Justice Buthelezi

Highly self-motivated, proactive inventive and versatile health and safety officer with a working background in daily operations of a natural gas/helium plant, construction and manufacturing. I am dedicated to continuous self-development to keep up to date with the industry Occupational Health and Safety, and other legislation, acts and polices changes. I thrive and relish any new challenge that come within the safety scope of work.

Senior SHE Officer at CBZ Solutions (2024-08 – Present)

• Effectively Develop, Implement, Manage the CBZ integrated Business management system (ISO 14001 and 45001).
• Liaise and support site SHE officers to ensure compliance with site requirements.
• Ensure SHE customer expectations are met.
• Develop SHE Tender documentation.
• Support the Development and review SHE requirements for vendor management.
• Support day to day Manufacturing activities.
• Develop programs to ensure all employees comply with all relevant safety, health, and environmental requirements.
• Identify safety training needs, organize and co-ordinate safety training courses and prepare training material where appropriate.
• Conduct regular internal and external SHE audits, surveys, and inspections to identify and mitigate potential hazards and risks to company and employees.
• Communicate changes in Safety and Environmental policies/procedures to staff.
• Investigate and analyze incidents, accidents, and near misses to provide recommendations for corrective and preventive actions to Management.
• Monitor workplace conditions to prevent occupational health issues.
• Coordinate health-related training and awareness campaigns
• Develop and maintain emergency response plans and procedures.
• Conduct regular drills and training exercises to ensure readiness for emergencies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address safety, health, and environmental concerns.
• Maintain accurate records of safety, health, and environmental activities.
• Prepare regular reports for management, highlighting key performance indicators and areas for improvement.
• Prepare and review Project safety files.

SHE Officer at Tru-Trac Manufacturing (2023-07 – 2024-07)

• Enforce contractor compliance.
• Assist management with the creation / implementation of the SHE management system.
• Updating the SHE management system to accommodate changes in the legislation and industry standards.
• Ensure SHE document and data control systems are maintained by the responsible persons.
• Monitor audit findings and recommend corrective and preventative actions.
• Issue non-conformances if required.
• Ensure objectives and targets for SHE compliance is document, communicated and updated.
• Ensure legal appointments is done and updated.
• Communicate changes in Safety and Environment legislation to Management.
• Investigating accidents and writing reports.
• Identifying potential hazards.
• Completing risk assessments and site/area inspections.
• Suggesting improvements to working processes.
• Ensuring staff understand safety procedures
• Compiling statistics for reports and presentations.
• Monitoring environmental impacts.
• Developing and reviewing safety policies and procedures.
• Ensure relevant internal and external training is done.
• Ensure regular Evacuation drills is done.
• Conduct company inductions
• Ensure entry medicals and annual medicals is done
• Ensure correct PPE is issued to the relevant employee and that they use it (correct).
• Assist in maintenance of SHEQ related systems
• Oversee daily building operations, including maintenance, cleaning, utilities, and security services.
• Implement preventive and corrective maintenance schedules for all equipment and infrastructure.
• Conduct regular inspections of facilities to identify issues, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure all repairs are completed in a timely, cost-effective, and high-quality manner.

Health and Safety Officer at Renergen/Tetra4 (2019-05 – 2023-06)

• Ensure that all service provider health and safety management systems are followed and address shortcomings
• Maintain and file documentation as required by the health and safety management system
• Update action tracking registers, trend analysis and any other tracking tools required by the safety management system
• Draft and communicate toolbox talk topics on trends identified as per lagging indicators
• Safety and prevention planning and control
• Raise management and staff awareness of safety accountabilities and responsibilities
• Enforce health and safety policies and procedures with all relevant stakeholders
• Assist in maintain the safety guidelines, procedures and policies
• Assist in ensuring and monitor regulatory requirements relating to but not limited to the following: i. Occupational Health and Safety Act and all its regulations. ii. Mine health and Safety Act. Compensation for occupational injuries and diseases act.
• Ensure effective communication of safety training topics including inductions, incident recalls and any general safety information as needed and maintain documentary evidence for the same
• Investigate, record and report accidents, incidents, near-misses promptly, ensuring any corrective actions are implemented without delay
• Review effectiveness of corrective and preventative actions implemented and report to the SHERQ Manager
• Travel to various and conduct daily, weekly and monthly inspections as per the safety management system
• Report safety issues to the SHERQ Manager

Mechanical Engineering Trainee at Renergen/Tetra4 (2018-07 – 2019-04)

• Monitor and troubleshoot operating equipment Monitor plant's daily operations
• Inspect plant equipment and indicators to detect evidence of operating problems
• Make adjustments or do minor repairs and or report any need for major repairs
• Ensure that plant area is always neat and compile daily reports

Certificate in Compliance Management – University of Cape Town (2025-01 – 2025-06)

Certificate in Facilities Management – University of Cape Town (2024-05 – 2024-07)

Training Course in ISO 45001:2018 Understanding and Implementation OHS Management Systems – South African Bureau of Standards (2025-05 – 2025-05)

Training Course in ISO 14001:2015 Understanding and Implementation Environmental Management Systems – South African Bureau of Standards (2025-05 – 2025-05)

Training Course in 14001:2015 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AUDITING Based on ISO 19011:2018 and ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 – South African Bureau of Standards (2025-10 – 2025-10)

Training Course in Effective Disciplinary Hearings – IMSIMBI TRAINING (2025-10 – 2025-10)

Training Course in Introduction to SAMTRAC – NOSA (2019-01 – 2019-01)

National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering – Central University of Technology (2016-01 – 2019-12)

Training Course in SHEMTRAC (Safety Health Environmental Management Training Course) – HASLAC (2021-07 – 2021-07)

Training Course in NEBOSH International Technical Certificate in Oil & Gas Operation Safety – SHEILDS (2022-01 – 2023-12)