David Dlamini
Safety Officer
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Review and approve contractors' safety files and work packs on the MONDI HSEC system for all activities conducted on Project Vuselela site Liaise with Construction Health Safety Agent on documentation uploading for approval and updating of construction permit Conduct contractor audits and prepare contractors for agent audits monthly
Experience
HSE PROJECT ADVISOR - MONDI - Richardsbay Mill Power Boiler 4 - Project Vuselela
(2025-08)
- Review and approve contractors' safety files and work packs on the MONDI HSEC system for all activities conducted on Project Vuselela site
- Liaise with Construction Health Safety Agent on documentation uploading for approval and updating of construction permit
- Conduct contractor audits and prepare contractors for agent audits monthly
- Conduct random audits on permit to work and TRACS to ensure they are complete and accurate
- Conduct daily inspections on PPE, equipment and machinery that is used on site
- Conduct walk about with CHSA upon their monthly visits
- Attend progress meetings with MONDI contractors to discuss safety concerns and any other safety related issues
- Conduct engagement board sessions (interactive session with the contractors) to determine if they understand the task, risks and documentation
- Ensure incidents or accidents are reported, investigated and that all closeouts are communicated with the contractors
- Conduct project review meetings as required
- Approve overtime request on the MONDI HSEC system
3rd Party SAFETY OFFICER - TOTAL ENERGIES/THE BOILERROOM - Durban Island View Terminal & Various Retail and B2B Sites Across Country
(2022-02 - 2025-06)
- Check and approve contractors' safety files
- Conduct monthly audits on contractors
- Ensure action plans are compiled
- Conduct follow up audits on contractor action plans to ensure audit findings are closed out
- Issue contractors with high-risk permits
- Ensure permit requirements are met
- Ensure contractor is working according to their risk assessment and method statement
- Ensure contractor is upholding the client specification (IE) TOTAL ENERGIES management of works and prevention plan
- Coach and advise contractor supervision on safe work practices
- Conduct house keeping drives on site
- Coach and mentor contractor site safety officers
- Visual felt monitoring
- Deviation recordings and ensuring close-outs from contractors
- Drive incidents and accidents investigations
- Inspect critical equipment to ensure compliance prior to entering site
- Send out client TBT to be conducted to contractors
SITE SAFETY OFFICER - MURRAY AND ROBERTS POWER AND ENERGY - SAPPI SAICCOR Paper Mill Vulindlela Project - Umkomaas
(2019-07 - 2021-12)
- Audits on work areas and documentation via safety inspection checklists
- Co-ordination and implementation of all company S.H.E procedures
- Compiling risk assessments and method statements
- Ensure relevant work permits are in place prior to the execution of any task
- Ensure inspection on tools and equipment are carried out and relevant colour coding is in place
- Ensure registers of tools and equipment are up to date
- Organise training according to training needs analysis
- In house training to ensure all persons are made aware of the hazards associated with their work
- Ensure safe work practices is conducted daily; liaise with client safety officer and address any issues arising
- Co-ordinate shutdown activities, ensuring lock out tag out and test for zero energy procedures are followed
- Log deviations and ensure close outs
- Near miss reporting, conducting planned task observations and VFL's
- Facilitate toolbox talks
- Monitoring of work areas, housekeeping, stacking and storing barricading, etc
- Ensure all tasks are performed as per method statements and risk assessment
- Incident and accident reporting and investigation
- Stats generating and report writing
- Conduct sub contractor audits
- Chair HSE meetings
- Ensure COVID-19 policy is implemented and adhered to by all employees
- Ensure all employees comply to social distancing, sanitising and wearing of face masks on site
- Facilitate daily screening of employees prior to site entry, and logging of temperature readings
SAFETY OFFICER - MODIMO ENERGY RESOURCES (ENDEL) - Kusile Powerstation Witbank (Eskom) Unit 3 Piping Scope
(2018-10 - 2019-04)
- Audits on work areas and documentation via safety inspection checklists
- Co-ordination and implementation of all company S.H.E procedures
- Compiling risk assessments and method statements
- Ensure relevant work permits are in place prior to execution of any task's (IE) working at heights, hotworks, confined space entry, energy isolation, rigging studies for lifts over 5 tons etc
- Ensure inspection on tools and equipment are carried out and relevant colour coding is in place
- Ensure registers of tools and equipment are up to date
- Organise training according to training needs analysis
- Arrange employee medicals and inductions with Eskom and keep records of such
- In house training to ensure all persons are made aware of the hazards associated with their work
- Ensure safe work practices is conducted daily; liaise with client safety officer and address any issues arising
- Co-ordinate shutdown activities, ensuring lock out tag out and test for zero energy procedures are followed
- Pipes and tanks are flushed prior to shutdown activities
- Log deviations and ensure close outs
- Near miss reporting, conducting planned task observations and VFL's
- Facilitate toolbox talks
- Monitoring of work areas, housekeeping, stacking and storing barricading, etc
- Ensure all tasks are performed as per method statements and risk assessment
- Incident and accident reporting and investigation
- Stats generating and report writing
- Conduct self audits in preparation to client audits
- Chair HSE meetings
SAFETY OFFICER - LICIASTAR (EPC SPANISH COMPANY) - Kathu Solar Plant Northern Cape
(2018-02 - 2018-09)
- Check and approve contractors risk assessments and method statements
- Conduct monthly audits on contractors
- Ensure action plans are compiled
- Conduct follow up audits on contractor action plans to ensure audit findings are closed out
- Conduct internal training to contractors when required
- Coach and advise contractor supervision on safe work practices
- Conduct weekly site walks with all contractor safety officers
- Conduct house keeping drives on site
- Coach and mentor contractor site safety officers
- Visual felt monitoring
- Deviation recordings and ensuring close-outs from contractors
- Chair weekly safety officer meetings
- Hold meetings with HOD to discuss the week ahead focuses
- Drive incidents and accidents investigations
- Inspect critical equipment to ensure compliance prior to entering site
- Managing of permit issuing and permit closing out process
- Compiling of monthly safety stats, updating of SMI boards
- Send out client TBT to be conducted to contractors
SAFETY OFFICER - ABB- (DYNAMIC INSTRUMENTS) - Kusile Powerstation Project Witbank (Eskom)
(2017-04 - 2017-10)
- Implements company SH&E system combined with client SHE spec (Eskom)
- Interact between client and company (site inspections, site walks)
- Internal audits
- External audits
- Coach and advise supervision on safe work practices
- Ensure relevant permits / documentation is complete prior to execution. Isolation permits, hotwork permits, W.A.H permits etc
- Supervise and manage site safety officers
- Visual felt monitoring, compiling of planned task observations as per requirement
- Deviation recordings and ensuring close-outs
- Chair weekly safety officer meetings and take down minutes
- Hold meetings with representatives of the project once per month
- Investigate incidents and accidents
- Inspect the workplace or machinery at such intervals prescribed by site specifications
- Compile task specific risk assessment prior to task execution
- Ensure employees adhere to PPE requirements
- Compiling of monthly safety stats, updating of SMI boards
SAFETY OFFICER - ESORFRANKI CIVILS - Kusile Powerstation Project Witbank (Eskom)
(2016-06 - 2017-03)
- Implements company SH&E system combined with client SHE spec (Eskom)
- Interact between client and company (site inspections, site walks)
- Internal audits
- External audits
- Coach and advise supervision on safe work practices
- Ensure relevant permits / documentation is complete prior to execution. Permits, hotwork permits, W.A.H permits etc
- Supervise and manage site safety officers
- Visual felt monitoring, compiling of planned task observations as per requirement
- Deviation recordings and ensuring close-outs
- Chair weekly safety officer meetings and take down minutes
- Hold meetings with representatives of the project once per month
- Investigate incidents and accidents
- Inspect the workplace or machinery at such intervals prescribed by site specifications
- Compile task specific risk assessment prior to task execution
- In the course of any inspection be satisfied that the health and safety measures have been taken in respect of the handling of machinery and the performance at work
- Compiling of monthly safety stats, updating of SMI boards
SITE SAFETY OFFICER - REDIS CONSTRUCTION AFRIKA - Kamoto Copper Company Kolwezi DRC Congo (Mine)
(2014-08 - 2016-05)
- Audits on work areas and documentation via safety inspection checklists
- Co-ordination and implementation of all company S.H.E procedures
- Ensure site safety officers are mobilised effectively in work areas
- Compiling of risk assessments and method statements
- Ensure relevant work permits are in place prior to execution of any task's (IE) working at heights, hotworks, confined space entry, energy isolation, rigging studies for lifts over 5 tons etc
- Relevant PPE to be worn when working near chemical reactor plants
- Ensure inspection on tools and equipment are carried out and relevant colour coding is in place
- Ensure registers of tools and equipment are up to date
- Organise training according to training needs analysis
- In house training to ensure all persons are made aware of the hazards associated with their work
- Ensure safe work practices is conducted daily; liaise with client safety officer and address any issues arising
- Co-ordinate shutdown activities, ensuring lock out tag out and test for zero energy procedures are followed
- Pipes and tanks are flushed prior to shutdown activities
- Log deviations and ensure close outs
- Near miss reporting, conducting planned task observations and VFL's
- Facilitate toolbox talks
- Monitoring of work areas, housekeeping, stacking and storing barricading, etc
- Ensure all tasks are performed as per method statements and risk assessment
- Incident and accident reporting and investigation
- Stats generating and report writing
SAFETY OFFICER - ESORFRANKI CIVILS - Kusile Powerstation Project Witbank (Eskom)
(2012-02 - 2014-07)
- Implement company SH&E system combined with client SHE spec (Eskom)
- Interact between client and company (site inspections, site walks)
- Internal audits
- External audits
- Coach and advise supervision on safe work practices
- Ensure relevant permits/documentation is complete prior to execution of task (ie) DSTI, risk assessments, excavation permits, hotwork permits, W.A.H. permits etc
- Supervise and manage site safety officers
- Visual felt monitoring, compiling of planned task observations as per requirement
- Deviation recordings and ensuring close-outs
- Chair weekly safety officer meetings and take down minutes
- Hold meetings with safety representatives of the project once per month
- Investigate incidents and accidents
- Inspect the workplace or machinery at such intervals prescribed by site specifications
- Compile task specific risk assessments prior to task execution
- In the course of any inspection be satisfied that the health and safety measures have been taken in respect of the handling of machinery and the performance at work
- Compiling of monthly safety stats, updating of SMI boards
SAFETY OFFICER - ESORFRANKI GEOTECHNICAL - Akyem Project Newmont Mine Lycopodium Minerals Ghana
(2011-06 - 2011-11)
- Implement and enforcing mine safety health and loss prevention system
- Co-ordination and implementation of all company SH&E procedures along with the client's specification
- Facilitating daily toolbox talks
- Interact between client and company (meetings)
- Facilitate risk assessments/ method statements
- In house training to ensure all persons are made aware of the hazards associated with their work, training foreman and supervisors on completion of JHA's
- Inspection and tagging of machinery together with mine representative
- Ensure safe work practices is conducted daily
- Stats generation and report writing
- Incident accident reporting and investigation
- Reporting of deviations on a daily basis and ensuring close-outs
- Managing and implementing mine environmental management plan
- Ordering and issuing of PPE and ensure registers are maintained
SHE PRACTITIONER - CONCOR CIVILS MPS/JV - Medupi Power Station Lephalale Limpopo (Eskom)
(2009-08 - 2011-05)
- Implement company SH&E system
- Ensure sub-contractors maintaining health and safety file
- Auditing of sub-contractors
- Co-ordination and implementation of all company S.H.E procedures along with the client's specification
- Compiling risk assessments and method statements
- Ensure relevant work permits are in place prior to the execution of any critical task's (IE) excavations, working at heights etc
- Organise training according to training needs analysis
- In house training to ensure all persons are made aware of the hazards associated with their work
- Ensure safe work practices is conducted daily
- First aider
- Reporting of deviations on a daily basis and ensuring close outs
- Near miss reporting, conducting planned task observations and VFL's
- Checking and signing of job hazard analysis prior to task execution
- Monitoring of work areas, housekeeping, stacking and storing etc
- Ensure all tasks are performed as per method statements and risk assessment
- Attending S.H.E committee meetings
- Generating of stats, updating of SMI boards
SAFETY OFFICER - CONCOR BUILDINGS - Imbumba Aganag Department of Foreign Affairs Building Pretoria
(2008-12 - 2009-07)
- Implement company SH&E system
- Ensure sub-contractors maintaining health and safety file
- Auditing of sub-contractors, SHE file and work areas
- Co-ordination and implementation of all company S.H.E procedures
- Compiling risk assessments and method statements
- Ensure relevant work permits are in place prior to the execution of any critical task's (IE) excavations, working at heights etc
- Organise training according to training needs analysis
- Ensure safe work practices is conducted daily
- First aider
- Reporting of deviations on a daily basis and ensuring close outs
- Near miss reporting, conducting planned task observations and VFL's
- Checking and signing of job hazard analysis prior to task execution
- Monitoring of work areas, housekeeping, stacking and storing etc
- Ensure all tasks are performed as per method statements and risk assessment
- Attending S.H.E committee meetings
JNR SAFETY OFFICER - CONCOR CIVILS/JV STEFFENUTTI STOCKS - Goedgevonden Colliery Xstrata Coal Mine Witbank
(2007-11 - 2008-12)
- Interact between client and company (meetings)
- Organise training according to training needs analysis
- Co ordinate medicals and induction for new employees
- Identify hazards in the workplace and consult with project manager with methods to mitigate such risks
- Ensure legal and PPE compliance from all staff
- Participate alongside supervisor's with regards to HIRA's
- Reporting of incidents
- First aider
- Practice and enforce good housekeeping, safe waste disposal
- Attend SHE committee meetings
- Ensure statutory inspections of company equipment is carried out and tagged by appointed and competent personnel
- Compile safety statistics and update notice board
- Implement safe working procedures and evacuation plan according to client specs
Education
GRADE 12 (MATRIC) - BIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, BUSINESS ECONOMICS, ENGLISH, AFRIKAANS
