Job Description
Job Description
- Making regular site inspections
- Planning safe working practices and making necessary changes
- Keeping up to date and ensuring compliance with current health and safety legislation
- Ensuring that equipment is installed correctly/safely
- Writing reports, bulletins and newsletters
- Undertaking risk assessments
- Identifying potential hazards
- Determining ways of reducing risks
- Organising/attending health and safety meetings
- Safely handling hazardous substances
- Compiling statistics
- Making recommendations following accidents/incidents
- Keeping up to date and ensuring compliance with current Health and Safety legislation
- Investigating/recording incidents, accidents, complaints, and cases of ill-health
- Support the development of OHS policies and programs
- Making presentations to groups of employees/managers.
- Providing health and safety training courses for employees and managers
- Investigating/recording incidents, accidents, complaints and cases of ill health
- Writing internal health and safety policies/strategies
- Drawing-up safe operational procedures.
Educational requirements
Qualifications & Experience
- Proven experience as safety officer
- BSc/BA in Safety Management, Engineering
- BSc/BA in Safety Management or relevant
- knowledge of legislation and procedures (e.g., OSHA/EPA/ ISO will be added advantage.
- Knowledge of potentially hazardous materials or
- Experience in writing reports and policies for health and
- Familiarity with conducting data analysis and reporting
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Diligent with great attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present and explain health and safety topics
- 2 years Safety
- License/Certification required