Vishand Bhajan, Health And Safety Superintendent

Vishand Bhajan

Health And Safety Superintendent

Zijin mining

Location
Suriname
Education
Diploma, Occupational Health and safety
Experience
15 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 10 Months

Health And Safety Superintendent at Zijin mining
  • Suriname - Brokopondo
  • My current job since March 2016

Health and Safety support of open pit gold mines and gold processing facility in second largest gold mine in Suriname

EHS Engineer at Alcoa
  • Suriname
  • July 2012 to March 2016

- Provide EHS consultancy to Location, sr. Management & Tembladora-Trinidad (Alcoa facility)
- Liaison with Alcoa and Latin America and Caribbean leadership regarding EHS activities.
- Schedule & provide EHS training to employees.
- Maintain safety files and records.
- Lead investigation team of accidents; injuries & near miss accidents.
- Inspect Suralco facilities for potential safety & health hazards and determine if corrective or preventative countermeasures as indicated, are followed up/implemented.
- Auditing of contractor jobs.
- Risk assessments of jobs.
- Plan & schedule emergency evacuation drills.
- Continually maintain an appropriate level of awareness, knowledge and preparedness across the workers regarding EHS.
- Coordinate implementation of Human Performance Improvement process
- Provide ISO support and advice to plant leadership and management and maintain ISO certifications
- Location SPA for these Safety programs: fatality prevention; tolov; fall control; confined space; hot work; machine safe guarding.

PRODUCTION OPERATOR at Alcoa
  • Suriname
  • August 2008 to June 2012

- Monitor control systems in the control room to track Precipitation process operations.
- Start up/switch process equipment according residual life schedule.
- Ensure that equipment is running properly and targets are met.
- Test process equipment/systems for offsets and troubleshoot any problems.
- Keep interdepartmental process-control balanced between Precipitation-Digestion-Calcination-Clarification (customer-supplier).
- Field observations to ensure that processes conform to EHS &Q standards.
- Maintain records of key production variables such as volume and yield.
- Ensure safety of all crew members during process maintenance jobs
- Test / sample environmental outfalls of process stream.
- Reporting of production metrics to departmenthead.

Education

Diploma, Occupational Health and safety
  • at nebosh
  • February 2022

International diploma in Health And Safety

Bachelor's degree, Civil engineering
  • at Poly Technical College
  • August 2014

Bachelor in Engineering - Civil Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Industrial Safety
Civil Engineering
Project Management
Environmental
Industrial Hygiene
ARCHITECTURE
AUDITING
ENGINEERING
ISO 9000
LEADERSHIP

Languages

Dutch
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

GUS ICON station training (Training)
Training Institute:
Quasar-Honeywell
Date Attended:
January 2011
Duration:
24 hours
Fall Competent persom (Training)
Training Institute:
Alcoa
Date Attended:
September 2015
Duration:
48 hours
Process opertor trainee program (Training)
Training Institute:
Intec- University of Suriname
Date Attended:
November 2008
Duration:
800 hours
Human Perfomance Advocate training (Training)
Training Institute:
Alcoa
Date Attended:
July 2014
Duration:
48 hours

Hobbies

  • Technology; aviation; sports; puzzles
    Excellent safety record of company; implementation of safety programs; implemented improvements in process;