Health and Safety Officer

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 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

• OSHA Standards
• SHEQ Management Systems
• Knowledge of Risk Management programs to ensure Occupational Health, Safety & Environmental statutory compliance
• Knowledge of equipment, materials and suppliers used
• Time Management Skills
• Hospitality and customer centricity
• Emotional Intelligence: ability to work with colleagues who have different ways of behaving and interacting
• Resilience: ability to cope with setbacks
• Ability to work unsupervised and within a team
• Self-disciplined, motivated, energetic self-starter with an exemplary work ethos
• Capability to interact with both internal and external customers at all levels
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Attention to detail with a methodical and structural approach
• Strong organisational skills
• Results focussed and professionalism
• Ability to multitask
• Ability to follow established procedures
• Ability to work under pressure
• Project a professional and competent image at all times when on duty
• Customer centricity

Qualifications

• Matric
• National Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety (NQF5 or equivalent)
• OSHA Standards
• 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