Occupational Health and Safety Officer - Meyerton, South Africa - Nature's Choice (Pty) Ltd

Nature's Choice (Pty) Ltd

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Meyerton, South Africa

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Planning

Develop a Safety System designed to identify, predict and eliminate hazardous situations throughout the organization
Implement mechanism to deliver improvement on identified focus areas
Assess what is required to establish necessary basics for ZERO Incidents / accidents
Ensure compliance to OSHA, Legal requirements and maintenance of statutory documentation
Design programs & processes that would ensure no harm to all employees
Design / Implement / Review Incident Action Plan for Safety throughout the organization

Organizing

Ensure preparation and implementation of Site Safety and Health Plan (SSHP)
Review Site Safety Policies for robustness and operational rollout and compliance
Work with Cross-Functional Teams in ensuring compliance and rolling out of continuous improvements
Develop programs that will identify and eliminate incidents / accidents
Establish data collection mechanism for tracking / trending for the purposes of conducting necessary analysis to eliminate incidents / accidents
Establish mechanism to implement appropriate tools and methodologies to be used to achieve ZERO incidents / accidents

Implementation

Conduct Risk Assessment(s) based on various processes and operations
Identify and assess hazards, risks and control measures for different specific operations or processes.
Conduct ongoing review of operations and processes to identify potential hazards, risks and control measures that should be implemented to reduce these risks
Build capability with Cross-Functional Teams on the use of tools and methodology in order to sustain
Implement Internal Audits to measure the compliance and identify gaps on the progress of Safety Standards
Assess Safety Skills gaps in order to influence integrated Safety Action Plan
Implement Safety Pyramid Tool (Heinrich) to record, monitor and to analyse safety data in order to implement countermeasures that would ensure ZERO incidents / accidents
Review and observe Legal and company requirements and ensure they are well understood and there is a clear compliance analysis to check the non-conformities
Establish SHE Committee Meetings to continuously review and define Site Safety Action Plan
Assume responsibility to educate, promote and coordinate safety action plan amongst crossfunctional teams and shopfloor
Implement Safety Culture basics orientated towards maintaining and sustaining proactive approach amongst employees
Drive Behavioural safety compliance through Behavioural Safety observation principles
Drive Capability building on Unsafe Acts and Unsafe Conditions monitoring systems
Drive awareness on Safety regulatory principles and how they influence Safety Action Plan for the Site
Drive sustenance of a safety culture through understanding human nature and relevant multilevel skills base in order to drive total compliance

PRIMARY FUNCTION KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS TO ACHIEVE OBJECTIVE/S ABOVE

TRFR (Total Recordable Frequency Rate)
ZERO Fatalities
ZERO Lost Time due to an Accident (LTA)
ZERO Medical Treatment Case (MTC)
Reduced First Aid Case (FAC)
Increased recording of Near Misses (NM)
Increased recording of Unsafe Conditions (UC)
Increased recording of Unsafe Acts (UA)
Analysis of Incidents with Root Causes
Use of appropriate Tools to investigate all incidents
Horizontal expansion methodology to implement countermeasures on the model area and rest of the organization
Implement LUTI (Learn-UseTeach-Inspect) methodology to build capability within the organization

ACCOUNTABILITES & AUTHORITIES

Ensure Correct Levels of Compliance

Drive compliance to legal requirements and company regulations
Drive the process of monitoring and assessing hazardous and unsafe situations through risk assessment
Develop measures to assure employee safety through Deep Compliance Audits
Correct unsafe acts and conditions through employee engagements

Program Design

Implementing programs set out to eliminate hazards throughout the organization
Develop programs to implement robust procedures for new processes review current based on gaps identified through risk assessments

Monitoring

Implement Safety Reporting methodology statistics to enable appropriate analysis to monitor improvement in problem areas
Create / review / improve documentation required to maintain safety systems

OSHA Liaison

Prepare the organization for external audits in accordance with regulatory statutes
Assume Liaison Responsibility with OSHA between Organization and relevant authority
Assume development of Reports for Organization Leadership with relevant recommendations, inputs and action plans
Manage Reports and documentation required by regulatory bodies and all government agencies

Operational Requirement