Company Profile - SAFEmap International

Company Profile: Safemap Africa 2009
Francois Smith is the Managing Director of SAFEmap Africa. He has worked in safety and related fields
locally and internationally for 20 years and has vast experience in safety engineering, conventional
safety and behavior-based safety. His thesis for his Masters Degree in Safety Management (USA) dealt
with the critical success factors that are required to implement behavior-based safety programs
successfully. As Corporate Safety Manager for Iscor and later Kumba Resources he was directly involved
in the successful implementation of safety and health (including behavior-based safety) programs in
these organisations.
Eric Ratshikhopha is an Executive Director and has 30 years experience in Mining and other resource
industries with JCI, Billiton and Xstrata. Eric has been an Executive Director for Social Responsibility with
Xstrata South Africa for the past five years and has a BA.Hons (Ind Psych) and MBA qualification.
Susan Pheiffer. Susan gained extensive knowledge in occupational health and safety during her career
with Iscor, Newcastle which started in 1990. During 2000 she was promoted to Iscor Head office in
Pretoria where she rendered a consulting service. She assisted management in the compilation and
implementation of Health and Safety plans as well as the auditing thereof. She also assisted Iscor
Corporate Office in the investigation of serious and fatal accidents, audits, scheduling and chairing of
Corporate Health and Safety meetings and organizing SHE functions. During 2001 Susan joined IRCA in
the Behaviour Intervention Department where she assisted customers in the implementation of a
behaviour change process. During 2004 Susan worked as a consultant with Lexis Nexis. She conducted
training, audits and assisted companies in the implementation of Occupational Health and Safety
programs. She joined SAFEmap Africa in February 2005 where she is currently assisting clients with the
implementation of SAFEmap’s Smartsafe Competency Based Safety process and other safety related
needs. Her qualifications are: BA Degree (University of South Africa); National Diploma in Safety
(Technikon SA); Master Management in Occupational Health and Safety (University of Queensland); and
MBA (University of Queensland).
Israel Makhoye, Training Manager of SAFEmap Africa with eighteen (18) years experience in safety
training of which the last 4 years was specifically related to behaviour safety. He also do on-the-job
coaching and conduct inspections and audits.
Greg Heger. Greg joined SAFEmap Africa with six years experience of behavioral and psychometric
consulting. He has represented one of the largest providers of psychometric assessments globally and
was involved with all aspects of assessment, training and consulting around these tools. He has been
responsible for the restructuring, development and management of staff of various offices within this
company having run Sydney, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth branches. He has been responsible for
providing behavioral interventions and tools within multi-national organizations such as Goodyear,
Continental, Cadbury’s and Volkswagen SA.
Gordon Olivier. Gordon Olivier has many years of experience as technical trainer and facilitator in
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS). He did his apprenticeship in electrical work at Durnacol mine and
was exposed to drilling and blasting, long wall mining and continuous mining in a coal mining
environment. From there he moved to TRANSNET as a technician and later as a technical facilitator.
Gordon also trained as a technical facilitator with the Technikon Northern Gauteng before he moved to
NOSA as a lecturer ending his service there as a training project manager. Gordon was a senior facilitator
with DEKRA Norisko before he joined Safemap Africa.
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