Maccie Wendy
Environmental Health Practitioner
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About
I am a very cool, calm and collected person with a good charismatic communication skills, but If I could discribe myself in two words it would be passionate and dedicated because I believe being dedicated actually helps to employ good work ethics in people. My objective is to practice profession to stimulate the level of my working experience and to do what protects people as it is our duty to protect people's health along with the health of there physical surrounding which is basically the environment.
Experience
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY INTERN at Department of Employment and Labour (2025-08 – Present)
- I am in a process of being groomed to be able to do Plannning and independently conduct inspections with the aim of ensuring compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Act 85 of 1993, Regulations and incorporated Standards.
- To confirm legislations of with the Unemployment Insurance Act and the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act.
- Plan, investigate and finalise independently incidents and complaints reported pertaining to the OHS Act and the relevant regulations and enforce as and when necessary, appear court as a State witness.
- Plan and conduct allocated proactive inspections as per schedule to monitor compliance with labour legislation including compiling and consolidating reports emanating from such inspections.
- Plan and conduct advocacy campaigns on all labour legislations independently, analyse impact thereof, consolidate and compile report.
- Contribute at a higher level to planning, drafting and maintenance of regional inspections plans and reports.
- Assisting clients with UIF application, registering, processing UIF application and administration.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER INTERN at Nkangala District Municipality (2023-07 – 2025-06)
- Food control and safety
- Water quality management
- Environmental pollution control
- Surveillance and preventative of zoonotic and communicable disease
- Monitoring disposal of the death
- Vector control
- Chemical safety control
- Conducting Health education
- Office administration(Listings, Compliance report writing, differentiation of application forms, Issuing of Compliance notices, Law enforcement
- Doing inspections Indipendantly in all 9 core functions we working under
- Attending Weekly, monthly and quarterly Meetings
- Health education
- Awareness complaigns
- Attending complains
- Conducting investigation on uprising incidents
- Working with both internal and external stakeholders
- We are also doing UIF work, signing online, taking and processing applications, assisting clients with UIF related queries
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER at Msanda Laboratories (2021-12 – 2022-06)
- Ensuring a safe workplace
- Investigating incidents
- Inspection of the risks and hazards may arise within the building/premises
- Conducting site inspection where we were stationed
- Enforcement of compliance
- Attending waste complains
- Systems, Analysis and evaluation
- Waste management (segregation of waste)
- Arrangements of waste transportation
- Temporary storing of waste monitoring
- Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly auditing reports
- Alternate chairing monthly meetings and Training and motivating others
- Ensuring Health and safety of people within the premises
- Office administration( Officials sourcing and routing necessary and relevant information pertaining, Listings, Compliance report writing, differentiation of application forms
- Testing travellers for Covid 19
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER COMSERVER at Oshoek Border Gate (2020-04 – 2021-04)
- Food control and safety
- Water quality management
- Waste management
- Environmental pollution control
- Surveillance and preventative of zoonotic and communicable disease
- Monitoring disposal of the death
- Vector control
- Chemical safety control
- Conducting Health education
- Office administration(Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly auditing reports)
- Law enforcement
- Inspection of health related products
- Inspection of baggage, conveyance and good lady for compliance to international health regulations and relevant legislation
- Compiling daily, weekly and monthly statistics for PoE Operation
- Working with external and internal stakeholders
Education
Matric in Grade 12 certificate – Umfolozi High School (2015 – 2015)
N.Dip in Environmental Health – Mangosuthu University of Technology (2019 – 2019)