Edward Kazana

Experienced Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) professional with over 13 years of experience in mining, government regulation, heavy equipment, food production, occupational hygiene and environmental health. Experienced in risk management, incident investigation, compliance auditing, contractor management, occupational hygiene monitoring and implementation of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 systems.

SHEQ Officer - Barloworld Equipment

(2024-11 - 2025-09)

• Enforcement of SHEQ standards
• Risk assessments and incident investigations.
• Internal audits and ISO implementation
• Contractor management
• SHE training
• Monitor environmental and safety performance
• Facilitate monthly SHE Rep meetings
• Laison with departmental managers and supervisors to ensure all SHEQ standards and requirements are adhered to at all levels within the organization
• Laison with Medical Practitioner and facilitate the medical fitness for the staff (pre-employment, annual, and exit medial check examination)

Officer: Occupational Hygiene - Swakop Uranium Mine

(2022-09 - 2023-05)

• Enforcement of Occupational, Health, Safety and Hygiene standards at the mine (Labour Act No.11 of 2007, Regulations relating to the health and safety of employees at work of 1992, NIOSH, ISO 45001:2018, OSH Policy, Mine Health and Safety Act)
• Ensure that the hierarchy of controls is implemented and adhered to at all times
• Collect and dispatch samples for analysis (e.g. Total dust, respirable dust, welding fumes, MNO2 etc.)
• Maintenance and calibration of sampling equipment
• Conduct route health and safety inspections, identify non-conformance and take remedial action.
• Conduct PPE evaluation and make recommendations e.g. respirators
• Develop and review SOPs
• Develop occupational hygiene slogan
• Perform occupational hygiene surveys e.g. illumination survey, noise survey etc.
• Liaison with MP / Occupational Nurse with the evaluation of Job specification
• Liaison with other departments on matters related to occupational health, safety and hygiene onsite
• Commissioning of new equipment on site and ensure that it complies with Health and Safety requirements or standards
• Conduct accident investigation and reporting
• Perform health and safety training e.g. induction training, refresher training etc.
• Execute Occupational health risk assessments
• Exposure monitoring (dust, noise, chemicals, heat stress)

Senior Inspector: Occupational Health and Safety - Ministry of Labour

(2020-01 - 2022-08)

• Workplace inspections and compliance audits (Labour Act No.11 of 2007, Regulations relating to the health and safety of employees at work of 1992, ISO 45001:2018, ILO Conventions)
• Take or arrange the taking of samples of toxic gases, dangerous environmental conditions, vapors and make arrangements for the analysis
• Accident investigations and reporting
• Compile measures for the prevention of industrial-related illness and accidents
• Liaison with other institutions e.g. MoHSS, Social Security Commission, Ministry of Mines and Energy) on matters related to occupational health and safety
• Give informative talks about occupational health and safety
• Factory registrations and plan approvals
• Attended trainings, refresher trainings related to occupational health and safety

Quality Control Clerk - Feedmaster

(2019-04 - 2019-12)

• Food safety and quality compliance (ISO 9001, ISO 22001, HACCP principles)
• Sampling, inspections and employee training
• Health and safety
• Product inspection, testing to ensure compliance with the food and safety standard requirements
• Issue non-conformance certificates in case of non-compliance with regulatory requirements and take remedial action
• Sample collection, analysis and interpretation of sampling results
• Carry out daily production checks on machines and scales verifications
• Liaison with other departments on matters related health and safety, and food safety and quality
• Perform administrative duties e.g. record keeping, budgeting
• Maintenance of testing machines
• Perform any additional tasks as required by the supervisor
• Train employees on food safety and quality assurance and personal hygiene
• Attend regular meetings

Veterinary Hygiene Inspector - Ministry of Agriculture

(2012-06 - 2018-06)

• Food safety inspections and audits (HACCP Principles, ISO 220001, ISO 9001, SOPs, SA Meat Safety Act No.40 of 2000)
• Disease surveillance and export compliance
• Environmental health and hygiene enforcement (Labour Act No.11 of 2007, Regulations relating to the health and safety of employees at work, ISO 45001)
• Waste management
• Supervision of Veterinary Hygiene Inspector Assistants
• Condemnation of materials unfit for human consumption
• Perform daily pre-operational inspection
• Issue non-conformance in case of non-compliance and take remedial action
• Sample collection (water, carcass swab, equipment swab, surface swab, residual sample) and interpret sampling results.
• Export supervision (RSA, EU markets)
• Liaison with other institutions e.g. Local Authority, MoHSS, MLIREC etc. on matters related to environmental, health and safety, and food safety and quality control
• Perform administrative tasks

Bachelor - Environmental Health Science - Polytechnic of Namibia (2008 - 2012)

Master - Leadership and Change Management - NUST – Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business (2025)