Health and Safety Assistant

Job Summary:

Provides administrative technical support for key health and safety initiatives coordinating data collection checking for accuracy, reporting through required HSE systems, maintaining records for occupational health and safety training and coordinating and assisting in meeting preparations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintains local health and safety policies and procedures.
• Maintains local regulatory health and safety requirements.
• Maintains confidentiality and appropriate recordkeeping standards in line with corporate data protection and retention requirements.
• Builds an understanding of HSE culture and apply to business processes.
• Stops work and immediately reports any major injury hazards.
• Reports any work-related injury, illness, incident or hazard.
• Communicates effectively to create safety awareness.
• Tracks and reports required monthly metrics to the enterprise incident management system.
• Builds and maintains site health and safety training content.
• Coordinates and assists in delivery of health and safety training programs.
• Participates in health and safety inspection and audit programs.
• Maintains training records and assist in trends analysis.
• Provides appropriate data reports as requested and assist in trends analysis.
• Supports health, safety and wellness initiatives.
• Coordinates local employee engagement initiatives to drive an interdependent culture.
• Follows all applicable standard work, process documentation and quality procedures.
• Raises issues to minimize cost and quality exposures.
• Performs quality checks.
• Identifies and controls non-conforming material.
• Communicates effectively with the assigned team and with all support teams.
• Completes training and personal development in line with business requirements.
• Participates actively in ways to improve quality, safety, process, material flow, and employee development.

Key Competencies:

• Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Builds networks - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Courage - Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Demonstrates self-awareness - Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Situational adaptability - Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
• Ergonomic Fundamentals - Understands ergonomic concepts by applying Cummins ergonomic standards, guidelines, controls and tools to reduce ergonomic risk to employees while at work.
• Health and Safety Fundamentals - Champions and models proactive health and safety behaviors by identifying, reporting and participating in actions to improve health and safety in order to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace.
• Health, Safety and Environment Management Systems - Interprets and applies international standards through practical application within the operating environment to achieve and maintain an effective management system and external certification.
• Work Related Injury and Illness Management - Communicates and documents work related injuries or illnesses through application of Cummins reporting guidelines and relevant regulations to classify and manage the event and its consequences as well as achieve regulatory compliance; cares for the affected employees by facilitating clinical treatment practices and applying case management processes to restore the employee to his/her normal condition.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.