Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Manager The Management
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Ms. Carol Wendy Kiplagat possesses 23 years’ experience in Occupational Safety, Health and Environment in oil gas and the pipeline construction industry. Carol is very passionate towards environmental conservation. She has overseen the planting of 800,000 trees as part of KPC’s efforts towards climate change impact.
Ms Kiplagat is also passionate about a safety culture and is keen to always enhance culture through internal programmes driven from top management to shop floor levels. She joined KPC in 2000 as a Graduate Trainee Safety Engineer. She rose to the position of Chief Environment Officer in 2017 before assuming the position of Manager- Safety, Health and Environment in 2023.
She is responsible for ensuring KPC’s compliance to all SHE statutory regulations as well as the maintenance of KPC’s ISO 14001 (Environment Management System) and ISO 45001 (Occupational Safety and Health Management System) standards as part of KPC’s IMS certification. As part of her role, Ms Kiplagat is also charged with KPC’s move towards climate change initiatives and ESG.
Ms. Kiplagat holds a BSc in Loss Control Management from Central Washington University in WA state, US. She is an approved DOSHS Occupational Safety & Health Adviser, Fire Safety Auditor, Approved OSH Trainer, and an approved NEMA EIA/EA Lead Auditor. She has also previously been a member of American Society of Safety Engineers as well as Kenya Occupational Safety and Health Association.
