Santosh Kumar Jha CMIOSH is an experienced chartered Health, Safety, Security, and Environment (HSSE) professional having more than 25 years of experience in Oil & Gas industries – Petroleum Refineries and Aviation Fuel Stations Construction, Operations and Maintenance. He is a certified ISO 45001:2018 auditor who conducted multiple audits across industry. He had worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies and currently serving as a Corporate Manager-HSSE & ASCO HQS at IndianOil Skytanking, which is the most prominent aviation refuelling company in India and currently operates at 40 airports in India. The company is into operation and maintenance of Aviation Fuel Farms and Into-Plane services.

Santosh Kumar Jha's continuous professional development with Institute of Occupation Health & Safety, UK, gained him the chartered qualification of IOSH after a rigorous assessment process. He conducted around 8 HSSE campaigns in his organisation, leading to employee engagements and positive HSSE culture involving top management as well as the bottom line. He conducted more than 31 trainings (both offline and online) in various subjects including Road Safety, Defensive Driving, Operational Safety as per OISD-154, Fire Safety, Behaviour-based Safety and Just Culture, written more than 8 published articles in leading Occupational Safety and Health magazines. Using the AI-based system from Netradyne, they improved their driving behaviours and enhanced their driver scores. They also rewarded employees who repeatedly shown high driving scores by rewarding them with Safety Champion Awards. This motivated others to perform better.

Santosh Kumar Jha guided and mentored his HSSE and operational teams for safe fuel farm operations and maintenance, into-plane fuelling operations, and construction activities by supporting them with safe standard operating procedures, checklists, HSSE manuals, and updated safety information and guidelines. He ensured 100 % compliance and effectiveness of HSSE policy and regulations through regular audits, inspections, and periodic reviews. He developed in-house safety systems and SOPs as per requirements, planning for HSSE trainings, HSSE Campaigns and programs, Sharing of corrective actions across locations on near misses and spearheading a safety-first culture across the organisation through innovative HSSE campaigns, focusing on behavioural based safety and improvement programmes.

Santosh Kumar Jha is genuine and straightforward, who like to engage with colleagues and community on various HSSE activities and topics of interest. He likes to communicate to the team and find more and more opportunities to engage with teams on various safety events, campaigns, and programmes. This provides him valuable insights on the safety needs at different levels of the organisation and to plan his safety programmes and campaigns for all employees for maximum engagements and benefits. This also helps him to build a sustainable manpower resource for HSSE.

Santosh Kumar Jha's HSSE campaign named "Occupational Health Surveillance Campaign" helped him to improve the morale of his team. Now, everyone in his organisation, including the contract staff, knows how safe it is to work at IOSL. Everyone wears appropriate PPEs at all times and safeguard from the health hazards as identified during the campaign process. They encourage employees to do some yoga or exercises during the beginning of every shift, so that it enhances their mental alertness. This was immensely beneficial and proved to be a game changer.

Santosh Kumar Jha believes top influencer skills are as below: - Risk management: Conducts HIRARC periodically along with his HSSE and operational teams. Make sure control actions are suitable implemented. - Leadership: Always leads by example. First follow, then teach. - Workplace safety: They aligned their safety goals with operational goals and enhanced efficiency of their team. - Fire safety: Monthly mock drills are performed to prepare for any fire emergencies. - Road safety: Multiple trainings conducted by him and external faculties. - Planning: Use HSSE data to plan his HSSE campaigns and programmes in gap areas. - Communication and coordination: HSSE communication with all levels. Coordinate with all departments (Internal and External) as a SPOC for HSSE for the organisation. - Trainer and mentor: His HSSE & operations team.