BLESSING IKECHUKWU
Stoke-on-Trent,Staffordshire
Summary
I recently earned the NEBOSH National General Certificate with Credit and am now seeking an entry-level health and safety position. My background in health care and housing administration has given me valuable skills I can bring to this field. I am interested in roles such as health and safety administrator, compliance officer, HSE coordinator, or junior HSE officer, where I can apply what I have learned, gain hands-on experience, and build a long-term career.
Overview
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Certification
2027
2027
years of professional experience
Work History
Admin Support Officer (Volunteer)
Honeycomb Group (Social Housing & Support Sector)
Stoke-on-Trent
01.2026 - Current
- Maximised Microsoft Excel to build, maintain, and audit comprehensive volunteer records, charity records, safety forms, and compliance documents, ensuring accurate and accessible data management.
- Data Auditing & Validation: Leverage advanced sorting and filtering in Excel to cross-check information for completeness, systematically flagging missing or inconsistent safety data for fast-tracking.
- Managed administrative emails and policy folders, ensuring confidentiality and organisation of sensitive information.: Manage routine administrative email loops, reminders, and policy folders while strictly maintaining information confidentiality.
- Routine admin check: Manage routine administrative emails, enquiries, scheduling and reminders, ensuring information is communicated clearly and on time.
- Safety Minute Taking: Record official meeting minutes, tracking high-level discussions, policy changes, and statutory safety action points for distribution across stakeholders.
- Designed and distributed quarterly housing association newsletter using Canva, simplifying regulatory updates and tenancy policies into clear, visual formats to enhance neighbourhood safety and staff compliance.
Mental Health Support Worker
NHS Professionals / Agency Healthcare
Manchester
06.2020 - 11.2021
- Recognised escalation triggers and implemented safety protocols to effectively manage immediate behavioural threats and maintain a secure environment.
- Dynamic Risk Assessment: Conducted continuous, on-the-spot hazard evaluations within high-pressure environments to preserve a secure setting for service users and visitors.
- Monitored and logged safety concerns and changes in risk, ensuring compliance with HSE and care legislation to uphold safeguarding standards.
- Infection Prevention and Control: Rigorously followed infection prevention and control by maintaining high hygiene standards and correctly deploying PPE to eliminate cross-contamination risks
- Lifting Operations Safety: Applied manual handling principles safely, operating commercial hoists and mechanical lifting gear to eliminate the risk of skeletal injuries.
- Drafted accurate, legally compliant incident statements and handovers, facilitating thorough internal investigations and enhancing organisational accountability.
- COSHH Compliance: Managed and stored hazardous cleaning substances in strict accordance with COSHH regulations, ensuring all chemical logs and storage lockers remained fully secure
HEALTH & SAFETY PROJECT(Cold-Storage Warehouse)
NEBOSH Practical Risk Assessment Project 2026
- Site Hazard Identification: Conducted a comprehensive workplace-style risk assessment spanning high-risk zones, including goods in loading bays, chilled and frozen storage units, picking bays and final dispatch areas
- Evaluated over 10 distinct physical and environmental hazards, applying formal hierarchy of control to establish actionable safety improvements, enhancing regulatory compliance.
- Designed sign-off framework, detailing review schedules and methods for communicating safety updates, improving safety awareness across operational workforce.
- Formulated risk-based reasoning citing Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to justify corporate compliance budgeting, ensuring alignment with legal requirements.
Education
BSc - Chemistry
Delta State University
AAT Level 1 Award - Bookkeeping
Stoke-on-Trent College
GCSEs - English and Mathematics
Skills
- Statutory Compliance Tracking: Experienced in maintaining accident databases, training matrices, and statutory document control systems
- Workplace Risk Assessment: Proven ability to identify corporate hazards, analyse site risks, and formulate additional safety control measures
- Advanced Data Management: Fluent in utilising Microsoft Excel for logging compliance metrics, tracking gaps, and managing safety registers
- Incident & Hazard Reporting: Skilled in drafting near-miss reports, filing incident documentation, and recording explicit safety metrics
- Key Risk Awareness: Trained in Fire Safety, COSHH, Manual Handling, and Working-at-Height frameworks
Certification
- NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety – Passed with Credit (2026)
- IOSH Affiliate Member – Active Membership (2026-Present)
- IOSH Managing Safely Certificate – Completed
- CITB Fire Safety in Buildings Awareness Certificate
- Manual Handling Awareness Certificate – Phoenix Health & Safety
- Working at Height Certificate – Phoenix Health & Safety
PROFESSIONAL SAFETY PLACEMENT & PROJECTS
NEBOSH Practical Risk Assessment Project | Cold-Storage Warehouse Scenario (2026)
- Conducted a thorough workplace-style risk assessment spanning goods-in, chilled/frozen storage units, picking bays, and final dispatch areas.
- Successfully identified high-risk hazards including workplace transport movements, cold exposure, manual handling, fatigue, and refrigeration gas leaks.
- Developed proactive additional control measures using risk-based reasoning and the formal hierarchy of control, establishing realistic action tracking timescales.
Training
Microsoft Office: Advanced Microsoft Office for Home and Work training via Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
Timeline
Admin Support Officer (Volunteer)
Honeycomb Group (Social Housing & Support Sector)
01.2026 - Current
Mental Health Support Worker
NHS Professionals / Agency Healthcare
06.2020 - 11.2021
HEALTH & SAFETY PROJECT(Cold-Storage Warehouse)
NEBOSH Practical Risk Assessment Project 2026
BSc - Chemistry
Delta State University
AAT Level 1 Award - Bookkeeping
Stoke-on-Trent College