Safety Specialist

**Miscellaneous ~ Safety Officer**
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**JOB OUTLINE**

**SAFETY SPECIALIST**

**JOHANNESBURG**

**SALARY -**
**R72**
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**678, R90**
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**847, R109**
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**014**

**Overview**:
Provide support and advisory services to ensure that the organization and its appointed contractors comply with Occupational Health and Safety Legislation and its associated Regulations and standards, and that it manages safety related risks.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Allocate projects to subordinates to ensure they audit them monthly and inspected weekly. Review subordinates monthly audit and inspection reports conducted on allocated contractors and send out to project team and contractor
- Attend design meetings and give inputs on project designs
- Develop appropriate procedures for the implementation and maintenance of the contractor management system
- Ensure that safety close outs inspections and audits are done on completed project safety files and close out report submitted to the Engineer. Ensure that subordinates meet all set personal and departmental targets within specified timeframes
- Contribute to the safety annual budget with the Safety Manager and identify items to be included or reviewed. Provide mentoring and advise to subordinates on health and safety matters. Ensure subordinates together with site management manage identified risks and deviations on Johannesburg Water sites. Ensure that all administrative requirements of relevant legislation are complied with. Identify and bring to the attention of Johannesburg Water site management new risks that need to be controlled and advise on measures to control identified risks
- Conduct regular workshops as determined by the needs analysis to entrench a safety culture among contractors and the Johannesburg Water workforce
- Advise internal and external stakeholders on the requirements of the OHS Act, its regulations and other applicable legislation
- Advise on the implementation, maintenance and auditing of Safety management system. Develop corporate procedures and cascade the same to the Safety Practitioners for developing site specific procedures. Initiate and facilitate incident investigations for all section 24 incidents
- Develop and monitor the implementation of system audit plans by subordinates on Johannesburg Water sites
- Ensure that all allocated sites are visited as required by Safety Practitioners and safety reports are submitted

**Job Requirements**:
**Essential qualifications and experience**:

- B. Tech/BSc Honours Degree in Safety Management or Environmental Health/ Management/ Sciences
- 4 Years experience in SHE Management Systems development, implementation and Auditing, as well as construction health and safety as a client agent, of which 2 years should have been at supervisory level
- Code B drivers license