Health and Safety Officer at Arbico Plc

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement company HSE policy that is in compliance with industry and regulatory standards.
• Conduct pre-operational risk assessments on new sites and design risk mitigation measures.
• Develop all the required documentation, operational checks and reports for the HSE Management System to be compliant with OHSAS 18001/2007 and ISO 14001/2004 standards, including corrective and preventive measures.
• Monitor HSE officers in executing continuous audits.
• Manage the HSE officers and coordinate their audit schedule.
• Provide HSE improvement proposals stating: the non-conformance, proposed corrective action, required resources for corrective action and plan for implementation.
• Investigate the root cause of HSE complaints put forward by members of staff, customers, clients and contractors and report the result to the Management of the company.
• Follow ups to ensure that corrective actions are implemented where necessary and ensures that any certification requirements are complied with.
• Assist Management in the preparation and presentation at field HSE meetings.
• Coordinate and participate in the investigation of accidents and near misses.
• Review and analyse accidents and near miss incidents and making corrective action recommendations.
• Ensure regular emergency response exercises and drills are conducted to ensure the highest level of preparedness in any emergency.
• Supervises the regular inspection of fire fighting, safety and emergency response equipment.
• Assist in developing and implementing field location emergency response procedures and evacuation plans.
• Supervise on-site doctors and medical emergency response preparation and implementation.
• Ensure that operations employees and all other employees of the company, contractors and site visitors receive HSE inductions.
• Responsible for preparing weekly and monthly HSE reports, statistics and presentations related to HSE performance.
• Report to Management on a weekly basis.
• Other duties as assigned by the Executive Management.

Key Performance Indicators

• Effectiveness of safety framework/guideline
• Effectiveness and level of compliance (by the company, its clients and relevant stakeholders) with HSE policies.
• Level of detail in reporting HSE related matters to the Management.
• Promptness of reports and effectiveness of recommendations.
• Success in the implementation of regular safety drills company-wide.
• Response time in resolving HSE related matters.
• Low level/number of HSE related violations

Working knowledge, Skills and Competencies and Attributes:

• Excellent analytical skills.
• Ability to convince and communicate strongly.
• Excellent training skills.
• Ability to provide detailed audit reports, with relevant required preventive and corrective measures.
• Fluent English speaking and excellent report writing skills.
• Qualified in implementation of health and safety standards.
• Previous experience in construction would be an added advantage.