Maxwell Tshuma
Innisfail
Summary
Stern Environmental Health Officer, passionate about Food safety, Environmental and Public Health issues. Talented in conducting field and site inspections and assisting with the collection and submission of data. Investigating and analyzing information to draw sound conclusions.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Environmental Health Officer
Cassowary Coast Regional Council
Innisfail
04.2025 - Current
- Conduct Food Inspectlons inspections to ensure compliance with the Food Act
- Operating Tech 1, ECM and iAuditor
- Conduct investigations and report findings on a variety of environmental health and protection related activities in order to maintain public health, including, assessing and monitoring food hygiene, community nuisances, events and permits, environmentally relevant activities, noise, illegal dumping, etc
- Assess environmental health and permit applications and issue permits and licences
- Provide timely, accurate professional advice, assistance and communication to stakeholders on a variety of environmental health and protection related activities
- Promote effective community consultation on all aspects of environmental health and protection through environmental education programs with internal and external stakeholders
- Assist with local law compliance activities when required or requested
- Maintain comprehensive, accurate and timely documentation and reporting, including digital record keeping
- Investigate complaints regarding sanitation issues in public facilities and businesses.
- Follow up on complaints and investigating outbreaks of food poisoning, infectious disease or pests.
Meat Inspectors
Australian Authorised Meat Inspector
02.2023 - 04.2025
- Inspection of animal carcass and its parts Ensuring compliance with the importing country requirements
- Ensuring compliance with the Australian Standard and DAFF rules
- Ensure the requirements of Hygienic Production and Transportation of Meat and Meat Products for Human Consumption (AS 4696) are adhered to
- Perform services of the Australian Export Meat Inspection System
- Quality control and monitoring function of the Slaughter process to ensure basic requirements are met
Training official
IMQAS
05.2014 - 02.2023
- The overall objective of the training department is to improve food safety standards, quality in the meat industry and to empower industry workers through the following:
- Conducting inspections for monitoring or enforcement reasons. Continuous and Post operational checks to ensure quality, hygiene and food safety and building standards are met before, during and after production
- Develop, implement, enforce and continuously improve policies according to legal requirements including food safety, environmental and public health law requirements.
- Comming up with initiatives to improve the industry include research to improve the community and industry at large
- Coordination and conducting of training programs for food safety and other related concerns.
- Putting together Food Safety Teams
- Conduct audits to ensure compliance.
- Slaughter process evaluation
- Verification of Food Safety Systems
- Drafting & implementation of Laboratory testing programs including water quality monitoring, product monitoring, effectiveness of cleaning and hygiene monitoring
- In the event on non compliance (Regulatory, Food Safety or Quality related) or complaints from customers or communities, conduct root cause analysis and give Management appropriate corrective actions
- Signing of export documents and ensuring the labeling requirements as per needs of the importing country are adhered to. Receiving imported food products required for heat treatment. It involves verification of import licence
- Meat inspection, Red Meat, Crocodile, Game and Poultry Meat
Chief Meat Inspector
IMQAS
05.2010 - 04.2014
- Verification of Hygiene Management System
- Preoperational checks to the plant is clean and safe before production commences including core temperature cheques
- CAR reporting
- Hygiene Assessment Audits
- Monitor disposal of condemned material to ensure environmental safety
- Monthly reporting
- Ante-mortem and Primary meat inspection
Education
Diploma Business Compliance
College of Adult Learning
Mitcham, VIC 07.2024 - 08.2025
Total Quality Management -
University of South Africa (UNISA)
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree - Environmental Science and Health
National University of Science and Technology
08.2003 - 06.2007
Cert III & Cert IV Meat processing - Meat Safety
TAFE
Skills
- Work in a compliance framework
- Conflict resolution
- Customer service approach
- Work collaboratively across council
- Food Safety
- Occupational Health and Safety principles
- Flexibility
- Professional and ethical behavior
- Local government laws
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Disaster management
- Infectious disease control
- Incident investigation
- Environmental harm management
- Community engagement
Certification
- Environmental Health Australia, Full member
- Certified Quality Engineer (American Society of Quality), 2023 - 2027
- White card, CPCWHS100, General construction induction training
References
- Laurane Moyo, Training Official, laurane@imqas.co.za, +27838223335
- Daniel Ncube, Australian Authorised Officer, dncube0908@gmail.com, +61486038845
Timeline
Environmental Health Officer
Cassowary Coast Regional Council
04.2025 - Current
Diploma Business Compliance
College of Adult Learning
07.2024 - 08.2025
Meat Inspectors
Australian Authorised Meat Inspector
02.2023 - 04.2025
Training official
IMQAS
05.2014 - 02.2023
Chief Meat Inspector
IMQAS
05.2010 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree - Environmental Science and Health
National University of Science and Technology
08.2003 - 06.2007
Total Quality Management -
University of South Africa (UNISA)
Cert III & Cert IV Meat processing - Meat Safety
TAFE