Safety Health & Environmental Officer (Bulawayo)

Job Description

Responsible for planning, implementing and overseeing company's employee safety at work.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Drafting, implementing and maintaining Group’s Occupational Health and Safety policy.
• Ensuring that all Occupational Safety & Health standards are adhered to in order to mitigate occupational hazards.
• Ensuring compliance of all Occupational Safety and Healthy laws and by-laws and safety regulations i.e Factories and works Act, NSSA Acts and EMA Act.
• Identifying potential health hazards within the work place and work towards correcting them.
• Ensuring that regular inspections and maintenance of machines are done (through registers) by responsible maintenance personnel to ensure safety.
• Compiling occupational health and safety programs and encouraging safe working techniques.
• Coming up with accident preparedness plan for all SBUs.
• Investigating all accidents and giving recommendations to management.
• Submitting monthly occupational safety health reports to the Group Human Resources Manager.
• Working hand in hand with the Health Committee to ensure implementation of Health and Safety Policy.

Qualifications and Experience

• A Degree in Environmental and Health or equivalent.
• Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health.
• Certificate in First Aid and Fire Fighting an added advantage.
• At least 5 years’ experience in a similar position.

Other

How to Apply

Suitably qualified candidates are required to send their CV together with certified academic certificates to: mmcconsultancy24@gmail.com clearly indicating the position being applied for on the email subject.