Aboagye Gideon

To seek employment as a safety officer to make sure adequate safety practices and protocols are put in place, enforced and effectively adhered to, in minimizing risks and hazards posed in our daily line of work. To ensure a safe and healthy working environment by proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks to employees, the environment, and the community at large; essentially aiming to prevent workplace incidents, and environmental damage through effective safety practices and compliance with regulations.

Safety Officer - Ministry of Roads and Highways - Kumasi Regional Office, Ghana

(2024-01 - 2025-12)

Plans and supervise the collation, analysis and evaluation of road furniture and streetlight inventory in each region within the zone to generate reports and program for maintenance of safety devices and streetlight.

• Assigns duties and supervision work of immediate subordinates
• Identifies accident sites using standard methods such as Accident maps, Nodal location system, link location system and Kilometer post system
• Employs accident data obtained from the Building and the Road Research Institute or the Ghana Police to rank accident sites for treatment
• Sets priorities and programs for Road Safety Audits
• Determines annual programs (including resources) for R.S.A
• Identify new/existing road projects to be audited
• Spearheads and carries out R.S.A initiatives in the region within the zone and develops cost effective measures to reduce the risk of death/injuries on future and existing road projects
• Submits quarterly and annual reports on road safety and environment/social mitigations measures to Road Safety and Environment Division
• Attends site meetings on all development and major Maintenance projects in the zone
• Ensure quality control for all road furniture (pavement marking, road studs, road traffic signs, verge marker post, crash barriers, pedestrian guard rails, new Jersey barrier, traffic signals) and streetlights by carrying out standard quantitative and qualitative test on samples of safety devices and luminaires etc.

Bachelor's Degree - Occupational Health and Safety Management - OTHM (UK) (2023-01 - 2024-12)

Diploma - Business Administration - Global Professional Studies (2021-01 - 2022-12)

WASSCE - Effiduasi Senior High Commercial school (2014-01 - 2017-12)

B.E.C.E - Poano R/C JHS (2011-01 - 2013-12)