OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY OFFICER – Zambezi River Authority 205 views

Key Responsibilities

• Develops, implements and continuously improves the OHS Policies, procedures, programmes and practices that will assist the Authority to meet the legislative Occupational Health and Safety requirements.
• Inspects premises to ensure compliance with rules and regulations for safe and healthy working environments.
• Performs regular audits and review of work processes including behavioural auditing and inspections at the Authority’s workplaces to identify any hazards and prescribe measures to address and minimise the OHS risks.
• Inspects premises, conducts risk assessments, identifies non-conformities (e.g., not using protective equipment) and enforces preventive measures by issuing workplace directives and stop-work orders to stop unsafe work practices.
• Investigates hazards, accidents, work refusals, fatalities, and health and safety complaints to determine causations through root-cause analyses techniques.
• Reviews hazard assessments, safe work procedures, accident/incident reports, OHS programmes and safety management plans including the maintenance of a register of injuries, near misses and continuous monitoring reports of the trends for the Authority.
• Works collaboratively with all the internal business units and Workplace Representatives of the OHS Committee to improve OHS and risk management practices in the Authority.
• Facilitates the conducting of all initial inductions, and ensures that all OHS meetings are scheduled, held and attended as per statutory and system requirements, and regularly reporting and giving periodic feedback to management.
• Promotes and encourages all employees to actively participate in OHS programmes.
• Assists with the identification of OHS related knowledge gaps and coordinates the training of staff and all concerned parties to minimise occupational health and safety hazards.
• Provides guidance with the storage, use and disposal of regulated substances.
• Promotes a risk and safety culture and ensuring employees’ awareness of OHS concerns, programmes and regulations by conducting sensitisation programmes in the Authority.
• Identifies OHS requirements, risks and mitigation measures and supporting the implementation of appropriate measures to reduce workplace risks and hazards.
• Supports the application of the Authority’s OHS procedures by providing input into the policy and process development, building organisational understanding of risk management and reporting on organisational performance.
• Coordinates the follow-up actions to reduce workplace OHS hazards and risks, including facilitating in the planning and implementation of OHS hygiene monitoring programmes.
• Carries out risk assessments on occupational hygiene stressors such as dusts, fumes, vapours, hydrocarbons, particulates, noise, indoor air quality, heat stress etc.
• Conducts internal OHS Legal and Systems Audits and Inspections as well as developing Audits/Inspections’ Remedial Action Plans to ensure the findings’ closure.
• Manages stakeholder engagement and correspondences with the Government agencies, contractors, and regulators to ensure that the Authority is compliant with applicable legal requirements including Permits, Licenses, and good hygiene practices.
• Ensures the safe working environment through assessing employees’ exposure to health risks and to measure the effectiveness of programmes through monitoring and enforcing compliances to OHS legislations, codes of practices, policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Reviews the Method Statements developed by contractors relating to OHS and ensuring that adequate and effective controls are implemented.
• Proposes and leads the implementation and conducting of regular audit programmes to protect employees’ health and implementing ergonomics.
• In consultation with the section of Human Resource and Administration, advises various stakeholders on workers’ compensation claims pertaining to workplace exposures using data obtained from quantitative analysis of hazard exposure.
• Proposes the budget to address identified OHS requirements across all internal Authority businesses in consultation with all the Sectional Heads.
• Advises on the selection, use, and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
• Ensures effective utilization of resources and that expenditure is within the budget including in respect of the selection and facilitation in the procurement of the appropriate PPEs across the Authority’s business units.

Requirements

• (5) Five ‘O’ Levels with credits/”Cs” or better; in English, Mathematics and any Science Subject
• BSc Degree in Occupational Health and Safety / Environmental Health or other relevant equivalent/ related OHS discipline.
• Minimum six (6) years of relevant experience
• Member of a Professional Body
• Knowledge of OHS and workplace safety guidelines
• Strategic Planning
• Decision making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Innovative
• Effective Communication skills

Salary

ZRA 05

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