Health and Safety Officer

**About Us**:
Responsible for monitoring activities in the workplace to ensure that there is no violation of health & safety regulations to minimize occupational injuries, accidents, and workplace related illnesses in a manner that achieves the objectives of Clients by proactively implementing and administering workplace health & safety services in accordance with the Master Service Agreement and applicable laws.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Operational Delivery**:

- Monitor and assess hazardous and unsafe situations and develop measures to assure personnel safety.
- Recommend health & safety policies and ensure awareness and implementation of same.
- Conduct health & safety inductions & hazard awareness campaigns.
- Facilitate & assist with hazard identification & risk assessments.
- Carry out & assist with admin related accident investigations, legal documents & registers.
- Implement incident prevention programs.
- Support managers with contractor & construction health & safety management on site.
- Inspect the workplace and workplace equipment to ensure they conform to health and safety regulations and legislation.
- Participate in external audits as well as conduct occupational health, safety and environmental related surveys and provide recommendations.
- Implement, review and train staff on emergency plans.
- Monitor and analyse HSE performance on site and identify and communicate lagging and leading indicators.
- Enforce safe behaviour and continuously address.
- Ensure compliance with legal requirements.
- Maintain an efficient recording system to ensure that all training and licencing of operators and any other HSE incident records are kept safely.
- Maintains a visible presence in the worksite to ensure effective HSE management is in place.
- Provides assistance to line management for risk management activities, including hazard identification and task risk assessments.
- Conduct periodic walkthroughs and inspections at worksite and other designated locations as needed.
- Liaise with Management and Supervisors to determine the corrective remedial actions to be taken and estimated completion dates.
- Ensure that all employees who carryout identified hazardous tasks have received the correct training to enable them to carry out the tasks safely.

**Customer Focus**:

- Work with teams to develop and maintain a customer-focused attitude toward activities
- Handle general queries regarding HSE issues within the working environments
- Interact with clients to provide and process information in response to enquiries, concerns and requests
- Work with processes and procedures in such a way that operational efficiencies and performance are enhanced
- Attend to and resolve all client queries timeously or escalate when necessary
- Follow up and follow through on all escalated queries timeously
- Manage conflict

**Reporting**:

- Report & present monthly safety statistics & trends
- Follow up on completion of Accident Report documentation to be sent to WCA (Liaise with HR)
- Conduct incident investigations and establishe facts for Root Cause Analysis reviews and completes reports in a timely manner
- Prepare weekly/monthly reporting within set timeframes for submission to your Manager as requested

**Code of Conduct**:

- Work in a flexible way when the occasion arises so that tasks, which are not specifically covered in the job description, are undertaken
- Take responsibility for one’s own performance
- Promote TFS’s & Clients image and corporate citizenry through deliberate and co-ordinated activities
- Adhere to the TFS’s Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) Management System’s Policies & Procedures as applicable to this position
- Ensure TFS ethical values are adhered to

**Skills and Competencies**:

- Computer literate on MS Office packages - MS Word, Outlook, Excel
- Minimum 3 years’ experience working in health & safety portfolio within an environment with a huge influx of people.
- Industrial occupational hygiene & fire prevention & protection.
- OHS Act, WCA/COID, NOSA/ISO Safety standards

**Qualifications**:

- Matric
- National Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety (NQF5 or equivalent)