Summary
Date Posted: Monday, March 06, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Purpose of the Role:

The Officer, Safety is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing day-to-day activities that affect the EHS programs. The safety officer is responsible for developing and implementing a safe work environment, and performing safety audits and inspections in order to prevent injury to workers, damage to property and ensure legal compliance.

Key Responsibilities:
• Perform workplace audits and inspections.
• Engage with site supervision and employees to continuously improve the safety performance of the work groups.
• Conduct site inductions for employees and contractors as well as other training as required.
• Assist with the provision of site emergency services including prevention, preparedness and response and participation at training exercises.
• Grow safety participation in pre-starts and toolbox meetings, HSE committee and H&S management meetings.
• Conduct hazard, risk assessments and workplace random alcohol screening
• Maintain all safety, training, health and medical records according to established procedures to ensure accuracy, completeness and privacy.
• Assist in the design and implementation of safety topics.
• Attend crew toolbox meetings on a daily basis
• Monitor and review incidents and review recurrent events and assist in development and implementation of remedial actions.
• Participate in all incident investigations and identify areas for improvement, and ensure relevant alerts are sent for circulation.
• Support the organizational culture of FQM (Bolder, Driven, Smarter, Together) and actively promote its translation in terms of safety related activity
• Ensure established company health, safety policies and procedures are upheld
• Ensure all incidents are recorded on and daily safety reports are up to date.
• Ensure all Non Conformances are identified and actioned and close outs are complete.
• In conjunction with local supervisors, conduct informal daily and periodic formal safety inspections in all areas within the scope of the job site.
• Randomly conduct Planned Task Observations


Qualifications & Experience
• Grade 12 Certificate
• Diploma in OSHE or any related science or engineering discipline from a reputable institution.
• Degree in Safety related field will be an added advantage.
• Able to understand Company Procedures, Guide to Mining Regulation and other Zambian laws.
• Holder of a driver’s license Class B or C preferably manual transmission.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as an Officer, Safety in a mining, heavy engineering or Construction setting.
• Ability to man a shift.
• Advanced understanding of Safety and Associated systems.
• Experience working with International systems i.e. ISO 45001


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure

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