Jeremy Tarr
Logan,UT
Summary
High-performing professional with experience implementing safety and health programs. Creates safety protocols, conducts hazard assessments and provides education. Knowledge of OSHA regulations and committed to promoting industrial hygiene and environmental health.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Occupational Health and Safety Officer
IKEA
08.2022 - Current
- Enhanced workplace safety by conducting regular inspections and implementing effective hazard control measures.
- Promoted a culture of continuous improvement in safety performance through ongoing communication and feedback mechanisms.
- Championed behavioral-based safety initiatives that fostered individual responsibility for workplace health and wellbeing.
- Maintained compliance with OSHA regulations by ensuring proper documentation, reporting, and recordkeeping.
- Reduced accident rates through comprehensive risk assessments and proactive recommendations for improvements.
- Managed workers'' compensation claims, facilitating timely return-to-work initiatives for injured employees.
- Conducted thorough incident investigations, identifying root causes and recommending corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Collaborated with management to develop and implement safety policies, procedures, and training programs.
- Provided new-employee safety orientations and developed materials for presentations.
- Monitored workplace activities to determine compliance with safety regulations and standards.
Midwife
Netcare Blaauwberg Hospital, Maternity Ward
11.2020 - 04.2022
- Performing per-vaginal examinations
- Insertion of IV lines
- Performing and assisting doctors with vaginal deliveries
- Liaising with doctors on patient admission
- Assisting with assisted deliveries
- Assisting with epidurals
- Monitoring of a patient with an epidural
- Immediate care of a new-born in theatre
- Assisting in neonatal resus
- Augmentation of labour
- Initiation and assistance with breastfeeding
- Insertion of urinary catheters
- Last offices
- Supporting mothers, especially those dealing with a still birth
- Management of PPH
- Management of retained products of conception
- Preparation for emergency and elective caesarean sections
- CTG monitoring
- Collection of DUP specimens
- Care of a neonate
- Admission of obstetric and genealogical patients for antenatal monitoring and theatre
- Admission of a new-born
- Admission and CTG folder monitoring of antenatal and postnatal patients in Covid yellow and red zones
- Antenatal and postnatal care of covid positive patients
- Post operative care and monitoring
- Discharging of mother and infant
- Ensuring compliance of Covid 19 precautions in the ward
- Stand-in shift leader when required
- Allocation of staff
Midwife
Mowbray Maternity Hospital
02.2019 - 11.2020
- Performing per-vaginal examinations
- Insertion of IV lines
- Performing deliveries
- Assisting in neonatal resus
- Augmentation of labour
- Suturing of vaginal tears
- Initiation and assistance with breastfeeding
- Insertion of urinary catheters
- Last offices
- Supporting mothers, especially those dealing with a still birth
- Management of PPH
- Management of retained products of conception
- Preparation for emergency and elective caesarean sections
- CTG monitoring
- Collection of DUP specimens
- Orientation of new staff, agency staff and students to wards
- Supervision of students in the ward
- Care of a neonate
- Administration of vaccinations
- Discharging of mother and infant
- Covid 19 screening of staff
- Covid 19 screening of patients and visitors
- Actioning plans for flagged patients during Covid 19 screening
- Liaise with NICD for flagged patients during screening
- Ensuring compliance of Covid 19 precautions in the ward
- Panel member for RN interviews
- Shift leader for postnatal ward
Registered Professional Nurse
Groote Schuur Hospital
02.2018 - 01.2019
- Performing per-vaginal examinations
- Insertion of IV lines
- Assisting with deliveries and the birthing process
- Assisting in neonatal resus
- Augmentation of labour
- Suturing of vaginal tears
- Initiation and assistance with breastfeeding
- Insertion of urinary catheters
- Last offices
- Supporting mothers, especially those dealing with a still birth
- Management of PPH
- Management of retained products of conception
- Preparation for emergency caesarean sections
- CTG monitoring
- Collection of DUP specimens
- Daily allocation of staff duties and attendance
- Performing morning and evening handovers of patients and ward
- Performing ward rounds with doctors, implementing orders
- Preparation of patient care plans
- Administration of oral, intravenous and intramuscular medication
- Insertion of IV lines
- Insertion of male and female urine catheters
- Checking of emergency trolley and restocking post resuscitation
- Assisting with resuscitations
- Performing CPR during resuscitations
- Last Offices
- Preparation of a corpse for expected and unexpected deaths
- Removal of a corpse through AVBOB
- Supervising and teaching nursing students
- Writing of Adverse Incidents
Education
Certified Phlebotomy Technician -
Oquirrh Mountain Phlebotomy School, LLC
Ogden, UT05.2024
Bachelor of Nursing - Nursing
University of The Western Cape
Cape Town, South Africa12.2017
Skills
- Hazard Identification
- Incident Reporting
- Workplace inspections
- Occupational health programs
- Environmental Monitoring
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Health and Safety Audits
Languages
English
Full Professional
Afrikaans
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Occupational Health and Safety Officer
IKEA
08.2022 - Current
Midwife
Netcare Blaauwberg Hospital, Maternity Ward
11.2020 - 04.2022
Midwife
Mowbray Maternity Hospital
02.2019 - 11.2020
Registered Professional Nurse
Groote Schuur Hospital
02.2018 - 01.2019
Certified Phlebotomy Technician -
Oquirrh Mountain Phlebotomy School, LLC
Bachelor of Nursing - Nursing
University of The Western Cape