EHS Officer

The job role of an environmental engineer involves the following duties:

• Carrying out site assessments
• Conducting technical audits
• Evaluating environmental impact
• Making recommendations on clean-up, reclamation and waste management activities
• Assessing how a site complies with environmental regulations
• Using mathematical techniques and computer modelling to assess or forecast past, present and future environmental problems
• Designing, developing, testing and implementing technical solutions which will help organisations actively reduce their negative impact on the environment
• Interpreting data
• Keeping abreast of legislative changes in environmental law
• Identification and consideration of potential contaminant sources
• Obtaining and maintaining plans, permits and standard operating procedures
• EHS Roles and Responsibilities
  

  Their major role of EHS manager or office is to prevent and eliminate injury and sickness to the employees. They assist companies to comply with safety laws in systematic and organized approach. They periodically inspect workplace and machinery to minimize or eliminate potential hazards such as, wrong working methods, high noise levels, contaminated drinking water, polluted air quality or toxic chemicals etc. EHS managers or officers play important role in terms of safety of employees.

  What does Environment Health and Safety Managers do?
  

  Environmental health and safety (EHS) officers inspect and monitor environment, machineries and processes to ensure safety as per government rules and regulations and industry standards. They have knowledge of new government's rules and regulations that helps workers health as well as safety.

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  Their most important goal is to protect Employees, customers and the environment at any cost.

  They identify potential biological, chemical and radiological materials and also collecting sample of them and analyze. Participate in Environmental monitoring programs and inspections as applicable to work situation. Environmental consultants help them to achieve their goals as their role and environmental health and safety officer's role is more or less is the same related to environment.

  EHS managers or officers also conduct periodic inspection of hazards and recommend changes in products, machineries or processes to protect workers.