Experience

Richards Bay Minerals

• Mining
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Process Safety Engineer

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  Interaction with and presentation to management regarding process safety strategy, monitoring and improvement Reporting to and networking with seniors within the Group Process safety training development and awareness campaigns Management of process safety information Facilitation of process hazard analyses, including HAZOP, HAZID, SWIFT etc. Prestart safety review (PSSR) procedure development and assessment facilitation Development, maintenance and monitoring of critical control verification and management program Change management administrator and mandatory approver for process safety relevant change requests Incident investigations, ranging from near hits to Tier 1 classifications (various methodologies) Process safety auditing and assurance Some projects: Furnace automatic power control, process safety lead for hazard assessment, change management and PSSR Various alternative coal trials as furnace reductant material, process safety lead for hazard assessment and change management Improvements in furnace off gas venting safety (vent stacks), incident investigation and solution definition and design based on findings Compilation of heat transfer models in Comsol Multiphysics of furnace walls for decision making on wall integrity for operational safety Plant layout study based on consequence modelling (FLACS Effects) - temporary building siting and occupied building vulnerability Hazardous area classification study, SANS 10108 Show less



Rio Tinto

• United Kingdom
• Mining
• 700 & Above Employee

• Development Metallurgist: Pyrometallurgy

  • Sep 2014 - Dec 2015

• Process Metallurgist (Ilmenite Smelting)

  • Feb 2014 - Aug 2014



Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium, Richards Bay Minerals

• Process Metallurgist (Iron Processing)

  • Sep 2012 - Feb 2014

• Process Metallurgist (Heavy Minerals Mining)

  • Jan 2010 - Aug 2012