator maintenance checklists including inspections before delivering them to the client work sites.
•Performed all reporting and administrative duties accurately and on time.
•Ensured that each and every employee under my responsibility was fully trained as per the standards laid down by the clients.
•Organized and conducted safety trainings for all staffs. Kept and maintained up-to-date records of on-the-job and off-the-job training.
•Developed and maintained good working relationship with the clients and customers through regular personal contacts.
•Maintained a professional and pleasant working relationship with all superiors and peers at all times.
•Conducting training for Safe Erection & Dismantling of Scaffolding at the site.
•Conducted regular tool box meetings to enhance HSE knowledge and awareness among staff members.
•Maintained highest possible standard of personal hygiene.
•Promoted safety awareness among employees.
•Ensured and documented company’s compliance with mandatory HSE requirements and brought to the management's attention the areas of deficiency.
•Developed and implemented HSE training and educational programs, safety meetings.
•Abided various types of Fire Fighting Equipment’s and routine testing, Inspection/tagging and Testing of Automatic and Manual Sprinklers Systems, rules of Fire Alarm Call Point, Fire Alarm Control Panel, Suction Hose, Nozzles, Fire Water Pump Room, and Smoke & Heat Detector.
•Co - ordination with client, Consultant third party Management, staffs and workers.
•Ensured that all job site procedures are strictly followed and adhered to.
•Created, maintained and recorded all company HSE documentations.
•Performed other jobs as assigned by the Safety Manager.

IT Support Engineer at UNFCCC COP 18, WISE & Arab Summit conferences held at the Qatar National Convention Centre, Doha
  • Qatar - Doha
  • November 2012 to April 2013

Diagnosed and resolved hardware, software and end user problems for UNFCCC Cop 18, WISE and Arab Summit delegates and visitors.
• First point of contact to assist for all IT and technical queries.
• Conducted over 500 laptops system imaging to include windows 7 o/s.
• Configured and maintained Scanners and Printers for over 200 laptops.
• Developed the infrastructure and systems to meet the Wise, Cop18 and the Arab Summit guest’s needs.
• Worked within United Nations TCP/IP server frame network environment, which included DHCP, DNS and Ethernet to ensure that visiting clients had access to download their daily program schedules and access the daily cop18 website freely.
• Managed the responsibility for supporting windows XP/Vista/windows 7/ Office 2003/ 2007 and 2010.Involved in the rollout of software’s, updates and patches.
• Trusted specialist to resolve complex IT support issues at all three conferences.
• Communicated with third party technical specialists.
• Configured and managed backups & restoration procedures.
• Maintained a wide range of computer hardware (Multifunction
printers/Xerox/Hp, Scanners, Shredders) and software programs.
• Provided secondary support for LAN administration to include wireless as a backup plan.
• Deployed new hardware, server backups and evaluated new software and security risks.
• Worked as a team with both the UNFCC and QNCC IT Managers in respect to any IT related and Security queries involved with the Unfccc Cop18Conference/Wise and The Arab Summit.
• Organized a security update on re-registering 500 notebook computers to the United Nations Domain Server Infrastructure and activated firewall to block users from unsafe websites.

Safety Officer at Seven Star Trading & General Services
  • Qatar - Doha
  • February 2012 to November 2012

• Induction training of Site Employees.
• Safety system implementation and planning at work site.
• Risk assessment, identification & conducting safety trainings.
• Conducting training for Safe Erection & Dismantling of Scaffolding at the site.
• Providing training health, safety and environment matters.
• Coordinating with contractor and sub-contractors.
• Coordinating with civil, piping, mechanical, structural and survey departments.
• Investigating all accidents, near misses and advising the concerned departments to adopt safety measures to avoid recurrence.
• To ensure all employees and visitors entering the site with minimum PPE and safety induction.
• Onsite emergency responsive plan preparation & implementation.
• Disposal management, Maintained Good House Keeping.

Safety Officer at Waifong Qatar W.L.L
  • Qatar - Doha
  • January 2011 to February 2012

Waifong Qatar W.L.L (Construction);
Position: Safety Officer January 2011 - February 2012

Duties;
• Prepared HSE Plan in accordance with the client's HSE Management System.
• Conducted hazard identification and risk assessment on site.
• Ensured all identified hazards are properly mitigated and risk reduced to the lowest level.
• Communicated HSE roles and responsibilities to staff and ensured they are all adhered to.
• Provided advice to Site Safety Manager on HSE issues and implementation methods.
• Liaised with Client on HSE issues and conducted joint site inspections.
• Collated person-hour statistics and calculated accident frequencies.
• Planning and executed accident prevention programs including training and orientation for new employees.
• Planned and executed toolbox meetings.
• Organized and conducted monthly safety meetings.
• Developed waste management program in line with client's standard practices.
• Performed other jobs as assigned by the Site Safety Manager.

Continued Below

Education

Diploma, International general certificate in occupational health and safety
  • at Enertech Safety Training Institute
  • June 2013

NEBOSH : INTERNATIONAL GENERAL CERTIFICATION IN HEALTH AND SAFETY

Diploma, Occupational Safety and Health Professional
  • at OSHA
  • January 2012

• Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health Professional 132Hrs. • Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health Manager 48Hrs. • Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health Specialist 44Hrs. • Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health Supervisor 36Hrs. • Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health Trainer (Train-The-Trainer) 36Hrs. • Diploma in Safety and Health Committee/Team Leader 36Hrs. • Safety and Health Committee/Team Member.

Specialties & Skills

Risk Assessment
Safety Management
Risk Analysis
Risk Control
INDUCTION
INSPECTIONS
RISK ASSESSMENT
SITE SAFETY
WASTE MANAGEMENT
hse auditing
Risk Assessment

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert

Memberships

Safety and Health Committee/Team
  • Member

Training and Certifications

Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2007
Valid Until:
August 2008