Specialist (Safety and Health)

**Overview**:
To develop, maintain and continuously improve the Health and Safety (H&S) systems for the site in line with legislative requirements

**Qualifications**:

- Matric / Grade 12 (Maths and Science)
- Bachelor of Technology or Bachelor of Sciences in relevant field such as Environmental Health Safety Management

**Experience**:

- 5 - 8 Years experience in a Chemical Industry

**Duties**:
**Design, implement, maintain and improve H&S management systems**:

- Design, drive implementation, maintenance and improvement of ISO 45000 management systems (Including ISO compliance)
- Ensure adherence to Omnia Group risk methodology and practices
- Validate and verify the correct specifications, protocols and standards are applied in the implementation of H&S management systems
- Assist in development and revision of Health and Safety related documentation and ensure implementation and compliance thereto across site
- Promote continuous improvement of H&S management systems and processes
- Align H&S management systemswith holistic IMS for site
- Provide support and coaching to SHERQ team and customers

**Lead Health & Safety Business Risks Assessment and review**:

- Determine, identify and review H&S risks
- Determine and review H&S trends
- Assess and review risk ratings
- Determine priorities and actions
- Maintain risks on IsoMetrix
- Provide support to line management and SHERQ team on Baselines, Issue Based and Continuous risk assessments

**Conduct IMS internal audits**:

- Planning and scheduling of bi-annual IMS audits
- Conduct audits in order to ensure integrity of systems maintained
- Ensure reports are issued and findings captured in IMS
- Ensure findings and actions are closed-out appropriately
- Report to management on status of findings and actions
- Participate and support on verification and external audits

**Verify effectiveness of action management system**:

- Verify action management system effectiveness through follow up on actions close out effectiveness
- Provide oversight and coaching on IMS action management to line management and SHERQ team

**Conduct investigations**:

- Ensure that all events (incidents and non-conformances) are raised and reported
- Be proficient in leading investigations
- Facilitate investigations
- Ensure quality of investigations by standardizing on investigation methodology and ensuring root causes and controls are adequate to remediate
- Ensure investigation is captured in IsoMetrix
- Ensure investigation actions are managed
- Make use of other events (incident & NC-learnings) to find opportunities for improvement

**System Analysis & Reporting**:

- Ensure expansion of H&S electronic data reporting system and capabilities thereof
- Ensure all data is submitted timeously
- Analyze, trend and maintain operational H&S data

**Support and communication**:

- Attend and communicate SHR requirements within operational meetings as needed and agreed to
- Develop/Update and deliver SHR training and awareness programs, in the plant as well as classroom training
- Ensure H&S topics are developed and shared with plants to improve H&S awareness
- Lead departmental meetings and ensure compliance to the business meeting structures and communication strategies

**SHE Improvement and support**:

- Through analysis of data, create a risk profile of the operations
- Facilitate, review and implement of H&S management plans for the SHERQ team as well as the plants and as needed to reduce operational risk and improve efficiency
- Ensure improvement plans are tracked and closed out as per due dates

**Legal Compliance**:

- Identify legal requirements relevant to the operations
- Ensure that inspections are done so as to identify legal noncompliance
- Collaborate with and assist the operational teams in solving legal noncompliances
- Follow up to ensure the legal noncompliances are resolved or escalated to higher levels for resolution

**Job Competencies**:
**Knowledge**
- Familiar / Competent in Microsoft Office
- AX and SHERQ Electronic Systems

**Core Behavioral Competencies**
- Decision making
- Teamwork
- Work standards
- Reliability
- Motivation of self and others
- Adaptability
- Problem-solving
- Integrity and trust
- Communication skills
- Planning and organisation
- Stress tolerance
- Initiative
- Building relationships

**Functional / Technical Competency**:

- Coaching and Mentoring
- Facilitation
- Project Management
- Researching
- Effective Change Management
- Conflict Management
- Root-cause analysis
- Excellent Customer Service

**Cross-Functional Competency**:

- Collaboration
- Functional integration

**Leadership Competency**
- Drive for Results
- Motivating Others

**General**: