Assistant, Behavioural Safety

**Job Advert Summary**:
**PURPOSE**:

- To support manager and safety practitioners to implement and maintain Visible Felt Leadership and Behavioural Based Safety programmes and systems.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Grade 12/Standard 10 (Essential/Minimum)

**EXPERIENCE**:
2-3 years Safety experience in Mining Operations (Essential/Minimum) Operational

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Best Practice and Knowledge Management**
- Ensure Behavioural Based Safety (BBS) programme is implemented correctly
- Report to management regarding BBS trends and corrective actions
- Do safety checks and propose improvements where applicable
- Ensure continuous improvement of accessibility to relevant reports

**Compliance, Governance and Assurance**
- Ensure employees utilise Visible Felt Leadership (VFL) and BBS systems effectively
- Update and report on BBS programme
- Adhere to requirements of quality management systems

**Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management**
- Maintain good relationships with customers
- Understand customer needs and provide solutions
- Respond to customer queries as per Service Level Agreements (SLA's)
- Address all customer complaints as per service management policies and guidelines
- Continuously endeavour to improve service delivery
- Ensure customer satisfaction is maintained within the service management targets

**SHEC Operations**
- Provide support to analyse risk behaviours during incident investigations
- Conduct analysis and compile reports relating to BBS and VFL trends

**Safe and Healthy Work Environment**
- Adhere to all health/safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
- Address all unsafe practices/potential hazardous situations, rectify/report to superior
- Comply with Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC)/technical requirements
- Wear applicable Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) at all times

**Safety Performance and Operations**
- Conduct regular BBS observations and recommend corrective actions
- Coach employees on performing a BBS observation
- Support Practitioner, Safety with regard to VFL and BBS compliance and any change initiatives
- Assist to create awareness on observed unsafe practices

**Behavioural Alignment**

Demonstrates the following:

- Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
- Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
- Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
- Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
- Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.