Tom Onyango

Skilled Health and Safety (H&S) Professional with five years of industrial experience who seeks to join a team of focused, motivated H&S professionals committed to improving operational outcomes and organization’s safety culture through application of relevant standards/policies, employee training and education, and infrastructure improvement. By pinpointing risk scenarios inherent in company processes, I have contributed to the safety of employees, third party agents, visitors (including contractors) and members of the public

HALEON LTD: Health & Safety Compliance Officer

Apr 2021 – Date 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Planned and executed Health and Safety activities related to industrial environment within a pharmaceutical organization.
• Monitored and supervised installation of 1MW solar system for the site contributing to use of clean energy and savings of upto 30% of electricity budget.
• Support the site to commit implement Leadership & Excellence in Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) through clear expectation of EHS requirement & demonstrating personal commitment to safety.
• Planning, Preparing and ensuring all Health and Safety audits are conducted as per schedule of the Audit universe with annual analysis of findings and risk assessments done with aim to focus on the required audit areas in the next audit cycle.
• Prepare, monitor and share monthlyprojects & compliance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with the Health and Safety team against setobjectives with an aim for continuous improvement.
• Prepare, monitor and share monthly site projects & compliance KPIs with the Health and Safety team against set objectives with an aim for continuous improvement
• Plan and ensure performance management requirement are conducted as planned to ensure compliance with the regulatory bodies.
• Perform Barrier Strength studies in the hazardous areas on site by ensuring that the existing controls are inplace and in use.
• Support the site by developing, review of health and safety training matrix for the organization and conducting training through programs such as Zero Accident Promotion, preparing & cascading relevant Stop for safety topics to make a safe working environment.
• Ensures Health and Safety requirements and standards are complied with during projects execution e.g. Permits, Job safetyanalysis, Risk Assessments, Risk Assessment Method Statements

Achievements

• Successfully Integrated Contractor management process through permit to work program & conducting contractor prequalification exercise for all contractors on site
• Successfully contributed to use of clean energy and savings of energy budget of up to 30%
• Improved on the site safety culture by running Living Safety program to permanent staff, complementary workers, contractors and visitors on site.
• Successfully implemented ‘Safety One’ in major construction projects on site resulting to zero accidents for 7300hrs of the project life time.

 GLAXOSMITHKLINE LTD: New Product Introduction & Pack Technologist

        Sept 2016 – Mar 2021

• Drive Change Management Process as owner of Planned Changes, be responsible for managing the changes form end to end as per site Procedures.
• Establish operational policies and implement planned process improvements to ensure good quality and output.
• Working alongside with the other site functions (Stakeholders) to deliver site growth plans and strategic objectives and to meet service, quality, safety and financial standards
• Planned scheduled, prepared and conducted audits in support of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Risk Identification as required
• Actively interfaced with vendors and senior management for order expediting, capacity planning, and material forecast, both local and imports.

      Achievements

• Planned and conducted supplier visits resulting to reduced defects on packaging components by 30%.
• Trained and mentor two employees on conducting Level 2 Quality and EHS audits thereby creating capacity building for the site.
• Received Four Global Recognition Awards for stretch assignments and outstanding performance on key site projects.
• Implemented a successful project that contributed to cost saving initiative, improved operation efficiency and reduced carbon footprint to the environment

GLAXOSMITHKLINE LTD: Instrumentation/Electrical Technician

      April 2010 – Aug 2016

• Design and implementation of Improvement Plant projects: Blister packing equipment, Tetra pack Filling machine, Pasteurizer unit, vacuum Loading system, 11KV transformers.
• Performed audits and assessments of existing programs resulting in reducing audit findings for clients.
• Assisted clients in responding to changes in frameworks and/or legislation resulting in maintaining compliance posture.
• Analysis of sites OEE and narrow down on respective equipment and identify and improve on factors that lower the OEE.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis on repetitive challenges and coming with long term solutions to avoid recurrence.
• Developing standard operating procedures for various equipment and processes with the help of process technicians and having them controlled documents.
• Conduct plant audits on site in Quality, Health & Safety, Documentation and generating SMART Preventive and Corrective actions to continuously improve on the site.
• Encourage, Practice and ensure use of safety devices whenever working especially in areas that are hazardous classified with their respective hazards

      Achievement

• Worked on special and critical site project and delivered on the installation of chillers without stopping the site operations which made savings from a planned one-week downtime.
• Designed and developed automated sugar loading process from manual loading thereby reducing the risk of ergonomics to operators and making the environment ATEX compliant.
• Accomplished successful Independent Business Monitoring audits on specialized areas Classified as Hazardous i.e. Ammonia Plant and areas with explosive dusts.

 RRC International United Kingdom

Apr 2022 – In Progress

NEBOSH International Diploma 

SGS Academy Kenya

Aug 2022

ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems Audit Lead Auditor  

Moi University

Bachelor of Science Project Planning and Management

Grade: 2nd Class Honors Upper Division

Mombasa Polytechnic (Technical University of Mombasa)

Diploma in Instrumentation and Control

Grade: Pass

Onjiko High School

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

Grade: C+