The posting
General Job Information:
Job Purpose: The Health and Safety (H & S) Graduate is responsible for the coordination of H & S, legal compliance programmes and related issues across regional business units. Responsible for ensuring that the business complies with all relevant H & S legislation, company policies and procedures, minimum requirements and permit requirements. Coordination of the implementation, maintenance, and administration of the H & S management system across regional business units.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:
- Graduate or at least 1 year of working experience in H & S
- Basic Knowledge of H & S
- Strong Reporting ability
- Incident Investigation
- Risk Assessment
- H & S Audit/Inspections
- Experience in submitting COID cases
- Valid driver’s license and own car essential
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION:
- Matric (Grade 12)
- National Diploma in Safety Management essential
- SAMTRAC advantageous
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
H & S MANAGEMENT
- Coordination of H & S service providers and rules surrounding the site coordination,
- Review compliance to regional rules and regulations and ensure that H & S reps are informed surrounding rules and implementation requirements,
- Ensure that H & S meetings are held, recorded and document controlled;
- Consolidate meeting outcomes and KPI’s,
- Ensure / enforce contractors’ compliance regionally,
- Ensure and enforce the investigation of incidents and accidents regionally,
- Provide the management team with an incident summary on a monthly basis,
- Assist management with the implementation of the H & S management system across all regional business units,
- Ensure H & S document and data control systems are maintained by the responsible persons;
- Promote H & S awareness on a regional basis and the development of a H & S awareness program,
- Monitor audit findings and recommend corrective and preventative actions;
- Conduct and facilitate risk assessments;
- Issue Non-conformance’s where required;
- Assist with the development of SHE files.
- Assist with the reporting of incidents and manage the administration surrounding the incidents.
- Coordinate and enforce the development of a H & S training program,
- Implementation of an incident reduction program regionally,
- Ensure that all Section 24 reportable incidents are investigated and reported to the relevant authority by yourself within the prescribed periods,
- Assist with the development of a client specific H & S Management Plan
- Develop and empower employees to take ownership of the H & S Management system.
- Conduct regular toolbox talks on all sites regionally;
- Ensure H & S representative, first aider, fire fighter and handling of hazardous material training is up to date.
- Coordination of system across regional business units and their respective sites within the divisions.
- Assign and track licenses/authorizations issued on the system.
- Serve as H & S systems support to the various operating entities regarding the system and its content.
- Upload awareness material onto the system on a scheduled basis.
- Develop awareness material when required.
- Track and upload performance of each operating entity at continuous basis.
- Escalate outstanding information to the Regional SHEQ Officer.
- Report any and all matters of concern to the Regional SHEQ Officer immediately.
- Complete maintenance of the COID register for all operating entities within the division.
- Training of all employees regarding COID incident reporting and management.
- Track and upload performance of medical reports, progress reports, final medical reports and resumption reports.
- Manage all logs within the prescribed time frames (Internal and COID).
- Request outstanding information via phone and mail.
- Complete COID forms when required.
- Review, validate and approve all COID information captured onto the system.
- Serve as the contact between the third party COID incidents report/processing service provider and the business units within the divisions.
ON-SITE H & S IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE
- Review compliance to H & S rules and regulations (audits and inspections).
- Ensure that H & S meetings are held, recorded and document controlled.
- Ensure / enforce contractors’ compliance.
- Conduct accident investigations when required.
- Assist management with the implementation of the H & S management system.
- Assist in updating the H & S Management system to accommodate changes in legislation and Industry Standards.
- Promote H & S Awareness.
- Monitor audit findings and report findings to the Regional SHEQ Officer
- Conduct and facilitate risk assessments.
- Issue Non-conformance’s where required.
- Update training registers.
- Maintain site safety files.
- General filling of all documents received,
- Compile the following regional reports for the Regional SHEQ Officer to develop:
- Client H & S Management Reports,
- Incident reports,
- Section 24 and 25 reports,
- Training reports,
- Department of labour notice progress reports,
- Establish and build a relationship with key stakeholders and business representatives;
- Communicate and provide feedback regularly to client and resolve client queries timeously
- Work closely with the Client H & S Management team to ensure alignment on all H & S activities
- Align all H & S activities to Group core values
COMPETENCIES
- Incident Investigation.
- Risk Assessment.
- Computer Literacy (Word and Excel)
- Numeric reasoning ability.
- Analytical with strong attention to detail
- Good written communication
- Innovation
- Priority setting
- Interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail
- Deadline driven and ability to work under pressure
- Organized, efficient and task driven
- Ability to multi-task
- Good Communication Skills
OUR CORE VALUES
