Health & Safety Officer

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As a leading African Integrated Workplace Management Solutions Provider, Tsebo Solutions Group offers clients reduced costs, risk and complexities together with increased quality, efficiency and productivity. We specialise in Catering, Facilities Management, Cleaning and Hygiene, Pest Control, Protection, Energy, Procurement, Workspace Design, Engineering, Remote Camps, and more. Developing our people – the heart of Tsebo – is the foundation of our purpose. The result is a knowledgeable workforce that is in touch with every nuance of our clients’ needs. DOWNLOAD OUR ONE-PAGER to find out more about who we are in a nutshell.

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 Client 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.
• Adhere to client safety policies and ensure awareness and implementation of same
• Adhere to the client health & safety inductions & hazard awareness campaigns and log near misses, via the Izi App.
• Facilitate & assist with hazard identification & risk assessments as and when requested.
• Carry out & assist with admin related accident investigations, legal documents & registers, as and when requested .
• Adhere to the client incident prevention programs.
• Support managers with contractor & construction health & safety management on site – implementing the client criteria and HSE prevention plans and RA.
• Inspect the workplace and workplace equipment to ensure they conform to health and safety regulations and legislation and report near misses via the client Izi app.
• Participate in external audits as well as conduct occupational health, safety and environmental related surveys and provide recommendations as and when requested.
• Adhere to client emergency plans.
• Adhere to the client site Values.
• Monitor and analyse HSE performance on site , following the clients 12 Golden Safety Rules.
• 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 , both on Tsebo Sharepoint and Client online System.
• 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, and in line with client policy.
• Liaise with Management and Supervisors to determine the corrective remedial actions to be taken and estimated completion dates, following a Stop card alarm.
• Ensure that all employees who carryout identified hazardous tasks have received the correct training to enable them to carry out the tasks safely.
• Attend the client Health and Safety Committee meetings.
• Attend the client training PTW , WSST ePTW and Isolation/Lockout .
• Incident investigation
• Incident Management together with relevant line Manager
• Ensure all medicals are up to date and relevant to specific work area
• Ensure all Tsebo vendor HSE files are up to date and compliant with the client criteria and present to Senior Facilities Manager monthly.
• Ensure the Tsebo Sharepoint HSE folder is updated on a monthly basis .

Customer Focus:

• Work with teams to develop and maintain a customer-focused attitude toward activities
• Attend all relevant Health and Safety Committee Meetings from the client
• 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
• Give feedback on closure of audit findings

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 & Client’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, tasks and suppliers used
• Time Management Skills
• Good Communication skills written and verbal
• Hospitality and customer centricity

Qualifications

• Matric
• National Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety (NQF5 or equivalent) (SAMTRAC)
• OSHA Standards
• Computer literate on MS Office packages – MS Word, Outlook, Excel
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working in health & safety portfolio within the hospitality, maintenance and project environments
• Industrial & Commercial occupational hygiene & fire prevention & protection.
• OHS Act, WCA/COID, NOSA/ISO Safety standards