Safety Officer

We are looking for a Health and safety officer in Pretoria North area for a Logistics company

Salary: R22 000 - R28 000

Minimum requirements:

• Matric
• SAMTRAC or related (required)
• 2 to 4 years’ working experience within
  • transport and logistics (advantage) or mining (desired)
  • booking medicals and inductions (required)

Key Responsibilities: 

Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA)

• Assist management in compiling HIRA’s for their areas
• Assist management in updating of HIRA’s & Risk profiles every 2 years or after incidents when required.
• Ensure compliance to the various safety acts (e.g. OHSA, MHSA) and other related legislation and put in place measures to address/mitigate risks.
• Provide inputs into any Modifications, Works Programs & Authorisations required.

Road Transport Management System (RTMS)

• Maintaining compliance with RTMS
• Review audit finding and recommendations
• Assist in the closing of findings and recommendations
• Participate in audits & inspections

Emergency Preparedness

• Respond to all emergencies, as required
• Ensure emergency plans and co-ordinators are in place

Compliance with the internal Safety Management System (SMS)

• Conduct site and workplace audits and inspections to ensure compliance
• Follow-up and close out of any audit/inspection findings
• List findings on the follow-up system
• Non-conformances and deviations are identified and corrected
• Unsafe acts and conditions identified and reported to management
• Ensure that deviations are raised in order to prevent incidents
• Processes stopped when required, e.g. safety risk or non-compliance with legal requirements

Incident management

• Investigate incidents
• Reporting of incidents to relevant stakeholders (e.g. DoL).
• Compile incident investigation reports, as per SMS reporting standards
• Ensure Corrective/Preventative Actions are implemented to prevent recurrence

Communication and Awareness

• Attend safety meetings on behalf of Company
• Issue Safety Alerts & Infograms
• Investigate suggestions prior to implementation to ensure feasibility and make recommendations where required.
• Investigate and follow up on complaints from employees, as well as from outside the company.
• Communicate legal updates to the relevant plants and management
• Assist with the preparation of statistics for safety meetings
• Communicate statistics and trends to employees at various platforms
• Inform Management of safety issues
• Relevant management and employees informed of latest changes in legislation
• Ensure that complaints are properly addressed and that action is taken where required

Medical Inductions & Exits

• Liaise with clients and service providers to make bookings
• Ensure that required entry/exit medicals packs are completed correctly and all required documents are attached

Safety Documentation

• Update and assist with update of Safety standards and procedures.
• Provide inputs and comments for any Safety related policies & procedures that are being reviewed/updated
• Ensure latest Safety documentation are available
• Ensure that Company’s safety files are up to date as per client’s requirements and standards.

Legal

• Ensure all legally required permits, licenses, certificates, authorisations required to operate are in place and up to date
• Ensure compliance to the requirements of any permits, licences, certificates or authorisations.
• Ensure Legal compliance audits are conducted and all findings addressed
• Ensure that all legal appointments are made and up to date.
• Updated licences and permits register

Client Relations

• Build effective relationships with clients and service providers
• Ensuring compliance with client’s safety and work protocols

Consultant: Celine Robberts - Dante Personnel Pretoria Silver Lakes
Apply via our website www.dantesa.co.za

If you do not hear from us within 5 days, please accept that your application was unsuccessful