Health and Safety Technician

** Imp Note: Qualification in Advanced Diploma in Industrial Safety (ADIS) is a MUST.

Job Summary:

Provides technical support on health and safety to production and site personnel under the guidance of the site HSE leader. Assists in the implementation, analysis, review and sustainability of Health & Safety Management Systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE)

Plan

Maintains skills and knowledge required to perform job duties.

Determine gaps within corporate health and safety initiatives and local health and safety policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.

Build an understanding of and applies HSE culture ensuring it is integral to processes.

Maintain confidentiality and appropriate recordkeeping standards in line with corporate data protection and retention requirements.

Do

Stop work and immediately report any major injury hazards.

Report any work-related injury, illness, incident or hazard through internal reporting processes and provide guidance to the site on internal reporting.

Support the implementation and maintenance of hazard identification, incident investigation and risk assessment processes, including delivery of training.

Support closure of corrective and preventive actions.

Communicate effectively to create safety awareness.

Perform administrative tasks as required.

Check

Participate in health and safety inspection and audit programs.

Actively participate and lead incident investigation and reporting.

Assist in the analysis of safety related trends.

Act

Maintain local health and safety policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.

Support health, safety and wellness initiatives.

Support implementation and maintenance of Emergency Response processes including delivery of training.

Participate in local employee engagement initiatives to drive an interdependent culture.

Quality

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.

Teamwork

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.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Self-development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
• 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.
• Risk Assessment - Evaluates hazards within the work environment by applying hazard identification and risk assessment techniques to analyze and prioritize risk, enabling a selection of control measures that reduce risk as low as reasonably practicable.
• Manufacturing Knowledge - Demonstrates the knowledge of manufacturing by correctly implementing changes in current processes, equipment, and applications to meet the function's needs and contribute towards continuous improvement.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.