Safety Officer

**About Us**

IGS is a specialist in global on-site solutions with extensive shop production capabilities. Our Technology Research Center helps the world’s leading energy, power, and industrial companies solve their most critical surface engineering-related problems, improve coating and welding techniques, and evaluate material performance.

**General Purpose of the Position**:

- Ensure IGS Africa is in compliance with all health, safety, and environmental regulations and procedures as per NOSA, IGS Inc, and client specific safety requirements. Implements HSE policies, standards and programs while ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory, customer and IGS specific requirements.
- Provides field safety support locally to ensure IGS safety and health objectives are met. Position focus on ensuring the safety of all IGS personnel on customer sites and IGS work locations for IGS Africa. Trains or ensures all personnel have received required health and safety training. Support customer relations and communication regarding HSE elements. Understand IGS product and service offerings and how they relate to solving our customer’s equipment and processes issues.
- Provides administrative and training support to HSE function - contractor management system compliance tasks, customer HSE prequalification tasks, delivery of HSE training, coordinating of client-required HSE training and site orientations, and compiling of HSE reporting data through IGS’s HSE software.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Accountable for supporting on site management in ensuring that site operations are conducted in a safe manner and in accordance with all IGS and customer specific safety standards and procedures
- Performs all reporting and administrative tasks in an expedient and accurate manner
- Conduct is professional at all times through personal adherence and coaching of Team Leaders in the use of IGS Values (the IGS Way)
- Ensure implementation and compliance across the company of behavior-based safety platform
- Serve as onsite HSE Site Supervisor on projects for all product lines in Africa with occasional support of global projects
- Ensure compliance with all pertinent health and safety regulations in a cost-effective manner
- Exemplify company’s commitment to health and safety by exhibiting a highly professional demeanor in all situations
- Assist in the development of risk profiles for exposures with a potential to significantly impact the company
- Support the IGS safety training program. Conduct training as needed. Maintain training records and ensures employees are scheduled and receive training as required. Coordinates with HR to ensure employee training is tracked in appropriate systems.
- Administer safety programs in support of management strategies with the primary goal of reducing injury and illness
- Serve as a resource for all employees, including international subsidiaries, to ensure all work is completed in compliance with regulatory requirements
- Provide direction to Operations through direct interaction with leadership team and field operations management personnel
- Assist in the management of the IGS Safety Representative program including coordinating regular health and safety meetings and tailgate sessions
- Communicate and implement practices, procedures and program to keep IGS in compliance with applicable health and safety laws & regulations
- Actively manage safety incidents and accident investigations including the coordination of medical care, workers’ compensation and counsels with IGS personnel involved in incidents
- Coordinates with management and HR to ensure appropriate disciplinary actions are documented, tracked and delivered to the employee
- Coordinate with HR to ensure new hires receive required medical exams and safety training is scheduled.
- Conducts new hire safety training and participates in other new hire onboarding activities as needed.
- Ensure employees receive onsite customer required safety training prior to site mobilization. Coordinates with operations, HR and customer to determine training needs and document/track training upon completion
- Investigate and take appropriate actions concerning employee requests, complaints and concerns involving unsafe conditions/practices and near misses
- Assist in the coordination and monitoring of the selection, training and use of personal protection equipment
- Provide support and assistance during audit processes. Includes conducting onsite and program audits on IGS policies, procedures and programs, facilitating customer audits and/or approvals, and auditing vendors, suppliers and sub-contractors
- Create and prepare site specific safety files as per client requirements
- Conduct and track fit testing as needed
- Develop safety toolbox topics, communications and conduct safety toolbox meetings
- Manage safety equipment inspection process (fire extinguishers, harnesses, confined space monitors, fork lifts, drop