Health and Safety Officer

1 week ago

Parktown, South Africa The Aurum Institute Full time

**Purpose summary**

OHS Officers are responsible for planning, implementing and overseeing the employees’ safety at work. Their main duty is to ensure that the company complies and adheres to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and its regulations prescripts. The OHS Officer also provides advice on measures to minimize hazards, unhealthy or unsafe situations and must establish a safe workplace according to legal standards and foster a culture of attention to health and safety. The role direct report will be to the company Snr Safety Officer operational lead for OHS in Aurum.

**Job description**
- Plan the implementation of company OHS policies and procedures
- Provide advice and lead employees on various safety-related topics by preparing educational toolbox talks on a regular basis
- Take responsibility for the management and implementation of the Organisation’s OHS under the guidance of the Snr OHS Officer and OHS Management Rep.
- Work with HR and the Senior OHS Officer to set up and maintain a new employee on-boarding system for OHS.
- Address OHS risks by managing identified risks and consistently undertaking site risk assessments.
- Ensure that the provision of the OHS Act and its regulations pertinent to the Company and its processes are complied with in workplaces.
- Conduct job hazard analysis, involving potential dangers in the workplace assessing the risk of those hazards. This is to determine how dangerous a task is before employee engages and how much control employees have over their actions.
- Enforce preventative measures where any risks have been identified
- Inspect sites regularly and check if all employees are acting in adherence with rules and regulations
- Ensure that annual, bi-annually, quarterly, monthly checklists and inspections are conducted reports to be provided accordingly.
- Ensure contractor compliance including induction, s37.2 Mandatory agreements on all sites of responsibility.
- Audit and review of contractor files and safety plans on all sites of responsibility.
- Assist with scheduled/ ad hoc internal and external audits
- Document and data control for OHS.
- Ensure emergency preparedness and response in all sites under responsibility.
- Ability to work under pressure and work on different projects and sites coordination.
- Prepare and present reports on accidents/incidents and violations and determine causes and corrective actions.
- Carry out inspections of workplaces and take necessary action to ensure compliance.
- Respond to and investigate safety concerns/complaints from employees and assists in taking appropriate action
- Investigate accidents or injuries that occur in the workplace
- Oversee the establishment and maintenance of workplace safety and health committees
- Oversee workplace repair, installations and any other work that could harm employees' safety and health, including infection control.
- Review existing OHS policies and procedures
- Drafting of factual reports, presentations, procedure or policy documents or training material
- Ensure overall OHS Compliance of the allocated Regions.
- Assume other duties that may be assigned by the Senior OHS Officer.

**Qualifications**
- Diploma / NQF level 6/ Relevant Safety Management/ Risk Management or relevant equivalent qualification

**Minimum requirements**
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in OHS.
- Must be computer literate on MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word and Outlook and have business reporting and presentation skills.
- Skilled in Incident Investigation and report writing

Advantageous
- Certificate in ISO45001 or SHEQ integration.
- Previous experience in a Health care setting/ high risk environment.

**Workplace requirements**
- Office Environment Local Travel Required
- Outdoor Exposure to the Elements Involved

**Competencies**
- **Key Skills**:Strong communication and interpersonal skills, High level of computer literacy, Skilled in techniques of legal research and investigation
- **Service**: Demonstrates strong commitment to meeting the needs of co-workers, managers, supervisors, or/and participants/patients, striving to ensure their safety at work or on site.
- **Result-oriented**: The ability to take direct action in order to attain or exceed objectives.
- **Initiative**: Takes action without being asked or required to.
- **Discipline**: The ability to enforce existing rules, procedures and policy. Finding reinforcement from the right authority when in doubt.
- **Discernment/Judgement**: Makes decisions authoritatively and wisely, after adequately contemplating various available courses of action.
- **Continuous learning**: Demonstrates eagerness to acquire necessary technical knowledge, skills, and judgment to accomplish a result or to serve company’s needs effectively.
- **Action-oriented**: Demonstrates a readiness to make decisions, take initiative and originate action.

Please note:
**Closing date: 10 December 2024

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