Role & responsibilities

A. Occupational Health & Industrial Safety

- Implement EHS policies, procedures, SOPs, and safe work practices across manufacturing, utilities, warehouse, laboratory, and engineering areas.
- Conduct routine safety inspections, workplace audits, hazard identification, and risk assessments.
- Ensure implementation of Job Safety Analysis (JSA), HIRA, and risk control measures.
- Monitor compliance with PPE requirements, machine guarding, electrical safety, fire safety, and safe material handling.
- Administer Permit-to-Work (PTW) systems, including hot work, confined space entry, work at height, excavation, and electrical isolation/LOTO.
- Conduct toolbox talks, safety induction, and periodic EHS training for employees, contractors, and visitors.
- Investigate accidents, near misses, unsafe acts, and unsafe conditions; perform root cause analysis and track corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
- Monitor occupational health requirements, including medical examinations, chemical exposure controls, noise exposure, and industrial hygiene assessments.
- Ensure contractor safety management and compliance with site EHS requirements.

B. API Process Safety
- Identify hazards associated with API manufacturing processes, including reactors, centrifuges, dryers, filtration systems, solvent handling, and chemical charging operations.
- Ensure safe handling, storage, labeling, and segregation of hazardous chemicals, solvents, acids, alkalis, toxic substances, and flammable materials.
- Support process hazard analysis activities such as HAZID, HAZOP, What-If analysis, and risk assessments, as applicable.
- Monitor implementation of recommendations arising from process hazard reviews and Management of Change (MOC).
- Ensure safe operations involving flammable solvents, hazardous reactions, pressure systems, vacuum systems, and potentially hazardous atmospheres.
- Verify implementation of gas detection, ventilation, earthing/bonding, explosion protection, and other applicable engineering safeguards.
- Support secure handling of highly potent, toxic, sensitizing,



or otherwise hazardous pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs.

C. Fire & Emergency Management
- Inspect fire extinguishers, hydrants, hose reels, fire pumps, fire alarms, emergency exits, and emergency response equipment.
- Monitor fire protection and emergency preparedness arrangements in process blocks, solvent storage areas, warehouses, and utility sections.
- Organize mock drills for fire, chemical spills, toxic releases, and other credible emergency scenarios.
- Maintain emergency response plans, emergency contact lists, evacuation procedures, and incident records.
- Coordinate with the emergency response team, security, engineering, production, and external emergency agencies as required.
- Ensure readiness and inspection of spill kits, emergency showers, eyewash stations, breathing apparatus, and other relevant emergency equipment.

D. Environmental Management
- Monitor effluent treatment plant (ETP), sewage treatment plant (STP), air pollution control systems, and other environmental control facilities, as applicable.
- Ensure compliance with Consent to Establish (CTE), Consent to Operate (CTO), environmental clearance conditions, and applicable GPCB/CPCB requirements.
- Monitor air emissions, wastewater quality, hazardous waste, solid waste, and other environmental parameters against applicable requirements.
- Ensure proper collection, labeling, storage, transportation, and disposal of hazardous waste through authorized agencies.
- Maintain hazardous waste records, manifests, returns, and other statutory environmental documentation.
- Monitor solvent recovery, solvent loss prevention, resource conservation, water management, and energy efficiency initiatives.
- Support environmental audits, compliance evaluations,



and implementation of corrective actions.
- Coordinate environmental sampling, monitoring, and reporting with authorized laboratories and relevant departments.

E. Statutory Compliance & Documentation
- Maintain an updated register of applicable EHS laws, rules, regulations, licenses, approvals, and statutory conditions.
- Support compliance with applicable provisions of the Factories Act and relevant Gujarat factory rules, environmental legislation, hazardous waste rules, chemical accident prevention requirements, fire safety requirements, and other applicable laws.
- Coordinate with the factory management, statutory authorities, and external consultants for inspections, audits, and compliance submissions.
- Maintain records of safety inspections, incident investigations, training, mock drills, waste disposal, environmental monitoring, and equipment inspections.
- Assist in preparing and reviewing EHS SOPs, work instructions, risk assessments, emergency plans, and statutory reports.
- Support implementation and maintenance of ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems, where applicable.
- Ensure timely closure of audit observations, nonconformities, and corrective and preventive actions.

F. GMP & Cross-Functional Coordination
- Coordinate with Production, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Engineering, Utilities, Warehouse, and HR teams to resolve EHS issues.
- Support GMP-compliant maintenance of relevant EHS records and controlled procedures.
- Ensure EHS risks are assessed during equipment installation, plant modification, process changes, and project commissioning.
- Participate in internal audits, external audits, customer audits, and regulatory inspections as required.
- Promote a strong safety culture and ensure environmental and safety considerations are incorporated into routine operations.

Preferred candidate profile

- 46 years of relevant experience in API or bulk drug manufacturing.
- Experience in process safety, HAZOP coordination, statutory compliance, incident investigation, and environmental management.

📌 Safety Officer/Sr. Officer (Vadodara)
🏢 Exemed
📍 Vadodara