Dr Christel Fouche

Background

Christel has over 32 years experience in Occupational Health, Safety, Environmental & Quality Management Systems; Auditing; Consulting; Implementation & Training in a wide range of industries including underground and surface mining, power utility; forestry; food; railway; aviation; manufacturing; construction; steel; government and health to name a few.

WORK EXPERIENCE

The following provides an illustration of the types of work Christel has carried out:

Christel has provided services to: Taeiri Railway on ISO31000 & Risk Management; assisted Red Bull NZ with their H&S Framework; is conducting GAP audits for Hesketh Henry (on behalf of their landlord client) in terms of compliance to the new H&S at Work Act; has performed due diligence training for No. 1 Shoes’ CEO and executive team as well as for the Ministry of Health & Red Bull; conducted a due diligence audit for Solid Energy mining division; has completed audits for CHH Woodproducts; has done an integrated ISO SHEQ audit for Marlborough Lines on the new ISO standards and assisted with implementing their Integrated Management System towards Telarc certification in 2017; was on the panel for the Safety 360 Conference for 2017 and has delivered a paper in September at the HASANZ conference on the new ISO45001 standard. Other clients assisted in New Zealand include: BNZ (building risk assessments); Dillworth Trust (building risk assessments); ASB (contractor management development); Abano Health Group (dental practice reviews); HirePool (Senior Management training); API consumer Brands (permit-to-work system and senior management training); Auckland Airport (development of H&S documentation & review audit); Zespri (design and implementation of H&S Management System); Chubb (H&S Review); DSM & SMC Construction (design of H&S Framework) and many more. Christel is a SafePlus assessor and actively auditing against the ISO 45001: 2018 standard. She is ready to assist contractors with the Q-Safe Stage 2 audits when required.

POSITIONS HELD

·        CEO: Advantage ACT Pty Ltd

·        CEO: AGO Certification (ISO)

·        CEO: STEAM Legal Compliance Services

QUALIFICATIONS

·        BA (Information Science) – University of South Africa; South Africa.

·        MBA (H&S) - University of Southern Queensland; Towoomba; Australia.

·        International Lead Auditor: ISO9001; ISO14001 & OHSAS18001/ISO 45001 (IRCA & Exemplar Global)