Surendharan Menon Sasitharan

• Monitor and enforce site safety regulations to ensure compliance with local, state, and national safety laws (e.g., OSHA).
• Conduct daily safety inspections and audits to identify potential hazards and implement corrective actions.
• Develop and implement project-specific safety plans, risk assessments, and method statements.
• Organize and conduct toolbox talks, safety inductions, and training sessions for workers and subcontractors.
• Investigate and report all incidents, accidents, and near-misses, ensuring proper documentation and follow-up.
• Liaise with project managers, engineers, and site supervisors to integrate safety into planning and operations.
• Ensure proper use and maintenance of personal protective equipment (PPE) and safety devices on-site.
• Maintain safety records, permits, and documentation in accordance with project and legal requirements.
• Promote a proactive safety culture among the workforce through engagement and continuous awareness programs.
• Coordinate emergency response drills and ensure availability of first aid and firefighting equipment.

1. Safety Oversight During Installation & Maintenance

• Monitor and enforce safety protocols during the installation, modification, or maintenance of HAC systems.
• Ensure all work is done under Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) procedures and permit-to-work systems where required.

2. Thermal Hazard Monitoring

• Ensure personnel are aware of the thermal risks in hot aisle zones (temperatures often exceed 100F/38C).
• Monitor for signs of heat stress and implement administrative controls (rotation, hydration, rest breaks).
• Ensure temperature sensors and alarms are functional and regularly tested.

3. Fire Safety & Emergency Preparedness

• Confirm that fire suppression systems (like VESDA, FM200, or NOVEC 1230) are functional and compatible with the containment systems.
• Ensure unobstructed egress routes from hot aisles and that emergency lighting and alarms are in place and tested.
• Conduct evacuation drills and provide input on Emergency Response Plans (ERP) related to HAC zones.

4. Hazardous Energy & Confined Space Assessment

• Determine whether hot aisles qualify as confined spaces based on limited access or ventilation; if so, ensure entry procedures follow safety regulations.
• Identify electrical, mechanical, or HVAC hazards associated with containment structures.

5. Regulatory Compliance & Documentation

• Ensure compliance with OSHA, NFPA, Microsoft safety standards, and local regulatory authorities.
• Maintain documentation of risk assessments, safety inspections, incident reports, and training records.

6. Risk Assessment and Control Implementation

• Conduct Job Hazard Analyses (JHA) specific to work inside or around hot aisle zones.
• Recommend and oversee engineering controls, PPE requirements, and safe work practices.

7. Training & Awareness

• Provide or coordinate HAC-specific safety training for technicians, contractors, and data center employees.
• Ensure personnel are briefed on the risks of thermal stress, airflow restriction, and emergency escape in HAC zones.
• 8. Incident Investigation & Reporting
• Lead or support incident investigations involving injuries, near misses, or environmental hazards related to hot aisle environments.
• Implement corrective actions and update safety protocols based on findings.

• In charge of new high rise building and refurbishment of a building. Ensuring the management and co-workers are following the basic standard safety legislations on their daily basis role.
• To conduct Safety Special Training to all workers/subcontractor. To conduct daily safety Toolbox briefing.
• To ensure that all facilities, tools, and equipment are inoperable and safe condition.
• To assist and advise the management on safety precaution and implementation at the workplace.
• Conduct monthly Safety Committee Meetings and Safety Audit.
• Conduct weekly work area inspection/safety walkabout with management.
• To make an investigation of the accident/incident at the project site. Alias with authority and client on safety matters.

• In charge of EDTP Project from Gemas to Johor Bahru works featuring KTMB rules and regulations act.
• Ensured workplace safety by conducting training, inspections, and investigations and by maintaining documentation and equipment.
• Conducting in a toolbox talk ensure based on 038, 039, 040 and ballast guard courses.
• Responsible and in charge of safety of any magnitude of railway works such as track works, construction of bridges with pile foundation and pre-stressed concrete girders, railway signaling works and railway overhead electrical traction works.
• Conduct monthly internal Safety audit and Observation.
• Conduct the accident and incident investigation and produce incident report.
• Assist the lifting supervisor on the lifting appliances inspection and records.
• Generate appropriate SOP for the specific task.
• Generate the Monthly HSE report as the required by the Client and Main- contractor.
• Advised on safety issues.
• Instructed CPR and First Aid course.

• In charge of all TNB substation works (Excavation, Pole installation, Stringing works, Installation / replacement of the high voltage of cables, Commissioning and Line test ( T-Off Bukit Batu, PMU Batu Pahat East, PMU Bukit Batu & PMU Yong Peng North).
• Ensuring all workers entering the job site with valid CIDB and NTSP card.
• To conduct daily Safety Tool-Box Briefing.
• To ensure that all facilities, tools, and equipment are inoperable and safe condition.
• To assist and advise the management on safety precaution and implementation at the workplace.
• Conduct monthly Safety Committee Meetings and Safety Audit.
• To make an investigation of the accident/incident at the project site.
• Alias with authority and client on safety matters (TNB & DOSH).

• In charge of MRT Projects.
• Ensuring the management and co-workers are following the basic standard safety legislations on their daily basis role.
• To conduct Safety Special Training to all workers/subcontractor.
• To conduct daily Safety Tool-Box Briefing.
• To ensure that all facilities, tools, and equipment are inoperable and safe condition.
• To assist and advise the management on safety precaution and implementation at the workplace.
• Conduct monthly Safety Committee Meetings and Safety Audit.
• Conduct weekly work area inspection/safety walkabout with management.
• To make an investigation of the accident/incident at the project site.
• Alias with authority and client on safety matters.

• Site, Machineries, Tools & equipment Inspection.
• Conducting Audit & Advisor to the Project Team on safety matters.
• Conducting Safety Committee Meetings & Tool Box Talk Meeting;
• Liaise with the DOSH, CIDB and all other Government Authorities on safety matters.