Our Dedicated Team: Qualifications and Professional Registrations
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Clinton Wittstock
CEO/Founding Owner
Clinton has been a Safety, Health and Environmental Practitioner for a large portion of his career with significant experience in the construction, media and food and beverage industries. He has an entrepreneurial spirit, so it is no surprise that most of his work experience has been as the founding owner and director of various enterprises.
Clinton amassed 13 distinctions on his way to obtaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Disaster and Safety Management. Clinton is registered as a Construction Health and Safety Manager (CHSM) with the South African Council for The South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) and ACHASM as a CHSM.
To keep abreast of international trends and to practice oversees, Clinton has registered as a Graduate Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) in London. He is currently completing his IPID in order to register as a Chartered Member.
Clinton is also registered as a member of the Disaster Management Institute of South Africa (DMISA).
Further to this, Clinton has continuously endeavoured to expand his knowledge and hone his technical skills by attending short courses, workshops and certificate programs. These include Introduction to SAMTRAC, SAMTRAC(Passed Cum Laude), Fall Protection Planning, Working at Heights – Fall Arrest Technician, Fallprotec Secure Rope User and Radio Frequency Awareness, Ladder Use(14m), Risk Assessment, Root Cause Analysis Technique(RCAT) [Incident Investigation], Ergonomics Regulations, Asbestos Regulations, First Aid Level 1 & 2, Fire Fighting & Evacuation, Scaffold Inspection Program, Introduction to Peri Formwork and a Rope Access Masterclass.
From an Internal Management System perspective, Clinton has completed with distinction the OHSAS 18001 implementation Course, OHSAS 18001 Internal Auditors Course, The Common Audit Process(CAP) Lead Auditors Course [Incorporating ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018], ISO 14001:2015 Implementation and Internal Auditors Course, ISO 14001:2015 Management Overview, ISO 9001:2015 Management Overview and the ISO 45001:2018 Course.
During his career Clinton has achieved many milestones, including a proud history of no fatalities. He is the winner of the National MBA Safety Award and multiple time winner of the Regional MBA Safety Award.
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Clinton Wittstock
Derek Wittstock
Industry Expert and Advisor
Derek has been involved in a dedicated Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) role from 1988 but in truth has been involved in SHE from the onset of his career on the mines in 1966. This is owing to the fact that mining is inherently a high-risk occupation which has become all the more regulated as the years have gone by.
Derek began his career as a Learner Official on a gold mine. A year later he joined the Government Miners Training College (GMTC), completing the 18-month Honours Diploma in Mining in 8 months after having already obtained a Blasting Certificate in Fiery Mines. In the Christmas month of 1967, Derek began work as a Stoper on Kinross mines in Evander. He speaks Xhosa fluently and this ability together with his dedication and work ethic soon saw him crowned Unit King, meaning he had produced the most amount of gold ore in the safest manner possible.
Over the years Derek’s mining career has taken him across the land and across the continent. His first work assignment outside the South African borders was on the Orapa Diamond Prospecting Project in Botswana where he helped to sink the sampling pits.
After being promoted to the position of Shift Boss, Derek applied himself to studying for his Mine Overseers Competency Certificate, duly obtaining this in the Christmas month of ’73. In 1975, Derek was awarded an Ernest Borrel safety watch by the Chamber of Mines for the Prevention of Accidents Committee as an acknowledgement for achieving the highest safety results.
The call came four years later to assist on the Beisa Uranium Mine in Welkom with the Underground Development from the Ventilation Shaft to the Main Shaft while the Main Shaft was being sunk. The position came with a promotion to Mine Overseer and part of Derek’s role was to draw up the Mine Standards. Whilst going through a Standard Procedure document to help with the drafting of the Mine Standard, Derek realised that management had lied to him and the other miners about the real effect of Uranium, a highly radio-active metal. Barely in the Free State for 6 months, Derek packed up his family and moved to the North-West where he took up a position as a Shift boss on the Townlands Shaft of Rustenburg Platinum Mines.
During the 80s, Derek focused his studies on fire safety, obtaining a Certificate for Intensive Fire Safety, and on Loss Control. He obtained a Certificate in the Theory of Loss Control Management, a Loss Control Co-ordinators Certificate and graduated 1st in class with a Loss Control Co-ordinator Diploma.
in 1988 Derek transferred from the Production Department to the Safety Department. He quickly rose through the ranks, going from Chief Safety Officer to Safety Coordinator. Derek was in charge of a surface and underground area 20km large and 14000 lives. Derek ensured that many “Million Fatality Free Shifts” were achieved on his guard, his years of dedication culminating in being the first Platinum mine ever to be awarded the Chief Inspector of Mines Safety Flag Award.
Derek registered with the Institute of Safety Management(ISM) as an Occupational Safety Practitioner (ROSPrac) towards the end of the 90s after having had a busy decade studying and working, amongst others further loss control studies, SAMTRAC, Systematic Cause Analysis Technique, CAPtm Auditors Course, an International Risk Control Africa BS8800 course to name a few.
In March of 2002 Derek retired but in July of the same year Derek began consulting as a HSE professional, including returning to the mine he had retired from to fix up problems that arose after his departure.
As a consultant Derek audited a Residential Complex Development, quarries and various construction sites. He worked in Zambia on a copper and nickel mine as a Safety Optimisation Trainer and as the Safety and Health Superintendent on a gold mine in Tanzania.
Derek now acts as an industry expert and advisor for Wittstock Risk Management Consultancy.
