Health & Safety Officer - Talent pool

Tsebo Solutions Group


Date: 8 hours ago
City: Cape Town, Western Cape
Contract type: Full time
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
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