Abdulla Alsaif, Specialist

Abdulla Alsaif

Specialist

HSE

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Human Resources
Experience
9 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :9 years, 4 Months

Specialist at HSE
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since April 2019

Own high-level strategy and operations surrounding training and competency development for liquified natural gas producer to ensure
optimal safety and compliance with all environmental sustainability regulations while maximizing efficiency and employee satisfaction.

• Responsible for top-to-bottom HSE training compliance, ensuring everyone from technicians and engineers to VPs and the CEO
are current on requisite training related to health, safety, environmental issues, corporate standards, and industry regulations.

• Co-developed a comprehensive training matrix to track training requirements of 3, 000 to 5, 000 on-site staff, executives, and
contractors, ensuring that each employee in each position had received the requisite training related to their job functions.

• Evaluate changes in corporate standards, performing gap analysis in employee performance and knowledge base and developtraining programs to fill knowledge gaps. Created comprehensive training curriculums and rolled out training company-wide on Health and Safety Competency Standards, Incident Investigation and Reporting, and Performance Management.

• Spearheaded the shift to automating the knowledge management system using an SAP application, collaborating with IT team to customize the software to tie training to employee records and automate record updating and prompting for required staff
training. Served as lead user of the new software, training colleagues on usage and providing troubleshooting leadership.

• Designed and enabled the facilitation of a mini-training program to update staff regularly on changes to corporate standards.

• Leveraged certification in incident investigation to develop an IIAI course used to train the entire team on incident reporting.

• Lead succession planning operations, collaborating with employees to build personal development plans (PDPs) based on their goals. And provide 1-on-1 coaching to high-potential leaders to develop skills and guide growth into management positions.

• Enabled effective mass training to support high volumes of contractors, leading a train-the-trainer program for contractorcompanies to qualify their in-house training teams to deliver training on-mass to their contracts prior to arrival on site.

• Facilitated company-wide Town Hall events to share information and gather feedback surrounding safety campaigns, Covid-19
response, high-level performance audits, employee experience, and other issues. Feedback used to inform strategic planning.

HSE Officer at Bee'ah
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • March 2011 to March 2013

Responsible for

Environmental Officer at Beeah
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2009 to March 2011

In this entry-level environmentally focused role within the waste management organization, responsibilities included data collection
and analysis to support the development of environmentally sound waste treatment planning and safety within company facilities.
• Partnered with Senior Manager of planning to develop a comprehensive waste treatment strategy, researching international
waste management regulations to maximize environmental sustainability and compliance.
• Assisted a field team in auditing the contents of pedestrian recycling bins in Sharjah to inform waste treatment strategy.
• Performed community outreach, delivering school presentations to promote recycling among young community members.
• Developed HSE guidelines to ensure the safety of any visitors to the landfill sites.
• Completed waste inspections and industrial area surveys with the field team to gather data for operational plan development.

Education

Master's degree, Human Resources
  • at University of Wollongong
  • June 2022

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Bachelor's degree, Environmental Science
  • at American University of SharjahUniversity of Cambridge
  • January 2009

Specialties & Skills

Materials
Marine Biology
Science
REPORTS
STRATEGIC
WORKFLOW ANALYSIS
AUTOMATE
COACHING
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
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