Orla Dunne
Perth,Western Australia
Summary
Health and Safety Advisor with over 7 years’ experience working in the Construction Industry and some experience in working in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Plastic Manufacturing Industry. Confident in many different aspects such as carrying out various risk assessments, partaking in the creation of Safety Management Systems and Environmental Management Systems, creating policies, procedures, training programmes and reviewing Sub-contractors’ documentation. Dependable Health and Safety Advisor with comprehensive background in developing and implementing health and safety protocols. Strengths include risk assessment, policy development, employee training, and regulatory compliance. Demonstrated track record in improving workplace safety standards and enhancing organizational health practices.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Health and Safety Advisor
AIM Construction Group WA
Tom Price
03.2024 - 02.2025
- Health and Safety support to the business
- Implementing all new company policies and procedures
- Ensure health and safety compliance with the clients HSE policies and procedures
- Conduct morning prestart meetings and overview of the morning breathalysers and weekly random AOD testing
- Conduct daily Safety Inspections
- Incident and accident investigation
- Reviewing Safety Data Sheets for all chemicals that the operatives use and ensure that the operatives are compliant with the PPE, handling, disposure etc
- As outlined
- Onboarding new employees & booking training as required
- Full administrative control of Rio Tinto’s new Pegasus system – uploading new personnel, assigning training on the platform, uploading training qualifications
- Successfully obtained Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) Vendor Number ensuring that all our polices, procedures, SWMS met their requirements
Health and Safety Advisor and Administrator
Pilbara Plant and Services
Tom Price
03.2023 - 03.2024
- Health and Safety support to the business
- Implementing all new company policies and procedures
- Ensure health and safety compliance with the clients HSE policies and procedures
- Conduct morning prestart meetings and overview of the morning breathalysers
- Conduct weekly Safety Inspections
- Incident and accident investigation
- Reviewing Safety Data Sheets for all chemicals that the operatives use and ensure that the operatives are compliant with the PPE, handling, disposure etc
- As outlined
- Onboarding new employees – booking in medicals and LAB DAS, booking training
- Mobilisation for employees – booking flights and accommodation and liaising with the client booking these
- Ensure Contractor Hire Forms (CHF) were submitted
HSEQ Advisor
Bennco Group
Tom Price
05.2022 - 12.2023
- Providing Health and Safety support to the 4 divisions that make up Bennco Group – Tom Price, Karratha, Paraburdoo and Capital Projects
- Full review of all H&S paperwork in place and updating on an ongoing basis
- Conduct weekly safety meetings
- Conduct monthly toolbox talks
- Induct new operatives to the company
- Conduct morning prestart meetings and overview of the morning breathalysers
- Conduct weekly Safety Inspections via the iAuditor app
- Incident and accident investigation
- Reviewing Safety Data Sheets for all chemicals that the operatives use and ensure that the operatives are compliant with the PPE, handling, disposure etc
- As outlined
Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist
Pfizer Biopharmaceutical
Co. Dublin, Ireland
10.2021 - 04.2022
- Providing Manual Handling training
- Reviewing water samples and identifying if they require to be sent away for further analysis
- Collection of water samples from the Trade Effluent sample point (TE-1 Sampler) for the South Dublin Co
- Council
- Review of weekly water samples which are tested as per the Industrial Emissions Licence (IEL)
- Obtaining the fuel oil usage each month and update spreadsheets with the results
- Aid in the implementation of the EHA Induction software for craft contractors
- Aid in the migration to SharePoint
- Part of the Emergency Organisation Team and call out any incidents or accidents that occur on site
- Office Safety Support owner – providing information and guidance to office staff on site
Health and Safety Advisor
JJ Rhatigan & Co.
Various locations, Ireland
11.2018 - 10.2021
- Weekly Toolbox talks on various topics
- Weekly Health and Safety meetings
- Full implementation ‘GoContractor’ online induction platform across all sites in Ireland – main admin for all projects for updating the site-specific presentations, sending internal invites for JJR staff and external invites for sub-contractor
- Main point of contact with the GoContractor
- Updating the Construction Stage Health and Safety Plan as required
- Ensuring sub-contractors complete their paperwork such as GA2, GA3, Hot work permits, ladder permits and Safety System of Work Plans on a weekly/daily basis
- Obtaining the GA1 certs for all machines on site and issuing the machines with Plant Passports based on the information that’s on the GA1 cert
- Reviewing upcoming temporary works and updating the temporary works design certs and registers and liaising with the Project Supervisor Design Phase on any upcoming temporary works
- Performance reviews for all subcontractors after 6 weeks of working on site and also towards the end of the job
- Creating Method Statements and Risk Assessments (RAMS) for our own staff and labourers
- Reviewing all RAMS for the proposed works on site, making comments for changes and sending them back with additional comments and completing the RAMS review sheet
- Reviewing Safety Data Sheets for all chemicals that come to site and ensure that all the sub-contractors comply with the PPE requirements in the SDS
- Keep the SDS register up to date
- Weekly site audits – completing all site safety audits on BIM 360 and issuing the reports to the site team so they can action them and close them out
- Carrying out first aid on site for any injured personnel, carry out a full accident investigation and complete an accident report form
- Issuing Non-Conformance reports to any operatives who are found to be working in an un-safe manner, re-induction and toolbox talks completed also
- In-house Manual Handling training for JJR Staff
- PPE Compliance onsite – ensuring that the mandatory PPE is worn on site at all times and depending what is outlined in the sub-contractor RAMS, ensuring that they comply with the PPE stated
- Monthly statistics – number of operatives on site daily, any accident accidents, HSA visits, near misses etc
- Health and Safety Authority visits to site – walk around the site with HSA inspectors that call to site and going through all aspects of Health and Safety with them on site
- Ensuring Covid-19 compliance out on site with wearing mandatory face protection, ensuring social distancing is maintained and ensuring the weekly C19 tracker report is complete and issued to the Regional Director and Health and Safety Manager
Junior Safety Advisor
ABM Construction
Co. Dublin, Ireland
09.2018 - 11.2018
- Updating all the registers with information obtaining from 5 Project Managers on 5 ABM Sites i.e., number of operatives on site, any first aids, HSA visits etc
- Issue site passports – a document that was issued to each sub-contractor on site for when all the necessary documentation was in place prior to any work commencing on site
- Reviewing Method Statements
- Raising and closing health and safety issues on ‘Foresight’
- Toolbox talks with operatives on site
- Daily site safety induction
- Office safety – ensuring all emergency exits okay, ensuring that all fire extinguishers we in date and organising for them to be retested
- Daily whiteboard meetings with the foreman/ supervisor of each subcontractor on site
Health and Safety Intern
Mergon International
Co. Westmeath, Ireland
05.2017 - 09.2017
- Company Overview: Mergon International is a plastic moulding company that specialises in precision moulding and injection moulding parts for different automotive, industrial and medical device industries
- Responsibility for carrying out VDU Assessments for all of the office staff
- Carrying out various checks on the production floor such as ensuring the operators and engineers had all of their PPE and issuing staff with new PPE
- Full responsibility of the organising and preparing the safety committee meetings and recording the minutes of the meeting
- Reviewing all of the chemicals that are in use on site in production, engineering and domestic and obtaining safety data sheets for each chemical and replacing the old safety data sheets with new ones by contacting various suppliers
- Carrying out return to work risk assessments for employees who had any injury that may affect their ability to carry out their work as normal
- Involvement in the environmental team meetings during shut down for preparation of the internal environmental audits
- Fire risk assessments for both plants
- Noise monitoring surveys
- Carrying out risk assessments on large scale machines and machine fixtures
- These findings were put onto a system available to engineers and electricians in order to be tracked and completed
- Updating the health and safety notice boards in both plants each week and replenishing the first aid kits weekly
- Different informational health and safety topics each month to provide the employees with relevant information
- Informing the employees of the health and safety policies that were in place in Mergon
- Accident investigation
- Organise training for Safe Working Practice and Manual Handling Refresher training
- In contact with various customers and help in the completion of surveys as part of creating a training matrix for all office and production staff
- Fire investigation reports
- Updating all of the graphs for the water usage, propane, kerosene and waste
- Complying with the clean room procedures when entering
- Mergon International is a plastic moulding company that specialises in precision moulding and injection moulding parts for different automotive, industrial and medical device industries
Education
B.Sc. (Hons) - Occupational Safety and Health
Institute of Technology, Sligo
01.2018
B.Sc. - Occupational Safety and Health
Institute of Technology, Sligo
01.2017
Skills
- Work well under pressure
- Ability to work with tight deadlines
- Risk assessments
- Management systems
- Creating policies and procedures
- Timekeeping skills
- Communication
- Liaising with site management
- Health and safety concerns
Certification
- Full Drivers Licence, 09/01/18, 09/30/28, Ireland
- Management and Inspection of Scaffolding, 04/01/19, Ireland
- Manual Handling Instructor Course, 10/01/20, Ireland
- Managing Safely in Construction, 06/01/21, Ireland
- Ergonomic Assessor, 12/01/21, Ireland
- First Aid Responder, 01/01/22, 01/31/24, Ireland
- ICAM Lead Investigator, 09/01/22
- First Aid Responder, 11/01/22, 11/30/24
- Basic Worksite Traffic Management and Traffic Controller, 05/01/23, 05/31/26
- Working Safely at Height, 01/01/24
- Conduct Civil Construction Wheeled Front End Loader Operations, 04/01/24
- Conduct Articulated Haul Truck Operations, 04/01/24
- Operate Elevated Work Platform over 11meters (High Risk work licence class WP), 09/29/29
- Drivers Licence Western Australia (HR – B Class), 07/31/27
- Rio Tinto SAP No, 9502557, PRH Essentials, Lockholders and Personal Isolation
- Fortescue Metals Group SAP No, 732693
References
Available on request
Education And Qualification
- B.Sc. Occupational Safety and Health, Institute of Technology, Sligo, 09/01/14, 06/30/17
- B.Sc. (Hons) Occupational Safety and Health, Institute of Technology, Sligo, 09/01/17, 06/30/18
- Junior and Leaving Cert, St. Josephs Secondary School, Rochfortbridge, 09/01/09, 06/30/14
Career Aim
Health and Safety Advisor with over 7 years’ experience working in the Construction Industry and some experience in working in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Plastic Manufacturing Industry. Confident in many different aspects such as carrying out various risk assessments, partaking in the creation of Safety Management Systems and Environmental Management Systems, creating policies, procedures, training programmes and reviewing Sub-contractors’ documentation.
Timeline
Health and Safety Advisor
AIM Construction Group WA
03.2024 - 02.2025
Health and Safety Advisor and Administrator
Pilbara Plant and Services
03.2023 - 03.2024
HSEQ Advisor
Bennco Group
05.2022 - 12.2023
Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist
Pfizer Biopharmaceutical
10.2021 - 04.2022
Health and Safety Advisor
JJ Rhatigan & Co.
11.2018 - 10.2021
Junior Safety Advisor
ABM Construction
09.2018 - 11.2018
Health and Safety Intern
Mergon International
05.2017 - 09.2017
B.Sc. (Hons) - Occupational Safety and Health
Institute of Technology, Sligo
B.Sc. - Occupational Safety and Health
Institute of Technology, Sligo
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