Required Health & Safety Officer for an Manufacturing company
Location - Taloja
Experience: Minimum 3 years in Chemical Industries
Mandatory - Diploma in Industrial Safety recognised by the State Government
- Risk assessment and safe procedures
- Advise and assist line management in hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA) and job safety analysis for all tasks.
- Help prepare and review safe operating procedures (SOPs) and safe work methods.
- Advise departments on safety measures and set safety standards for manufacturing practices and methods.
- Permit-to-work and contractor safety
- Run the permit-to-work system for hot work, confined space, height, excavation and electrical/LOTO jobs.
- Induct, monitor and audit contractor workers.
- Emergency preparedness
- Maintain the On-site Emergency Plan; hold mock drills at least every 6 months and record lessons learned.
- Coordinate with the Fire Department and district authorities for the Off-site Emergency Plan.
- Occupational health and industrial hygiene
- Develop programmes to prevent occupational injury and illness, including ergonomics.
- Arrange work-environment monitoring and pre-employment / periodic medical checks with the Factory Medical Officer.
- Manage the PPE, work clothing and safety equipment programme within budget.
- Training and awareness
- Run HSE induction for new joiners, contractors and visitors.
- Hold monthly and job-specific training (chemical handling, PPE, firefighting, first aid, permits).
- Hold toolbox talks, campaigns and events such as National Safety Day and Chemical Safety Week.
- Educate and motivate supervisors and workers on housekeeping, secure work and PPE.
- Incident investigation and reporting
- Investigate accidents, near misses and dangerous occurrences; complete root cause analysis and track corrective actions (CAPA).
- Send statutory accident notices to the Factory Inspectorate within the time limit.
- Report monthly HSE statistics (LTIFR, severity rate, near misses, training hours) to management.
- Inspections, audits and statutory compliance
- Conduct daily floor rounds and a planned safety inspection and audit programme.
- Accompany Factory Inspectors and other officials and report their findings.
- Safety committee and records
- Act as secretary or member of the Safety Committee and follow up on its decisions.
- Keep statutory and company HSE, medical and training records, maintaining confidentiality where needed.