About us

Our mission:

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, CULTURE FOR EFFICIENCY AND SAFE WORK!

Knowledge – training of kindergartens, primary schools and institutions of higher education; professional development.

Skills – training courses, practical courses, simulations and games in office conditions and environment imitating the practical conditions.

Culture – ethics, responsibility and respect for colleagues and employers. Team behaviour towards equipment and compliance with the safety requirements.

Our purpose:

BETTER, SUCCESSFUL AND HAPPY LIFE FOR ALL!

Our mission must be understood both by employees and employers, as our work and their understanding of the future investment for high performance and healthy society of conscientious workers, with high culture of knowledge and skills.

Directions:

WORK

  • Vocational guidance – advices and directions personal and/or collective/ according to mental, physical and/or regional features.
  • Vocational training centers – training, retraining, increase training of people. Work in close liaison under programs together with schools and Universities for higher culture. Training of pupils, students and workers regarding knowledge of safety at work, disasters and failures, and hobby activities.
  • Improve working conditions through the proper use of equipment, new technologies completed with collective protective equipment, clean productions.

HEALTH

  • Medical Centers – prevention, preventive examinations, treatment procedures, physical and psychological selection of staff.
  • Occupational Medicine Services – risk models and assessments prepared by the professionals and experts in personal and collective protective equipment.
  • Safety – at work, disasters, failures and hobby activities.
  • Quality, safety and ecology management systems. Consulting, development, certification and training.
  • Branching model systems for risk prevention at work.
  • Codes of good practices at work, disasters and failures.
  • Personal and collective protective equipment – consulting, training, selection, use, maintenance, inspection and service.

Environmental protection and human health is a priority of our advices, training and practices in coordination and agreement with the team of the BA WHS /Bulgarian Association “Work, Health, Safety”/, together with the members of the association and national, local structures and partners.


Founders and Management:

Engineer Georgi Iliev – Chairman of BA WHS

Engineer Georgi Iliev – a professional with long experience in the field of health and safety at work. Throughout his 17 years of work he was a body of HSW /Health and Safety at Work/ and managed the safety departments in public and private companies. Since June 2014 he has been a health and safety coordinator for the Bulgarian facilities of the leading world producer of cement and inert materials, the Swiss company of “Holcim”. He is a member of the Standing Committee on HSW of the Bulgarian Chamber of Mining and Geology, as four years he has been a chairman of that committee. He is a certified lecturer of the British Institute of Health and Safety (Chartered Institute Environmental Health (CIEH). He participated as an expert or head in many projects in the field of safety, funded by EU programs. Regarding the newly established “Bulgarian Association Work Health Safety”, Engineer Iliev said “I am sure in the success of the new structure. Real professionals and followers will jointly work in the association, by means of the joint efforts we will certainly do more to improve the working conditions in our country.

Directions: Consulting on systems, organization of the occupational safety, training in legal framework, Analysis of working conditions.

Boril Tashev – Deputy Chairman of BA WHS

Boril Tashev – a long-standing expert in the field of health and safety at work. He took part in in numerous development and projects on prevention of industrial risks; risk assessment and prevention; research, analysis, assessment and control of activities, leading to hazards and the need to use PPE /Personal Protective Equipment/ and protective clothing. He is an expert in the field of inspection and consultation with a view to the proper implementation of LHSW /LAW ON HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK/ and other legal regulations in Bulgaria and Europe. Finding out the status, disadvantages, strengths and weaknesses of the work organization, working environment, health and safety at work and the possibilities for their further development, plan of work organization. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Committee for Standardization – Technical Committee for Personal Protective Equipment and has actively participated in the transfer and harmonization, discussion and adoption of the European standards in Bulgaria. Internal auditor, in accordance with the requirements of BDS ENISO 9001: 2008, BDS ENISO 14001: 2005, BSOHSAS 18001: 2007. He participated in events of public significance on the subject of “Safety at work” – presentations, exhibitions, seminars and etc. He published numerous articles in specialized periodicals for safe working conditions. He is a member of various professional organizations. He is a Managing Director of “Olymp – Safety Equipments” Ltd.

Directions: Consultant on Personal and Collective Protective Equipment, Analysis of working conditions, Training of selection, use and maintenance of Personal and Collective Protective Equipment, Training courses and instructions.

 

Expert staff:

Engineer Antonina Karova

Mechanical Engineer. Expert in database, construction, management and application; construction of quality systems; construction and structure of body for product certification, product certification. Lead auditor in ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001. Participation as auditor and lead auditor in more than 500 audits. Long-standing experience in the construction, implementation and certification of quality management systems and health and safety at work management systems. Assessor of certification bodies of quality management systems and health and safety at work management systems to the Executive Agency “Bulgarian Accreditation Service”. Long-standing experience in the field of product certification. Assessment of conformity of machinery, construction products, pressure equipment.

Directions: Consultant on systems, Lead Auditor of quality management systems, Training of Auditors.

Georgi Lyubenov

Lead Auditor of Management Systems in accordance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, BSOHSAS 18001, ISO 22000 and HACCP. Participation as an auditor and lead auditor in more than 500 audits. Long-standing experience in analysis, construction, implementation and certification of Management Systems. Assessor of certification bodies of management systems, certification bodies of products and verification bodies under work to the Executive Agency “Bulgarian Accreditation Service”. Long-standing experience in the field of certification of chemical and food products. Assessment of the conformity of the construction products and etc.

Directions: Consultant on systems, Lead Auditor of quality management systems, Trainings of Auditors.

Dr. Ruzha Doncheva

Expert-consultant on health and safety at work. Head of Occupational Medicine Service and medical specialist in “Neurology” and “Occupational Medicine”. Since 2001 she has worked as a doctor in “Occupational Medicine”, head of the Occupational Medicine Service. Participation in the execution of risk assessments, analysis of health and safety risks, investigation of work accidents and occupational diseases. Manager of projects of occupational health and safety.

Directions: Doctor in Occupational Medicine, Consulting and training in risk assessment.

Dragomir Vasilev

Expert on health and safety at work. Master of Medical Chemistry, PU “Paisii Hilendarski” Plovdiv. Since 2004 he has been a lecturer at the Technical University Gabrovo, a doctoral student in the professional field “Organic Chemistry”. Since 2007 he has worked in the field of occupational health and safety and control of work environment factors. Member of the Technical Accreditation Committee “Control authorities” and external lead and technical assessor of inspection bodies to EA “Bulgarian Accreditation Service”. Participant in the development of practical tools for risk assessment in the workplace in the economic activity “Humane health”. Lecturer of trainings on occupational health and safety; measurement and control of work environment factors. Author of over 30 scientific articles, over 10 of which in the field of risk assessment of jobs. Head of the body of working environment control and vocational training center. Participant in more than 20 research and educational projects.

Directions: Consulting and training in risk assessment.

Engineer Zhermen Dimitrova

Expert on health and safety at work. Chemical engineer, HICT /Higher Institute of Chemical Technology/ “Prof. Dr. Asen Zlatarov “, Burgas. Since 2000 she has worked in the field of health and safety at work. Participation in the risk assessment of health and safety, analysis of status and plan of work organization. Participant in the development of practical tools for risk assessment in the workplace in the economic activity “Humane health”.

Directions: Consulting and training in risk assessment.