Health & Safety Instrcutor
Emirates Technical & Safety Development Centre
Total years of experience :11 years, 10 Months
Responsibilities:
• Delivering health and safety courses including:
Basic H2S (OPITO Standard)
Authorized gas testing (OPITO Standard)
Basic first aid (First Aid International UK)
Basic fire fighting
Confined space entry
Welding Safety
Handling of Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT)
SCBA
Office Safety
Manual Handling
Responsibilities:
• Studying reactions at lab scale.
• Identifying the problems that might occur during scaling up of a process.
• Selecting and handling equipments for various processes.
• Participating in HAZOP studies.
• Costing of new processes.
My work in production mainly dealt with handling reactors and equipments like centrifuge, Nutsche filter, filter press, leaf filter, fluid bed drier, rotocone vacuum drier, multimill and vibratory sifter and carrying the day today documentation.
Internships 1) Arjuna Natural Extracts, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (July 2009). Here I learnt the process involved in the production of fish lipid oil (Epoxy Pentanoic Acid & Docosa Hexanoic Acid enriched) which is used as a food supplement. Besides this, I learnt the process involved in the production of flax seed oil which is a EPA & DHA supplement for vegetarians and the extraction of curcumin from tumeric which is anti bacterial. 2) Akzo Nobel Coatings India Private Limited, Bangalore (August 2010). The internship mainly aimed at the study polyurethane dispersions, a relatively new concept in India, and to understand the properties of these polyurethanes and their applications. The project also included a study of the manufacture of water based polyurethane paints and to determine the possibility of manufacture in Akzo Nobel, Bangalore.