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Gert Van Rensburg

20 years’ experience as a professional H

Pretoria, South Africa

Work Experience

  • HSE Officer Full Time

    AMT – Contracted to DB Thermal

    Jul 2016 - Present -9 yrs

    South Africa

    • Job Details:• Monitoring and assessing hazardous and unsafe situations and developing measures to assure personnel safety. • Maintain awareness of active and developing situations. • Site Safety and Health Plan is prepared and implemented • Participate in planning meetings to identify any health and safety concerns inherent in the operations daily work plan. • Ensure preparation and implementation of Site Safety and Health Plan (SSHP) • Monitoring / reporting on HSE matters of tasks / areas. • Performing site inspections and keeping a record of it. • Corrective coaching to the line management and employees. • Ensuring targets are met, which are agreed upon. • Reporting to the HSE Manager and liaising with Supervisors on a daily basis.
  • HSE Consultant / Manager Full Time

    MSHEQ – Contracted to Consulmet

    Dec 2015 - Apr 2016 -4 months

    Lesotho

    • Job Details:• Project HSE Management - Site safety leadership, ensure facility compliance with corporate safety. • Implement safety directives, improve safety performance and ensure facility safety policies and procedures are aligned with governmental / company regulations. • Identify best practices and lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce work process risks, raise safety awareness, and improve safe work practices. • Conduct and coordinate worker training in areas such as safety laws and regulations, hazardous condition monitoring, and use of safety equipment • Perform safety audits and inspect facilities, machinery, and safety equipment to identify and correct potential hazards, and to ensure safety regulation compliance. • Investigate industrial accidents, near-miss incidents, and occupational injuries to determine causes, install preventive measures and manage return-to-work activities. • Provide technical advice, coaching, guidance, and mentoring to employees on safety initiatives and necessary changes. • Coordinate employee safety programs to determine their adequacy including review of short and long the term strategic safety planning and development • Provide assistance to project / team and participate in hazard and risk assessment studies. • Perform other duties as assigned and required by both client, contractors, and employer. • Prepare Excel, Word, Power point, Outlook and MS Project sheets, documents for all reports / Daily / Weekly and Monthly as well as presentation material. o Audit: Audit all work being performed by contractors on civil, access and optical fiber build programs (in accordance with the Annual Audit Schedule) o Provide detailed audit reports with findings. o Develop and maintain a robust vendor/contractor HSEQ Audit program and assist project operations staff in auditing, assess and monitor the HSE capabilities and activities of sub-contractors o Identify non-conformities and provide corrective action measures to prevent re-occurrence. o Monitor and review that corrective measures have been implemented.
  • QHSE Coordinator Full Time

    Spotprops

    May 2015 - Nov 2015 -6 months

    Kenya

    • Job Details:• Coordinate and monitor the implementation of the company's health and safety policy. Ensure that the company and its contractors comply with the requirements of legislation by monitoring contractor SHE compliance, attending and reporting back during safety meetings, and ensuring statutory and regulatory compliance by conducting site audits. • Provide HSE improvement proposals, proposed corrective action, required resources for corrective action and plan of implementation on NCRs issued. • Educate environmentally, safety and health training to employees, & train the field staff how to handle/ deal adverse situations • Advise and assist all personnel in the project implementation in compliance with relevant legislations • Assessing the health and environmental impacts associated with the implementation of the project at the site. Improve safety performance on continual basis, • Implemented system that meets requirements of OHSAS 1800: 2007, ISO 14001: 2004 and ISO 9001:2008 • Manage Safety, Health & Environmental issues in compliance with Industry standards, client requirement, and relevant statutes. • Conducted pre-implementation risk assessments for green-field sites if and when required and identify risk mitigation measures in conjunction with contractors review Contractor Risk Assessment.
  • ESHS ManagerFull Time

    Vestas Eastern Africa

    Jan 2015 - Apr 2015 -3 months

    Kenya

    • Job Details:• Developed, implemented and managed compliance with overall client Environmental, Safety, Health and Social Plan for the execution of the EPC contract for excavation, concrete structures, and erection of turbines (365xV52). • Dealt with our 3 major sub-contractor packages (construction, installation, and transport) • Develop Environmental, Health, Safety and Social (ESHS) Project Plan as imposed by the client. • Develop implementation strategy of this plan to all sub-contractors, ensuring that their plans are in alignment with the overall client’s project plan. • Develop of relevant ESHS construction/project reporting tools and necessary controls assistance with the recruitment of SHE Officer team. • Develop Hazards and Risk analysis with mitigating strategies • Oversee development of all ESHS management policies and frameworks, including ‘camp rules’, audit procedures, Non-Compliance Rules, and the alike. • Develop an ESHS Supply Chain strategy to manage the delivery, storage and erection of the turbines, towers and blades. • Develop Performance Management System with respect to ESHS team members • Develop and implementation of Site Security Plan management tools, in accordance with this role’s appointment as the Project Security Focal Point (PSEP) • Develop of security and evacuation procedures
  • Education

    • High School - Other

      Hartbeespoortdam High School

      Jan 1992 

    Achievements

    I have over 20 years’ experien

    Skills

    Languages

    • English

      Fluent

    Training & Certifications

    • NEBOSH International UNIT GC3

      Astutis ·2016
    • Prince 2 Foundation Certificate

      Smart PM ·2012
    • CAP Auditor Training Course

      IRCA Global·2012
    • Assessor and Moderator

      Academy Training Group·2011
    • Health, Safety, Environment, Quality

      Dekra Industrial·2011
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