Safety Officer Job Description

HSE Advisor, HSE Coordinator & Safety Officer are mostly used interchangeably

Responsibilities

• Provides field HSE support and guidance throughout all activities.

• Compliance
  

  • Ensure compliance with local regulatory HSE requirements.

  • Ensure compliance with contract HSE requirements.

• Assists in the development and delivery of Operational Processes safely.

• Enforces company policies and procedures.

• Assists teams to deliver an exemplary HSE performance.

• Performance Measurement
  

  • Identifies potential and actual areas of improvement and assists in setting and formulating goals and tools for their achievement;

  • Provides input to leading and lagging HSE performance measures;

• Liaises with all stakeholders in order to be aware and educate the workforce on HSE news & updates.

• Lessons Learnt
  

  • Provides input to the collection of Lessons Learnt for all activities;

• Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
  

  • Assists teams in identifying hazards, assessing risks, and identifying relevant controls to manage and reduce these risks to ALARP;

• Fosters a safe culture by being informed, mindful, learning, fair and respectful.
  

  • Behaviour Based Safety (BBS)Owns BBS tools and processes;

  • Promotes and coaches the workforce in Behavioral Based Safety;

  • AssurancePerform audits to measure the level of safety culture;

  • Carries out or facilitates safety audits and inspections as per audit plan;

  • Provides HSE input to HSE Management System Reviews;

• Incident Management
  

  • Ensures Incidents are recorded & reported;

  • Prepares initial incident reports;

  • Carries out immediate Incident & Near Miss investigation;

  • Facilitates & participates in High-Level Incident investigations;

• Training & Coaching
  

  • Ensures that the company safety expectations are communicated to the workforce;

  • Provides training sessions as per Training Plan & Competency development requirements;

  • Educates workforce on Lessons Learnt from previous & industry incidents;

• Contingency Management
  

  • Provide immediate response in emergency situations;

  • Reviews contingency drills to maintain and increase staff competency;

  • To assist in setting up an effective emergency response organization on site;

• Training & Coaching
  

  • Coaches teams on HSE and conducts HSE engagement sessions with them;

  • EnvironmentMeasures required environmental parameters;

  • Ensures Waste Segregation is observed;

• Working Environment
  

  • Carry out and follow up on workplace assessments;

  • Quality Control:Monitor the quality of data entered in the reporting & action tracking tools;

• Contractor Management
  

  • Manages contractor and consultants in all aspects of health and safety;

• Document control.

Qualifications

• Maintains full awareness of all existing applicable legislative and assurance requirements.

Soft Skills

• Demonstrates Safety leadership.

Computer Literacy

• Microsoft Office

• SAP, complimentary.

• Action Tracking Software