Ali Orkkatteri, hse executive

Ali Orkkatteri

hse executive

UAE University

Location
United Arab Emirates - Al Ain
Education
Higher diploma, Occupational Safety, Health and Environment
Experience
24 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 1 Months

hse executive at UAE University
  • United Arab Emirates - Al Ain
  • My current job since August 2011

-Overall Management of Health, Safety & Environment issues
•Interpret and Advise the UAE Safety Regulations for HSE issues
•Formulate policy and procedures for Faculty of Medicine
•Coordinate and Supervise the safety committee meeting and take approvals for the strategic corrective measures & all major safety issues
•Coordinate with FANR (Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation) authority to complete the Regulatory compliance recommendations & Radioactive material waste approvals for safe disposals
•Report all safety issues to the Safety committee and advise appropriate corrective measures.
•Conduct Internal audit and submit the findings to the management & HSE Committee.
•Coordinate with Research laboratories (40 laboratories) and supervise the corrective measures identified in the Laboratory Audit
•Conduct Daily inspections and take corrective actions
•Conduct Risk Assessments and submit the report to HSE committee for taking prompt action
•Conduct safety campaigns to create an awareness about HSE
•Provide training for contract workers on different subjects (PPE Usage, awareness training, Work permit system, tool box talks etc.
•Control the chemical store and keep up-to-date inventory of chemicals
•Supervise the Chemical as well as biological waste disposal by obtaining approval from Abu-Dhabi Waste Management Authority.
•Control the safety issues of contract workers
•Coordinate with 3rd party waste management company for waste disposal as per the regulatory procedures.

Assistant Manager, Health, Safety & Environment at EMCOR Facilities Management (KAUST Project)
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2011 to July 2011

• Attend all H&SE issues of Township including the 3 utilities plants (In charge of Sea water Reverse Osmosis plant, Waste water Treatment Plant & Chiller plant)
• Manage the Risk assessment through the SPs.
• Lead the Monthly Utilities Safety Committee meetings and take appropriate actions for all action items.
• Conduct Service Providers ‘Safety Audit and recommend for corrective action.
• Train the SP employees (Risk Assessments/Accident investigations/Work permit audit/Heat Stress/Fire Extinguisher and Fire prevention to name a few)
• Conduct Inspections and manage SPs for rectification of issues through prompt recommendations
• Prepare weekly reports and submit to the Senior management
• Lead the Utility Senior Management Walkthroughs and record findings and rectify the issues
• Lead all investigation of incidents/accidents and find out the root causes.
• Monitor the Service provider performance and report to the higher management
• Conduct onsite tool box talks
• Inspect Hazardous waste and rectify issues, if any.

Major Achievement:
Led the team of Auditors for conducting the Safety Management System Audit for Service Provider Companies
 Successfully enforced the Safety Management System based on King Abdullah University Management system requirements

Environment, Health & Safety Officer at Naizak Global Engineering
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2008 to January 2011

Formulate the Policy and Procedures for the Warehouse as well as site services operations
Prepare the Emergency evacuation procedures & update it whenever any change required
Conduct planned and unplanned Fire Drill (by Including Fire Department, Security Dept & Clinic).
Responsible for Safety inspections and prepare the Safety report
Conduct the Accident/Incident investigation and take corrective measures.
Supervising the dangerous chemical handling and transporting (As per the International Dangerous goods procedures)
Facilitate the Safety training for Warehouse employees, Site Operations as well as Engineers
Ensures that everyone gets trained on specific task related safety training (For eg: Chemical handling, lifting techniques)
Responsible for creating Safety awareness through various lectures on PPEs, Importance of Accident reporting, Emergency evacuation, fire drill etc.
Monitoring/inspecting the general job performance to ensure that employees are following the proper safety rules all the time.
Chair the Weekly Safety meeting and address any concern to the respective managers and supervisors for corrective actions.
Responsible for controlling & issuance of PPEs
Responsible for Visitors’ safety briefing
Responsible for new employee orientation
Responsible for keeping the Training records of the employees
Control the ChemSW, Chemical Tracking software, by acting as Administrator (Giving access to users, control the access permissions etc)

Safety Officer at Saudi Arabian Amiantit Group of Companies
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2002 to December 2008

Coordinate & Maintaining a high degree of commitment to company’s health, safety and environmental programs for 3 Pipe manufacturing Plants located in Jeddah.
Actively participated in formulating Safety strategy
Assist the Safety Manager in Policy & Procedure review & amendment.
Conduct Safety awareness programs for the Pipe production factory employees
Conduct the Employee to understand & study the findings
Responsible for Risk identification, Management, Elimination.
Conduct Accident investigation & Prepare Management Reporting.
Initialte and supervise all the activities related to implementation of Company’s HSE policies, procedures and guidelines Responsible for providing Safety orientation for newly hired staff
Conduct Safety Inspection to the pipes manufacturing plants & Warehouses
Intiate and particpate in Risk assessments.
Responsible for Safety Record-keeping and Analysis
Planning and scheduling the safety trainings
Prepare training materials and maintain employee training records.
Familiar with monthly and quarterly site safety statistics
Assist HSE Management in conducting internal audits for HSE.
Performing monthly safety visits /Confined Space/Work Permit Audits etc.
Coordinates, follow-up & establish systematic communications with all production plants and Corporate Departments
Facilitate the training needs of Safety Engineers for both in & outside kingdom.
Prepares all kinds of Safety announcements & its circulation through out the group
Attend all Safety meetings & prepare the minutes of the meeting & follow-up on action items to support in increasing the departmental efficiency and effectiveness.
Collect monthly report from the Production plants’ Safety representatives and consolidate it for management review and prompt action.
Coordinate with Safety Equipment company for ensuring the equipments periodical inspection
Coordinate with the Corp. Procurement for ordering the Personal Protective equipments.

Gateway Safety Coordinator at Saudi Globalstar
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2000 to January 2002

Conducts safety inspection to the Gateway Technical center
Actively participated in developing Gateway Safety policies
Prepared Emergency Response procedures
Actively participated in number of Risk Assessments
Attend all safety meetings and prepare minutes of the meeting and follow-up on action items
Assist the group Safety Manager in preparing the Budget
Responsible for reporting incidents, near miss cases and accidents and take necessary corrective actions as per the instruction of the Group Safety Manager.
Responsible for providing Safety awareness to any visiting Engineers (from Saudi Telecom as well as from Contractors).
Responsible for safety inspection & reporting
Prepare the Yearly Safety Awareness Plan
Responsible for monitoring safety progress in the Gateway Technical Center and submit the report to Safety Manager

Education

Higher diploma, Occupational Safety, Health and Environment
  • at BSS
  • March 2018

Advanced Diploma in Occupational Safety, Health & Environment Management

Diploma, OHSAS 18001 Lead Auditor
  • at Lloyds Register for Quality Assesment
  • September 2010
Diploma, Fire Prevention & Safety
  • at Pure Safety
  • January 2010
Diploma, Egress & Emergency Action Plans
  • at Pure Safety
  • December 2009
Diploma, Chemical Hazard Communication
  • at Pure Safety
  • December 2009
Diploma, Dangerous Goods Transportation (IATA)
  • at Transportation Development Group
  • November 2009

Percentage of marks attained : 85%

Diploma, Hazardous Chemical Handling & Emergency Response
  • at Chemically Speaking
  • November 2009

Marks Attained : 90%

Diploma, First Aid Basic
  • at Pure Safety
  • November 2009
Diploma, Management Of Health, Safety & Environment
  • at National Education Board of Safety & Health (NEBOSH, UK)
  • August 2008

Achieved 70% (Credit) for the Management Practices Achieved 79% (Credit) for the Practical Assessment & Implementation

Diploma, Health Safety & Environment
  • at CHSS
  • August 2008

Internation Gerneral Certificate (Management) from National Education Board of Occupational Safety & Health (NEBOSH, UK)

Master's degree, History & Political Science
  • at University of Calicut (Government Brennen College)
  • May 1993

Obtained Course Completion Certification (Could not appear for final examination to qualify for the final certificate)

Bachelor's degree, History & Political Science
  • at University of Calicut (Government Brennen College)
  • May 1991

Achieved Third Class in my Graduation

Specialties & Skills

Hazard Assessment
Implementation Of Policies
Policy Drafting
Chemical Safety
Accident Investigation
English Typing
Trouble Ticketing System
Comparitive Studies
Business Communications (Letter Drafting/Correspondences)
Preparation Of Management Reports
Accident Investigation Reporting
Risk Assessment
Emergency Evacuation Procedures
Contractor Management
HSE Training

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Arabic
Beginner