Devendra Gaur

 Grad IOSH, IDipNEBOSH and PDIS (CLI) qualified health and safety professional with 25+ years of experience in domestic and international EPC health, safety, and environmental (HSE) field at the project site, regional and corporate level.

 Over the past 25+ years, I have gained a diversified experience for building and sustaining a safe work culture at workplaces during construction of the mixed projects i.e. High-rise civil constructions for residential and commercial buildings; Infrastructure (Roads/ Highway, Drainage, Utilities-excavation, pipe laying and back filling, Sub-station & power distribution, building construction, Tunneling/ Micro tunneling, Airport, Metro); Heavy engineering- Oil, gas, petrochemicals, chemicals and Process industries.

 15 years as Head HSE with demonstrated experience in planning, developing, evaluating, implementing and monitoring HSE Policies, procedures and safety standards in line to comply with Integrated EHSMS under ISO 14001 & OHSAS 18001.

 15 years’ experience of HSE Management with the leading contractors into Construction of Infrastructure and High rise building projects (Civil, MEP & Finishing works);

 Recently, worked with the Main Contractors- BOTC, Doha Qatar; Larsen & Toubro Limited, India; Leighton India; ETA ASCON Group, UAE;

 20 years+ post graduated experience after completing my full time Post Diploma in Industrial safety from Central Labour Institute, Mumbai (Board of Technical Examination), India, coupled with NEBOSH International Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety (Level 6-UK), NEBOSH NGC (Level 3-UK) and PG Diploma in Environmental management;

 Managed a strong team of 30+ EHS professionals i.e. Project HSE Managers/ Engineers, Officers.

 Holds the merit of working in multi-nationals and multi culture environment with British, Australian, Americans, Irish, Scottish, South Africans, Filipinos, Syrian, Jordanians, Egyptians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Afghanis, Nepalese, Sri Lankans.

 Following are the key skills that helped me to drive EHS towards continual improvement.
o Technical Skills:
Culture building, EHS Leadership, Construction safety program, EHS performance monitoring, ‘5S’ strategy for safety excellence, Need based training/ workshop, EHS meeting facilitation at all levels, EHS performance report, Objective & Management Programme(s), Risk management, HAZOP, JSEA, Incident investigation- Root Cause Analysis, Incident alert, Fire Prevention and Protection, Emergency response management- Medical emergency/ evacuation drills, Heat stress management, Project EHS management, EHSMS Audit, ISO 14001 & OHSAS 18001, Procedure development/ evaluation/ implementation, MOC, SEN, EHS Campaign, Motivational Events, EHS Resource & Sub-contractor management;

o Characteristics:

D Driving EHS towards LIFE;
E Empowering team towards organizational goal;
V Visible leadership;
E Empathy;
N Negotiator;
D Delegation for effective team management;
R Risk management;
A Approachable;

S Strive towards Incident free working environment;
I Involvement in wheel of life;
N Nurture team for improving productivity;
G Get involved;
H Hardworking;

G Get started;
A Accomplishment of objectives;
U Underlying cause analyzer;
R Respect for dignity of humanity;