Occupational Health & Safety Specialist (B Tech in Health and Safety - SAIOSH Registered) – Centurion

SUMMARY:
Be responsible for developing and implementing health and safety plans, enforcing policies, and evaluating practices and facilities to ensure compliance with legal guidelines.

POSITION INFO:
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• B Degree/B Tech in Health and Safety or a related qualification.
• Registration as Charted Professional at SAIOSH
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience.
• Experience of OHS in a Project Environment.
• Experience in Contractor management in an OHS environment.
• Experience in OHS in a Business Office environment.
• Experience in facilitating on Senior management and Executive level

• OHS Strategy, Policy, Procedure and Plan
• Advise on the development of the OHS Strategy.
• Guiding and assisting OHS officers (responsible roles) at HO and on projects and operations.
• Develops and implements inspection policies and procedures, and a schedule of routine inspections.
• Compliance to the OHS Act
• Ensuring the OHS appointments according to the Act.
• Ensuring the establishment and functioning of safety committees.
• Ensure that investigations and reporting of accidents and incidents
• Monitor compliance by Contractors and internal staff
• Managing the strategic relationships and networks with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensuring the implementation of all relevant regulations and procedures according to the OHS Act.
• Review the proposed safety plans of contractors and internal safety officer.
• Auditing contractors against their accepted safety management plan. Resolve all issues related to new template set-up.
• OHS Practice Development
• Ensuring the effectiveness of safety management programs, committees, and safety meetings.
• Ensure knowledge transfer to safety officers through regular planned interaction and mentoring programs.
• Implementing awareness programs based on current trends and leading indicators to promote a proactive safety culture.
• Incident Investigations
• Investigate and report on accidents and incidents.
• Identify and ensure countermeasures are implemented to prevent reoccurrence.
• Prepare reports and present findings to the relevant Committees.
• Financial management
• Develop an OHS budget and control the expenditure within the approved budget.
• Governance and Reporting
• Monitoring and reporting on legislative and statutory compliance as defined by government.
• Promoting sound institutional OHS practices through effective planning, maintenance of operations and service standards, management of compliance and risk and participating in governance structures.
• Resolution of management action plans within the prescribed timelines.