DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Legislation Implementation of:

• Mine Health & Safety act No 29 of 1996 and or;
• Occupational Health and Safety act No 85 of 1993;
• National Environmental Management Act no 107 of 1998 and local Bi-Laws.
• Ensure statutory compliance with respect to key plant equipment.
• Confirm that work practices are safe and in compliance with legislative requirements.
• Coordinate the availability of all legal appointments, reflecting the requirements of our clients and any other legal requirement and updated following changes.
• Ensure compliance to the COID Act.
• Maintain a valid copy of the Letter of good standing and ensure it is available to all interested parties.
• Coordinate the attendance of medicals and training by all staff , verify all onboarding employees are fit to perform work and ensure follow-up or periodic medicals are timeously attended.
• Verify that personnel are trained to perform their tasks and are inducted on the site HSE requirements.

Heath, Safety and Environmental system

• Implementation and maintenance of the Health, Safety and Environmental systems
• HSEC Online
• Isometrix
• Implementation of the Legal Compliance Registers
• Manage the completion of all relevant documents accurately and timeously by applicable stakeholders.
• Verify that all client and Company policies and procedures are always adhered too.
• Provide on the job training and coaching for all HSE related matters.

Risk Assessment

• Development and regularly review the site baseline risk assessment (BLRA), Issue base Risk Assessment (IBRA) in consultation with relevant stakeholders.
• In consultation with the team, develop and maintain a register of upcoming activities to ensure the timeous development and finalisation of related risk documentation and procedures and the assignment of.
• Co-ordinate and facilitate the development of issued-based and task specific risk assessments with the onsite team.
• Co-ordinate and provide coaching to line managers to ensure regular pre-work risk assessment are conducted prior to commencing with activities.
• Facilitate the training of all employees in the risk assessment and procedures.
• Conduct regular reviews of the application of the risk management process and the quality thereof through field verifications and correct deviations where they exist.

Communication & Development

• Coordinate the development of HSE related awareness material and these are communicated in the Toolbox talks to the workforce.
• Maintain regular communication with stakeholders to ensure they remain abreast of successes and concerns.

Client management

• Keep abreast of all Client requirements.
• Respond timeously to Client requests.

Site inspections

• Conduct statutory and regular site inspections. Verify compliance to policies, procedures and the HSE system requirements.
• Conduct regular site inspections to identify any unsafe conditions or behaviour and reinforce safe behaviours.
• Establish a program for inspections and verifications and measure the achievement of the program.

Administrative functions

• Statistics and SHE reports are accurately captured and reported weekly and monthly to the Site Manager and HSEQ Department.
• Liaison with client on site reference documentation standards.
• Ensure that a filing system is kept as per our minimum standards.
• Ensure that reporting to the client on site is accurate and correct.
• Coordinate that all equipment and tool are inspected by competent personnel and registers maintained and over inspected.

Records

• Keeping records of inspection findings and action solutions.
• Maintain an event register of incidents and accidents.
• Analyse trends and recommend suggested actions for implementation by the team.
• Capture and report on leading and lagging indicators for site and recommend improvement actions where deviations are observed.

Incident Investigations

• Lead and direct all incident investigations, driving actions and outcomes through to final completion and closure.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis.
• Ensure correct reporting channels are followed on site as well as to Head Office Support functions.
• Ensure investigations and associated reports are timeously completed
• Follow up on corrective actions to be implemented and advise the site team on overdue actions.
• Liaise closely with clients throughout the accident investigations.

Emergency preparedness

• Ensure the establishment and availability of an emergency preparedness procedure for the site.
• Schedule and coordinate the execution of regular risk-based emergency preparedness drills, documenting findings and implement improvements

Site HSE Audits

• Establish an internal and external audit plan that is inclusive of own and contractor activities.
• Conduct audits in line with procedures.
• Participate in Head office quarterly audits and ensure findings are closed timeously.

Occupational Hygiene

• Ensure site policies and procedures are being adhered to.
• Identify needs for hygiene assessment and monitoring programmes.
• Develop, implement strategies to reduce exposure to communicable diseases and Hazardous biological agents.

Planned task observation

• Establish a schedule for the execution of PTO’s.
• Coordinate the execution of Planned Task Observations on all staff in line with the planned schedule.
• Identify deviations observed during the observation process and implement actions in consultation with the team to close-out.
• Correct behavioural and procedural inefficiencies based on expected outcomes.

SHE Representatives

• Participate in client H&S committee meetings on a periodic basis.

Training

• Facilitate in-house and external HSE training.
• Ensure safety training needs are identified and communicated to site management.
• Ensure documented proof is kept of all Safety related training done.
• Ensure safety training is in line with modern practices, procedures and legislation.
• Ensure training statistics are forwarded timeously to site management and SHE Manager.
• Update personnel files with relevant valid competencies.
• Maintain a site training matrix.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

QUALIFICATIONS

• Matric (Grade 12) or an equivalent qualification registered at NQF Level 4, including relevant NATED courses (e.g., N3 Certificate)
• SAMTRAC/Comsoc 1 or 2
• ISO certification (9001:2015; 14001:2015, 45001:2018)
• Mine Health & Safety Act Legal liability
• Nebosh Certification IGC / National Diploma (NADSAM)
• Risk assessment
• ICAM / RCAT / TAP Root
• Driver’s License for manual vehicle an added advantage

EXPERIENCE

• At-least 3 years demonstrated HSE experience in an operational environment
• At-least 2 years Mine Health and Safety Act knowledge and experience
• Minimum 1 year ISO 9001 Quality Management training
• Minimum 1 year ISO 14001 Environmental Management training
• Minimum 1 year ISO4500 Training
• At-least 3 years Knowledge of safety procedures
• At-least 3 years Knowledge of legislative compliance requirements e.g. COIDA, OHSA, Legal Liability, Accident/Incident Investigation