Job Description
SHERQ OFFICER
Northern Cape
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications
- Grade 12 (Essential)
- Competent A Certificate Surface Mining (Essential)
- National Diploma (NQF Level 6) in Safety Management / Risk Management or equivalent (Essential)
- Blasting Certificate / Rock Breaking MQA equivalent qualification (Recommended)
- Artisan Trade Test (Red Seal) (Recommended)
Experience
- Minimum of seven (7) years operational Safety / SHERQ Officer experience in a Mining / Engineering environment (Essential)
- Minimum of two (2) years operational Risk assessment experience in a Mining / Engineering environment (Essential)
(Total of 7 years’ experience of which some of the experience can run concurrent)
Knowledge, Skills & Competencies
- Legislation
- Occupational Health and Safety Act (Health and Safety Law for Managers)
- Integrated ISO systems
- Competency A certificate
- Mine Health and Safety Act (National Occupational Health and Safety Act)
- Accident investigation
- Working knowledge of legal registry plus legal liability
- Planning and organising
- Efficient planning and organising
- Analytical
- Ability to perform required analyses and interpret data
- Report writing and data reporting
- Ability to write effective SHERQ and investigation data reports
- Negotiation skills
- Effective influencing and persuasion
- SHERQ
- Intermediate First Aid (Level 2)
- SHERQ standards and procedures
- Company policies
- Understanding of ISO safety standards and the application thereof
- National Acts applicable to mining environment
- Diagnostic
- Root cause analysis
- Report writing
- Problem solving
- Trend analysis
- Statutory knowledge
- Basic knowledge of:
- Air Pollution Preventive Act
- Rail Safety Regulator and Radiation control
- Intermediate knowledge of:
- Mine Health and Safety Act
- Water Act
- National Road Act
- National Environmental and Management Act
- Relevant SOP’s, BCEA and COP’s
- Change management
- Ability to influence employees, management and other stakeholders to implement SHERQ related initiatives and improvements;
- Establishment of safety mentality
- Functional
- Mining and Engineering business processes
- Mine Health and System Act
- Explosive Act (other legal requirements)
- ISO 9000 (System, Audit)
- ISO 45001 (System, Audit) (Legal Certificate)
- Integration between systems
- Hazard identification and Risk assessment skills
- National Water Act (other legal requirements)
- Understanding of IWULA Waste management, Environmental monitoring and Rail systems
- Understanding of SABS and SANS standards and the application thereof
- Systems
- JD Edwards or equivalent
- Achiever
- Isometrix
- Risk assessment
- Permit to work
- All Discipline / departmental specific systems and software
- Computer literacy
- Intermediate user of:
- MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
Other Requirements
- A valid code B/EB driver’s licence
- Medically fit for duty
- Meet required medical fitness standards and requirements
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- To prevent and minimize accidents, dangerous occurrences and non-conformances in respect of safety, health, environmental, risk and quality standards and
- To assist line management with the updating and maintaining of SHERQ systems and procedures to ensure legal compliance etc., which includes but not limited to:
- Inspections
- Investigations
- Risk assessment and control
- Planning, organising and administration
- Analysis and reporting
- Customer service and support
- Legal compliance and audits
- SHERQ adherence and compliance in own area of work
- Work Ethics
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