Resume Aldert Portwig

ALDERT PORTWIG

76 Utah Drive (07) 4669 6692 (h)Moranbah +61408 019 310 (m) QLD [email protected] (e)4744

PROFILE

A highly competent Safety and Training professional:

o Safety and Training Managero Safety and Training Superintendento Safety Advisor

with proven success in delivering exceptional Health & Safety outcomes within tight budget constraints for several of the top mining (contactor and client) organisations in Australia and South Africa;

More than 7 years’ in senior management role and total of 17 years’ experience in different extraction processes including:

o Platinum Underground; o Gold Underground;o Civil Commissioning of CHPP, Shafts, and Maintenance workshops;o Coal Opencut and Underground;o Gas Interaction of the Petroleum and drilling operations.

Excellent communication and group presentation skills;

Proven ability to plan, organise and coordinate a variety of tasks within a dynamic environment;

Capable of working within established process boundaries and equally capable of creating and documenting new processes where required;

Excellent team player and leader - efficient, reliable, dedicated and willing to listen, as well as possessing excellent training and group facilitation skills;

Proven ability to influence the desired focus on safety in the workforce;

Dedicated, loyal, trustworthy and possessing excellent communication skills with the ability to work extremely well with a wide range of personalities and teams.

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CAREER SUMMARY

AUSTRALIA

Safety and Training Superintendent PEABODY ENERGY Oct 2013 July 2015Retrenched

Safety and Training Manager PEABODY ENERGY Oct 2011 Sep 2013 Retrenched

Safety and Training Manager THIESS Apr 2007 Oct 2011Safety Advisor ANGLO COAL Mar 2006 Apr 2007

SOUTH AFRICA

Safety Officer ANGLO COAL Apr 2004 Mar 2006Safety Champion ANGLO PLATINUM May 2002 Mar 2004Safety Officer GOLDFIELDS Jan 1999 May 2002Manager/TOC retail MR PRICE Aug 1998 Dec 1998Safety Officer GOLDFIELDS May 1996 May 1998

Retrenched

TERTIARY EDUCATION

DIPLOMA

UNSW Postgraduate Mining Engineering Diploma Southern Queensland TAFE Diploma of Occupational Health and Safety CERTIFICATE

SkillsTrain RII31813 - Certificate III in Drilling OperationsLMA Cert IV Frontline Management GTS Cert IV Training and Assessment TAE 4011Dept. of South African Mineral and Energy Affairs Blasting ticketChamber of Mines South Safety Officer (COMSOC2)Chamber of Mines South Safety Officer (COMSOC1)Dept. of South African Mineral and Energy Affairs On setter CertificateHSC

High School Patriot South Africa – Witbank1994

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

SHORT COURSES

Certificate - Mineral industry risk assessment – Mine 7033 University of Queensland, 2010Certificate - Strategic Negotiation and Influencing ENS International, 2008Certificate - Incident Lead Investigator training program Safety Wise Solutions Pty. Ltd,

2008Certificate - Negotiation ENS, 2008Certificate - Fire Warden training Parasol EMT, 2008Certificate - Risk assessment Facilitator G2 SharpTraining, 2015Certificate - Process for OHSAS 18001 Fatal Risk 18001, 2004Certificate - Generic assessor Standards ETDP, 2003Certificate - Plan and Conduct Assessment QPD Consultant, 2003


Certificate - Business Presentation Skills level 1 Business Presentation Skills, 2000

Certificate - Advanced Production Supervisor Course Gold Fields, 2000Certificate - Assessing candidates performance City and Guild, 2000Certificate - A+ Support Engineer Damlin, 1999Certificate - Maintenance of Flameproof Equipment Colliery Training College, 1996Certificate - Storeman / Stock control Academy of learning, 1995

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

PEABODY ENERGY – COPPABELLA MINE

Safety and Training Superintendent Oct 2013 – To date

Responsibilities:

Assisting the Safety and Training Manager by refining current site systems; Identify improvement areas and use knowledge from other mine site to reduce rework; Providing training for the new developed team;

Achievements:

Building in a short time repours with the site and rebrand safety; Safety and training manager is allowing me to develop own position description.

PEABODY ENERGY – WILKIE CREEK MINE

Safety and Training Manager Oct 2011 – Sept 2013

Responsibilities:

Lead and manage a team in the development of an effective and safe working environment through constant improvement of Safety and Health Management Systems, training and behaviours to ensure compliance with Peabody Energy & legislative requirements;

Maintain the site SHMS document management system and intranet; Observe incident trends, collecting, analysing and interpreting results. Provide advice on

sustainable and practical corrective measures Liaise closely with Government regulators and where required, actively participate in Peabody

Safety Leadership Team interactions onsite; Deliver and develop Toolbox talks on a regular basis; Inspect and investigate incidents with line managers, conduct ICAM (Incident investigation)

Achievements:

Developed an annual safety and training plan that tracked performance and provided clear and accurate reporting to all managers and senior staff on a monthly basis;

Created effective safety strategies that maintained AS4801 – OHS Management Systems accreditation;

Used initiative to create a supportive safety culture through the synthesis and implementation of safety trends contained in “Meerkat, 3 Point Plan, Safety road show”, corporate requirements “Safety a Way of Life”, legislative safety requirements “Emergency training, Inclement weather, Fitness for Work”, legislative training requirements “Seat adjustment training, Brake testing competency. This resulted reduction in back injury claims

Built an excellent and cooperative relationship with the Industry Safety and Health Representative and Chief Inspector of Mines. This was achieved by providing evidence of consultation (section 10 of the CMSH), collaboration with the department in Safety Intervention


Program, election process of site safety and health representatives, reporting of high potential incidents and completing comprehensive monthly reports;

Successfully implemented an electronic visitors induction and developed an online induction for contractors that significantly reduced the existing budget expense.

Established a diverse HSE committee meeting to review out-dated SOP (Safe Operate Procedures) and utilized site staff and cross section of the workforce to review SOP in the field with an audit tool. This led to consistent practice and improved awareness of requirements.

Wilkie Creek Mine Safety Management System was audited by Peabody Corporate against the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 and Regulation shown excellent compliance;

Proactive Injury management was noted by WorkCover QLD (Mary-Ann);

THIESS – WILPINJONG PRODJECT

Safety and Training Manager Apr 2007 – Oct 2011

Responsibilities:

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, provide advice to the General Manager -Peabody and Project General Manager – Thiess and other team members in relation to legislative and other safety requirements;

Manage safety and training yearly budget; Implementation of site’s Safety & Health Management System from Civil to mining operation; Ensure compliance in safety and training in relation to competencies, standards as well as

requirements of all relevant legislation together with relevant Thiess and Peabody standards; Implement the site’s safety strategies to achieve accreditation for AS4801 – OHS

Management Systems and AS/NZS ISO 9001:2008; Manage Wilpinjong Workers Compensation process; Implement document control system; Incident/Accident report and analysis system

(ICAM);Facilitate high-level risk assessments; and recommend and implement improvement ideas for safety and training on the Wilpinjong Mine Site;

Deliver Toolbox talks on a regular basis Support the Training Coordinator, Quality Coordinator and Administrative role to achieve the

above objectives for site personnel

Achievements:

Successfully developed the Safety Management System for Wilpinjong that has been adopted by Peabody Energy

Achieved the accreditation for AS4801 – OHS Management Systems and AS/NZS ISO 9001:2008;

Achieved full compliance on Industry and Investment audits of Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 2002 and Coal Mine Health and Safety Regulation 2006;

Achieved an outstanding result following an external Safety Culture Survey in 2010 of all Peabody mines. The survey found that “The impact of safety personnel is seen in a positive way with all groups reporting.” This finding was superior to all other Peabody mines surveyed at the time.

Achieved Certification with the International Disability Management Standards Council, a global group formed to reduce workplace injuries. Wilpinjong achieved an 81.4 percent score on the council’s Benchmark Injury Management Audit, ahead of the 2009-2010 global average of 66.6 percent. The mine scored highly in occupational ergonomics, health and wellness initiatives, and tracking injury and disability patterns.

ANGLO COAL - CAPCOAL

Safety Advisor Mar 2006 – Apr 2007


Responsibilities:

Manage and undertake coordination of the rehabilitation of employees; Inform senior management of mine sites incidents and provide safety support for incident

investigations; Promote safety across site to improve the link and communication between senior

management and mine site employees; Implement new safety system across the Capcoal site; Coordinate daily safety information updates and ensure employees have easy access to

information; Undertake safety inspections and facilitate risk assessment, across site Provide safety advice to various departments, as well as sites of Capcoal; Compile the weekly safety report and compile month end safety statistics Report to the Inspector of Mines concerning lost time injuries, high potential incidents and

medical treatment incident;

Achievements:

Created intensive management plans and programs that enabled the rehabilitation of 31 employees at Bundoora Mine

Carried out risk assessments and developed new procedures that were successful in improving safety awareness.

Successfully overcame Union and Worker resistance and implemented urine drug testing successfully trained all personal in new self-rescuers after introduction of the process. Feedback from participants was very positive in relation to the training.

ANGLO COAL – KRIEL MINE

Safety Officer Apr 2004 – Mar 2006

(Transferred from Anglo Coal - South Africa to Anglo Coal - Australia)

Responsibilities:

Undertake required inspections as per appointment 2.17.1; Compile and distribute daily and weekly safety reports; Undertake all other related safety duties as required by the Chief Safety Officer and Mine

Manager; Undertake accident investigations and compile Safety Alerts; Conduct Safety inductions to new employees and contractors; Compile Month end safety statistics; Undertake related safety administration tasks, including filing, file management and data

production;

Achievements:

Was managing the safety department for 12 months without the Chief safety Officer; Anglo Critical Risk audit and had no major none conformance without any guidance from the

Chief safety Officer ; Managed full fatal inquest by providing evidence and participating from the mine perspective;.

INTERESTS

Gym, Running, Cycling and Playing with my kids Fixing up computers


REFERENCES

Will be made available on request.

TERTIARY EDUCATION – COPIES



