Ally Chauke

Dedicated Safety Professional with 8 years of total experience, including 3 years of full-time on-site leadership. Proven track record in enforcing rigorous safety protocols, managing complex compliance documentation, and directing emergency response procedures. Expert at hazard identification and mitigation, ensuring safety is seamlessly integrated into every phase of the construction lifecycle.

Trainee OHS officer at Bukuta CC (2021-01 – 2022-12)

SEKGOSESE GROUND WATER 1D BULK WATER SUPPLY

• Excavation & Trenching Oversight: Checking trench stability, shoring, and benching for large diameter pipeline installations to prevent cave-ins
• Conducting Toolbox Talks: Leading morning safety briefings specifically focused on the day's tasks
• PPE Compliance: Ensuring all staff have specialized gear, such as high visibility vests for roadside work and proper hand protection for pipe handling
• Assisting with the SHE files: Keeping the Safety, Health, and Environmental file updated daily with plant checklists, and training records
• Incident Reporting: Assisting in the initial data collection and photography for any near-misses or minor on-site injuries

Trainee OHS officer at Bukuta CC (2022-06 – 2023-06)

REHABILITATION OF GA-SEKORORO ROAD

• Signage Verification: Ensuring all temporary road signs ("Roadworks Ahead" and "Speed Limit") are clean, visible and placed at the correct legal distances
• Delineation & Barricading: Inspecting cones, water-filled barriers, and barriers to ensure the work zone is physically separated from live traffic
• Asphalt Safety: Monitoring the handling of hot mix asphalt (HMA) to prevent thermal burns and ensuring fire extinguishers are nearby during bitumen spraying.
• Assisting with the SHE files: Keeping the Safety, Health, and Environmental file updated daily with plant checklists, and training records
• Heavy Plant Inspections: Daily checking of "pre-use checklists" for rollers, excavators, graders and TLBs focusing on reverse alarms and hydraulic leaks.
• Dust Control: Ensuring water trucks are used to suppress dust, which can impair driver visibility and cause respiratory issues for workers
• Public Protection: Ensuring that any open trenches left overnight or at an unfinished site, are fully barricaded and put with warning signs to prevent cars and pedestrians from falling in.

Safety Officer at Bukuta CC (2023-05 – 2024-12)

CONSTRUCTION OF BALLOON INTERNAL STREET [MLM/SCM/38/2023]

• Signage Verification: Ensuring all temporary road signs ("Roadworks Ahead" and "Speed Limit") are clean, visible and placed at the correct legal distances
• Delineation & Barricading: Inspecting cones, water-filled barriers, and barriers to ensure the work zone is physically separated from live traffic
• Asphalt Safety: Monitoring the handling of hot mix asphalt (HMA) to prevent thermal burns and ensuring fire extinguishers are nearby during bitumen spraying.
• Assisting with the SHE files: Keeping the Safety, Health, and Environmental file updated daily with plant checklists, and training records
• Heavy Plant Inspections: Daily checking of "pre-use checklists" for rollers, excavators, graders and TLBs focusing on reverse alarms and hydraulic leaks.
• Dust Control: Ensuring water trucks are used to suppress dust, which can impair driver visibility and cause respiratory issues for workers
• Public Protection: Ensuring that any open trenches left overnight or at an unfinished site, are fully barricaded and put with warning signs to prevent cars and pedestrians from falling in.
• Develop Fall Protection Plans: Create site-specific plans that outline the exact equipment to be used, anchor point locations, and safe work procedures for high-risk task.
• Verify Competency: observation of workers to ensure that they can demonstrate safe setup and use of equipment

Safety Officer at Bukuta CC (2024-06 – Present)

CONSTRUCTION OF LORRAINE-BELVILE, NKOPETJI ACCESS ROAD [MLM/SCM/66/2024]

• Signage Verification: Ensuring all temporary road signs ("Roadworks Ahead" and "Speed Limit") are clean, visible and placed at the correct legal distances
• Delineation & Barricading: Inspecting cones, water-filled barriers, and barriers to ensure the work zone is physically separated from live traffic
• Asphalt Safety: Monitoring the handling of hot mix asphalt (HMA) to prevent thermal burns and ensuring fire extinguishers are nearby during bitumen spraying.
• Assisting with the SHE files: Keeping the Safety, Health, and Environmental file updated daily with plant checklists, and training records
• Heavy Plant Inspections: Daily checking of "pre-use checklists" for rollers, excavators, graders and TLBs focusing on reverse alarms and hydraulic leaks.
• Dust Control: Ensuring water trucks are used to suppress dust, which can impair driver visibility and cause respiratory issues for workers
• Public Protection: Ensuring that any open trenches left overnight or at an unfinished site, are fully barricaded and put with warning signs to prevent cars and pedestrians from falling in.
• Develop Fall Protection Plans: Create site-specific plans that outline the exact equipment to be used, anchor point locations, and safe work procedures for high-risk task.
• Verify Competency: observation of workers to ensure that they can demonstrate safe setup and use of equipment

National Diploma in Safety Management – Vaal University of Technology (2020-01 – 2022-12)

National Senior Certificate in Grade 12 – Hudson Ntsanwisi Senior Secondary School (2015-01 – 2015-12)