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Steffan Cavill-Fowler
Wellington,WGN
Summary
Dynamic professional committed to enhancing safety performance and ensuring robust safety practices at all organisational levels, from the shop floor to the boardroom. Proven ability to implement effective safety protocols and foster a culture of safety awareness among team members. Focused on learning and continuous improvement in safety standards and achieving organisational goals through proactive risk management. Eager to collaborate with like-minded professionals dedicated to creating a safer work environment.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Manager
Hutt City Council
Lower Hutt, Wellington
01.2024 - Current
- Design and Lead specialist Health and Safety System for Hutt City Council
- Design and lead an internal Health and Safety Audit system across all teams and sites.
- Report and eliminate or minimise Health and Safety issues and incidents.
- Review Consultant Health and Safety management systems.
- Develop and support the health and safety system for Council Controlled Organisations
- Lead incident response and investigate incidents in a timely manner.
- Manage the HSR and chair the Health and Safety Committee.
- Lead the safety response for emergency management as a CIMS portfolio.
- Manage the high-risk management of the open water and biohazard risk.
- Manage the health monitoring and HCC wellbeing program
- Manage the HCC EAP program
- Design and implement an internal audit system.
- Major Achievements:
- Created Prequalification documents for construction partners for the building projects.
- Designed the Incident reporting and review process with overlapping duties.
- Analyse Risk and hazards and provide advice to increase capacity
- Training and mentor to two different team members
Health, Safety and Environment Manager
Peyer Construction
01.2023 - 12.2023
- Designed a subcontractor prequalification system.
- Ran safety events for leadership development.
- Lead the incident management system in ProCore.
- Conduct investigations into Health and Safety matters.
- Implements a cloud based wireless sign on/sign off for building sites. Includes a repository for subcontractor safety documentation.
- Review and design SOP for various Peyer functions.
- Updated the employee handbook for health and safety matters.
- Run the monthly drug screening system.
- Manage the health and safety for railway corridor and high voltage electricity installations
- Major Achievement
- Designed the first Environmental Compliance plan for Peyer Construction for a school building project. The project has a target of 70% recycling by weight for waste. Plan looks end to end of project, looking for waste minimisation and cost benefits.
Senior Advisor Wellbeing Health and Safety Tahuhu Program
Department of Internal Affairs
06.2022 - 12.2022
- Design and Lead specialist Health and Safety System for the Construction Phase for Tahuhu
- Report and eliminate or minimise Health and Safety issues and incidents.
- Review Consultant Health and Safety in design reports.
- Lead incident response and manage multiple PCBU incidents.
- Lead the selection, recruitment, and performance management of Safety Advisors.
- Major Achievements:
- Created Prequalification documents for construction partners for the building projects.
- Designed the Incident reporting and review process with overlapping duties.
- Analyse Risk and hazards and provide advice to increase capacity
- Training and mentor to two different team members
Environmental Safety and Health Manager
Lockheed Martin, New Zealand
07.2019 - 06.2022
- Lead and manage all strategic and operational Health and Safety requirements across New Zealand.
- Report and eliminate or minimise Health and Safety issues and incidents.
- Represent the Asia Pacific Region for Occupational Hygiene.
- Conduct Gap analysis for ISO 45001 implementation.
- Design and facilitate in-house safety training for site health and safety representatives.
- Lead incident response and manage multiple PCBU incidents.
- Lead the internal audit process for Health and Safety Nationally
- Analyse Risk and hazards and provide advice to increase capacity
- Major Achievements:
- Current 2021 Finalist with the ACC ‘Healthy Workplace’ Gold awards.
- Reduced the safety incidents by 50% in one year and 75% reduction of lost time with
- Took an active role in the development of a comprehensive Gap analysis for ISO 45001. This led to successful implementation and ISO accreditation.
- Designed and implemented a Business Continuity Plan system. This included a rapid impact analysis template for supervisors to assess their areas and identify critical processes and focus areas for continuity. Teams were now able to develop effective plans quickly and efficiently for business continuity when sudden disruption occurs such as COVID or building closures due to asbestos.
- Awarded a placement on the Lockheed Martin Asia Pacific Management Development Program.
- Designed the national incident investigation training program as well as also reviewed and rewrote other training programs for critical risks across the business.
- Chair of the National Health and Safety Committee and Chair of the Incident Management Team.
- Presented various Health and Safety Webinars for the New Zealand Institute for Health and Safety Management on Health and Safety best-practice during Covid 19 (2020)
- Introduced a group Wellbeing program of Good Yarns and Flourish to help look at monitoring with groups over a longer period of time to look for heat maps of Wellbeing.
Business Improvement Manager - Health and Safety
Headquarters New Zealand Defence Force
02.2018 - 07.2019
- Lead the environment and safety specification design for the Contractor Health, Environmental Safety Specification (CHESS) System across the NZDF. This innovative system aligns Health and Safety Legislation and ensures that contractors and NZDF staff appropriately coordinate, cooperate, and manage risks and hazards, improving the shared workplace environment
- Design the Contractor Incident reporting system for safety incidents and notifiable accidents, ensuring that legislative requirements and learnings are discovered.
- Develop contractor evacuation protocols and the fire design plan.
- Provide Health and Safety advice to contractor projects.
- Lead the selection, recruitment, and performance management of Safety Advisors.
- Design key Audit tools based on ISO 18001 and 45001 and New Zealand Legislation.
- Major Achievements:
- Due to a strong focus towards supporting project managers in their roles and obligations, toolbox-talks and pre-project meetings increased by 75%, and safety incidents reduced by 22% in 12 months.
- Improved auditing systems allowed the real-time review of contractor and staff performance and delivered up to date data analysis and dashboard information to leadership. Subsequent census surveys demonstrated increased wellbeing of staff by 25%.
- The new Contractor Incident reporting system ensured all incidents were reported and investigated in required timeframes. The program is about to be reviewed for continuous improvement based on Lean methodology.
- Designed and implemented a number of further systems and tools to improve Health and Safety outcomes across the organisation, including:
- Delivered 9 Water Safety Plans project for NZDF Camps and Bases (2019)
- Delivered NZDF Wellbeing policies on Substance Misuse, Employee Assistance Management, and Civilian Wellbeing (2018)
- Finalist for the Contractor Safety Initiative at the NZDF Safety Awards.
Policy and Strategy Manager – Integrated Wellness
Headquarters New Zealand Defence Force, Wellington
10.2015 - 02.2018
- Led and delivered an extensive update of the Substance Misuse policy to enable Military Police to conduct appropriate testing.
- This testing engaged multiple stakeholders through workshops and kaizen events and formed the basis of the organisation wide STAMP program.
- Managed the national account for the Employee Assistance Programmes for the NZDF. Worked with the provider to manage a surveillance program to develop policy and programmes from the trends identified.
- Designed and implemented a number of further policies and systems as part of the Health and Wellbeing Program, including:
- Design and implementation of the Alcohol management programme
- Designed and evaluated the Casualty Support Officer Training package
- Delivered the Vulnerable Children’s Act Policy
- Developed the Gender Transition Guidelines
- Contributed to the Guidelines for Assessing and Managing dust for Ministry for the Environment (2016)
- Highlights and Achievements:
Health Protection Officer / Safety & Emergency Response Officer
Community and Public Health West Coast, Greymouth
11.2010 - 10.2015
- Acted as Public Health Enforcement Officer for Vertebrate Toxic Agents for three years. Assessed, approved, and audited VTA operations including aerial operations of 1080.
- Health and Safety Representative for the West Coast team. Led the process to be less compliance and more safety culture focused. This team culture approach reduced accidents by 35% in 12 months and identified and addressed more risks in the workplace.
- Presented Public Health Consultation to Local Government to lobby for Public Health concerns on council plans around many issues.
- Seconded to West Coast DHB to establish Business Continuity, Emergency Preparedness and surge capacity for Disaster including Health and Safety procedures
- Successfully developed and implemented the West Coast Hospital Emergency and Safety Response.
- Highlights and Achievements:
First Aid Instructor / Volunteer Ambulance Officer / Health & Safety Officer
Wellington Free Ambulance
01.2008 - 11.2010
- Developed a health and safety data system that identified trends for incidents.
- Development of just in time health and safety packages for staff reduced workplace accidents by half in 12 months and health incidents by 25%.
- Highlights and Achievements:
Disease Response, Safety and Emergency Preparedness Manager
Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR)
08.2008 - 12.2009
- Developed the first ESR Business Continuity Plan that focused on critical infrastructure, personnel, and surge capacity. The plan produced a successful response to the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic that allowed ESR to test New Zealand and the South Pacific Samples for swine flu while it was 2.5 times over the planned maximum Capac HEALTH AND SAFETY & EMERGENCY MANAGER / FIRST AID INSTRUCTOR - New Zealand Red Cross Wellington (Jun 2007 - Aug 2008)
- Highlights and Achievements:
Health and Safety & Emergency Manager / First Aid Instructor
New Zealand Red Cross Wellington
06.2007 - 08.2008
- Member of National Health and Safety Committee New Zealand Red Cross providing technical advice.
- Led a change management plan for 16 Red Cross response teams. The focus of the teams was to change from a full rescue team to more of a light rescue and population support team. The changes were the basis of the Pike River and Christchurch responses with communications and water treatment among other responses.
- Managed and supported 16 response teams across New Zealand.
- Designed a risk identification and mitigation matrix for first aid events for response teams
- Highlights and Achievements:
Recruit Instructor
Command & Recruit Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force
09.2005 - 06.2007
NZDF Medic - Regular Force
08.1995 - 09.2005
Education
Bachelor of Health Science - Health in the Environment
Massey University
Wellington, NZ06-2014
Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management - Emergency Management
Auckland University of Technology
Auckland, AUK11.2008
Skills
- Innovative and customer focused Health Safety and Wellbeing leader, with proven experience providing strategic direction, change leadership and operational management across large organisations Skilled across:
- Continuous Improvement
- Regulatory Management
- Court Case Preparation
- Public Health
- Occupational Safety
- Emergency Management
- Resource Management
- Accident Investigation
- Environmental Health
- Policy and process development
- Auditing & assessment
- Career background leading and supporting dynamic and complex HS&W programmes for HCC, NZDF and Lockheed Martin
- Excellent communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex issues to a range of stakeholders and audiences
- High levels of drive and resilience Able to lead proactively and deliver sustainable and pragmatic projects
- Genuine understanding of occupational H&S best-practice in both a national and global context
- Skilled at leading and developing teams, with the ability to manage people effectively Proven background in team training, supervision, and mentoring
- Qualifications include a Bachelor of Health Science, Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management and NZISM
Accomplishments
Wellington Gold finalist for Health and Safety 2022
Affiliations
- Member - New Zealand Institute of Safety Management
- Member - The Environmental Health Institute of New Zealand.
- Member - New Zealand Occupational Hygiene Society
- Chairman - West Coast Area Council New Zealand Red Cross.
Certification
- Certified Professional NZISM
- Other professional courses and certifications include:
- Ministry of Health HASNO Enforcement Officer Warrant
- Green Belt Lean Six Sigma
- NZDF HANO Approved Handlers Course
- ICAM Investigation Techniques
- Bow Tie Techniques
- CIMS 4 and EOC II
Interests
Timeline
Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Manager
Hutt City Council
01.2024 - Current
Health, Safety and Environment Manager
Peyer Construction
01.2023 - 12.2023
Senior Advisor Wellbeing Health and Safety Tahuhu Program
Department of Internal Affairs
06.2022 - 12.2022
Environmental Safety and Health Manager
Lockheed Martin, New Zealand
07.2019 - 06.2022
Business Improvement Manager - Health and Safety
Headquarters New Zealand Defence Force
02.2018 - 07.2019
Policy and Strategy Manager – Integrated Wellness
Headquarters New Zealand Defence Force, Wellington
10.2015 - 02.2018
Health Protection Officer / Safety & Emergency Response Officer
Community and Public Health West Coast, Greymouth
11.2010 - 10.2015
Disease Response, Safety and Emergency Preparedness Manager
Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR)
08.2008 - 12.2009
First Aid Instructor / Volunteer Ambulance Officer / Health & Safety Officer
Wellington Free Ambulance
01.2008 - 11.2010
Health and Safety & Emergency Manager / First Aid Instructor
New Zealand Red Cross Wellington
06.2007 - 08.2008
Recruit Instructor
Command & Recruit Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force
09.2005 - 06.2007
NZDF Medic - Regular Force
08.1995 - 09.2005
Bachelor of Health Science - Health in the Environment
Massey University
Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management - Emergency Management
Auckland University of Technology