Ali Certiosh

($40 billion giga-project and the world’s first city purpose-built for play. I am sole HSE lead for the Film Studios within the Cultural District.) Governance & Strategy — Architected the foundational HSE governance framework and compliance baseline, aligned to local and international standards. Critical Risk Leadership — Designed the HiPo strategy and Critical Control framework governing high-consequence construction and production activity. Operational Assurance — Drove a zero-incident record through mobilization and early works via daily high-risk oversight.

• Led HSE operations across the Middle East and North Africa, ensuring compliance with safety regulations. • Developed and managed the corporate HSE management system to enhance operational safety standards. • Provided strategic guidance to subsidiaries, promoting best practices in safety and environmental management.

(Scope: $2.75 Billion Media Group | 10+ Facilities | 3,500+ Staff) • Regional Leadership: Pioneered the first comprehensive HSSE governance framework for the group across Middle east and North Africa. standardized policies across 15+ production projects and 10 facilities. • Incident Reduction: Achieved 80% reduction in Lost Time Injuries (LTI) and reportable incidents year-over-year by implementing behaviour-based safety programs and data-driven hazard auditing. • Executive Advisory: Served as the primary HSE advisor to Group Executives, effectively preventing 100% of major incidents in high-risk broadcasting environments. • Sustainability Impact: Overhauled the regional waste management system, delivering a 35% reduction in waste generation, directly lowering operational costs. • Capital Projects: Integrated safety-by-design principles into $515 Million worth of capital expansion projects, ensuring full regulatory compliance from concept to handover.

Responsible for improving QHSE performance, providing guidance and operational support to business, including QHSE governance activities, developing leadership & risk reduction programs, conducting due diligence audits, risk baseline assessments, technical reviews, and critical incident investigations and supplier QHSE audits.

(Scope: Defence Manufacturing | $2 Billion Portfolio) • Spearheaded targeted risk reduction initiatives, successfully reducing high-risk operational activities by 30% within nine months across two major defence manufacturing plants (part of the $2 Billion portfolio). • Elevated organizational governance by conducting comprehensive due diligence audits and risk baseline assessments for critical vendor qualification and contractor management. • Led all critical incident investigations, utilized root cause analysis to implement corrective and preventative actions that resulted in zero recurrence of all high-potential events during tenure.

Responsible for Environmental protection, safety, industrial hygiene, and health implementation program within the company, principles and practices, local governmental environmental, safety and health laws and regulations, and management standards Chair daily/weekly/monthly safety/5S audits through the safety committee and drive corrective actions. Procedures &Standard related to EHS. Such as RA\SOP… Maintain all required records relate to EHS in accordance with regulatory and requirements. Establishes and maintain necessary contacts with ESH regulatory agencies and professional societies, to ensure the highest level of assistance and service for the site. Ensure that all applicable internal and external reporting requirements are performed accurately and in a timely manner. ISO 45001 system maintain and update on site. Conduct safety training plan and course in the plant. Hazardous wastage management. Coordinator with department manager to follow up the safety actions and correction action. Incident investigate and correct action follow up. EHS report prepare data collect and prepare. Fire safety check and follow up.

(Scope: Led the HSE implementation from the scratch + 600 employees) • System Architecture: Built and implemented the Integrated Management System (IMS), successfully achieving Triple Certification (ISO 45001, ISO 14001, ISO 9001). • Audit Performance: Maintained a 98% corrective action closure rate across all internal and external audits. • Regulatory Compliance: Secured 100% compliance with UAE environmental and civil defence regulations, preventing all statutory fines.