Gautam Shah

Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability (HSES) expert with > 24 years of working experience in Canada and India with MNC’s i. e. Reliance, BOSCH, GE, Voith, ABB, Dragados, ACS Construction etc.

I am dynamic, passionate, strategic and visionary ethical environmental, health and safety (EHS) professional worked in a fast-paced challenging environment with leadership skills to inculcate strong sustainable EHS culture within the organization.

I was responsible for driving and leading strategic leadership and management team to develop an excellence culture in HSE. I developed and implemented HSE management systems with due diligence and risk management. I developed and provided multiple HSE hands on trainings to employees and management; conducted predictive analysis, audits and assessment along with documentation and implementation of HSE management systems; managing HSE risks for business, sites, tasks and activities at workplace. I am also a part of providing complete technical solution for any HSE related issues including due diligence, legal compliance, machine guarding, industrial hygiene, water and waste water along with air pollution etc.

Vice President - Safety, 

Safety Director, 

Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Director, 

Vice President - HSE

• Hands on experience in multi-location, multi-sites in unionized and non-unionized work environment;
• Proven leadership track record in safety, environment and sustainability;
• Developing, implementing and managing HSE portfolios;
• Strong techno-professional people and teams leading capabilities with demonstrated ability to lead and influence culture and organizational transformation;
• Excellent experience for development and implementation of HSE management system – ISO45001, ISO14001, ISO50001, Certificate Of Recognition (COR), Global Star & OSHA VPP;
• Strong working experience in the development and implementation of HSE policies, programs, processes, standards, rules, risk management, heat map, strength of defenses etc.
• Practical experience in facilitating trainings, knowledge & skills to develop professional competencies;
• Excellent working knowledge of implementing Canadian OHSA, US OSHA and Indian legislations to comply and ensure due diligence and best practices implementation.

Key Accountabilities and Achievements

Strategic Leadership 

• Formulate, lead & championed strategy, vision, objectives with delivery model to achieve desired outcome;
• Set HSE goals and bench marked leading indicators against best practices for continuous improvement;
• Lead & Championed the HSE vision and strategies through empowering to achieve desired outcome;
• Partnered and collaborated with key stakeholders to embed and drive sustainable HSE culture;

Team / People Management

• Successfully established and strongly led teams by providing thoughtful strategic directional leadership;
• Empowered HSE team to steer change efforts with assimilation to organization while guiding senior leadership through effective coaching, influencing and mentoring;
• Built strong relationships and demonstrated ability to work effectively with people across all functional levels;
• Assisted other functions in building strategies and presentations for pre-qualification bids and proposals.

Organizational with Safety Culture 

• Established key priorities while taking hands-on approach to develop & implement new initiatives;
• Strategically lead and drove moral improvement to inculcate strong sustainable HSE excellence culture;
• Developed and implemented positive recognition program that increased employee engagement at all levels and improved trust between management and employees;
• Developed & implemented the change processes such as MOC, PSSR, RRP and PSM’s.

Management Systems

• Successfully established and implemented ISO14001, ISO45001, Certificate of Recognition, Global Star and US OSHA VPP certification;
• Established, developed and implemented strategic HSE policies, programs, standards and plans as per the legal, internal and best industry practices requirements to drive excellence culture;
• Standardized and integrated existing HSE management systems and tools into industry leading programs.

Risk Management 

• Lead and provided expertise to identify, develop and implement sensible Risk Reduction Plans (RRP);
• Developed and implemented organization, business & task risk management to ensure business continuity.
• Lead and conducted incident investigations with teams for RCA and CAPA.

Legal Compliance and Best Practices

• Knowledge of all Indian, Canadian and US legislation including WSIB/WCB and NEER;
• Compliance and strategic liaison with internal & external stakeholders for systematic change implementation;
• Received external awards – IGBC, Safety Group, CanQual, NSC “Safety Award” for 0 LTI.
• Developed & implemented communication program for deploying best practices across organization.

Key Performance Indicators

• Conducted gap analysis and implemented strategic action plans to progressively achieve zero accident;
• ZERO work stoppages by proactively interacting with employees and supervisors for risk resolution;
• Achieved NEER reduction while systematically managing claims to get rebates from WSIB/WCB;
• Prepared KPI status reports template with best practices for key stakeholders to monitor the progress;

Training 

• Lead competency development by deploying functional matrix to ensure behaviors aligned with expectations;
• Derived, developed, facilitated and provided training programs for employee to inculcate strong HSE culture;

Audit & Assurance

• Developed and implemented effective audit programs to objectively evaluate safety performance & culture;
• Conducted periodic assurance audits & implemented corrective actions for effective risk management;

Sustainability with Cost Reduction 

• Worked on GHG / GRI reporting protocols for global sustainable reporting standards;
• Compiled input – output analysis while proposing and implementing Sustainability projects;
• Resource reduction > 35 % by implementing measures for electricity, waste, water & paper;
• 30 % reduction in the use of chemicals by substituting toxic chemicals with non-regulated chemical;
• Participated in sustainability consortiums such as MARG / HPS etc.