Job Purpose :
Ensure employees have an understanding of working safely and in accordance with Safety, Health, Risk, Environment and Quality procedures, comply with Group’ standards and ESH Policy. Follow SHEARQ procedures when operating and provide training continuously to validate and enforce the importance of Safety, Health and Environment to all employees. Coordinate incident and accident investigation as well as site Risk activities.

Key Responsibilities
Ensure implementation, control, and management of all legal and ISO systems at the factory.
Ensure Quality, Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental systems are in compliance.
Monitoring compliance OSHAS 18001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, Standards, legal requirement and ensure recommendations or deviations are closed out promptly.
Improve systems processes used in the Factory to tangibly change the safety culture leading to informed compliance by employees. This done by conducting systems self-check audits, and health and safety audits.
From analysed data of Health, Safety and Environmental checklists and audits to identify, plan and organise training to instil compliance of Safety, Health, Quality and Environmental processes.
Ensure critical organizational roles (employees) know hazard identification and effective risk assessments that prevent incidents/accidents and injuries.
Validates training and competence of responsible persons and SHE representatives on incident investigation and other standards. Ensure their training needs analyzed and requirements are met.
Ensure actions from risk assessments/profiles are implemented and risks are reduced.
Ensure monthly safety reports and quarterly risk control reports are timeously compiled
Ensure that medical surveillance programs are implemented
Ensure that all necessary surveys are conducted and actions are followed through to completion.
Review and contribute procedure and work instruction drafting and adoption.
Ensure that schedules are drawn up for planned job observations, that they are conducted at the intervals specified and that recommendations made are followed through.
Ensure that incident and accident registers are updated.
Co-ordinate incident and accident investigations where required ensure actions from incident and accident investigations are followed through to completion.
Ensure incident and accident statistics are updated.
Ensure that a poster program has been implemented
Ensure that personal protective equipment is issued to personnel as and when required.
Co-ordinate health and safety committee meetings.
Contact person for external and internal audits coordination and initiate mandatory ISO requirement meeting.
Compile role quarterly reports for progress and continuous WCM improvement interventions.
Actively engage, coach and challenge management towards safety commitment and close out of their actions.
Liaise with head of departments to maintain legal register, ensuring employees understand standards determined by the legislator, and that company procedures are adhered to and amended as and when required.
Utilise WCM toolset in application of daily activities.
Endeavour for continuous improvement in SHE and use of robust systems to prevent incidents and incidents.
Extensively use networking platforms to gain new thinking and ways in SHE and within the Group
Any reasonable tasks given from time to time
Ensure compliance to Railway Safety Regulations and that applicable reports and communication is completed timely.
Where necessary, provide for the training of employees and contractors e.g. induction.

Minimum Requirements
BSc. Engineering will be an advantage.
Engineering Maintenance skills and experience (Artisan Background)
SAMTRAC, Supervisor Safety Course – Team Leadership,
At least 3 years relevant experience within Health and Safety, preferably within manufacturing environment
Occupational Health and Safety Act training
Incident Investigation and SHE auditing training
Microsoft (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) knowledge
Excellent people interaction skills.