Occupational Health and Safety Officer

**Job Number**
- 72225

**Job Type**
- Permanent

**Job Title**
- Occupational Health and Safety Officer

**Computer Skills**
- Intermediate Excel,Intermediate MS Word,MS Office

**Industry**
- Automotive

**City**
- Ekurhuleni (East Rand)

**Province**
- Gauteng

**Reporting to the Operations Manager**

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop, implement, and maintain HSE policies, procedures, and programs to ensure compliance with legislation and codes of good practice.
- Conduct regular inspections, to identify non-compliance issues, and implement corrective actions.
- Do regular internal audits
- Identify potential hazards in the workplace, providing recommendations for preventative measures
- Check risk assessments documents and update when required
- Being accountable for ensuring that risk assessment recommendations are implemented
- Monitor work processes and procedures to identify unsafe practices and provide recommendations.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to management and employees on OHS matters.
- Deliver training / briefing sessions to enhance employee awareness and understanding of OHS procedures, hazards, and best practices.
- Conduct thorough incident and accident investigations, using organizations forms
- Identify root causes of incidents, and develop corrective action plans to prevent recurrence.
- Stay up to date with relevant HSE regulations and industry standards and ensure timely compliance with any changes.
- Maintain accurate records and documentation related to OHS activities.
- Keep departmental OHS files
- Add documents to files pertaining to organograms, appointments, training and competence
- Soft copies of documents should be kept on computer and backed-up
- Assist in the development and implementation of emergency response plans and conduct drills to test their effectiveness.
- Training: Liaise with HR manager regarding:

- Ensuring that health and safety representatives and other OHS appointees are adequately trained and that their certifications are updated
- Ensuring that forklift and crane trainings are done every second year before certificates expire.
- Ensure that OHS appointments are done and signed off after OHS-related training certificates are received
- Injury on duty:

- Ensure that injured employees are sent for medical treatment, with the correct documentation
- Chair and arrange HSE committee meetings, and provide minutes to management
- Deal with external Occupational Health and Safety inspections.
- Handle Department Labour OHS inspections
- Report serious incidents to relevant authorities, when required
- Drive PPE compliance
- Inspect premises and the work of personnel to identify issues or non-conformity (e.g. not using protective equipment)
- Discipline: Overseeing of non-conformances for less serious OHS-related offences
- Ensure that external contractors doing work on the premises have an OHS induction on arrival, and comply to our safety regulations whilst working
- Oversee waste removal, with particular attention to the safe disposal of hazardous waste
- Oversee, provide content and attend toolbox talks
- Ensure that OHS inductions are done for visitors and new employees
- Inform HR of funds required for training budget for OHS
- Capture accident claims on the relevant workman’s compensation sites
- Get first, progress and final reports from injured employees and send to DOL and RMA
- Handle worker’s compensation claims
- Investigate causes of injuries
- Arrange occupational medicals for all relevant employees, ensuring that certificates of fitness are kept up to date, and that medical service providers’ recommendations are followed
- Implementation of ergonomics principles
- Arranging of inspections relating to dangerous goods, noise, air and lighting
- Monthly reporting of OHS matters to HR manager for management meeting
- Inform 16.2 managers of all OHS-related issues in their departments**Inherent Requirements**

**Qualifications, skills experience**
- Grade 12/N3
- Tertiary qualification in health and safety i.e. National Diploma in Safety Management, SAMTRAC/NEBOSH
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a safety officer role (currently in a similar role)
- Experience in a similar industry with production and warehousing will be an advantage
- Knowledge of current relevant health and safety legislation.
- Must have chaired and participated in OHS committee meetings, and provided Minutes to Management
- Computer literacy: Proficient in Microsoft Office, with at least INTERMEDIATE level on Word and Excel
- Experience in dealing with ergonomics issues (lighting, noise levels etc)
- Expertise in problem-solving with a solutions-driven mindset
- Analytical
- Attention to detail
- Proven track record in implementing OHS programs, policies, and procedures.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
- ESSENTIAL: Experience is doing internal audits (Must have personally conducted OHS audits, com