Health & Safety Officer Job in Kwale

Position: Health & Safety Officer

 
Duty Station: Kwale

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Policies and Practices:

• Develop, monitor and continuously improve a Safety Policy and Procedures document for the company.
• Ensure company and client safety and environmental procedures and safe working practices are strictly followed, with the aim of reducing lost time incidents to less than the industry standard.
• Strive towards completion of comprehensive Safe Work / Operating Procedures for all operations.
• Implement a company wide strategy for completing Job Safety Analysis for each task.
• Carry out and delegate Risk Assessments to be carried out in each work area consistently.
• Initiate, lead and complete all accident investigations within 24hrs of incident.
• Analysis of accidents, maintain incident/accident register and make statutory reports returns to the director of occupation health and safety services.
• Ensure and maintain procedures for managing hazardous substances and the disposal of chemicals
• Assist individual departments with the updating of SOPs.
• Keep up to date with new legislation.

Safety Awareness:

• Ensure health and safety is considered as first priority within the company.
• Initiate consistent toolbox talks at the start of each shift, ensuring content of the meetings are relevant.
• Act as safety committee secretary, lead all safety meetings and briefings, ensuring content is relevant and the correct message is delivered.
• Ensure awareness of safety and environmental issues is prevalent through visual posters and aids, continuous monitoring, discussions, briefings, training, simulations and workshops.
• Ensure all EH&S Trainings are carried , Health & safety committee trainings, fire marshals training, first aid trainings etc
• Training of employees as required by HR Department – on issues of Health, Safety and Environment.
• Ensure First Aid compliance amongst the workforce covers all areas of the company workforce comparable with OHSAS 18001 certification.

Review, Reporting and Feedback:

• Reviewing of the implementation of company policies, plans and procedures relating to Health, Safety and Environmental with due cognizance of the requirements of Kenyan legislation.
• Establish and maintain a Recordable Injury Reporting Process.
• Establish and maintain safety KPI (Key Performance Indicator) data.
• Provide suggested remedial action when safety KPI targets are not met.
• Provide a process for Safety Information sharing across the dealership
• Carry out periodic Planned Inspections of all work areas
• Advice on a range of critical areas; e.g. fire regulations, hazardous substances, noise, safeguarding machinery and occupational diseases.
• Keep updated, comprehensive registers on all safety and environmental related registers, i.e. Ladders, Fire Extinguishers, etc.
• Fully document any accident or near miss where required and present to the management.

Other Responsibilities

• Where the need arises carry out tasks assigned by the General Manager/ Assistant General Manager to meet the needs of the business need.
• Coordinate servicing of fire-fighting equipment.
• Ensure all fire-fighting equipment and first aid boxes are regularly serviced and contents are in order.
• Facilities- Manages and monitors all sub-contractors, contracts staff, Casuals and Permanent staff to ensure adherence to health and safety.

Knowledge:

• Clear understanding of Kenyan health and safety legislation.
• H&S awareness

Skills:

• Coherent and able to communicate well in both written and oral.
• High level of integrity.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Independent thinker.
• Attentive to detail.
• Ability to establish and maintain excellent mutually beneficial working relationships with staff and other departments to ensure smooth running of the section.

Job Requirements:

• Degree in Health & safety preferred, Master will be added advantage
• Minimum of 5 years experience as a Health & Safety  Officer
• Proficiency in Microsoft office application
• Registered with DOSHA

If you are up to the challenge, meet the above minimum qualifications and experience send your Application letter along with your Current CV as One Word Document, and a daytime telephone contact to;
 

The Human Resource Manager        
P.O Box 46279-00100
Nairobi.
 

OR eMail hr.user14@gmail.com
 

The Subject of your mail should be Health & Safety Officer
 

Closing Date: 7th November 2014 by 5.30pm