David Brambill CV 2012
- 1. David Brambill 54 Hallway Drive, Shilton, Coventry, West Midlands, CV7 9JQ Mobile tel. 07760 165328 Email address dozerbloke@sky.com Employment Safety Coach 1st August 2014 To present. As a Safety Coach it is my responsibility to promote myself and the benefits of the role to the workforce, I achieve this by being active in the promotion of health and safety and constantly modelling safe behaviour. My main Responsibilities are to: Carry out health, safety & environmental workplace assessments to ensure that best practice is employed and that Health, Safety and Environmental legislation is complied with. This includes assessing the ergonomics of workstations and giving individual advice on the potential hazards of the activities being undertaken. I carry these workplace assessments out by using observational techniques and by having open and honest conversations with the person concerned to promote shared ownership of health and safety and get their personal buy-in to achieve safer processes Assist and advise supervisors with their responsibilities to ensure that the risk assessment programme is completed throughout the facility. Also reviewing and auditing risk assessments to achieve greater consistency to the risk assessment programme, and identifying any high-risk activities in work areas and any training requirements to fill knowledge gaps. Develop and deliver generic Health, Safety and Environmental training packages in line with the facilities training programme / Risk assessments to include: Health & Safety and Environmental inductions and refreshers to British Safety Council Level 2 examination requirements Spillage containment and response actions
- 2. Manual handling and refreshers Abrasive wheel / vibrating tools awareness Health, safety and environmental awareness Deliver British Safety Level 2 Risk Assessment qualification training to team leaders and Section Managers Deliver British Safety Council Level 2 Supervising Staff Safely qualification to team leaders and Section Managers Deliver Crane and Sling Training identifying best practices in the use and storage of the equipment Perform Face Fit Testing plant wide, as required Provide one to one or team coaching, practical advice and/or assistance to the workforce related to health, safety or environmental issues. Assist and advise supervisors with their responsibility to investigate accidents, near misses and incidents. Review / audit Next Day Story Boards to check that control measures have been implemented and are adequate to satisfy the hierarchy of control. Attend and actively participate in health, safety and environmental meetings. Provide practical hands-on support and guidance with workplace improvement programmes and procedures within the facility. Provide health, safety & environmental support to New Product Introductions, Process Failure Mode Effective Analysis teams, and to planning and tooling meetings with the Manufacturing Engineering department. Provide up-to-date information on Health and Safety legislation to the manufacturing engineering department when new tooling is required or areas are being relocated. Assist in any facility wide Housekeeping or Behavioural Observation programmes Active member of the Health and Safety Committee Active member of the Traffic Management Committee Active member of the Hazardous Substance Team, responsible for reviewing and updating any existing CoSHH assessments, and reviewing and assessing new substances brought in to the business.
- 3. Team Leader May 2011 to 31/7/14 Caterpillar (UK) Ltd Peckleton Lane Desford Leicestershire LE9 9JT Leading a team of 10 men preparing and packing Backhoe Machines for containerization to be shipped all over the world. Responsible for monitoring Health and safety to include risk assessments. Monitoring the quality and reporting defects of any machines prior to shipping and supervising the rework of any faults discovered. Working on night shift in sole charge of the area. Reporting to Manager at the end of the shift providing details of the previous evening production. Ensuring targets are met. Senior Operator December 1st 2007 to May 2011. Caterpillar (UK)Ltd. Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, Bruntingthorpe, Lutterworth, Leicestershire. LE17 5QS Provide informative, accurate feedback on a daily basis through report sheets and verbally to relevant engineers. Run machines on reliability demonstration supporting specific machine test work. Provide feedback on machine performance and evaluate safety and serviceability on the machines. As a Senior Operator I am required to guide New and Less experienced operators in safe practice regarding machine operation. Also training new and less experienced operators to operate machines safely in both production and test environment Training engineers from other product group in the operation of many different types of machines in order to improve their understanding. First Aid Officer Training employees in manual handling. Responsible for ground preparation for demonstrations and test work. Plant Operator May 2005 to 1st December 2007 Ennstone Johnston Ltd. Ling Hall Quarry, Lawford Heath, Rugby, Warwickshire Operating plant machinery and earthmoving machine both wheeled and tracked in Sand and Gravel quarry Health and Safety Representative Site First Aid Officer Plant Operator April 1999 to May 2005 B.B. Fencing, Plant Hire and Haulage. Dunchurch Rugby. Operating various tracked and wheeled earthmoving machines in a supervisory role on soiled Landfill sites. General maintenance and repairs to the machines to keep production going. Self Employed Plant operator October 1989 to April 1999
- 4. Working nationally on various sites including quarry, road and Civil works operating earthmoving machines. Continued Foreman/Plant Operator October 1985 to October 1989 Gowdy Brothers Plant Hire, Coalpit Lane, Wolston, Rugby, Warwickshire. Supervising gang of 5 men working throughout UK in quarries, stripping land for aggregates. Building cells to accommodate refuse and reinstating the land. Plant operator Smiths Concrete. Bubbenhall August 1982 to October 1985 Operating compactor on the Landfill site. Operating Dragline(Air and Manual) Operating Volvo Dumptrucks on quarry aspect of site. Interests Restoring 1970/80 Japanese Motorcycles, Enduro Riding. References References are available on request. Along with operating evaluations from product engineers which give details of operating skills, knowledge and attitude. General Notes I have 30 years in construction plant operating and earthmoving. Working many different environments including civil engineering,quarrying road working open cast mining operations. I have operated many different types and sizes of plant machinery which have included excavators up to 90 tons and Caterpillar D3 to D9 dozers. Also Caterpillar 180 backhoes including centre pivot. have now moved on to work in test and development for Caterpillar which takes me overseas working with Engineers and technicians in all aspects of machine development. My working knowledge of production work has been a great benefit to the testing aspect when working on new developments. My experience has also been of benefit as accuracy and smoothness of the operating is imperative to get the correct results first time. I have recently been working in Japan with engineers to evaluate new systems for production. I have also been testing in Spain, Now working in EHS.