--- title: "Humans of Kent: Yelena Kashirskaya, HSSEQ Associate Business Partner, Kazakhstan" date: 2020-09-17T09:35:00+01:00 author: Joanne Hennigan canonical_url: "https://kent.nzi.me/news-insights/humans-of-kent-yelena-kashirskaya-hsseq-associate-business-partner-kazakhstan" section: Blog --- 17 Sept 2020 Inclusion & Belonging # Humans of Kent: Yelena Kashirskaya, HSSEQ Associate Business Partner, Kazakhstan ![Humansof Kent Yelena 01]() Yelena is currently an HSSEQ Associate Supervisor based in our operational sites in Tengiz, Kazakhstan, and has been part of the Kent team for 18 months. **Yelena, tell us a bit about you** I was born in 1987 in Kazakhstan in the city of Uralsk to a family who were not wealthy. My family includes my mother, father, my older brother and me; at 33 years old. My brother also works in Tengiz for Denholm Zholdas. I have a daughter who is 2 years and 9 months old and she goes to kindergarten in a Kazakh group. I love learning the Kazakh language and have attended language school to learn more. My husband is a Russian citizen and he works in Moscow in Welding. I also recently received Russian citizenship and plan to live in Moscow one day. **Share with us your career path to Kent** I finished 11th grade at school and then studied at the Humanitarian Academy for 4 years as a child teacher and psychologist. Upon graduating, I entered the Academy with a degree in Law. At that time, I worked in the Criminal Police Department. Then in 2013, I began working at the Karachaganak field in Kazakhstan as an HSE Administrator. I realised that that this was work I really enjoyed doing so I started a degree in HSE. I continued my studies and I became an HSE Site Engineer, working with Abiroy Technical Training, until April 2019. During that time, I had heard a lot about Kent as an employer and sent my resume several times. After three years a suitable vacancy came up. I remember the day, April 22, 2019 that I got a call from the Kent team and here I am today. **What motivates you to get out of bed in the morning?** Life is movement. The earlier I get out of bed, the bigger my day is. I look forward to a productive day with my family or at work. My dream is to buy my own apartment in Moscow and take NEBOSH training, so every day I wake up and strive for this. **What is your daily inspiration?** Smiling and laughter. Firstly, I see my daughter every day and that makes me smile. I also smile because I am a happy person. On project sites, smiling and engaging with people builds relationships and encourages others to be supportive. At work, I find this brings benefits to others and brings me a sense of joy which is why I smile. **What do you find most rewarding about the work that you do?** Just recently, one of my HSE Managers gave me an interesting job and said “Yelena, we are depending on a good result here, I believe in you and you can do it.” The fact that this job was not my original area of responsibility, but I was given the opportunity to show my other qualities and my manager believed in me, that was very rewarding for me. Working in a team with different people is also very rewarding for me. I love my job and I always get satisfaction from doing it. When there is an opportunity to receive new training, successfully complete audits or do something new where I can implement my ideas to support other employees, I do it. And every evening, when the working day ends, I say thank you to my colleagues. Thanks to their hard work on the site, I get to do my job well. They smile at me and I get satisfaction. I love to hear words from colleagues like “Thanks Yelena…for helping us do our jobs safely”. 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