Vaqar Fowzy (GRAD IOSH)
Mumbai
Summary
Senior Health & Safety Professional Specialized in Road Safety & Logistics.
A highly dedicated and self-driven Health & Safety expert with over 17 years of extensive experience in the HSE and Road Safety sector within the Petroleum Development of Oman setting. Proficient in Accident Investigation, Auditing & Inspection, Vehicle Safety, and Training. Possesses strong self-learning abilities, exceptional leadership qualities, and excellent public speaking skill
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
HSE Team Lead
OFSAT LIMITED CO. LLC
09.2020 - Current
- Leading team of Four HSE Advisors
- Providing the Vice Chairman with OFSAT’s health and safety activities on a regular basis
- Regularly reporting of health and safety matters or changes in the HSEMS to senior managers
- Ensuring OFSAT is fully compliant with HSE (and related) laws
- Devising, overseeing and monitoring the effectiveness of OFSAT’s health and safety risk management process including health and safety policies, processes and procedures and report/rectify any deficiencies as appropriate
- Liaising with other Managers to prioritize and determine actions to reduce HSE risks
- Ensuring that the Senior Management is informed of any changes to Health and Safety Law, codes of practice and relevant standards for any subsequent changes and advises them of the potential effects on the company’s operations
- Leading high level investigations into adverse incidents
- Ensuring health and safety audits for all parts of the company are carried out to the clients required standard as well as the HSE Management Plan
- Ensuring that a preliminary assessment of substances hazardous to health is carried out to determine risks involved to the employees
- Monitoring and investigating all work-related illness and ill health and notify senior management on trends
- Ensuring that HSE objectives from the client are achieved by monthly review of performance and participation in the audit program
- Periodically carries out staff appraisals on all direct reports
- Ensures that HSE non-compliances are investigated
- Ensuring that all environmental matters are adequately managed
- To prepare and periodically execute an emergency contingency/business continuity plan
- To monitor the camp, workshop and maintenance teams for compliance to company standards
- Monitoring camp conditions and make provision for the necessary measures to maintain the camp standard in relation to the standards and welfare specifications (e.g.SP1232)
- Ensuring that all staff are trained to the relevant standards of food hygiene and HACCP standards
- Ensuring that all records pertaining to camp welfare facilities and food hygiene are auditable.
Controller & Accident Investigator Asst.
SHEIDA INTERNATIONAL (ROAD SAFETY STANDARDS BODY FOR PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OF OMAN)
07.2009 - 07.2020
- Train and manage the road safety standard teams (RSST) in their respective areas
- Provide a Quality Control overview and input for all RSST services in their respective areas (Black Spot Management, Preliminary design of the roads and junctions, Road Safety Audits, Traffic Signs Surveys, and other Road Safety Studies)
- Accident Investigation and reconstruction
- Assist in the conduct of performance appraisal reviews
- Provide PDO MSE with professional expert road safety support
- Manage the allocation of personnel (Team Leaders & Assistants) to jobs including tasking / rest period balance
- Conduct Team Leaders & Assistants performance audits
- Maintain compliance to the Occupational Health & Safety System
- Comply with Company HSE Policy and Procedures
- Comply with Company Policies and Procedures
- Carrying out all Motor Vehicle Incident Investigation
- Observations and counselling as required for on-road Driver behaviour with emphasis on defensive driving habits and adherence to statutory road rules and regulations
- Roadside random vehicle checks as part of the RAS scheme- including Load Safety
- Planned and targeted Vehicle Fleet checks, including pre- contract start up fleet inspections, per request from PDO Contract Holders
- RAS Contractor Facilities-inspection/audits of RAS Inspection Facilities and RAS Inspectors
- Safe Journey Management audits
- Vehicle workshop and maintenance systems /inspections and audits
- Road Safety Presentations to Driver Forums, Driver groups, vehicle maintenance staff, their supervisors, both contractor and Company, on a wide variety of road safety topics, including for example: tyre safety, load restraining, driver conditions, common.
HSE Manager
NIMR CONTRACTING COMPANY (SUBCONTRACTOR TO BAHWAN DHL, LOGISTICS, PDO, MARMUL)
10.2005 - 06.2009
- Worked as a HSE Manager with Nimr Contracting Co
- L.L.C
- Water Haulage South (Subcontractor to PDO Logistics and Bahwan DHL).
Business Development Manager
RADIUM KEYSOFT SOLUTIONS
01.2003 - 09.2005
Centre Co-ordinator
CONCOURSE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
04.2000 - 01.2001
Centre Manager
BITS ‘N’ BYTES COMPUTER MANAGEMENT
10.1998 - 01.2000
Education
Bachelors Degree in Commerce -
UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI
01.1998
Level 6 Diploma in Health & Safety -
OTHM
ISO 45001 Lead Auditor -
IRCA APPROVED
NEBOSH GENERAL CERTIFICATE -
NEBOSH
Vocational Assessor -
EAL APPROVED
2 Years Advance Diploma in Software Engineering -
APTECH
Skills
- ACCIDENT / INCIDENT INVESTIGATION & REPORTING
- AUDITING & INSPECTIONS
- LIFT PLANS
- HEALTH & SAFETY PROFESSIONAL
- VEHICLE INSPECTIONS
- RISK ASSESSMENT
- COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT
- HSE DOCUMENTATION
- HSE TRAINING & PRESENTATAIONS
- SAFE JOURNEY MANAGEMENT
- IVMS MANAGEMENT
- ROAD SAFETY
- COUNSELLING & PUBLIC SPEAKING
DRIVING LICENSES
OMAN & INDIA Driving License
Timeline
HSE Team Lead
OFSAT LIMITED CO. LLC
09.2020 - Current
Controller & Accident Investigator Asst.
SHEIDA INTERNATIONAL (ROAD SAFETY STANDARDS BODY FOR PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OF OMAN)
07.2009 - 07.2020
HSE Manager
NIMR CONTRACTING COMPANY (SUBCONTRACTOR TO BAHWAN DHL, LOGISTICS, PDO, MARMUL)
10.2005 - 06.2009
Business Development Manager
RADIUM KEYSOFT SOLUTIONS
01.2003 - 09.2005
Centre Co-ordinator
CONCOURSE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
04.2000 - 01.2001
Centre Manager
BITS ‘N’ BYTES COMPUTER MANAGEMENT
10.1998 - 01.2000
Bachelors Degree in Commerce -
UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI
Level 6 Diploma in Health & Safety -
OTHM
ISO 45001 Lead Auditor -
IRCA APPROVED
NEBOSH GENERAL CERTIFICATE -
NEBOSH
Vocational Assessor -
EAL APPROVED
2 Years Advance Diploma in Software Engineering -
APTECH
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