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OLUWATOBA AYENI

STATEN ISLAND

Summary

Safety professional with comprehensive experience in implementing and maintaining safety protocols and procedures. Proven track record of enhancing workplace safety through risk assessments, incident investigations, and compliance with regulatory standards. Strong collaborator and adaptable team player focused on achieving results and ensuring safe working environment. Highly skilled in hazard identification, emergency response planning, and safety training. Reliable and flexible in meeting changing needs and priorities.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

SAFETY SPECIALIST

AMAZON LDJ5
11.2021 - 07.2024
  • Promotes positive culture while complying with Amazon standards and maintaining a safe working environment.
  • Maintain accurate, weekly, and monthly metrics (KPIs) to report to onsite management teams and corporate.
  • Conduct training and participate in new hire/safety committee member orientations.
  • Primary point of contact for all EH&S related officials/inspections.
  • Support the site management, to ensure compliance with all corporate program expectations and applicable federal & state laws.
  • Identify and inform management of compliance issues, safety risks, and improvement opportunities through the conduct of daily, weekly, and monthly environmental/health/safety observations and audits.
  • Ensure environmental regulatory auditing/compliance with EPCRA, air emissions permitting and control.
  • Develop SPCC/SWPPP/NPDES programs including wastewater/stormwater permitting, monitoring, and reporting
  • Initiate and maintain Worker’s Compensation cases when applicable.
  • Provide accommodation recommendations related to job placement for all employees on job restrictions.
  • Minimize the risk of ergonomic injury to employees through awareness, education and early intervention.
  • Evaluate trends and provide analysis of all injuries onsite and develop action plans to mitigate injuries/risks.
  • Support operations in implementation and management of Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) and Job Rotation policies
  • Audit the workplace organization and associate behaviors to ensure that training, auditing and scoring methods are accurate and consistent; and inspections in relation to fire, Amazon robotics and safety related equipment.
  • Conduct Root Cause Analyses in conjunction with Operations leadership.
  • Understand and learn each department and job function within the facility to fully understand the body mechanics involved in every task and actively involved with improvements to the standard work process.
  • Facilitate incident investigation process and enter into internal database. Investigate, compile and develop investigative reports on any incident that may occur; and ensure action items are adequately completed.
  • Frequent “floor time” to interact with both associates and managers, providing coaching on observed at- work habits. Attend and speak at “Pre-Shift and Stand-Up” meetings.
  • Characterization/Determination of waste including proper segregation, containerizing, labeling and preparing for shipment, in accordance with DOT, RCRA, federal, state and local regulations.
  • Physical maintenance and organization of the waste storage/management areas and all satellite accumulation areas, in accordance with regulatory requirements and applicable local, state and federal regulations.
  • Preparing monthly waste inventory and identifying the necessary shipping frequency to comply with accumulation requirements. Ordering of equipment, containers, labels and other supplies from waste vendors.
  • Point of contact (POC) for incidental spill/leak/release cleanup activities generated within the site.
  • Serve and trained as designated Hazardous Waste representative at Amazon LDJ5, coordinating and implementing all areas of the Amazon Hazardous Waste Program.
  • Ensure waste record keeping, including waste generator logs and routine inspections.
  • Coordinate with any outside emergency agency, Fire, EMS/911, Police, OSHA, Hospital, Labs etc.
  • Coordination and implementation of emergency action plans and quarterly drills in the facility.
  • Point of contact (POC) for Safety Blitz and Project UV (COVID-19 testing) onsite.
  • Review field and administrative high-risk work permits
  • Serve as liaison for vendors, contractor managers and client management staff
  • Provide review of vendor EHS program through use of risk management tool (JHA)

Safety Advisor / Emergency Response Coordinator

PROJECT HOSPITALITY
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Provision of details of the root cause of the any incident to the management
  • Coordination with the appropriate quarters to see that everyone is safe in case of emergency
  • Provide the appropriate information to workers/clients on how accident can be avoided in the facility
  • Produced monthly & weekly reporting of safety statistics to internal (PH) and external stakeholders (Government departments)
  • Responsible for assisting with daily safety and ergonomic activities, conducting accident investigations at multiple PH sites.
  • Organized and executed safety training plans for more than twenty PH sites and departments.
  • Perform Risk management for a variety of processes
  • Organized and provide safety training for employees, supervisors, managers and co-workers on a wide range of safety and health topics.
  • POC for emergency situations, drills and evacuation across all PH sites

SAFETY OFFICER

IKEA
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Facilitate incident investigation process and enter into internal database. Investigate, compile and develop investigative reports on any incident that may occur; and ensure action items are adequately completed.
  • Identification of the hazard in the floor and proactively got them fixed.
  • Safety pep talk prior to the start of the shift.
  • Giving advise to the management on safety related issues.
  • Carrying out an investigations when there’s accident and determines the root cause of it.
  • Frequent “floor time” to interact with both associates and managers, providing coaching on observed at- work habits. Attend and speak at “Pre-Shift and Stand-Up” meetings.
  • Characterization/Determination of waste including proper segregation, containerizing, labeling and preparing for shipment, in accordance with DOT, RCRA, federal, state and local regulations.
  • Physical maintenance and organization of the waste storage/management areas and all satellite accumulation areas, in accordance with regulatory requirements and applicable local, state and federal regulations

Safety Supervisor

NAKEEL LANDSCAPES
01.2015 - 01.2016
  • Issue of permits for all permit-related tasks.
  • Issue of checklist for the equipment and monitoring them.
  • Conduct safety induction for the new employee / workers.
  • Signing of permits on a daily basis.
  • Responsible for planning and supervision of day-to-day activities of operational health & safety practices.
  • Ensure that personnel and contractor’s adhere to the company’s safety rules and regulations and safe work practices on site.
  • Develop waste management program in line with the consultant standard practice.
  • Communicating HSE rules and responsibilities to staff and ensuring they are adhered to it.
  • Responding to any emergency and take prompt action.
  • Ensuring firefighting equipment are in place, tested, and in good condition and color coded.
  • Receive reports from Consultant and take corrective/preventive actions.
  • Actively participating in SLT (Safety Leadership Tour) on site.
  • Report directly to the manager on the safety issue on sites of safety
  • Performed statistical, qualitative and quantitative evaluation

Environmental Health & Safety Inspector / Supervisor

SALINI IMPREGILO (ISGJV)
01.2013 - 01.2015
  • Planning practical and effective methods, both preventive and remedial, of promoting health and safety with safe working practices
  • Making changes to work practices that are not safe and comply with the safety policy.
  • Keeping records of inspections findings and producing reports that suggest improvements
  • Outlining safe operational procedures which identify and take account of all relevant hazards
  • Carrying out regular site inspections to check policies and procedures are being properly implemented
  • Planning practical and effective methods, both preventive and remedial, of promoting health and safety and safe working practices.
  • Ensure that personnel and contractors adhere to the company’s safety rules and regulations and safe work practices on site.
  • Communicating HSE roles and responsibilities to staff and ensuring they are all adhered to it.
  • Providing professional advice to Site Management on HSE issues
  • Respond to any emergencies by taking prompt action.
  • Receive reports from Consultant & Clients and take corrective/preventive action.
  • Conduct tool box talk meeting for the workers.
  • Coordinate the training of personnel in areas of safety, including fire drills.
  • Outline safe operational procedures which identify and take account of all relevant hazard.

Education

B.Tech - APPLIED GEOLOGY

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AKURE (FUTA)
05.2009

Diploma - CIVIL ENGINEERING

THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC ADO-EKITI
11.2002

Skills

  • International Nebosh Certificate, IGC 1, 2, & 3), UK Certified
  • IOSH Safety Management, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health UK Certified
  • Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, (CIEH) UKCertified
  • OSHA 30 hours; (Construction)
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office ( Word, Excel, Access)
  • Fire Warden Certificate, Hamad International Airport HIA, (ALARP)
  • Qatar Fire Risk Management Training, (ALARP, Qatar)
  • First Responder Firefighting Training, (ALARP, Qatar)
  • Fireman and Paramedic Assistance Training, (ALARP, Qatar)
  • Emergency Communication and Evacuation Training, (ALARP, Qatar)
  • Basic First Aid and CPR Course, (Albrit & Velosi, Qatar)
  • Tunneling Safety Training, ISGJV, Doha Metro, Redline North Qatar
  • Lifting Supervisor Course, DISS, Doha, Qatar

Timeline

SAFETY SPECIALIST

AMAZON LDJ5
11.2021 - 07.2024

Safety Advisor / Emergency Response Coordinator

PROJECT HOSPITALITY
01.2020 - 01.2021

SAFETY OFFICER

IKEA
01.2018 - 01.2020

Safety Supervisor

NAKEEL LANDSCAPES
01.2015 - 01.2016

Environmental Health & Safety Inspector / Supervisor

SALINI IMPREGILO (ISGJV)
01.2013 - 01.2015

Diploma - CIVIL ENGINEERING

THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC ADO-EKITI

B.Tech - APPLIED GEOLOGY

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AKURE (FUTA)
OLUWATOBA AYENI