CHITALU MPUNDU

Occupational Health and Safety professional with over4 years of experience implementing effective safety measures and procedures. Skilled in planning, implementation, and compliance tracking to ensure a safe working environment. Dedicated to promoting incident prevention and compliance with national and international standards.

• Preparation and pre weighing of Filters used for dust sampling
• Assembling of Cyclones, Filters and Shrink Seals before use when sampling dust
• Planning for improvements in Industrial Hygiene control systems to meet international standards.
• Assisting with promoting and monitory a culturing of safety on site to support the delivery of the Occupational health and safety performance metrics.
• Generating timely sampling reports.
• Administering compliance tracking programs a record keeping systems like (learning management system) for workers training, routine, tasks worker’s concerns, action items and event reporting.
• Conducting industrial health sampling including but not limited to noise, total dust, repairable dust, diesel particulate matter, VOCs, hydrocarbons and sulphuric acid mist exposure.
• Confined space gas testing
• Conducting investigations to establish root causes, identify corrective measures and take recommend corrective action.
• Monitor key metrics of the safety system to ensure ongoing implementation.
• Ensures compliance of inspections and audits as per required
• Identifying of are of non-compliance, take action, or recommends intervention at higher organizational levels
• Issueing , as a last resort, appropriate letters and warnings in case of non-compliance, and follows up to ensure implementation compliance.
• Prepearing and calibrating equipment used to collect and analyze samples.
• Gravimetric laboratory quality control.
• Evaluating changes in work practices and regulations, and builds into safety plans and or systems establish safety metrics for the ongoing monitoring, performance and evaluating of safety performance in the workplace.
• Assesseing extent to which policies and plans, takes corrective action or recommends changes to EHS management.
• Identifying gaps in terms of compliance, safety practices and safety policies and makes changes or recommendations for corrective action.
• Reviewing activities and information flowing out of safety system.
• Developing staff planning for the safety section
• Directing and inspecting the work done by subordinates
• Allocating tasks to subordinates and follows-up on the activities assigned
• Assisting with on-the-job training of subrogates and trainees as required Investigated workplace accidents and injuries to determine root causes and provided advice on all accident /incident using RCAT methodology.
• Enforceing compliance to all applicable standards, legal and other requirements in line with the best practice and systems.