Hse Officer

Applications are invited for the **HSE Officer **position to be based in **Worcester**. This position includes travelling within the Western Region.**

**PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**: The HSE Officer will be responsible for the overall Health and Safety Act adherence, maintenance and upgrading of the current OHS system/processes and regulatory compliance audits.

**Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to**:

- To understand the full requirement of legislation regarding OHS in the business.
- Design all OHS activities. What do we all need to do every day, week or month to ensure we meet the requirements of legislation.
- National auditing and reporting.
- Provide management with advice and support on all matters related to Health and Safety.
- Track all Health and Safety regulatory changes which will potentially impact the business.
- Conduct Health and Safety Incident/Accident investigations and report on accidents and incidents as per the requirements of the business.
- Plan and design audits to assess and address risks in order to reduce risk exposure and ensure compliance with all relevant legislation.
- Inspect and evaluate workplace environments, equipment and practices in order to ensure compliance with safety standards and regulations.
- Develop, implement and improve Health and Safety risk controls and develop current working practices.
- Ensure business and group safety procedures, policies and rules are adhered to.
- Incident plan, make certain that every site that is worked on by the technicians is assessed and that a risk assessment has been completed.
- Attend to all paper work and administration in accordance with Health and Safety procedures and plans.
- Advise and train employees on a regular basis on Health and Safety best practices (toolbox talks, etc.).
- Follow up and make certain that the risk assessments are received in good order.
- Maintain a high level of accuracy in following procedure and up to date paper work relating to the Health and Safety business requirements.
- That each team in the HUB is implementing the correct OHS system and OHS is part of MOS.
- Responsible for the OHS audit in the HUB. Confirming every team is correctly implementing and administrating OHS.
- Do incident investigation and management.
- Ensure the process of improvement is operational in the HUB.
- Tasks from Management which may not be highlighted in this related to OHS matters.
- High attention to detail.
- A strong capacity for problem solving and critical thinking.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficient in MS Office suite.
- A careful, accurate and methodical approach.
- Excellent knowledge of potentially hazardous materials or practices.
- The ability to work independently

**Education Requirements**:

- Relevant Health and Safety qualifications/certifications.
- Thorough understanding of the Occupational Health and Safety Legislation of South Africa.
- Health and Safety experience.

**_PLEASE NOTE:_**
- Kindly note that should you not receive feedback from us within 4 weeks of applying, you should consider yourself unsuccessful for the role.